I-T attaches Rs 5.5 cr Gopanpally land parcels in suspected benami deals Hyderabad: The income tax department’s benami prohibition unit has provisionally attached three adjoining land parcels worth about ₹5.52 crore in Gopanpally after finding that ownership-like rights over the properties were acquired in the names of three individuals without any payment being made, officials…
Freshers’ party row: 3 minors, college booked Hyderabad: Chaitanyapuri police have registered a case of ragging, assault and criminal intimidation against three minor students and the management of a private junior college in Kothapet after a first-year Intermediate student allegedly suffered a fractured nasal bone in an assault following a dispute over the college’s freshers’…
25 tonnes of adulterated spices seized; 3 held Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team (H-FAST), in coordination with the food safety department, seized 25 tonnes of adulterated spices allegedly mixed with industrial cloth dyes, talcum powder and other hazardous chemicals from 13 spice trading and processing units across Hyderabad. Police registered three FIRs, two…
Hyderabad: A Telangana Basketball Association official has been booked under the Pocso Act following allegations that he used abusive and sexually coloured language against a 16-year-old basketball player during tournaments conducted in the city.According to police, the girl’s family lodged a complaint in July at RC Puram police station against the 30-year-old official, alleging that…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Tuesday gave a final opportunity to the state govt to place before it complete facts in petitions challenging the long-pending revision of minimum wages and adjourned the case to Aug 20.While making it clear that no further extension would be granted in petitions filed by workers’ organisations, a bench of…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has held that a taxpayer cannot be denied exemption under section 54F of the Income Tax Act merely because a developer failed to complete construction or registration within the prescribed period, provided the capital gains had been invested in a residential house.A division bench of Justice P Sam Koshy and Justice…
Hyderabad: A 37-year-old auto driver-turned-garment seller, Md Fasi Ahmed Amer, was hacked to death in full public view, allegedly by his neighbour due to personal grudges at Singareni Colony in Saidabad on Tuesday morning. The victim succumbed to injuries while being shifted to Osmania General Hospital (OGH). The accused is absconding and the Saidabad police…
Coffee Board of India mulls NECC like model to boost coffee consumption Hyderabad: The Coffee Board of India is looking to replicate the poultry industry’s National Egg Coordination Committee model to boost domestic coffee consumption, even as it is working on pushing Indian coffee globally and expanding production and exports.Senior Coffee Board officials recently visited…
Hyderabad: An 18-year-old girl, admitted with fractures in both legs after a road accident, was allegedly sexually harassed by another patient’s attendant at a hospital in Punjagutta, police said. The accused was attending to another patient in the same ward, they added.In the early hours of July 31, he allegedly touched the teenager inappropriately while…
Hyderabad: The state govt on Tuesday extended the Prajavani public grievance programme to the mandal level, enabling citizens to submit petitions in their own mandals instead of travelling to district headquarters.As per a GO issued by the planning department, mandal-level Prajavani will be held every Monday from 10 am to 1 pm at mandal parishad…
