Gearing up for the biennial elections to the Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahbubnagar graduates’ constituency polls on March 14, district election authorities are training presiding officers (POs) and additional presiding officers (APOs).
Six days after returning to their hostels, 12 students of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) in Sangareddy district tested positive for Covid-19, raising fresh concerns over state’s plan to open all residential educational institutes soon.
Eighteen-year-old Adarsh Narayanapuram has achieved what many budding footballers can only dream of. The teen became the first from Telangana to secure a European player licence in the junior category.
Over-dependence on paddy cultivation in Telangana despite poor returns is increasingly resulting in the state losing out on Rs 30,000 crore possible income from cultivating other vegetables, the horticulture department said.
A fishing trip ended in a tragedy after a car crashed into a container truck on the National Highway-44 at Shadnagar on Sunday. Three youngsters died and their friend suffered severe injuries in the accident.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will be visiting Yadadri temple on March 4 to inspect the works which are in the final stages of completion.
The postal department is waiting for clearance from the state health department to modify their mail vans to meet requirements of transporting vaccine vials.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for successful launch of PSLV- C51.
In what could be a record of sorts in the country, a massive 164 candidates are in the fray for the two graduate constituencies of the legislative council of Telangana, going to the polls on March 14.
Move over English, coding in Telangana’s government schools will now be taught in Telugu, in a new move that could see scores of students queuing up to learn the programming language in their mother tongue.
Researchers, including those from Kurnool medical college, have said that the novel coronavirus variant, N440K, can cause reinfection. According to them, this variant can escape the immune system and can cause reinfection in patients already recovered from Covid-19.
The mushrooming of undivided share of land schemes across Hyderabad – particularly on its fringes—have the city’s real estate sector worried. Industry players fear that these deals, if not checked, can throw the city’s property market off the track.
More than seven years after an Audi Q7 owner suffered a huge loss and spent Rs 20 lakh on repairs of the vehicle, the Telangana State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (TSCDRC) directed the insurance company to pay Rs 17.54 lakh along with 7% interest.
Telangana reported 741 covid cases since the health department stopped its daily bulletin. The figures indicate a slight daily increase in the gap period from the average 160 cases to around 180 cases.
In a rare sighting in Telangana, observers spotted a migratory bird — Common Shelduck — in Hyderabad’s Hussainsagar towards Sanjeevaiah Park earlier this week. According to the e-bird status, an online database of bird observers, Common Shelduck has never been sighted in Andhra Pradesh or Telangana in the past.
A 35-year-old man attempted to commit suicide by slitting his throat in Jeedimetla on Friday. The police said Naresh, a tailor, who is an alleged alcoholic, quarrelled with his wife.
A woman was arrested by Rachakonda police on Friday for allegedly being involved in matrimonial fraud, where in she created fake profiles and duped few men and their families by collecting money.
A 55-year-old who was diagnosed with a tumour that was the size of a cricket ball in his right kidney was operated upon in a city-based hospital on Friday.
Shooter Nawab Shafath Ali Khan of Wildlife Tranqui Force said his son Asghar should be given President’s national award for killing tigress Avni, a maneater, from a close range.
The state government is planning the next phase of Covid-19 vaccine rollout from March 1 by administering the jab to 1.2 lakh people every day. A total of six lakh people will be given the vaccine in this phase, which is meant for general public in the age group of 45-59 with co-morbidities and those above 60 years.
The Subject Expert Committee (SEC), which advises the Indian drug regulator Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), has asked Bharat Biotech to submit efficacy and safety data from its ongoing Phase III Covaxin trials before seeking approval for conducting trials on children.
Six farmers of Kaithalapur have approached Telangana high court alleging that efforts are being made by land sharks to gobble up 1,500 acres of prime land in Kukatpally worth Rs 3 lakh crore.
After 10 months of constant surveillance, sleuths of Hyderabad Central Crime Station (CCS) arrested Abu Faisal on charges of posting communal hate videos on the Internet, soon after he landed at the city airport from Dubai on Friday.
At a time when there are not many takers for India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin here in India, other countries are queuing up to buy as many doses as possible.
Home to rows of sprawling bungalows, while Jubilee Hills continues to be Hyderabad’s most expensive realty pocket, it’s the city’s periphery that’s witnessing a faster escalation in land values, of late.
TRS working president KT Rama Rao has alleged that opposition parties were resorting to false propaganda on recruitment in the state government departments.
State health authorities have stepped up vigilance along Maharashtra and Karnataka borders in the wake of increased Covid-19 cases, even as sealing of borders is not being planned for now.
Two days after the director of public health issued a statement that Covid bulletins would no longer be daily but only weekly, the Telangana high court on Thursday directed that state must start giving daily medical bulletins within 24 hours.
At least 25 BJP corporators out of 48 who won in GHMC elections are facing the threat of disqualification. Their opponents, mostly TRS defeated candidates, have filed election petitions in the city civil court, citing various reasons like violating the two-children norm, suppressing information on assets, criminal cases and double votes enrolled of the same person.
Bachupally police arrested four fraudsters who duped a city based businessman of Rs 11 crore by posing as police officials and human rights organisation workers. Police seized Rs 6 crore worth property from the accused including Rs 4 core worth cars.
The price of foreign brand liquor will remain the same despite the central government’s proposal to reduce excise duty. As part of Europe-India free trade agreement, the governmewnt of India has planned to reduce the excise duty, but the state government has no plans to reduce the base price.
Day after the state government’s announcement about resumption of physical classes, the upper primary section of many schools in the city remained shut on Wednesday. The attendance percentage of those that reopened too was poor with only 9% of class 6 to class 8 students turning up on Day 1.
A TS Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) bus hit a bike, following which the woman on the bike came under the wheels of the bus, at Himayathnagar Y Junction on Wednesday. The woman succumbed to her injuries at the hospital, while the man will undergo an operation on Thursday.
A 19-year-old girl from Ghatkesar, who had apparently faked her abduction and gang rape by an auto driver a fortnight ago, was on Wednesday found dead at her home under mysterious circumstances.
Under pressure from school managements, the Telangana government on Tuesday ordered reopening of physical classes for students of classes 6 to 8 from today, but the Hyderabad parents association questioned the hurried move.
Asaduddin Owaisi’s party, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), made an impressive debut in Gujarat’s electoral politics, winning seven of the 21 wards which it contested in the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) election.
An illegal cockfighting event turned fatal, not just for the cocks, but for a man in Telangana, who bled to death after a knife attached to the leg of his rooster accidentally cut into his groin.
Telangana high court on Tuesday directed the revenue department to file its counter in a petition filed by civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar charging the minority welfare department’s secretary with inaction in removing his 15 acres and 26 guntas of land in survey No. 126 at Kazipur village of Kothapalli mandal in Karimnagar district from the wakf properties’ list.
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has suspended two GST officials — Bollineni Srinivasa Gandhi and Chilaka Sudha Rani — in connection with Rs 5 crore bribery scandal.
In view of the various allegations of inaction against Ramagundam police in the backdrop of the murder of lawyers Vamana Rao and his wife PV Nagamani, a decision was taken by the top brass of Telangana police that the investigation into the case will now be directly supervised by deputy inspector general of police-cum-Warangal commissioner of police Pramod Kumar and not by Ramagundam police commissioner V Satyanarayana, who faced criticism from several advocates and opposition parties.
The road transport and highways ministry on Monday gave ‘in principle’ nod for the 340 km ‘Regional Ring Road’ (RRR) around Hyderabad, which will connect all districts of Telangana with the state capital. The RRR, a four-lane access-controlled highway will cost Rs 16,000 crore. This will be the longest bypass in India.
The high court on Monday granted bail to Varavara Rao for six months on health grounds. He had sought bail on grounds of “deteriorating” health. A petition had also been filed by his wife for his release, citing violation of his fundamental rights.