Hyderabad: With cyber fraudsters increasingly using AI-generated videos of politicians and celebrities to lure investors, Hyderabad cybercrime police have summoned Meta and sought a detailed explanation on the safeguards in place across Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to detect and prevent such scams.A representative of Meta on Tuesday appeared before cybercrime police following multiple complaints from…
Hyderabad: Weather forecasts for Hyderabad are more reliable than those for many neighbouring districts, with a new study finding that the city’s rainfall patterns are among the easiest to predict in southern Telangana.The study, published in the Springer Nature journal ‘Discover Hazards‘, analysed 43 years of daily rainfall data (1981-2023) across 12 districts in southern…
Hyderabad: The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission-I, Hyderabad, has held Southern Railway guilty of deficiency in service for failing to inform a passenger about a planned train diversion, resulting in a nearly 16-hour delay and causing him to miss a business meeting and a return flight.The commission partly allowed a complaint filed by T Ramakrishna…
Hyderabad: In a controversial decision, the Telangana govt’s minority welfare department has allocated a one-acre prime land near Raidurg to a private developer for construction of Urdu Ghar cum Shadikhana and commercial complex on a 30-year lease without following any procedures and tenders. Several Waqf Board members and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi demanded the state…
Hyderabad: With pressure mounting to restore the Kaleshwaram project’s troubled barrages and resume irrigation operations, a high-level technical oversight committee constituted by the Union ministry of jal shakti will hold its first review meeting with Telangana irrigation officials on July 31 to examine plans for the repair and rehabilitation of the Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla…
Hyderabad: An 18-year-old Intermediate student of a govt junior college in Gadwal, who scored 98.6% in the first-year board exams, died by suicide on Tuesday after he was allegedly humiliated and slapped by a teacher. The student left a suicide note and, based on his family’s complaint, the teacher was booked for abetting the suicide.The…
Hyderabad: BJP on Wednesday lodged a complaint with chief electoral officer (CEO), Telangana, C Sudharshan Reddy, alleging fraudulent and unauthorised digitisation of blank enumeration forms during the special intensive revision (SIR) 2026 in the Serilingampally assembly constituency.BJP Telangana’s Election Commission affairs committee chairman Marri Shashidhar Reddy alleged that booth level officers (BLOs) bypassed the prescribed…
Man swept away after falling into open drain in Miyapur, search still on Man swept away after falling into open drain in Miyapur, search still on A 70-year-old man, who was allegedly swept away after falling into an open drain near the Vaishali Nagar underpass in Miyapur on Tuesday evening, remained untraced till Wednesday afternoon…
Hyderabad: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to grant anticipatory bail to Andhra Pradesh former minister Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao in a case linked to the alleged manipulation of liquor transportation tenders.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohan dismissed Rao’s plea and upheld Telangana high court’s July 3…
Hyderabad: The Centre has asked states to explore additional business avenues for fair price shops (FPS) to improve their financial sustainability, while making it clear that state govts have the primary responsibility for enhancing ration dealers’ earnings.Replying to questions raised by Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi in the Lok Sabha, Union minister of state for consumer…
