Food safety officials seize 19,268 litres of substandard Brislehri and Kelvey water bottles in Hyderabad

Food safety officials seize 19,268 litres of substandard Brislehri and Kelvey water bottles in Hyderabad

Food safety officers inspected the premises of K2 King Aqua and Beverages in Kacheguda on Thursday, November 14, 2024 | Photo Credit: In a major crackdown on sub-standard bottled water, food safety officers inspected the premises of K2 King Aqua and Beverages in Kacheguda on Thursday (November 14, 2024) and seized over 19,000 litres of … Read more

Uranium exploration: villagers boycott meeting with officials

Uranium exploration: villagers boycott meeting with officials

Farmers and villagers of Kappatralla and nearby villages in Devanakonda mandal of the district boyotted the proposed meeting by the revenue, mining, forest and other departments to educate the people on the uranium exploration in the forest area at Kappatralla. The protesting villagers staged a dharna at the Edulla Devarabanda junction in Devanakonda mandal on … Read more

Transport officials book cases against private bus operators for ‘fleecing passengers’

Transport officials book cases against private bus operators for ‘fleecing passengers’

With Dasara drawing to a close, people waiting to board a bus at the Pandit Nehru Bus Station in Vijayawada on Sunday. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO Officials of the Road Transport Authority (RTA) in Andhra Pradesh have cracked the whip on erring private bus operators who fleeced the passengers taking undue advantage of the … Read more

Habitual offender nabbed by excise officials

Habitual offender nabbed by excise officials

The State Excise Enforcement Squad nabbed history-sheeter Shajimon, alias Moorkhan Shaji of Adimali, around five years after he jumped bail, from Madurai on Friday. According to official sources, Shajimon, who is involved in numerous narcotics cases across south India, had obtained bail in one such case from the Kerala High Court five years ago. While … Read more

Railway Board allows re-hiring retired officials as consultants

Railway Board allows re-hiring retired officials as consultants

‘Re-engagement’ of retired railway officers as ‘consultants’ in the available vacant posts in both junior and senior categories by the zonal General Managers concerned across the country was approved by the Railway Board (RB). The image is used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL The Railway Board (RB) has approved ‘re-engagement’ of … Read more

Delhi minister suggests empowering traffic officials to issue challans for buses

Delhi minister suggests empowering traffic officials to issue challans for buses

Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot has recommended empowering officers of the rank of Assistant Traffic Inspector (ATI) of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to issue challans to buses violating lane discipline under the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988. This recommendation has been forwarded to Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena for approval. Gahlot said that empowering Assistant … Read more

NTA website, its other portals secure; reports of they being hacked wrong: Officials

NTA website, its other portals secure; reports of they being hacked wrong: Officials

A view of the National Testing Agency website. The National Testing Agency (NTA) website and all its other web portals are fully secure, and reports that these have been compromised and hacked are wrong and misleading, officials said on June 23. The clarification comes amid a raging row over alleged irregularities in competitive exams, including … Read more

Retired police officials to be roped in to curb drug use in schools, colleges  

Retired police officials to be roped in to curb drug use in schools, colleges  

In an effort to curb drug menace in schools and colleges of Telangana, officials of the Anti-narcotics Bureau in a meeting with Chief Minister Revanth Reddy decided to deploy a retired police officer in every school. The former police officials will help identify the suppliers and keep a check on students, starting from the ones … Read more

Rajasthan govt to use AI-based tech to bolster health services in state, say officials – ET HealthWorld

Rajasthan govt to use AI-based tech to bolster health services in state, say officials – ET HealthWorld

Jaipur: Health services in Rajasthan will be made more robust and patient-friendly using innovations in medical science and artificial intelligence-based technologies, officials said on Wednesday. For this, a team of officials of the Medical Education Department will visit the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on June 6 and June 7 … Read more

Telangana | Anti Corruption Bureau officials pose as lorry drivers, unearth trail of graft in RTA

Telangana | Anti Corruption Bureau officials pose as lorry drivers, unearth trail of graft in RTA

Telangana Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials conducting a surprise check at East Zone Malakpet RTO on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT   Posing as lorry drivers in need of various permits and registrations at the Road Transport Authority (RTA), officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau said they have unearthed many malpractices, including bribery in the department. … Read more