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Hyderabad teen who made ‘false’ rape bid claim dies by suicide: Police
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu, Hyderabad
PUBLISHED ON FEB 25, 2021 05:56 AM IST
A case of suspicious death has been registered and an investigation is on. Family members told police that it was her second attempt to kill herself in the past 24 hours, according to a police official who did not want to be named.

Jagan's sister ropes in father's confidants into her new Telangana party
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu, Hyderabad
UPDATED ON FEB 19, 2021 08:05 PM IST
- On February 9, Sharmila announced her intentions to launch a new political party in Telangana.

Telangana engineer, Manasa Varanasi, wins VLCC Femina Miss India World 2020
PTI
UPDATED ON FEB 11, 2021 03:01 PM IST
Manasa Varanasi, an engineer from Telangana was crowned VLCC Femina Miss India World 2020 while Haryana's Manika Sheokand was declared VLCC Femina Miss Grand India 2020 and Uttar Pradesh's Manya Singh was crowned VLCC Femina Miss India 2020 - runner-up

Telangana schools resume for class 9, above
PTI, Hyderabad
PUBLISHED ON FEB 02, 2021 09:34 AM IST
The attendance was better among students of 10th and intermediate second year (12th standard), who would appear for board exams, compared to the 9th standard and the intermediate first year (11th standard), the officials said.

Telangana inaugurates a state of the art logistics park at Batasingaram
ANI
UPDATED ON JAN 29, 2021 09:48 AM IST
Jointly developed by Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, the Truck Dock Logistics Park was inaugurated by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao at Batasingaram

NGT directs Telangana PCB to recover ₹1.55 cr from pharma firms for pollution
PTI, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JAN 19, 2021 01:29 PM IST
The NGT passed the order after a committee recommended to impose environmental compensation for one year for all pharma formulation industries and six months to Shri Kartikeya Pharma which is engaged in Ayurvedic Ashwagandha extraction, as the pollution load is less.

Classes to resume for standards 9 and above from Feb 1: Telangana CM
ANI, Hyderabad
PUBLISHED ON JAN 12, 2021 07:40 PM IST
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has instructed the officials concerned to solve all the revenue department related issues immediately.

Telangana gets additional borrowing permission of Rs 2,508 crore
By Asian News International | Posted by Mallika Soni | Hyderabad
PUBLISHED ON JAN 07, 2021 07:21 PM IST
In May last year, the government had enhanced borrowing limit of the states by 2 per cent of their gross state domestic product (GSDP) to meet the challenges posed by Covid-19 pandemic.

Justice Hima Kohli takes charge as 1st woman CJ of Telangana high court
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
UPDATED ON JAN 07, 2021 01:59 PM IST
Justice Kohli, who till recently served as a senior judge of the Delhi high court, was elevated as the chief justice of Telangana.

Amid bird flu scare, poultry from southern states banned in MP, control rooms set up in districts
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Bhopal
UPDATED ON JAN 07, 2021 01:30 AM IST
The decision to ban the supply of poultry from southern states was taken at a meeting chaired by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday. Officials of the Animal Husbandry and Health departments attended the meeting.

Rapid response teams formed, alert sounded over bird flu scare in Telangana
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
UPDATED ON JAN 06, 2021 07:39 PM IST
The general public has also bene requested to be alert during the period and if any dead bird is noticed, they can pass the information to the wildlife crime control cell at Aranya Bhavan with toll free number 18004255364.

Stree Raksha Pads: Students of govt school in Telangana make ‘zero waste’ sanitary napkins
By Asian News International | Posted by: Sanya Budhiraja | Yadadri Bhuvanagiri, Telangana
PUBLISHED ON JAN 05, 2021 10:05 AM IST
The students of Zilla Parishad High School (ZPHS) Mulkalapally have made these organic sanitary pads using water hyacinth, fenugreek, turmeric, neem and sabja seeds.

The year that will be: The political battles of 2021
By Prashant Jha | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 05, 2021 06:10 AM IST
This year’s electoral fights will give a glimpse into the nature of identity-based politics and their message will last till 2024.

States gear up for 1st phase of vaccination, await Centre nod
By HT Correspondents | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 05, 2021 04:21 AM IST
Here’s a quick look at the level of preparedness ahead of the vaccination drive across states

1 more Telangana Congress MLA to defect to BJP, party strength plunges to 5
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
UPDATED ON JAN 02, 2021 08:05 AM IST
If Rajagopal Reddy defects to the BJP sooner or later, the Congress will be left with just five MLAs in the 119-member state assembly. The party had won 19 seats in the assembly elections held in December 2018, but 12 of them defected to the TRS en masse.

In another U-turn, KCR decides to implement Centre’s Ayushman Bharat scheme
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
UPDATED ON DEC 31, 2020 08:52 PM IST
Ever since Ayushman Bharat was introduced in September 2018, KCR, as the Telangana chief minister is known, has been strongly resisting it and refusing to implement it in Telangana.

9-year-old boy from Hyderabad who lost his limbs in accident creates art using mouth
By Asian News International | Posted by: Srimoyee Chowdhury | Hyderabad
PUBLISHED ON DEC 31, 2020 09:25 AM IST
The boy met with an accident on September 15 last year while he was playing on the terrace of his house which is situated in Kamkole village of Munpalle Mandal.

14 more cases of new Covid-19 strain in India; 4 in Delhi
By HT Correspondents | Hindustan Times, New Delhi, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 31, 2020 01:50 AM IST
On Tuesday, six people — three from Karnataka and one each from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh — who returned from the UK were found to be carrying the new variant, which is known as VOC-202012/01.

New coronavirus strain in India: Here are some states where cases have been found
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 30, 2020 04:37 PM IST
14 more people have tested positive for the new strain taking the total to 20, the Union health ministry announced on Wednesday.

Number of new cases reducing constantly in Telangana: State health minister
By Asian News International| Posted by: Harshit Sabarwal | Hyderabad
PUBLISHED ON DEC 30, 2020 06:26 AM IST
Addressing the media, Rajender said the people of Telangana are alert and they taking all the precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the viral infection. The minister said the Telangana has not reported any cases related to the new strain of Coronavirus that has recently been found in the United Kingdom.

6 UK returnees positive for new coronavirus mutation
By Rhythma Kaul | Hindustan Times, New Delhi, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 30, 2020 05:27 AM IST
All six of the infected people were now in isolation, the health ministry said in a statement, adding that their fellow travellers and close contacts were being traced.

States scramble to locate hundreds of UK returnees
By Venkatesha Babu and Debabrata Mohanty | Hindustan Times, Bengaluru/new Delhi/bhubaneswar
UPDATED ON DEC 30, 2020 04:59 AM IST
Many of the missing are from Karnataka and Telangana, the two states where maximum number of persons returned from UK since November last week.

KCR announces salary hike for over 9 lakh govt employees, raises retirement age
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
UPDATED ON DEC 29, 2020 09:53 PM IST
A three-member committee led by Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and comprising Principal Secretary (Finance) K Ramakrishna Rao and Principal Secretary (Water Resources Development) Rajat Kumar as members, will work out the modalities for implementing the decisions.

‘Bring ordinances on MSP, unemployment’: Owaisi slams BJP over anti-conversion laws
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shankhyaneel Sarkar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 29, 2020 08:43 PM IST
Owaisi also alleged that the BJP is trying to interfere with the personal lives and choices of Indian citizens. He also said these ordinances violate fundamental rights.

NCW writes to Hyderabad varsity to probe complaints of sexual harassment on campus
By Smriti Kak Ramachandran/ Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, New Delhi/Hyderabad
UPDATED ON DEC 28, 2020 11:46 PM IST
The complainant has also alleged that a fact finding team set up by the UGC that had gathered complaints from students, had earlier given the vice chancellor a clean-chit.

Sale, purchase of farm yield not govt job: Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
UPDATED ON DEC 29, 2020 03:36 AM IST
According to a statement from the chief minister’s office, the government set up purchasing centres in the countryside during the last season and purchased all the agriculture produce that landed in the centres on humanitarian grounds so that farmers would not suffer losses in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Telangana farmers to get financial aid under ‘Rythu Bandhu’ from today. All you need to know
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 28, 2020 04:22 PM IST
According to the chief minister’s office (CMO), the amount will be credited towards 1.52 crore acres of cultivated land at the rate of Rs.5,000 per acre for upcoming cropping season.

Loan apps fraud: Chinese woman among 3 arrested by Telangana police
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Prashasti Singh | Hyderabad
PUBLISHED ON DEC 28, 2020 06:19 AM IST
The trio was arrested based on a complaint by a city- based person that he was harassed by the online loan app firms over repayment with higher rate of interest, police said.

As India logs lowest Covid cases since July, a look at the declining trend in states
By hindustantimes.com| Edited by: Harshit Sabarwal | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 27, 2020 10:31 AM IST
On Sunday, 18,732 cases were added to the nationwide tally, which have been the lowest since July. The daily fatality count has remained below 300 since Saturday. The Union health ministry pointed out that all states and Union territories (UTs) in the country have a recovery rate of more than 95 per cent, adding that India’s cumulative recoveries are highest in the world.

Telangana road crash involving auto, truck and bus kills 5, three critical
By Srinivasa Rao Apparasu | Hindustan Times, Hyderabad
UPDATED ON DEC 26, 2020 11:08 AM IST
The truck, travelling from Sangareddy to Tandur, was speeding and the driver may have failed to notice the auto-rickshaw parked on the side of the road and rammed into it, said police.