Hyderabad, July 22 (IANS) Hyderabad Police on Wednesday detained Telangana Congress leaders as they were marching towards Lok Bhavan to protest against the detention of Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders during the protest in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence in New Delhi on Tuesday. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president Mahesh Kumar Goud, state minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, government advisor Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Balmori Venkat, Rohin Reddy and other…
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Hyderabad, July 10 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Friday predicted that the Congress would retain power in the state with a landslide victory in the 2029 Assembly elections.He said he believes the next Assembly elections will not be held in May-June 2029 but before the end of 2028.Asserting that the proposed delimitation would increase Lok Sabha seats in Telangana from 17 to 26 and Assembly seats from 119 to 182, he expressed confidence that the Congress would win 20 Lok Sab…
Hyderabad, July 6 (IANS) Telangana Director General of Police (DGP) C.V. Anand said on Monday that drug traffickers will be treated as more dangerous than extremists and terrorists.He stated that drug offenders will be dealt with even more stringently under the law.The police chief said that effective control of drug trafficking and ganja smuggling in Bhadradri Kothagudem and Khammam districts would play a decisive role in strengthening anti-drug enforcement across the state.He made these remark…
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, May 21 (IANS) Telugu states are in the grip of intense heat wave conditions as Piduguralla in Andhra Pradesh sizzled at 48.1 degrees Celsius while Dilawarpur in Telangana recorded 46.5 degrees Celsius on Thursday.As many as 19 districts in Telangana recorded the highest temperature of 46 degrees Celsius and above, while the maximum temperature in 18 districts of Andhra Pradesh exceeded 45 degrees Celsius.In light of the heat intensity rising to record levels in both states, authoritie…
Hyderabad, May 3 (IANS) Heatwave conditions gripped many parts of Telangana, with the maximum temperature reaching 46 degrees Celsius on Sunday. At least 12 districts recorded temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius, significantly higher than the normal of 41.3 degrees Celsius.Nizamabad was the hottest place on Sunday, with the mercury touching 46 degrees Celsius. Nalgonda, Nirmal and Siddipet districts followed closely at 45.9 degrees Celsius, shows data from the Telangana Development Planning So…
Hyderabad, March 22 (IANS) Two persons were killed and one injured when a portion of a slab caved in at an apartment in the Begumpet area here on Sunday, police said.The incident occurred at Methodist Colony in Kundan Bagh, under the limits of the Panjagutta Police Station.Two persons working as electricians died in the mishap, while the house owner sustained critical injuries.The victims were identified as Devidas (56) and Vivek (32), both residents of Seetharambagh in Asifnagar.According to th…
Hyderabad, March 10 (IANS) Police in Telangana’s Khammam town on Tuesday detained Telangana Jagruti president K Kavitha, who has been on an indefinite fast since Monday night, demanding justice for families displaced from a land parcel in the town.Police forcibly shifted her to Hyderabad but she continued the fast at Telangana Jagruthi office.She declared that she would continue the fast till justice is done to the affected families.Kavitha alleged that several poor families were forcibly evicte…
Hyderabad, March 1 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao on Sunday alleged that a “bulldozer regime” is being run in Telangana under the Congress government. He said that from the very day Revanth Reddy assumed office as Chief Minister, the state has been witnessing large-scale demolition of houses and harassment of citizens.KTR accused the Chief Minister of focusing only on demolishing homes, selling lands and promoting what he termed as a “real estate broker…
Hyderabad, Feb 11 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minster A. Revanth Reddy and Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka cast their votes for the municipal elections on Wednesday.The Chief Minster reached Kodangal in Vikarabad district by a helicopter from Hyderabad and cast his vote at a polling centre at Zilla Parishad High School.Revanth Reddy, who represents Kodangal Assembly constituency, exercised his franchise for elections to Kodangal municipality.After his return to Hyderabad from Kodangal, …