Hyderabad: The state govt conducted the National Deworming Day drive on Monday and achieved 93.29% of its target, with albendazole tablets administered to over 90.3 lakh children against the target of 96.8 lakh, according to the health officials.The drive was conducted across govt and private schools, Anganwadi centres and other educational institutions. Health and family…
Hyderabad: More than one billion people in India are now covered under social security schemes, Union labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday, highlighting what he described as a decade-long expansion of the country’s welfare and worker protection framework.He said this at the BRICS Trade Union Forum Summit in Hyderabad, adding that social protection coverage…
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday urged Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari to expedite the Union cabinet’s approval for commencement of works on the northern corridor of the Regional Ring Road (RRR). project at the earliest.Revanth met Gadkari at his residence in New Delhi and apprised him that 95% of…
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday urged Union civil aviation minister K Rammohan Naidu to invite tenders and commence work on the proposed airports at Mamnoor in Warangal and Adilabad. he also requested the Union minister to examine the feasibility of operating seaplanes between Hussainsagar in Hyderabad and the Prakasam barrage in Andhra…
Disappearing daughters: Telangana sees fewer girls being born Hyderabad: Indicating that female foeticide may still be rampant, the latest numbers from the Civil Registration System (CRS) that records births and deaths shows that Telangana is among the worst performing states on sex ratio at birth (SRB). The state saw a marginal improvement in the number…
Minor who alleged rape goes missing, police suspect role of Pocso accused Hyderabad: Days after a 17-year-old girl told Bharosa Centre officials that she had been raped allegedly by a 24-year-old man from Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, the minor went missing from her aunt’s flat in Malakpet in the early hours of Tuesday, prompting police to…
Hyderabad: Centre’s decision to allot the Tadicherla-II coal block to Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) without an auction or premium burden will ensure coal production for the next four to five decades, Telangana BJP president N Ramchander Rao said on Monday, even as he accused the Congress govt of pushing the state-owned miner into financial…
Hyderabad: Family members of P Raj Kumar, a 35-year-old farmer who died by suicide after allegedly killing six people, including a POCSO case victim and his two minor sons, refused to collect his body after the post-mortem at Chevella Hospital on Monday night to perform his last rites.Raj Kumar’s body was found in an open…
RRR northern corridor may impact over 81,000 trees & poles Hyderabad: The proposed northern section of the Hyderabad Regional Ring Road (RRR) could impact more than 81,000 trees and poles across reserve forests and agricultural lands, according to a document filed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT).The enumeration records 81,007 affected trees and poles along…
Telangana ACB registered a case against HMDA chief engineer B Ravinder (L). Searches unearthed assets valued at over Rs 9.24 crore from his properties HYDERABAD: The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday registered a disproportionate assets case against a chief engineer of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA).ACB has unearthed assets worth over Rs 9.24…
