Hyderabad: Future City police busted a counterfeit currency racket and arrested four people, seizing fake currency notes amounting to Rs 6.7 crore in the Rs 500 denomination.Abdullapurmet police, along with the Shadnagar Special Operations Team (SOT), intercepted a car near Ramoji Film City on NH-65 on Nov 1. They arrested four occupants: M Karunakar, Ch…
Hyderabad: The Indian Vegetable Oil Producers Association (IVPA) will organise a Global Round Table meeting in Hyderabad on Nov 30 to discuss the future of oil palm cultivation, farmers’ welfare, crop productivity and industry participation.Representatives of the IVPA met Agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao at the secretariat on Tuesday and invited him to attend the…
Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao alleged that the drought-like conditions emerging in Telangana are a result of the Congress govt’s negligence and not due to natural causes. He expressed concern that despite the Godavari river flowing with abundant water, agricultural lands across the state are turning barren.Speaking at the presentation ceremony of the…
Gundla Pravalika, a 24-year-old woman conductor from TSRTC, died after being pushed from a moving bus. HYDERABAD: A 24-year-old Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) woman conductor, Gundla Pravalika, died on Tuesday night after battling for her life for nearly 10 days following an alleged assault by a woman passenger who pushed her out of…
Former IPS officer PSR Anjaneyulu HYDERABAD: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Hyderabad zonal office on Wednesday conducted searches at seven locations across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in connection with its money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the evaluation of Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) Group-I Mains answer scripts. The residence of former IPS officer…
HC suspends AI-based land order issued by Jangaon collector Hyderabad: Telangana high court has expressed anger over the Jangaon district collector using artificial intelligence (AI) to pass orders in revenue-related matters, saying such negligence could seriously affect the rights of ordinary people, farmers and landowners.Justice NV Shravan Kumar made the observations on Tuesday while hearing…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has disposed of a writ petition challenging proposed quarrying, stone-crushing and blasting activities in two survey numbers at Akuthotapally village in Amangal mandal of Rangareddy district on the outskirts of Hyderabad.The petition questioned the consent orders issued by the Telangana Pollution Control Board under the Water and Air Acts. Appearing for…
T Cong leaders publicly air internal disputes Hyderabad: Internal differences within the ruling Congress are increasingly coming into the open, with ministers, MPs and MLAs publicly expressing dissatisfaction with their own party colleagues as the Congress govt approaches the completion of three years in office.Some MPs and MLAs have publicly expressed dissatisfaction over delays in…
Explosion rips through Nalgonda factory, 4 workers suffer serious injuries Hyderabad: Four workers, including three from Odisha, were seriously injured, one of them critically, after a powerful explosion at an explosives manufacturing unit in Nalgonda district on Tuesday morning, triggering panic and causing extensive damage to factory infrastructure.The blast occurred at Ideal Private Limited in…
Voters marked absent despite signed forms: Forum; seeks SIR rollback Hyderabad: Voters holding enumeration forms signed by booth-level officers were marked absent or untraceable during the special intensive revision (SIR), Telangana Voter Rights Forum alleged on Tuesday, citing surveys that identified 43 wrongful deletions in two booths in Secunderabad Cantonment and 42 in Musheerabad assembly…
