MUMBAI: Farm loan waiver, bigger govt health insurance and schemes focussed on women, farmers and youth are likely to be part of Congress manifesto that will be released by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and leader of opposition in LS Rahul Gandhi at an MVA rally at BKC on Nov 6.NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and…
Hyderabad Police on Saturday resorted to lathicharge after the statewide ‘bandh’ called by Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal members turned violent. The Hindu outfit members are protesting against the against the Telangana government’s “attitude” towards security of temples after an alleged desecration of an idol at Muthyalamma temple in Secunderabad on Monday.Amid chants of…
As many as 19 members of the Christian community, including 11 women, have been arrested in Bihar’s Kaimur district for distributing religious literature among students of two government-run schools without taking permission from the headmasters concerned.Police said 17 of the arrested persons were from Telangana. Three four-wheelers, a bike and religious literature, including Bibles, photos…
HYDERABAD: About seven months after a video of him pleading to be rescued from the war-hit Russia-Ukraine border surfaced, Telangana native Mohammad Sufiyan returned home to a rousing welcome on Friday. The 22-year-old was accompanied by three other young men from Karnataka – all deceived by a fraudulent agent and slyly drafted into a private…
HYDERABAD/RAIPUR: Security forces continued their aggressive assault against Maoists, gunning down six people allegedly of the rebel cadre in an intense exchange of fire on Thursday in the dense forests of Telangana‘s Bhadradri Kothagudem district. The area is close to the Chhattisgarh border.The dead included two women. Two commandos of the Greyhounds, an elite anti-Maoist…
NEW DELHI: Six maoist were killed on Thursday in an encounter with police forces in Telangana‘s Bhadradri Kothagudem, near the border with Chhattisgarh, reported news agency ANI citing police sources.Two police personnel also sustained injuries during the exchange of fire. The encounter took place in the forest area near Raghunathpalem in Karakagudem mandal during a…
A 27-year-old man from Telangana and his Sudanese colleague died of dehydration in Saudi Arabia‘s Rub’ al Khali desert – where daytime temperatures soar to 55 deg C- after their GPS signal failed, their mobile batteries ran down, and their vehicle ran out of fuel. Family members of the deceased, Mohammad Shehzad Khan, said the…
President Droupadi Murmu appointed governors to several states late Saturday night: Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde (Rajasthan), Jishnu Dev Varma (Telangana), Santosh Kumar Gangwar (Jharkhand), C P Radhakrishnan (Maharashtra), Lakshman Prasad Acharya (Assam & additional charge of Manipur), Gulab Chand Kataria (Punjab), Ramen Deka (Chhattisgarh), C H Vijayashankar (Meghalaya), Om Prakash Mathur (Sikkim).K Kailashnathan will be LG…
HYDERABAD: A flourishing IT industry, coupled with a thick concentration of high net worth individuals (HNIs), has put Hyderabad on the hit list of cyber criminals, with Telangana accounting for the highest 15% share of malware attacks reported from across the country in 2023, a report says.A bevy of attackers worm their way into systems…
HYDERABAD: Fast moving consumer goods giant Coca Cola has uncorked plans for its third greenfield facility in Telangana at an investment of Rs 700 crore.The proposed facility, to be set up by the American giant’s wholly-owned subsidiary Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd (HCCB), is slated to come up in Peddapalli district.The announcement was made…
