Hyderabad: With only 17,090 acres brought under oil palm cultivation against this year’s target of 85,000 acres, achieving just 20 per cent of the goal, agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao on Friday warned oil palm companies of strict action if they failed to improve their performance.Reviewing the progress of oil palm expansion with company representatives…
Hyderabad: With paddy transplantation gathering pace in Telangana, agriculture minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has written to Union chemicals and fertilisers minister JP Nadda seeking immediate allocation of an additional 1 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of DAP fertiliser for Aug and Sept to prevent any shortage during the ongoing kharif season.In his letter, the minister thanked…
Hyderabad: With power demand increasing across the state during the monsoon season, Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) is fully geared up to ensure uninterrupted coal supply to thermal power stations, SCCL chairperson and managing director Buddhaprakash Jyoti said. He asked all area general managers to supply 28 to 32 rakes of quality coal every day…
Simran Virani practices daily waste segregation, avoiding landfills and environmental hazards. HYDERABAD: Before an empty shampoo bottle, perfume container or any other recyclable household item reaches the dustbin, it makes one final stop, at a recycler.For 26-year-old software engineer Simran Virani, waste segregation is not an occasional practice but a daily habit.“Every recyclable item generated…
Bonalu blurs the line between the everyday and the sacred. Through ritual, costume and devotion, men and women become the living embodiment of goddesses, Potharaju and other mythical figures, carrying age-old traditions into the present. While most visitors encounter the festival in its public spectacle, photographers, many of whom set out on early morning photowalks,…
Glass-clad towers and sprawling gated communities have become defining features of Hyderabad’s skyline. But they have also become major contributors to one of the city’s biggest climate challenges — the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, where built-up areas become significantly hotter than their surroundings. Ironically, many of these hotspots are also home to the city’s…
Hyderabad: Thanks to a birthday celebration video posted on social media, a 15-year-old boy with intellectual disabilities who went missing from his home in Patancheru about two weeks ago, has now been reunited with his parents.The heart-warming reunion took place on Wednesday after a family friend recognised the boy, Mahesh, in a video of a…
City woman seeks MEA help to free hubby from Saudi jail, reunite with son Hyderabad: A woman from the city has sought the intervention of the ministry of external affairs (MEA) to secure the release of her husband, who she alleges has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for the past nine months, and to reunite…
Telangana’s forest department leads in gender parity with many women in frontline roles (Photo credit: Rama Moorthy) Deep inside the dense forests of Mulugu in Telangana, where mobile signals fade, poachers are on the prowl and Maoist warnings still echo, a forest range officer once posed as a pangolin buyer.The woman behind the undercover operation,…
HYDERABAD: Cybercrime police have registered two cases against operators of several Facebook and Instagram accounts and parent company Meta’s India head over allegedly morphed and objectionable content targeting PM Narendra Modi during Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led NEET paper leak agitation.Cases were registered on complaints by BJP supporters alleging manipulated videos and images of the PM…
