Telangana HC to hear plea over Vijayendra Prasad remarks. HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court has posted the hearing in a petition filed against the Saifabad police to July 8 for not registering a case against a reputed film writer and Rajya Sabha member, Vijayendra Prasad, for allegedly making derogatory, scandalous and insulting remarks against Dr…
Hyderabad: Union minister of state (Home) Bandi Sanjay’s son, Bandi Bageerath, returned to Cherlapally jail after the completion of his five-day interim bail.Last week, a magistrate granted him five days’ interim bail after he claimed he was scheduled to take an examination for his BBA course. He returned to jail on Thursday, where he remains…
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad cybercrime police on Friday arrested four people for their alleged involvement in matrimonial-cum-investment fraud. According to the police, the arrested were identified as C Sampath, H Naresh, E Suresh and V Mahesh. They were arrested from different parts of the city. Police said, one of the accused allegedly impersonated a woman on…
Hyderabad: A cheating case has been registered against self-styled ‘gold man’ P Suresh Kumar, alias Surya Bhai, for allegedly duping a goldsmith of Rs 32 lakh by promising to supply gold at a lower price.On Thursday, Attapur police registered a criminal case against goldsmith Krishna Chary of ECIL, his friend Naveen Singh, and others based…
Hyderabad: The Telangana govt has decided to set up a Programme Monitoring Unit (PMU) and a real-time dashboard in the Panchayat Raj and Rural Development department to track the implementation of welfare and development schemes from the state level down to gram panchayats.The move, initiated at the direction of Panchayat Raj and Rural Development minister…
Hyderabad: The rare Southern Birdwing, one of India’s largest butterflies, has been recorded in the Kollapur Range of the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, marking its first documented sighting in Telangana.The Southern Birdwing is primarily found in the Western Ghats and has only occasionally been recorded in parts of the Eastern Ghats. Its documentation in the Amrabad…
Women Make Up Just 3-7% Of Trainees In Core Technical TradesHyderabad: As the debate over 33% reservation for women returns to centre stage, a new NITI Aayog working paper has spotlighted another imbalance: Women remain overwhelmingly absent from India’s core engineering trades.The report shows that while women make up 93% to 99% of admissions in…
Hyderabad: Union coal minister G. Kishan Reddy on Friday accused Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi of misleading people on the legal distinction between passports and citizenship, saying the AIMIM chief was either ignorant of the law or deliberately creating confusion for political gain.Responding to Owaisi’s criticism of the Centre, Kishan Reddy said the ministry of external…
Hyderabad: Telangana govt on Friday appointed senior IAS officer Sanjay Jaju as the new chief secretary of the state. A 1992-batch officer, Jaju will succeed incumbent K Ramakrishna Rao, who retires on June 30.Jaju, currently serving as secretary in the Union ministry of development of the north eastern region, was repatriated to his parent Telangana…
Vijayawada: A 94-year-old woman, who gave up her Indian citizenship over two decades ago after becoming a US citizen, has now appealed to the Centre to restore her citizenship so that she can spend her final years in her native village in Bapatla district of Andhra Pradesh.In an emotional plea to Bapatla district collector V…
