HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Hyderabad, comprising Dr Lata Baswara Patne (Judicial Member) and Shalini Misra (Administrative Member), has imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Rajnish Kumar Rai, a retired IPS officer and assistant professor at the Indian School of Management, Ahmedabad for abusing the legal process by repeatedly challenging his transfer. The fine is to be paid within one month from the date of the order to Sishuvihar, Women, Children, Disabl

HANAMKONDA: The founder and national president of the Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS), Manda Krishna Madiga, demanded the resignation of Station Ghanpur MLA Kadiyam Srihari and appealed to the voters not to vote for Warangal Congress candidate Kadiyam Kavya. He alleged that Kavya and her father, Srihari, betrayed the Madiga caste. Speaking at a press conference in Hanamkonda on Friday, he alleged that Srihari and his daughter do not belong to the Madiga community, classified as a schedu

HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court heard a PIL and a writ petition on alleged inaction of Medchal Malkajgiri Collector and the HMDA Commissioner in curbing illegal construction activities within the Full Tank Level (FTL) of Komati Kunta Lake in Bachupally under the Nizampet Municipal Corporation limits. The writ petition was filed by Vasavi Infra Pvt Ltd and the PIL by Akula Satish, a resident of Quthbullapur mandal under Rangareddy district. During the proceedings, Satishs counsel raised conce

HYDERABAD: In a joint operation, the South Zone Task Force police and the Central Zone DCP team apprehended 17 individuals, including five Sudanese nationals and a local mobile shop owner from Jagdish market and seized 700 mobile phones worth Rs 1.75 crore, including more than 30 recent version iPhones. The accused have been identified as Mohammad Muzammil, Syed Abrar, Syed Saleem, Pathan Rabbani, Mohammad Athar, Mohammad Zakir, Shaik Azhar, Mohamad Khaja Nizamuddin, Syed Layeeq, Shaik Azhar Moi

HYDERABAD: The Drugs Control Administration (DCA) conducted raids and seized spurious drugs at multiple locations in the state on Thursday and Friday. In a raid conducted at Alwal, DCA seized Oxifer-XT and Nurovis-LC tablets which were falsely manufactured under the FSSAI licence and falsely claimed to be a food product/nutraceutical, manufactured by Eminent Remedies at Nacharam. In another instance, DCA officials, detected certain medicines circulating in the market with misleading claims stati

HYDERABAD: The Jubilee Hills police on Friday registered a case after diamond jewellery worth Rs 1 crore, belonging to a retired employee, went missing. The victim - Baji Bhagwatula, lives with his wife, Sheela in Navaniram Nagar in Jubilee Hills. Baji Bhagwatula, who had returned from Bangalore with his wife on April 20, had taken a taxi from Shamshabad Airport. According to the complainant, the taxi driver made an unexpected stop at Vijetha Supermarket, located opposite the Film Chamber, to cl

RAJANNA-SIRCILLA: The Mid Manair Reservoir (MMR), popularly known as the water hub for water distribution to other irrigation projects like Lower Manair Dam, Ananthagiri projects, is now nearing dead storage. As against the reservoirs original capacity of 27.55 tmc, only 5.9 tmc of water is currently available in the reservoir. Due to a prevalent heatwave condition, the water is evaporating, leaving nothing for drinking. Each day, about 50 cusecs of water is being supplied for drinking to Rajann

HYDERABAD: A 15-year-old boy was hailed as a hero after his quick thinking helped save the lives of five employees working in the Allen Homeo and Herbal Products factory, which was gutted in a fire accident on Friday evening. Sai Charan, who recently completed SSC, came to pick up his friends mother, who is working in the factory. Sai Charan came to the factory along with his friend. Both of them live in the same village. By the time Sai Charan reached the factory, his friends mother came out of

MAHABUBNAGAR: BRS president and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said that voting either for chhota bhai (referring to CM A Revanth Reddy) and bada bhai (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) would be the same, as Revanth would accept whatever Modi says after the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a gathering during a roadshow in Mahbubnagar on Friday, Rao alleged that both Congress and the BJP were trying to eliminate regional parties. Raos bus yatra entered on the third day. He recalled that the BJP

HYDERABAD: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) Task Force team, recently constituted by the Commissioner of Food Safety, conducted inspections in the Kothapet Fruit Market area and identified three fruit vendors ripening the fruits by placing Ethylene Cellulose Wrappers in close contact with the fruits, which is in contravention of the provisions of the Act. While most of the stock was being ripened abiding to the norms, a certain quantity of stock was being ripened in a pro

HYDERABAD: Justice K Lakshman of the Telangana High Court on Friday adjourned the bail petition of Yadati Sunil Yadav, one of the accused in the YS Vivekananda Reddy murder case, to Monday. The adjournment was made to allow the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to present arguments in response to the plea. During the court proceedings, the advocate representing Sunil Yadav argued that since the CBI had already filed a chargesheet, it was not necessary for the accused to remain in custody. He

HYDERABAD: The Early Bird Scheme offering a 5% rebate on payment of the entire current financial year (2024-25) property tax is now also extended to commercial properties and mixed-use buildings in Greater Hyderabad. With April 30, 2024 being the last date for the scheme, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has appealed property owners to take advantage of the EBS scheme and avail the rebate. Previously, the EBS scheme was limited only to residential properties. However, based on

HANAMKONDA: The Subedari police arrested a domestic helper, her paramour, and another woman involved in stealing gold ornaments weighing 55.5 tolas or 650 grams, valued at approximately Rs 39 lakh, at a residence in Santhosh Nagar in Hanamkonda. The trio was apprehended during a vehicle check near the Forest Office Junction on Friday morning while they were on their way to Hyderabad in a car to sell a portion of the stolen jewellery. The police recovered 47 stolen ornaments and seized the four-w

HYDEDRABAD: Accusing the Congress of spreading lies that the BJP will scrap reservations if it retains power at the Centre, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Friday alleged that the grand old party was resorting to falsehoods to win the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Addressing the media here, the state BJP president alleged that the Congress was the cause of all the problems that are plaguing the country. He questioned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi regarding the allocation of 8% of the 27% reservat

HYDERABAD : Leaving his own party in shock, BRS MLA and former minister Ch Malla Reddy on Friday congratulated BJP Malkajgiri candidate Eatala Rajender on his impending victory in the Lok Sabha elections. Both Malla Reddy and Rajender were guests at a private function here on Friday. Seeing Rajender, Malla Reddy went up to his former colleague and gave him a hug. Anna, you are going to win, he told the BJP candidate and requested a photograph of them together for posterity. Malla Reddy also soug

HYDERABAD: Taking a serious view of the comments made by Forest Minister Konda Surekha against BRS working president KT Rama Rao, the Election Commission of India (ECI) censured the Congress star campaigner for the misconduct and violation of the model code of conduct. The Commission, without prejudice to any order/notice issued or to be issued in the matter relating to MCC violations against Konda Surekha, hereby strongly censures her for the misconduct. The Commission also strictly warns her t

HYDERABAD : BRS MLA and former finance minister T Harish Rao handed over his resignation letter to journalists near Martyrs Memorial at Gun Park on Friday and vowed not to contest in the ensuing bypoll if the Congress government implements the six guarantees, including crop loan waiver up to Rs 2 lakh, by August 15. Harish also announced that he was ready to give his resignation letter in the Speakers format. He then dared Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to send his resignation letter through his

HYDERABAD: Accepting the challenge thrown by former minister T Harish Rao, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy reiterated that he would waive crop loans up to Rs 2 lakh by August 15. Addressing Congress social media coordinators here on Friday, Revanth said that the government has already implemented five of the six guarantees within 100 days. I am accepting the challenge of Harish Rao. I will waive crop loans by August 15. Be ready with your resignation letter in the Speakers format, Revanth told Ha

HYDERABAD : While the challenges and counter-challenges thrown by BRS MLA T Harish Rao and Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on farm loan waiver have caught the public eye, political observers say that beyond the cacophony lies strategy, ambition, and logic on the part of both leaders. As announced, Harish on Friday visited the Martyrs Memorial Park and handed over his resignation letter to journalists there. The journalists were asked to hand over the letter to the Speaker if the chief minister fa

HYDERABAD : Owing to rapid urbanisation in the Hyderabad Urban Agglomeration (HUA) region and a huge rise in the demand for water supply, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB) has formulated the Godavari Drinking Water Supply Scheme Phase-II, which aims to rejuvenate the centuries old twin water reservoirs - Osmansagar (Gandipet) and Himayatsagar, with Godavari being the priority. Accordingly, the project proposals were formulated through Water and Power Consultancy

HYDERABAD: Researchers at the Raj Reddy Centre for Technology and Society (RCTS), IIIT-H have designed a unique web-based tool to assist students and teachers in learning the English language, with an aim to make the language learning accessible to all. The English language learning application is a machine learning, AI-based web application, which has been developed to assist classroom learning as well as self-learning of the language through speech interaction. This machine learning model comp

HYDERABAD: The mercury levels in the state witnessed a steep rise as the maximum temperatures shot above 45 degrees Celsius on Friday, making it the hottest day of the year so far. The Telangana State Development and Planning Society report said that Karimnagar recorded the highest maximum temperature of 45.6 degrees Celsius, followed by Peddapalli and Nalgonda at 45.2 degrees Celsius. Jagtial and Yadadri Bhuvanagiri districts recorded a temperature of 45.1 degress Celsius while Wanaparthy was c

NALGONDA : Hundreds of patients faced difficulties after the owner locked the ESI dispensary in Sitarampuram in Miryalaguda town on Friday due to non-payment of rent for the last 26 months. However, he relented and opened the lock in the afternoon after the in-charge doctor assured the owner that the rent would be paid soon. In 2017, the government entered into a rent agreement with the owner of the building to set up the ESI dispensary. As many as 21,000 workers employed in over 150 rice mills,

HYDERABAD: The Telangana Department of Heritage signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Noor Microfilm International Centre (NIMC) on Friday, for the repair, conservation, digitisation, documentation, and cataloguing of the manuscripts, paintings, and documents housed in the Telangana State Archaeology Museum in the city. The MoU was inked by Bharati Hollikeri, Director of the Department of Heritage, and Dr Mehdi Khajeh Piri, Director of NIMC, in the presence of Shailaja Ramaiyer, Princi

HYDERABAD: Seven intermediate students allegedly died by suicide across Telangana in the last 48 hours due to failure in the exams. Telangana Board of Intermediate Examinations announced first year and second year results on April 24. According to Mahabubabad Superintendent of Police, two girls allegedly committed suicide after they failed in the examination. While one student hung herself at her residence in a village in the district the other jumped into a well. Similarly, a first year student

HYDERABAD : The Legislative Council byelection for the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Graduates Constituency will be held on May 27 and the model code of conduct (MCC) has come into force. The bypoll was necessitated following the resignation of BRS MLC Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, who was elected MLA from Jangaon on a BRS ticket in November last year. After winning the seat, he resigned from the MLC post on December 9, 2023. His term was up to November 30, 2027. The constituency spans 34 Assembly segments

HYDERABAD: Over two months into probing the phone-tapping case, the team investigating the alleged scandal has submitted a memo to the Nampally City Court urging the invocation of cyber terrorism provisions under Section 66 F of the Information Technology Act, 2000. However, the court is yet to issue orders regarding this move. Under the section, cyber terrorism is defined as acts aimed at threatening the security and sovereignty of India, or instilling terror in the populace through various mea

HYDERABAD : Two persons, including a minor, have been arrested in connection with the gang rape and murder of a 45-year-old woman whose body was found in a workshop cellar in Kukatpally on Sunday morning. The accused Nitish Kumar Dev, 24, and the child in conflict with law (CCL) are natives of Bihar and work at a bar in Sangareddy, the police said. The case came to light when the workshops owner opened the cellar on Sunday morning and noticed the victims body. Upon analysis of CCTV footage, th

HYDERABAD : Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, who also holds the Energy portfolio, gave a strong rebuttal to former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who had accused the Congress government of causing a power crisis in the state in just four months of coming to power. KCR had made certain allegations against the state government in regards to the power sector during a televised interview on Tuesday. On Thursday, Vikramarka gave point-wise replies to KCRs allegations. Vikramarka cl

HYDERABAD : The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Hyderabad on Thursday issued a yellow alert predicting heatwave conditions in Telangana till Monday. However, light to moderate rain or thundershowers are likely to bring respite at isolated places in the state from Saturday. Heatwave conditions are likely to prevail at isolated pockets in Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Mulugu, Bhadradri Kothagudem, Khammam, Nalgonda, Suryapet, Mahbubnagar, Nagarkurnool, Wanaparthy, Narayanpet and Jogulamba Gadw

HYDERABAD : A day after a Mercedes Benz crashed into a transformer in Jubilee Hills, the police on Thursday arrested the main accused, Ethan Venkatesh, and registered a case against the bar for serving liquor beyond permissible hours. The police have booked the Cara Cara Cocktail Bar under Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code for violating regulations by operating beyond permissible hours and serving alcohol unlawfully. Meanwhile, the pr

NIZAMABAD/HANAMKONDA: Claiming that the opposition parties have been receiving funds from overseas sources, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday alleged that all these outfits are now working together to prevent Narendra Modi from becoming prime minister for the third consecutive time. Similarly, the Congress and BRS too are working together to halt the BJP surge in Telangana, he said. Addressing a public meeting after the BJP Nizamabad candidate Dharmapuri Arvind filed ano

KHAMMAM : Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy and Agriculture Minister Thummala Nageswara Rao on Thursday asserted that the Congress candidates will secure the Khammam and Mahabubabad Lok Sabha seats with a huge majority. The duo, along with Rajya Sabha MP Renuka Chowdhury, participated in a roadshow as part of Khammam candidate Ramasahayam Raghuram Reddys poll campaign. People of Telangana supported the Congress in the Assembly elections. They are satisfied with the governance of Congres

YADADRI-BHUVANAGIRI : Claiming that the BRS developed Telangana with good governance when it was in power, BRS president and former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday said that the BJP and Congress are doing politics in the name of god and religion. Addressing the gathering during the second day of his bus yatra in Bhuvanagiri, he said that the BJP has been using religion for political and electoral gains. The BJP has been doing politics in the name of god. It divides people on relig

HYDERABAD: In view of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankars visit to Hyderabad, the city traffic police have announced road diversions in various parts of the city between 2 pm and 9 pm. As the V-P will be travelling to Genome Valley at around 3 pm, traffic restrictions will be in place at PNT flyover, Rasoolpura, CTO, Plaza X Roads, Tivoli X Roads, Secunderabad Club in-gate, Karkhana, Trimulgherry X Roads, Lothkunta, Telangana Talli Statue, Alwal, Ayyappa Swamy Temple, Bolarum checkpost and Hakimpet

HYDERABAD : Telangana aced the IIT-JEE main examination session 2 in the country, with as many as 15 candidates scoring a 100 percentile, in the results announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on late Wednesday night. As many as 56 candidates from the country scored a perfect 100 percentile, out of which 15 candidates are from Telangana, followed by 7 from Andhra Pradesh and six from Delhi. Gajare Nilkrishna Nirmalkumar from Maharashtra and Dakshesh Sanjay Mishra bagged the first and seco

WARANGAL/SURYAPET/SANGAREDDY : Celebrations turned into a tragedy when four Intermediate second-year students, all aged 19, died after a two-wheeler they were riding collided with a private bus on the outskirts of Yellanda village on the Warangal-Khammam highway late on Wednesday. Sources said that the boys were returning to Yellanda in Warangal district from Hanamkonda where they had gone to celebrate the completion of their Intermediate studies. The victims have been identified as P Ganesh, M

MEDAK: A day after Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy asked BRS leader and former minister T Harish Rao to be ready with his resignation letter, the latter on Thursday challenged the former to come with his own resignation letter so that both can hand them over to intellectuals. Addressing the gathering after BRS Medak candidate P Venkatram Reddy filed his nomination, the Siddipet MLA said: Lets meet at the Martyrs Memorial in front of the Assembly at 10 am on Friday morning. If you have guts, you c

HYDERABAD : In less than 24 hours of the results of Intermediate public examination being announced, at least six students died by suicide, leaving their families mourning. The series of suicides have led to questions regarding the mental well-being and the pressure that students go through during and after examinations. The desire to score the highest is driven by peer, family and societal pressures and raises expectations. Failure to meet these expectations is one of the major causes of youngs

RAJANNA-SIRCILLA : Mounting debts are believed to be the reason for two powerloom workers ending their life by suicide in two separate incidents in Sircilla on Thursday. While a 60 year-old debt-ridden powerloom worker, identified as Ankarapu Mallesham, took the extreme step of hanging himself from a tree at Indiranagar of Thangallapally mandal, Adicherla Sai, 25, ended his life at his residence. Malleshams brother-in-law Vaddepalli Anandam told TNIE that the victim stepped out of the house in t

HYDERABAD: Uncertainity looms over whether former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will be summoned by Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, heading a judicial commission investigating the irregularities and corruption allegations in the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme. When TNIE posed the same question to Justice Ghose, who commenced his work at the BRKR Bhavan on Thursday, he shot back: Do you want me to summon him? When TNIE reminded that Justice BK Somasekhara, the one-man Commission of Inquiry

HYDERABAD : Alleging that the BJP and RSS have declared a war on the Constitution with the aim of scrapping reservations for SC, ST and OBC communities, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday said that the saffron party was hoping to win 400 seats to implement this agenda. The BJP is trying to win 400 seats so that it gets two-thirds majority in Lok Sabha. This will enable it to pass a Bill scrapping the reservation system. The RSS has a policy to abolish quotas by 2025, as mentioned by its

SIDDIPET: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that the BJP would revoke the Muslim quota implemented by the BRS and Congress governments in Telangana and extend it to SC, ST and OBC communities if it retains power at the Centre. Addressing a public meeting organised here in support of BJP Medak candidate M Raghunandan Rao, Shah alleged that the BRS and Congress colluded with each other to loot the state. Elect BJP candidates, Modi will free Telangana from corruption, he said. Shah exu

WARANGAL: In a tragic incident, four youth were killed in a road accident on Wednesday midnight. The incident took place at the Yellanda village outskirts on the Warangal-Khammam highway under the Wardhannapet Police Station Limits. The deceased were identified as P Ganesh, M Sidhu, V Teja and P Anil Kumar; they were all residents of Yellanda village. Police said that the deceased P Ganesh along with his three friends went on a single two-wheeler to Hanamkonda city to celebrate after knowing tha

HYDERABAD: Valued at Rs 95.65 per litre, diesel prices in Hyderabad are higher than Karnatakas diesel rate of Rs 86.39. Taking note of this price difference, a smuggler had been illegally transporting thousands of litres of diesel from Karnataka to Hyderabad on several occasions. The Cyberabad Special Operations Team on Tuesday apprehended seven drivers of the diesel smuggling gang and seized 10,800 litres of diesel worth Rs 10 lakh along with seven small tankers. The police intercepted the gang

HYDERABAD: In a move that is likely to help Telangana overcome the power deficit and become a power surplus state, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has accorded permission for the construction of Yadadri thermal power plant in the erstwhile Nalgonda district. This decision was taken during the eighth meeting of the expert appraisal committee (EAC) on thermal power projects held on April 5. The minutes of the meeting were made available to the public on Wednesday.

HYDERABAD/KARIMNAGAR: The Congress on Wednesday announced candidates for the remaining three Lok Sabha segments on the eve of the last day of filing nominations for the Lok Sabha elections. As expected, the party nominated Velichala Rajender Rao for Karimnagar, Mohammed Waliullah for Hyderabad and Ramasahayam Raghuram Reddy for Khammam constituency. The three candidates have already filed nominations hoping for party tickets. Interestingly, Raghuram Reddy is a close relative of minister Pongulet

KHAMMAM: A 47-year-old assistant commandant of the CRPF 81 battalion was killed in a gun misfire near the Pusuguppa base camp in Cherla mandal on Wednesday. According to a release, the deceased, MV Seshagiri, along with other personnel, went to Oldpusuguppa, situated one kilometre away from the base camp, on a routine visit. While returning, the company had to cross a canal. When Seshagiri, who was carrying his AK-47, jumped to cross the obstacle, it misfired and the bullet ended up going to his

HYDERBAD: Students belonging to the weaker sections of the society from the Kallam Anji Reddy Vocational Junior College in Hyderabad passed with flying colours in the state Intermediate public examinations in the results announced by the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) on Wednesday. Tirumani Pooja from Borabanda in Hyderabad, whose father works as a carpenter scored 983/1000 in the first-year exams. She said that she aspires to become a software engineer. Another first-ye

HYDERABAD : The raging heat waves are back in the state as temperatures continue to soar in the state. The Telangana Development and Planning Society recorded the highest maximum temperature of 45.1 degree in Nlgonda, followed by 44.9 degree in Bhadradri Kothagudem and 44.5 degree in Mulugu. The city also recorded a maximum temperature of 42.4 degree in Kapra, whereas the temperature in theGHMC limits remained above 41.5 degree. IMD said that a cyclonic circulation lies over Telangana and adjoin