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Hyderabad: The Telangana govt has created a specialised police bureau to bring traffic management, enforcement, road crash investigation and highway patrolling under a common statewide framework. The Telangana Traffic Management, Road and Rail Safety Bureau (TG-TMARS), headquartered in Hyderabad, will have jurisdiction over national highways, expressways, state highways, district roads and urban and rural roads.Headed…

Hyderabad: Congress MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy on Thursday said action against political defections should have been taken much earlier, arguing that delayed intervention had weakened democratic norms and allowed elected representatives to switch parties without consequences.Reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision, Chamala said the Congress respected the verdict, but maintained that similar action should…

Hyderabad: Days after a fire in the sick newborn care unit (SNCU) raised serious concerns over infrastructure and safety standards at RIMS, Adilabad, the state govt has sanctioned ₹11.10 crore for urgent repairs, renovation and restoration works across the facility. Five newborns have died in the recent fire at the SNCU.The funds were released following…

Hyderabad: Telangana has set a one-month deadline to complete fire, electrical and structural safety audits in all govt hospitals, following a review chaired by health minister Damodar Raja Narasimha at the secretariat on Thursday.The minister directed officials to ensure that audit findings are followed by time-bound corrective action, with life-threatening deficiencies rectified immediately. He also…

Hyderabad: The CBI on Thursday arrested Abhishek Kumar, alleged to be one of the kingpins in the Mahadev online betting app network, shortly after he arrived from Dubai at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA).According to the CBI, its probe has revealed that Kumar played an active role in operating online betting and gambling activities under…

Hyderabad: Former minister T Harish Rao welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict concerning the disqualification proceedings involving Danam Nagender, saying the judgment should be viewed in the context of constitutional principles governing defections and the role of the speaker.“The Supreme Court verdict is a strong message on the importance of constitutional values. If those in power…

Hyderabad: Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict upholding the High Court order disqualifying MLA Danam Nagender, Telangana BJP president N Ramchander Rao on Thursday demanded that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy ask all MLAs who had joined the Congress to resign and face by-elections.Rao said the MLAs should seek a fresh mandate from the people if they…

Hyderabad: Telangana govt will prepare a special list of tourism department properties, including those with existing buildings and vacant land, to identify assets that can be developed under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, deputy chief minister Bhatti Vikramarka said on Thursday.Reviewing the programmes of the tourism and culture departments with tourism minister Jupally Krishna Rao…

Hyderabad: With the Supreme Court upholding his disqualification as MLA, former Khairatabad legislator Danam Nagender on Thursday said he respected the verdict and would now take his political battle to the people.Danam said he had pursued all available legal remedies out of respect for the judicial process and had made every effort permitted under the…

Hyderabad: Khairatabad’s political trajectory mirrors the changing contours of urban electoral politics in Hyderabad. Once considered a Congress bastion shaped largely by the influence of veteran leader P Janardhan Reddy (PJR), the constituency has evolved into a fiercely contested battleground among the Congress, BJP and BRS, with no party managing to secure a majority vote…