Complete tender process for supply eggs to residential schools; stay there for at least a day a week: Telangana Ministers to Collectors

Complete tender process for supply eggs to residential schools; stay there for at least a day a week: Telangana Ministers to Collectors

Ministers Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, Ponnam Prabhakar and Adluri Lakshman Kumar at a video conference with the district collectors on Tuesday | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Telangana district collectors were directed to stay at residential schools for at least a day in a week to check the maintenance of the amenities. They were asked to complete … Read more

CM keeps Collectors on alert in view of heavy rains lashing districts 

CM keeps Collectors on alert in view of heavy rains lashing districts 

CM A. Revanth Reddy has directed officials to make sure that doctors and medical personnel were available in government hospitals and primary healthcare centres at all times. A scene from Sangareddy on Monday. | Photo Credit: MOHD ARIF Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has directed the district collectors to be on alert in view of … Read more

West Zone police issue safety instructions to F&B establishments in Hyderabad

West Zone police issue safety instructions to F&B establishments in Hyderabad

The Hyderabad City Police held two interaction and coordination meetings on July 17 and 18 at the DCP West Zone office with owners and managements of pubs, bars, restaurants, cafés, and coffee shops to discuss various safety and security measures. The meetings were chaired by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, West Zone, S. M. Vijay … Read more

Telangana gears up for local body elections; numbers of ZPTC, MPTCs finalised

Telangana gears up for local body elections; numbers of ZPTC, MPTCs finalised

The State government has issued orders confirming the number of Mandal Parishad Presidents (MPPs), Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTCs), and Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies (MPTCs). As per official figures, there will be a total of 566 MPP and ZPTC seats, and 5,773 MPTC seats in the upcoming polls. The number of Gram Panchayats has been … Read more

What are the lessons from Telangana blast? | Explained

What are the lessons from Telangana blast? | Explained

The story so far: On the morning of June 30 at 9.10 a.m., an explosion tore through Sigachi Industries, a pharmaceutical factory, and flattened a three-storeyed building in Pashamylaram on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The stock market-listed entity estimated the death toll at 39 of the 143 workers who were on-site during the explosion. Emergency … Read more

Ghost faculty, hawala deals, ₹66 lakh bribe: Two from Telangana named in pan-India NMC corruption scam

Ghost faculty, hawala deals, ₹66 lakh bribe: Two from Telangana named in pan-India NMC corruption scam

A widening Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged corruption in the National Medical Commission (NMC) has uncovered a southern syndicate of intermediaries facilitating bribe-driven regulatory approvals for private medical colleges. Among the 36 named in the FIR are two individuals based in Telangana, one in Hyderabad and the other connected to a medical … Read more

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy visits pharma blast site, announces ₹1 crore ex-gratia for victims’ families

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy visits pharma blast site, announces ₹1 crore ex-gratia for victims’ families

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy interacting with the families of the victims of a reactor blast that took place at Sigachi Industries in Sangareddy district on Tuesday (July 01). | Photo Credit: MOHD ARIF Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy visited the Sigachi Industries Pvt. Ltd unit in Pashamylaram Industrial area in Sangareddy district on … Read more

No meat, eggs or school uniforms in State Gurukuls 

No meat, eggs or school uniforms in State Gurukuls 

Students at SC, ST, BC and Minorities residential schools and colleges do not find egg, meat or fruits in their daily diet, or even school uniforms to wear, just a few weeks into the start of the new academic year. Contractors and suppliers of these essentials are vexed as their payments are pending for several … Read more

Minister asks officials to complete oilpalm factory work at Narmetta by August 1st week

Minister asks officials to complete oilpalm factory work at Narmetta by August 1st week

Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao interacting with an oilpalm plantation farmer at Samudrala village of Siddipet district on Friday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement HYDERABAD Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao along with Minister for Transport and Backward Classes Welfare Ponnam Prabhakar, Minister for Roads & Buildings Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and Minister for Health … Read more

The troubled waters of Godavari

The troubled waters of Godavari

A fresh row has erupted between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh over the Polavaram-Banakacherla Link Project. The project, which will divert 200 tmc ft of Godavari water to the Krishna and Penna basins, aims to provide drinking and irrigation water to the drought-hit Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh. The Andhra Pradesh government has already submitted the … Read more