Telangana / The Times of India
An auto driver in Bhadradri Kothagudem district got the shock of his life as he received an electricity bill of 7 lakh.
In a move that is all set to drive Telangana's mobility sector into a higher gear, South Korean auto giant Hyundai is planning to cruise into the state with an investment of 1,400 crore in setting up a proving grounds or test tracks in the proposed Telangana Mobility Valley.
Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked him over 'single family rule' in Telangana, chief minister and TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao slammed the PM saying the country's economy is in bad shape and reiterated that the country will witness 'sensation' in two to three months.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attacked chief minister and TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, urging people of Telangana to take a pledge to end the family rule in the state.
The city walked away with the lion's share of land deals this year - between January and now - with 715 acres of the over 1,237 acres transacted across major Indian cities, coming its way.
Hetero Group chairman Bandi Partha Saradhi Reddy, who is the Rajya Sabha candidate of the TRS, is all set to become India's richest MP.While filing his nomination, Partha Saradhi Reddy's assets have been pegged at around Rs 3,909 crore and along with his family it touches Rs 5,300 crore.
Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao met former Prime Minister and JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda at his residence in Bengaluru on Thursday.
A month after it opened its integrated R&D and manufacturing facility in Hyderabads Genome Valley at an investment of Euro 30 million (approx Rs 250 crore), Swiss biopharma giant Ferring Pharmaceuticals is now gearing up to inject another Euro 60 million (approx. Rs 500 crore) in expanding its Hyderabad facilities over the next two to three years.
The number of Covid-19 cases recorded in Telangana stood at 49 on Wednesday - one less than Tuesday's count of 50. The state continued to report zero deaths with the current death toll steady at 4,111. At present, the tally of Covid cases in the state is 7.93 lakh.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi touches down in Hyderabad on Thursday to celebrate 20 years of Indian School of Business (ISB) in the city, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will be flying out to Bengaluru to meet former prime minister Deve Gowda and his son and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy at their residence.
Swiss railway rolling stock manufacturer Stadler Rail has entered into a joint venture with Hyderabad-based Medha Servo Drives Pvt Ltd for setting up a railway coach manufacturing facility in Telangana.
A day after Lulu Group committed an investment of Rs500 crore in setting up an export-oriented food processing facility in Telangana, Brussels-based Aliaxis has now announced plans to invest Rs 500 crore in setting up a greenfield facility to make plastic pipes, fittings and accessories in Telangana.
Vallepu Anitha's efforts to implement government schemes in her village has pushed her into poverty, so much so that the 32-year-old sarpanch of the newly-incepted gram panchayat, Vishwantha Colony in Hanumakonda district, has been compelled to work as a daily wage labourer to make ends meet.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Hyderabad on Thursday to participate in the celebration of the completion of 20 years of ISB-Hyderabad and address the graduation ceremony of the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) Class of 2022. Modi will directly fly into the city from Japan where he has gone to attend the Quad summit and take part in other events.
While the number of Covid-19 deaths in Telangana continued to be zero, the count of positive cases increased from 27, recorded on Monday, to 50 on Tuesday. The cumulative tally of Covid cases in the state now stands at 7.93 lakh.
Days after a South African national was found with BA.4 sub-variant of Omicron in a Hyderabad business school, another person has tested positive for BA.5 sub-variant in Hyderabad.
Kachiguda police registered an assault case against a worker for using a sharp-edged weapon to attack a businessman at Ratna Nagar on Monday night.
Participating in a panel discussion on 'AI on the Street: Managing Trust in the public square at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the minister said gaining public confidence is very important.
Despite the Central government's non-co-operation in procurement of parboiled rice, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to bear an additional Rs 3,000 crore financial burden to procure Yasangi paddy.
Concluding his tour to the national capital and Chandigarh, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao returned to Hyderabad on Monday night. The CM was supposed to be in Delhi till Wednesday and leave for Bengaluru on Thursday, but he wound up his trip early and returned to the city.
In a huge haul, 470 kg of ganja worth Rs 1.2 crore was seized in eastern parts of Hyderabad at Pasumamula village in Rangareddy district on Monday. Ten inter-state smugglers, who were transporting the contraband from APs East Godavari to Mumbai, were caught by Hayathnagar police.
Continuing the declining trend, Telangana on Monday recorded 27 new Covid-19 cases, taking the tally to 7.92 lakh. The death toll stands at 4,111 as state recorded zero deaths on Monday. Out of the 27 cases, Hyderabad recorded 17 cases which is less than Sundays data of 24.
While the Common University Entrance Test (CUET), which was started for admissions into central universities, is looking to expand its purview to state and private ones too, the varsities from Telangana are likely to skip it.
It's destination Nepal for Hyderabad's gamblers lately.While all roads led to Colombo until recently, the latest Sri Lankan crisis has pushed the venue for high stake games to India's other neighbour on the north.
Addressing the farmers in a series of meetings in various villages in Nalgonda parliamentary constituency on Monday, Uttam said it took almost eight years for KCR to realise that no government could survive by neglecting farmers. Telangana is the only state which is not offering crop insurance.
In a hit-and-run case, three people in an auto-rickshaw died when a heavy vehicle rammed it on the Warangal-Khammam highway at Bollikunta village on Sunday morning. The impact of the accident was such that the auto broke into pieces, police said.
Telangana finance and health minister T Harish Rao on Sunday slammed the BJP government at the Centre for gradually increasing the prices of petrol, diesel and LPG gas by a huge margin over the last eight years but reducing it by a meagre margin now.
While Telangana's use of the Overdraft (OD) and Ways and Means Advance (WMA) facilities, extended by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), had started showing signs of strain over the last two years, in the 2022 fiscal it found its name among the top four states that have used these facilities.
Heavy motor vehicles and the movement of vehicles during the time period from 9pm to 3am are identified to be the most important factors influencing fatal traffic crashes in Hyderabad, by researchers from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Hyderabad campus.
Telangana on Sunday recorded 29 new Covid-19 infections taking the total cases in the state to 7,92,871, a health department bulletin said.
TRS president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao promised a sensation in national politics after his trysts with Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav in the national capital.
Over 1200 long-pending PhDs have been cancelled this year by Osmania University as only 1280 students have submitted their PhDs before the deadline, said the vice-chancellor of the varsity.
Summer rains have brought in much-needed relief for the denizens as the maximum temperature in the city has dropped to 34 degrees Celsius.
IT and industries minister KT Rama Rao has urged Indian diaspora in London to look beyond Hyderabad and consider Tier-II towns if they are thinking of setting up business in Telangana.
A day after 22-year-old Neeraj Panwar was brutally murdered in full public view in Begum Bazar, Shahinayathgunj police on Saturday arrested four persons, including a juvenile, while they were travelling in a bus near Gurumitkal in Karnataka.
Telangana Congress working president and MLA T Jayaprakash Jagga Reddy on Saturday found fault with chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for giving Rajya Sabha tickets to businessmen rather than to the family members of those who gave their life for Telangana state achievement.
Addressing Indian Diaspora Meet and Greet event in London, the minister said Indian diaspora had supported the Telangana movement and have always promoted Telangana wherever they are in the world and thanked them for their continued support.
Following mutiple appeals and days of protest by police job aspirants, the Telangana government on Friday decided to increase the upper age limit by two more years, for all recruitments to the state's police department.
Following a complaint by a businessmans wife, the Punjagutta police have registered a criminal case against five Goods and Services Tax (GST) officials on charges of manhandling, harassing and wrongfully detaining a woman.
A day after India's first case of BA.4 subvariant of Omicron was reported from Hyderabad, it has now emerged that the South African national, who tested positive for the variant, had enrolled himself under a corporate educational exchange programme in a city business school a week ago.
The Supreme Court appointed commission of inquiry into the 2019 Disha encounter case concluded that three of the four rape and murder accused in the case were minors.
The four accused in the 2019 Disha rape and murder case were killed in a fake encounter while in police custody and the 10 cops involved in it should be booked for murder, the Supreme Court-appointed commission to inquire into the killings has said in its report submitted to the apex
To meet several leaders and personalities and participate in various programmes, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will undertake a week-long nationwide tour beginning Friday.
A 12-year-old boy died soon after being attacked by a pack of dogs on the banks of Musi in Kulsumpura on Thursday. Police said the boys shirt was soaked in blood and he had multiple dog bite injuries.
Telangana recorded 47 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, of which 36 were in Hyderabad. The current positivity rate is 0.3%.The total count of cases recorded so far in the state stand to 7,92,757. The death toll stands at 4,111 on Thursday, as no death was recorded for over two months now.
The youngest state of the country may have achieved distinction in implementing various unique programmes, but it ranks top in the country pertaining to caesarean (c-sections) deliveries. Of the total deliveries, 60% of them were caesarean and the rest were normal.
After missing three market borrowing dates, the Telangana government has written to the Union finance ministry requesting permission to borrow during Reserve Bank of India (RBI) auctions.
A 19-year-old woman with burns was hospitalised after a person claiming to be an exorcist allegedly made her walk and stand on burning coal to cure her of mental illness in Vikarabad district of Telangana, police said on Thursday.
There was no Prakash Raj. There was neither Motkupalli Narasimhulu nor B Vinod Kumar. There was no mention of Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy either. After keeping everybody guessing in the last 2-3 days, TRS president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday picked three new faces, including a pharma company honcho, to fill three vacant slots in Rajya Sabha from Telangana.