Hyderabad: Seven in 10 parents with children in private schools said fees rose by 30% or more over the last three years, with many reporting increases in the 50% to 80% range, according to a LocalCircles survey covering more than 47,000 respondents across 271 districts.Sachin Taparia of LocalCircles said the findings point to a widening…
Q: How important is the new Hyderabad GCC for Heineken?A: It’s very important. Heineken, a 160-year-old company, has become the world’s most geographically diverse brewer through acquisitions and market entries. That created strong local businesses, but also many local-for-local operations. The Hyderabad centre is part of a structural shift to make Heineken more streamlined, connected…
Hyderabad: Zurich Insurance Group on Wednesday opened its new global capability centre in Hyderabad, expanding its technology and artificial intelligence operations as part of a broader push to modernise insurance services. The company alsoThe company said the facility will serve as a strategic extension of its global operating model, taking end-to-end responsibility across engineering, data…
Hyderabad: The Telangana govt will initiate a dialogue with the Maharashtra govt to resolve the outstanding issues and take up the construction of a barrage at Tummidihatti as part of the Pranahita-Chevella project.Chief minister A Revanth Reddy instructed the irrigation officials to start preparations to hold talks with Maharashtra, seeking permission to construct the barrage…
Hyderabad: Officials of the Telangana Medical Services & Infrastructure Development Corporation (TGMSIDC) have reported a sharp decline in medicine wastage in govt hospitals, attributing the improvement to stricter monitoring and revised procurement practices.A detailed report was submitted to health minister Damodar Rajanarasimha on Wednesday, highlighting that medicines worth around Rs 1,000 crore were procured over…
Hyderabad: To increase public health outreach, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bibinagar, Yadadri Bhuvanagiri, has launched a community radio station at 89.6 FM. With this, it became the first AIIMS in the country to establish such a facility.The station will cover an approximate 10-kilometre radius around Bibinagar. It is designed to…
Hyderabad: Ten days after Hyderabad’s cybercrime sleuths arrested 32 bank officials during ‘Operation Octopus’, a crackdown taken up across nine states against mule account facilitators, the Union ministry of finance has called for a high-level meeting on Thursday in New Delhi.Officials from the finance ministry wrote to the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Wednesday adjourned to May 4 the hearing of a petition filed by a Tollywood actress and Bigg Boss contestant seeking to quash a criminal case accusing her of duping an NRI businessman on the pretext of marriage.The matter came up before Justice J Sreenivas Rao. After initial arguments by the…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has dismissed a petition by a retired railway engineer seeking to quash money laundering charges, holding that the absence of “prior sanction” did not invalidate the case as the alleged acts had no reasonable connection with official duties.A bench of Justice N Tukaramji said the law provided safeguards to protect public…
Hyderabad: A 62-year-old businessman from AS Rao Nagar has lost 3.82 crore after fraudsters posing as stock market investment advisers lured him into trading through fake platforms.The victim lodged a complaint with the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) on Tuesday, stating that unknown persons, posing as representatives of A**s Securities Limited and New B***y C*****l…
