Hyderabad: Telangana Rakshana Sena chief Kalvakuntla Kavitha on Sunday apologised for her association with the previous BRS govt, saying it had neglected universities, as she attended Bathukamma festivities at Osmania University Arts College.Addressing students and young people during her first outreach to the university since launching TRS, Kavitha described Osmania University as the heartbeat of…
Hyderabad: In a chilling case of murder for gain, a housemaid and her husband were arrested for allegedly strangling a 66-year-old woman to death at her residence in Kamareddy and robbing her of gold jewellery weighing about eight tolas.Kamareddy town police arrested Bose Rajitha (40) and her husband Bose Narsing (48), residents of Bathukamma Kunta…
Hyderabad: With El Niño raising fears of a drought-like Yasangi season, agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has urged farmers to avoid paddy cultivation and shift to short-duration crops that require less water.Addressing a Rythu Nestham conference attended by district collectors and farmers, Tummala said the effects of El Niño were being felt globally and stressed…
Candidates during the passing out parade at the RBVRR Telangana Police Academy on Monday Hyderabad: When M Srikanth, a native of Nalgonda district, was pursuing his BEd at Osmania University in 2013, he actively participated in the Telangana agitation and faced lathi charges. Thirteen years later, he donned the khaki uniform as one of the…
Hyderabad: As the family of Mohammed Yousuf Ali grapples with his death in the incident at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, his relatives in Mehdipatnam are holding on to hope as his three children recover from their injuries. Yousuf was travelling for Umrah with his wife Sameera, their children Amaan (18), Wasey (16), and Maryam…
Hyderabad: Even as the Indian embassy in Moscow has sought the release of four Telangana-origin men from the Russian Army, it said Russian authorities have neither confirmed the whereabouts of Mohammed Afzal Khan nor verified reports of his death. The embassy, however, said it was informed that Afzal had joined the Russian Army as a…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Monday directed the state govt not to take any coercive action against BRS MLA T Harish Rao’s father-in-law Madhavarapu Hanmantha Rao or dispossess him from his 3.22 acres of land in Velikatta village of Siddipet district until a petition filed by him is finally decided.Justice N V Shravan Kumar passed…
Hyderabad: Roads and buildings minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy on Monday urged the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to expedite the expansion of National Highway-65 (NH-65), connecting Hyderabad and Vijayawada, and ensure that construction begins at the earliest.The minister met NHAI chairman Santosh Kumar Yadav and member (projects) Vipnesh Sharma in New Delhi to discuss…
Hyderabad: Refusing to stay the tender process for the proposed Radial Road-2 project, the Telangana high court on Monday directed Sushee Infra and Mining Limited to implead the L-1 (lowest) bidder, which has emerged successful in three project packages, as a party to its challenge against disqualification from the tender process.The company has approached the…
Hyderabad: Compounds found in turmeric and black pepper reduced liver damage, inflammation and cancer-associated changes in rats exposed to cancer-inducing chemicals, a study involving Hyderabad’s Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) has reported. The combination generally showed stronger effects than either compound alone.The findings concern purified curcumin and piperine administered to animals. They do not…
