The judgements pronounced by the Special Sessions Court-- for the trial of MPs, MLAs at Nampally in Hyderabad in 16 cases related to electioneering--brought relief to 15 elected representatives, including Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, and Telangana ministers such as N Malla Reddy and Satyavati Rathore
The advocate community played a significant role in the movement for a separate Telangana for over six years till the dream of a new state was realised in June 2014. Today they are protesting on the roads, agitating against the Telangana Rashtriya Samithi-led government and demanding a law for their own protection
The Telangana police on Saturday (February 27) arrested eight persons on charges of slaughtering a cow.According to Siddipet police commissioner, D Joel Davis, the eight had committed the offence at a poultry farm on the outskirts of the town on Friday (February 26) night. Their buyer is in Hyderabad.
As many as 72 people, whose nationality remains a mystery, managed to obtain Indian passports on one residential address, located in Bodhan town of Nizamabad district in Telangana. Records show that 32 of them went to different countries and 15 have returned to India, but are not traceable yet. A total of 17 others are still abroad, possibly in the Gulf, Malaysia and Singapore. Forty others have not left India so far.
Data security and privacy are the biggest concerns not only for ordinary citizens but also those in power. Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao, who is known as a tech-savvy politician, raised concerns about privacy and security with the technology-enabled shoes used by his 15-year-old son.
Even as neighbouring states of Maharashtra and Karnataka are recording an increase in coronavirus infections and are looking at lockdown and night curfew options, Telangana has taken a direction to move forward with its plans to restore normal activity
Hyderabad: Much to the embarrassment to the Congress, late former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao's daughter, Surabhi Vani Devi, has accepted an offer from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to contest the upcoming Legislative Council elections in the state.
DMK president MK Stalin on Sunday (March 7) released the party's vision document for the next 10 years, focussing on thrust areas such as economy, agriculture, water resources, education and health, urban development, rural infrastructure and social justice.
Guwahati: The AICC on Sunday issued the second list of three candidates for the prestigious Titabor, Dhakuakhana and Naoboicha assembly constituencies of Assam, which goes to polls in the first phase on March 27.
As vaccines are being rolled out across the world, and there are apprehensions regarding their effectiveness, genome sequencing would provide valuable inputs to tweak vaccine design.
Popular media constantly makes us feel we are not good enough, instilling a fear in us of missing out on something big, of not making enough money or that we are marrying too late or for debating whether to have a kid or not, or for not maintaining the ideal weight!
When a lawyer couple was dragged out of their car and hacked to death in Telangana’s Peddapalli district on Wednesday afternoon, several bystanders preferred to do nothing but capture the gruesome murders on their cell phones. The passengers of two buses stranded on the road too watched the murder in silence as the couple was first waylaid by the assailants and repeatedly attacked with knives, sickles, and axes at leisure, without any fear or hesitation.
Hyderabad: Telangana courts witnessed thin attendance for the second consecutive day on Friday (February 19) as lawyers boycotted work in protest against the brutal murder of fellow advocates Gattu Vaman Rao and Nagamani. Except for the high court, business did not take place in the lower courts, including tribunals, across Telangana and some courts in neighb...
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, on Wednesday (February 10), compared a group of people, who attended his public meeting, with "dogs" and asked the police to take them out. The CM's remark triggered outrage
Karimnagar: Karimnagar(Telangana), Jan 9 Another man allegedlydied by suicide in Telangana, upset over being harassed byan online money lender from whom he had taken a loan and wasunable to repay it, police said on Saturday.
With this death, the total number of suicides due toharassment by instant app-based lenders have gone up to six inthe state.
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Smarting under the recent electoral setbacks, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is back to doing what he is best at: making big promises.
This time, he has come up with a promise to provide 50,000 government jobs soon and instructed chief secretary Somesh Kumar to issue a notification to fill all pending posts in various department...
New Delhi: Actor-turned-politician Vijayashanti on Monday joined the BJP, a party she had chosen in the late 90s to start her political career before joining other outfits, and asserted that only the saffron party can fulfil the aspirations of the people of Telangana.
True to its billing, the outcome of the high-stake election to the Hyderabad municipal corporation carries a political message whose significance goes beyond the civic body.
For the BJP, which has made key inroads in the city on the back of a bitterly polarised campaign, the mandate comes as a major boost to its plans to emerge as a principal ch...
Telugu voters have established a trend where they embrace change and court new political formations with gusto but do not hesitate to throw them out when they find them falling short on expectations.The Friday results of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections reaffirms the trend, with the BJP doing much better than what pre-poll forecasts indicated.
All eyes are riveted on Hyderabad as the counting of votes for the bitterly-fought elections to the municipal corporation began on Friday morning (December 4) amid tight security.
'A small step for Hyderabad. A giant leap for Telangana.'This is how a veteran political observer summed up the BJP’s campaign blitzkrieg in the just-held elections to the Hyderabad municipal corporation
Polling began on Tuesday (December 1) in the high-stakes Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election following a vociferous and often acrimonious campaign. The voting for the 150-ward GHMC commenced at 7 am and will end at 6 pm.
Hyderabad: In a bitter jibe ahead of the high stake Hyderabad municipal polls, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Saturday (November 28) sought to remind BJP leaders from other states that Telangana's per capita income is far better than the ones ruled by BJP.
Air pollution levels in the Telugu states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh saw a dip during Diwali compared to the festive season last year. Thanks to the interventions of courts, the governments in these states had ordered only green crackers be used during the festival.
An election to a municipal corporation is normally a local affair with low political stakes. But, what the poll-bound Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is witnessing defies both the attributes. The BJP is set to unleash a blitzkrieg to make inroads into what appears to be an impregnable fortress of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and its a...
Hyderabad: The BJP has made a surprise gain by winning the by-election in Telangana’s Dubbak Assembly constituency. The saffron party has wrested the seat from the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) with a slender margin of 1,470 votes.
The Telangana High Court has criticised the state government’s move to regularise all illegal and unapproved layouts in rural and urban areas under the Land Regularisation Scheme (LRS), and said if it was allowed, then whole of Hyderabad would be flooded by 2050.
Hyderabad was once known as city of lakes. The founder Muhammad Quli Sutb Shah and subsequent rulers of Qutb Shahi and Asaf Jahi dynasty developed a chain of lakes, channels connecting the lakes to river Musi and open spaces to prevent flooding.
