Appearing in person, the petitioner contended that mandatory safeguards relating to donor screening; health assessment, counselling, consent and record keeping were not followed during the camp. Hyderabad: Telangana high court has sought a response from the state govt on a petition alleging procedural and regulatory violations at a mega blood donation camp conducted on Feb…
Hyderabad: Education behind prison walls took a significant step forward on Wednesday, as 27 inmates from central prisons received degrees at the 27th convocation of Dr BR Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU).Telangana governor and BRAOU chancellor Shiv Pratap Shukla said obtaining a degree was not the end of education but the beginning of a responsible phase…
Hyderabad: The Telangana People’s Front (TPF) has urged chief minister A Revanth Reddy to allocate at least 18% of the state’s annual budget to education, enact a law to regulate private-school fees and strengthen existing govt schools through the Telangana Public Schools programme.In a letter to the CM on Wednesday, TPF, comprising academics, activists and…
Mysamma lake at Gotigarpally village in Sangareddy district Hyderabad: At a time when farmers across Telangana are bearing the brunt of El Niño and deciding what to sow next, and Maharashtra has declared drought in 34 of its 36 districts, villagers of Gottigarpalli in Sangareddy are preparing to sow their third crop of the year….
Hyderabad: Telangana Congress working president T Jagga Reddy on Wednesday urged people, public representatives, Congress leaders and party workers in the Sangareddy constituency to use drinking water judiciously over the next seven months, warning that the situation could become critical until the next rains.Jagga Reddy held a review meeting with officials from the electricity, rural…
Hyderabad: When are people more likely to encounter a snake? The Friends of Snakes Society (FOS) is using weather data and rescue records to answer the question, developing an hourly forecast of snake encounters. The predictions have already covered 72 locations across Hyderabad and its neighbouring districts.The machine-learning model, developed using 35,234 snake-rescue dispatches recorded…
Hyderabad: Flying home this Diwali could cost Hyderabad passengers more than flying abroad. With domestic airfares surging nearly a month ahead of the festival, tickets to Singapore, Malaysia and Bangkok are now cheaper than fares to several Indian cities.A one-way ticket from Hyderabad to Chandigarh or Patna is touching Rs 22,000 for the Diwali period,…
Inside waqf land grab in T: Fake NOCs, forged ORCs Hyderabad: Even as the Telangana Waqf Board continues to battle large-scale encroachments on its properties, it is now facing a new threat: Fake no-objection certificates (NOCs) and forged occupancy rights certificates (ORCs) allegedly being used to grab waqf land, secure layout approvals and have properties…
Alive, yet ‘dead’: Hyd voters find names missing from electoral rolls Hyderabad: After flagging the bulk submission of Form 7, voters across several Hyderabad constituencies have raised concerns over their names being deleted from the electoral rolls after being marked as either ‘dead’ or ‘permanently shifted’, despite having lived at the same address for years.Such…
CU Denver to set up India campus in Hyd, 1st batch in Aug 2027 Hyderabad: India is set to get its first public American university, with the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) receiving a Letter of Intent (LoI) from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to establish a campus in Hyderabad.The Hyderabad campus will be…
