Hyderabad, July 19 (IANS) Continuing its special drive against food safety violations, the Hyderabad Food Adulteration Surveillance Team (H-FAST) of the Commissioner’s Task Force, in coordination with Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Food Safety officers, apprehended six persons during raids on six food establishments. H-FAST and GHMC Food Safety officers conducted a special enforcement drive across Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts to curb food adulteration and ensure complian…
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Hyderabad, June 10 (IANS) A huge row erupted over Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination for Rajya Sabha in Madhya Pradesh. The focus is on the case allegedly pending in a court in Hyderabad, which was not mentioned in her affidavit.The legal notice sent to the AICC in-charge for Telangana at the state Congress office, Gandhi Bhavan, last year shows that she was one of the respondents in a private complaint filed by a former Congress leader and a former corporator of Greater Hyderaba…
Hyderabad, June 9 (IANS) Two youths died of electrocution as the first heavy rain of the Southwest Monsoon lashed Hyderabad on Tuesday evening.The youths, identified as Zafar, 25, and Abu, 16, died after being electrocuted during heavy rains in the old city.The incident occurred in the Bandlaguda area when they stepped out of an auto-rickshaw and came in contact with live wires under the standing water on the road.The electric wire had snapped due to strong winds and heavy rains. Heavy rains and…
Hyderabad, May 17 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a heatwave warning for the next seven days in parts of Telangana.The Hyderabad Meteorological Centre has forecast a gradual rise in the maximum temperature by 2-3 degrees Celsius during the next three days in Telangana.Some districts are likely to see maximum temperatures crossing 45 degrees Celsius between May 19 and May 24.Heatwave conditions are very likely to prevail at isolated pockets in Adilabad, Komuram Bheem A…
Hyderabad, May 6 (IANS) Concerned over rising number of accidents on Hyderabad’s Outer Ring Road (ORR), the administration will be rolling out a comprehensive set of robust and proactive measures to enhance commuter safety. This was decided at a coordination meeting on Tuesday at the Telangana Integrated Command and Control Centre (TGICCC), chaired by Hyderabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar.Sajjanar instructed that utmost priority must be given to road safety on this route, which witnesses a…
Hyderabad, May 5 (IANS) Telangana Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao on Tuesday reviewed the arrangements for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Hyderabad on May 10. The Chief Minister held a review meeting at the Dr B.R. Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat to review the preparedness for the Prime Minister’s visit and directed officials of all departments to work in coordination and ensure comprehensive arrangements.During the visit, the Prime Minister is scheduled to inaugurate several …
Hyderabad, May 1 (IANS) One worker killed and eight others injured in a reactor blast at a pharmaceutical unit in Telangana’s Nalgonda district on Friday.The incident occurred in the pharma unit on the outskirts of Veliminedu village in Chityala mandal.The blast triggered a fire in the third block of the facility while operations were underway. Fire-fighting personnel rushed to the spot with fire tenders and other equipment to douse the flames. Thick smoke engulfed the block.The incident left …
Hyderabad, March 5 (IANS) Three workers died and two sustained injuries after falling from the fifth floor of an under-construction building in Hyderabad on Thursday, police said.The incident occurred Al-Hasnat Colony in Tolichowki area when the scaffolding collapsed.Police said two workers died on the spot while another succumbed while during treatment.Two workers, who sustained injuries after falling on bricks and sticks, were rushed by locals to the nearby hospital.The bodies were shifted for…
Hyderabad, March 4 (IANS) The stage is set to prepare a health profile of 46 lakh women in Telangana, as the government has decided to launch the programme by covering members of women’s self-help groups across the state. Health Minister Damodar Raja Narsimha on Wednesday directed the officials to launch this programme on March 8, International Women’s Day.He reviewed the preparedness for various activities to be undertaken by the Health Department as part of ‘Praja Palana–Pragati Pran…
Hyderabad, Feb 27 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, on Friday, directed officials to prepare a Core Urban Act for three corporations within the Outer Ring Road (ORR) limits to replace the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Act. He suggested that this new Act should serve as the basis for permissions, fees, development works management, and all other related matters.The Chief Minister’s direction came two weeks after the state government divided the GHMC into three sep…