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…
Hyderabad: Bihar is looking to study Telangana’s oil palm cultivation model, while Telangana has expressed interest in learning from Bihar’s experience in makhana cultivation, processing and marketing, following a meeting between agriculture ministers of the two states on Wednesday.Bihar agriculture minister Vijay Kumar Sinha met Telangana agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao at the Secretariat, where…
Govt recovers Rs 700 crore paddy dues, intensifies mill raids Farmers spreading fertiliser into paddy field at the outskirts of Vijayawada on Tuesday. pic: SS Vijay Babu Hyderabad: In the ongoing raids by vigilance and enforcement (V&E) officials, paddy shortage worth Rs 900 crore was unearthed in the last three weeks. Paddy was given to…
Hyderabad: For two consecutive years — 2024 and 2025 — Telangana’s Jeevandan programme earned national recognition, including awards from the Centre and the National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), for recording the highest cadaver organ donation rate in the country.But official Jeevandan data accessed by TOI, covering 2013 to 2026, shows that one in…
Hyderabad: Revenue and housing minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Wednesday urged union rural development minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to allocate 11.5 lakh housing units to Telangana in a single tranche under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana–Gramin (PMAY-G 2.0) scheme.Ponguleti met the Union minister in New Delhi and submitted a representation in this regard. Stating that…
