Hyderabad: Around 60.5 lakh electors across Telangana are likely to receive notices over anomalies detected during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), including those who could not be mapped to the 2002 electoral rolls, Chief Electoral Officer C Sudarshan Reddy told TOI. The notices will cover different categories of discrepancies detected during scrutiny of enumeration forms,…
Hyderabad: Hyderabad: Taking a serious note of HYDRAA demolishing a compound wall belonging to Vani Cooperative Housing Society near RK Puram, without any instructions from the Medchal-Malkajgiri collector and without following due process, Telangana high court on Wednesday said that the agency acted in violation of court orders in the matter and issued a suo…
Hyderabad: Eagle Force sleuths on Tuesday night arrested a former University of Hyderabad (UoH) student for allegedly possessing and selling ganja on the campus. Another student, who tested positive for ganja consumption, was sent for rehabilitation.According to officials, the accused peddler has named 17 students who allegedly purchased ganja from him. Eagle Force officials are…
Hyderabad: Sangareddy police arrested the truck driver accused in a fatal accident that killed five agricultural labourers from Karnataka and an auto driver near Zaheerabad late on Tuesday. Police said the six labourers who were injured in the accident are currently stable.At around 7.30 pm, a Maharashtra-registered truck travelling from Humnabad to Hyderabad rammed into…
Hyderabad: A 25-year-old police constable died by suicide at the LB Nagar ACP office in the early hours of Wednesday. He left two letters addressed to senior officials, stating that he did not like his present posting and wanted to return to his previous duties at the LB Nagar police station. The deceased was identified…
Hyderabad: Poachers along forest fringes have been using a mix of crude traps, electric snares and coordinated hunting methods to target wildlife, with power lines near agricultural fields emerging as a major tool in recent incidents, Telangana forest dept officials said following the death of a beat officer while chasing poachers.According to their assessment, poachers…
Hyderabad: Just about four months after getting married, a 27-year-old man from Telangana was killed in a road accident in Malta, Europe, on Tuesday. Mohammed Abdul Jawad, from Islampura in Jagtial district had travelled to Europe only three months ago to take up a job as a sales executive.While family members back home have only…
Hyderabad: Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) has transferred an IND-ready phytopharmaceutical technology, developed from ‘Gymnema sylvestre’, for treating diabetic foot ulcers to a private firm, moving the botanical formulation towards regulatory submissions and clinical evaluation in India and the US.‘Gymnema sylvestre’ is commonly called ‘Gurmar’ or ‘Gudmar’ in Hindi, which means “sugar destroyer”. In…
Hyderabad: Ahead of nation-wide army recruitment drives, the general officer commanding-in-chief, Southern Command of the Indian Army, lieutenant general C Rajesh Pushkar on Wednesday expressed the Army’s readiness to set up training centres for youth in various district headquarters of Telangana.Lieutenant general Pushkar met chief minister A Revanth Reddy at MCRHRD institute and discussed various…
Poacher hunt turns fatal: Forest officer electrocuted by illegal live wire in Bhadradri dist Hyderabad: A 37-year-old forest beat officer, Banoth Naveen, chasing suspected poachers through a reserve forest, died after running into an illegal live electric wire allegedly laid to hunt wild animals at Nakinipeta in Burgampahad mandal of Bhadradri Kothagudem district on Tuesday…
