Hyderabad: Cataract screening and surgery camps in Telangana, often the state govt’s main strategy to tackle blindness, may not be delivering the expected results, according to a study by LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI). The study, published in Ophthalmic Epidemiology, examined cataract surgery outcomes in four districts of Telangana. After analysing over 11,000 people in…
Hyderabad: As part of the ongoing search for abandoned Huskies, recently found deserted along the Shankarpally–Patancheru stretch on Hyderabad’s outskirts, the local police rescued three more dogs from the same area over the weekend, one of them a German Shepherd, taking the total number of dogs rescued so far to nine. Another dog was found…
Hyderabad: Agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has stated that revolutionary changes occurred in the agricultural sector under the Congress rule.On Monday, he inaugurated the Farmers’ Week celebrations (May 4-9), part of the public administration and progress plan, held in Tandur, Vikarabad district. He launched a special mobile app ‘TG Organics’ and inaugurated an organic products…
Hyderabad: The Telangana high court on Monday directed the state govt to specify a date by which it would clear the long-pending fee reimbursement dues to private engineering colleges in the state.The court, while hearing a batch of petitions filed by engineering colleges, granted a final opportunity to the state govt to file detailed counter-affidavits…
Hyderabad: Karimnagar police, analysing CCTV footage, have identified the five-member gang involved in the PMJ jewellery robbery as being from Bihar, with some suspects believed to be repeat offenders linked to property crimes and a murder case.Police have contacted their counterparts in Bihar to gather details about the wanted accused. After searching criminal databases using…
Hyderabad: Four persons were injured in an oxygen tank explosion at a refilling facility in Jalpally under Pahadi Shareef police station limits on Monday afternoon, triggering panic in the area.Fire officials said the blast occurred around 12:25 pm at a shed where workers were refilling smaller oxygen cylinders for supply to hospitals and other facilities….
Hyderabad: The Congress govt is under tremendous pressure to implement the Pay Revision Commission (PRC), along with at least two Dearness Allowances (DAs), release pending bills and health cards, and meet other financially intensive demands of 15 lakh govt employees, teachers, pensioners, and contract employees.This pressure has only increased after the govt recently agreed to…
Hyderabad: Born in a hostel room at Hyderabad’s BITS Pilani campus, Apollyon Dynamics — a startup that stunned India’s defence circles by building and supplying cutting-edge UAVs to the Indian Army within two months of its launch in 2025 — has added another feather to its hat.Now, the 20-member team has secured Rs 4 crore…
Hyderabad: The cabinet, led by chief minister A Revanth Reddy, on Monday decided to hand over the report of the Justice (retd) Madan B. Lokur Commission of Inquiry to the CBI. The commission had probed alleged irregularities in the power purchase agreement (PPA) and the construction of the Bhadradri and Yadadri thermal power plants during…
Hyderabad: A junior assistant working in the Borabanda Circle of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths on Monday when she accepted a bribe of 1 lakh from the complainant.According to an ACB press note, B Srilatha, junior assistant, Revenue/Tax, at the office of the deputy commissioner, Borabanda…
