Hyderabad, June 24 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao on Wednesday accused the Congress government in Telangana of betraying farmers, students, youth, women and weaker sections.He claimed that people across the state were yearning for the return of BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s leadership.Addressing a meeting of key BRS party workers at Sathupalli in Khammam district, KTR said the only task left before the people was to “send the anti-people Congress g…
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Hyderabad, May 26 (IANS) Telangana Rakshana Samithi (TRS) President K. Kavitha on Tuesday met Telangana Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla and sought justice for those displaced by land acquisition by the state government at various places.Kavitha, along with Dharma Samaj Party President Visharadan Maharaj and some affected people, submitted a petition to the Governor, requesting that house sites be provided to all those whose homes were demolished in Velugumatla in Khammam district.They also demanded …
Hyderabad, May 22 (IANS) In a tragic incident, a priest father-son duo died by suicide in Telangana’s Jangaon district on Friday. The incident occurred in Bandlagudem village of Lingala Ghanpur mandal.Lakshminarasimha Charyulu and his son, Pawan Kumar Charyulu, who were working as priests at the Lakshminarasimha Swamy temple, allegedly died by suicide by jumping into the temple pond.Locals who spotted their bodies in the pond alerted the police. The bodies were pulled out and shifted to a gove…
Hyderabad, May 3 (IANS) Telangana’s minister for revenue Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy said on Sunday that the state government is implementing the promises made to farmers in the farmers’ declaration released as part of the Congress party’s election campaign by senior leader Rahul Gandhi.He claimed that the ‘farmers’ friendly’ government is fulfilling the assurances one by one by implementing various programmes. He stated that paddy and maize crops are being procured at Minimum Support Price, w…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 2 (IANS) Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Congress, alleging that its government in Telangana had unleashed a “bulldozer raj” by demolishing hundreds of houses and rendering thousands homeless.In a strongly worded statement, Vijayan said the demolition of 700 houses in Velugumatla village of Khammam district under heavy police presence was “deeply alarming.”The houses, he noted, were built on Bhoodan land allotted to landl…
Hyderabad, Feb 22 (IANS) Telangana Police have solved the mystery behind the death of writer and YouTuber Boggula Srinivas with the arrest of his friend, who allegedly hired contract killers to eliminate him and push the car with the victim’s body into a reservoir to make it look like an accident.The body of Srinivas, 48, was found in a car which had plunged into Palair reservoir in Khammam district on February 14. Some fishermen had told police that the person driving the vehicle jumped out a…
Amaravati, Feb 16 (IANS) Telangana Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao met Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu here on Monday and requested that five villages, which were merged with Andhra Pradesh in 2014, be restored to Telangana. Nageswara Rao told media persons after meeting the Chief Minister that Parliament has to pass legislation to return five villages to Telangana.He recalled that in 2014, the Centre had merged seven mandals from Telangana’s Khammam distr…