MMTS users seek better train timings, extended services

MMTS users seek better train timings, extended services

The Long Distance and MMTS Travellers Association has appealed to the South Central Railway authorities to consider introducing more MMTS between Medchal and Secunderabad. | Photo Credit: File Photo The Long Distance and MMTS Travellers Association has appealed to the South Central Railway (SCR) authorities to consider introducing more MMTS between Medchal and Secunderabad between … Read more

How a 6-km journey revolutionised a princely State 150 years

How a 6-km journey revolutionised a princely State 150 years

At 2 p.m. on October 8, 1874, a three-coach train pulled by a steam engine chugged out of Secunderabad Railway station and reached the military station of Trimulgherry in present-day Telangana. Exactly 150 years ago, the train had covered a grand distance of six kilometres. The same station proved to be a lifeline at the … Read more

Secunderabad Cantonment Board‘s merger with GHMC moves one step closer

Secunderabad Cantonment Board‘s merger with GHMC moves one step closer

The Telangana government has conducted an in-house study on the feasibility of transferring land from the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), said the Ministry of Defence on June 27 as it released the minutes of the meeting held on June 25. The meeting, led by Defence Secretary A. Giridhar, … Read more

Secunderabad Cantonment MLA Lasya Nanditha killed in road crash

Secunderabad Cantonment MLA Lasya Nanditha killed in road crash

Lasya Nanditha talking to a voter during her election campaign in the Secunderabad Cantonment area. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Secunderabad Cantonment legislator G. Lasya Nanditha, 37, died in a road crash on the Outer Ring Road Patancheru, here in the early hours of February 23. Nanditha died on the spot before she could be … Read more

₹700 crore Secunderabad railway station works progressing

₹700 crore Secunderabad railway station works progressing

The ₹700 crore redevelopment work of the Secunderabad Railway Station has been progressing on schedule with work on most of the foundations on both sides of platforms 1 and 10 for various world-class amenities completed, according to SCR General Manager Arun Kumar Jain on Friday. On the south side, nearly 80% of the construction work … Read more

PM Modi virtually flags off Vande Bharat Express between Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam

PM Modi virtually flags off Vande Bharat Express between Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the Vande Bharat Express between Secunderabad and Visakhapatnam. Photo: Screengrab via YouTube/Narendra Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Vande Bharat Express trains are proof of fast developing India and a true example of ‘Aatma Nirbhar Bharat’ with the speed of connectivity related to the overall development of the nation as … Read more