9 flights diverted from RGIA due to heavy rains Hyderabad: Nine flights scheduled to land at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Shamshabad, were diverted to alternate airports on Friday night due to adverse weather conditions caused by heavy rainfall.Of the diverted flights, six were rerouted to Bengaluru, two to Chennai, and one to Nagpur. The…
HMDA seeks de-notification of Kokapet IT SEZ to unlock high-value land Hyderabad: Nearly two decades after earmarking 117 acres in Kokapet for a flagship information technology special economic zone (IT SEZ), the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority has moved to scrap the project and unlock the prime land for auction, a move that could potentially fetch…
Hyderabad: Fresh concerns have surfaced over the ongoing widening of the Hyderabad-Manneguda stretch of NH-163, with environmentalists and local residents alleging that several banyan trees transplanted as part of the project are either dying or have already perished.The controversy comes months after National Green Tribunal (NGT) cleared revised alignment for the highway that allowed National…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has dismissed a writ petition filed in an attempt to allegedly ‘encroach’ upon a football ground at Ammuguda near Yapral in the city, claiming it as private property, holding that the petitioners had no legal basis for their claim and had unnecessarily consumed the court’s time.Justice E V Venugopal also imposed…
HYDERABAD: Tension prevailed on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Saturday after farmers and local residents protesting against the fencing of 650 acres of land earmarked for a proposed high-speed train hub in Shamshabad allegedly threw stones and chilli powder at police personnel, including an IPS officer, officials said.Several protesters, including political activists, were detained as…
HYDERABAD: Tension prevailed on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Saturday after farmers and local residents protesting against the fencing of 650 acres of land earmarked for a proposed high-speed train hub in Shamshabad allegedly threw stones and chilli powder at police personnel, including an IPS officer, officials said.Several protesters, including political activists, were detained as…
Hyderabad: Expressing concern over the possibility of a climate phenomenon called by experts as a “Super El Niño” threatening to impact current monsoon, Telangana irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said the Telangana govt is fully geared up to tackle the challenges posed by deficient rainfall and increasing uncertainty in respect of state utilization of…
Hyderabad: Deputy CM Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka asked the officials to get ready for meeting the power demand due to El Nino effect and asked them to prepare a comprehensive action plan to ensure uninterrupted and quality power supply.At a review meeting of energy department at the SPDCL corporate office on Saturday, he said that uninterrupted…
Hyderabad: Stating that the Congress govt had cheated on Telangana youth in the name of filling up two lakh jobs, BRS working president KT Rama Rao dared the Congress govt to prove it had filled up 70,000 jobs by giving job notificaitons, he would quit the politics. He said the Congress before the 2023 assembly…
Hyderabad: Professor Jayashankar Telangana Agricultural University (PJTAU) vice-chancellor Aldas Janaiah on Friday said the university had secured around ₹30 crore towards seventh pay commission arrears with the support of Members of Parliament and had sought a special grant of ₹500 crore from the Centre for its development.Addressing a news conference at the Community College in…
