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 …
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Hyderabad, April 20 (IANS) If voted back to power, Bharat Rashtra Samithi will scrap Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA), said party president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao. Addressing a public meeting at Jagtial, he said scrapping HYDRAA will be the first file to be signed if BRS returns to powerAt the public meeting, K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) formally inducted former minister T. Jeevan Reddy into the BRS and announced his appointment as part…
Hyderabad, April 1 (IANS) Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) carried out a major operation on Wednesday to remove encroachments on government land. Five under-construction buildings were demolished by HYDRAA teams at Shastripuram in Rajendranagar mandal amid tight security.HYDRAA personnel demolished structures built illegally on the land allotted for a playground. Five G+3 under construction structures were pulled down to protect the land worth Rs.100 crore. Two sm…
Hyderabad, March 30 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy announced on Monday that the state government will introduce a special mechanism to curb food adulteration. Voicing concern over the growing problem of food adulteration, he said the proposed system would be similar to the recently launched enforcement models, such as EAGLE and HYDRAA, to curb drugs and lake encroachments, respectively.In an interaction with media persons, he stated that the government should study existi…
Hyderabad, March 8 (IANS) Bam Rukn-ud-Daula, a historic lake in Hyderabad, was on Sunday, reopened to the people after its revival under lake rejuvenation initiative of the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA). The restored water body, said to be more than 250-years-old, near Sardar Vallabhbhai Paten National Police Academy in Shivarampally, was inaugurated by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Sunday night in the presence of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, Revenue Min…
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, Feb 20 (IANS) About 50 students from a coaching institute were rescued as a fire broke out in a commercial complex in Ameerpet area in Hyderabad on Friday. There were no casualties, police said.Fire-fighting personnel rescued about 50 students trapped in an IT coaching institute on the second floor.The incident occurred at Maitrivanam in the heart of the city.Students in the coaching institute at Nilgiri Block of the G+5 commercial building were trapped by the fire, triggering panic i…
Hyderabad, Feb 18 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said on Wednesday that Hyderabad aims to achieve Net Zero by 2034 and will soon undertake a city-wide carbon footprint audit. He also announced that within the next five years, there will be almost no industry or factory within the urban area.Speaking at the Mumbai Climate Week, the Chief Minister outlined Telangana’s long-term development vision, linking economic growth with environmental sustainability.According to Chief Minist…
Hyderabad, Jan 26 (IANS) The “Telangana Rising 2047” vision aims to radically transform the image of Telangana and position the State as a key driver of India’s progress by 2047, Governor Jishnu Dev Varma said on Monday.Addressing the 77th Republic Day celebrations after hoisting the national flag at the Secunderabad Parade Grounds, the Governor said the Telangana Rising Vision 2047 document, launched on the completion of two years of the present government, lays out a comprehensive roadma…
Hyderabad, Jan 25 (IANS) Rescue workers retrieved five bodies on Sunday from the rubble of a furniture store that caught fire a day earlier, police saidThe bodies were found in the basement of a four-storey building and were shifted to Osmania General Hospital. The bodies were handed over to their families after the post-mortem examination.The deceased were identified as Mohammed Imtiyaz (27), a worker at the store; Syed Habeeb (28), an auto trolley driver; Beban Bee (55); Akhil (11) and Praneet…