Hyderabad: Restrictions on loudspeakers in Hyderabad have hit the city’s DJ and sound equipment business, with shop owners reporting fewer sales and rentals during this year’s festival season.Traders in Punjagutta, Secunderabad and the Old City said customer inquiries continued, but fewer translated into rentals or purchases. They said the decline became noticeable after restrictions on…
Hyderabad: The humble onion is suddenly an expensive staple in Telangana, with prices soaring nearly 300% in less than two months, from around Rs 20 a kg until July to Rs 60–70 now.The sharp rise is being felt not just in Hyderabad but across several districts, squeezing household budgets and pushing up costs for restaurants,…
Hyderabad: The kitchen budget is feeling the pinch as prices of several vegetables, including carrots and beans, have risen in recent weeks, adding to the pressure caused by soaring onion prices.Beans, for instance, are now retailing at around Rs 65 a kg, up from about Rs 50 last month. Carrot prices too have moved up,…
Hyderabad: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials on Monday caught a deputy jailer and his associate accepting a ₹10,000 bribe at Huzurabad sub-jail.Deputy jailer N Devender allegedly engaged R Harish, an operator at the jail’s petrol bunk, to collect the bribe on his behalf. The trap was laid after a complainant approached the ACB, alleging that Devender…
Hyderabad: Transport minister Ponnam Prabhakar on Monday said the Congress govt had initiated the process of conducting elections for a recognised union in the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC), stating that the proposed merger of RTC employees with the state govt would be finalised through a committee involving the elected recognised union. Replying to…
Hyderabad: The Telangana high court on Monday questioned why state govt officers were shying away from appearing before the court despite failing to comply with its orders.Hearing a contempt petition in which it had earlier issued bailable warrants against senior IAS officers Sandeep Kumar Sultania and Vikas Raj for personal appearance, Justice NV Shravan Kumar…
Hyderabad: The govt may have promised action, but auto unions say they have heard enough assurances. Hours after meeting ministers on Monday, the auto and app-based workers’ JAC said it was left with little clarity on when its key demands would be implemented and warned of a fresh statewide agitation.The sharpest discontent was over the…
Hyderabad: A 40-year-old man got burnt to death inside a car at Bowrampet in Dundigal on Monday morning. After analysing the scene of offence, police said that it was a case of death by suicide.The incident took place at an isolated place. After the fire in the car was doused, police identified the man as…
Hyderabad: Ministers, MLCs and MLAs from the Congress on Monday called on Telangana legislative assembly speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar, council chairman Gutha Sukender Reddy and chief minister A Revanth Reddy at their respective chambers and expressed solidarity with the speaker following the alleged derogatory remarks made by BRS MLC T Madhu on the first day…
Hyderabad: Specialty chemicals maker Vishnu Chemicals Ltd (VCL) has signed a definitive agreement with France’s DCX Chrome SAS to form a 50:50 joint venture that will build a greenfield high-purity chromium metal plant in Visakhapatnam, marking the Hyderabad-based company’s entry into aerospace-grade materials.The JV plant, planned near VCL’s existing chrome facility and Visakhapatnam port, will…
