Hyderabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Telangana’s ruling Congress party has bagged at least 62 out of 116 municipalities and three out of seven corporations, as the counting of votes continued on Friday.Main Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) captured power in 12 municipalities while Forward Block captured one urban local body.There were no clear winners in 37 municipalities. This triggered camp politics by both Congress and BRS to win over independents and others to get the posts of chairpersons and …
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Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 11 (IANS) Under the various self-employment schemes being implemented by the double-engine government at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh, Nizamabad in Azamgarh district is carving out a distinct identity through the One District One Product (ODOP) initiative, with its famed black pottery gaining recognition both nationally and internationally. Once on the verge of extinction, the traditional craft of black pottery has witnessed a revival over the past few years. In …
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, …
Hyderabad, Feb 3 (IANS) A man from Maharashtra killed one of his three children to overcome the two-child norm to contest the upcoming Panchayat elections in that state.Pandurang Kondmangale, a resident of Kerur village in Mukhed taluka of Maharashtra’s Nanded district, pushed her six-year-old daughter into a canal in Telangana’s Nizamabad district.Nizamabad Police on Monday announced the arrest of Pandurang (28) and village sarpanch Ganesh Ramachandra Shinde.Nizamabad Police Commissioner P….
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (IANS) The government of Telangana on Sunday announced ex-gratia of Rs1 crore to the family of excise constable Gajula Soumya, who died in an alleged attack by Gaanja smugglers. The 25-year-old succumbed at a hospital in Hyderabad on Saturday night after remaining critical for a week.The government also announced a job for Soumya’s brother.It was also decided to conduct her funeral with police honours. Nizamabad district Collector has been directed to make necessary arrangemen…
Hyderabad, Jan 13 (IANS) There are 52.43 lakh voters in 118 municipalities and five municipal corporations in Telangana, reveals the final voter list published by the State Election Commission on Tuesday. The municipalities and corporations have 2,996 wards. The total number of voters is 52,43,023, comprising 25,62,369 men, 26,80,014 women and 640 others.Stepping up the arrangements for the upcoming municipal elections, the Election Commission has mapped and confirmed municipality-wise voters.Th…
Hyderabad, Jan 11 (IANS) Nawab Najaf Ali Khan, one of the grandsons of seventh Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan, on Sunday, condemned the alleged defamatory remarks made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP D. Arvind against the last ruler of Hyderabad State while demanding that the Nizamabad district be renamed as Indur. Najaf Ali Khan termed the remarks of Nizamabad MP as “highly objectionable, condemnable, and unbecoming of a constitutional office-holder”.”The proposal to rename Nizamabad as Indur …
Hyderabad, Jan 11 (IANS) Telangana is under the grip of intense cold wave conditions with the lowest temperature dropping to below 10 degrees Celsius at some places.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Adilabad recorded the lowest temperature of 7.7 degrees Celsius on Sunday. Kohir in Sangareddy district saw the minimum temperature of 7.9 degrees Celsius.The mercury dropped to 9.2 degrees Celsius in Patancheru near Hyderabad, while Rajandra Nagar and Hayath Nagar on the outski…
Chennai, Jan 5 (IANS) Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, on Monday said the Centre would move to establish a regional office of the National Turmeric Board (NTB) in Erode, Tamil Nadu, along with an accredited turmeric testing laboratory, to strengthen the turmeric ecosystem in one of the country’s key production hubs. Responding to a representation submitted by M. Sathyamurthy, secretary of the Erode Turmeric Merchants and Godown Owners’ Association…
Tirupati, Jan 3 (IANS) Security personnel and devotees at the historic Sri Govindarajaswamy Temple in Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh were sent into a state of panic after an inebriated man climbed the temple’s 100-foot ‘Gopuram’ (monumental entrance tower), causing a massive security scare, the police said on Saturday. He has been detained and taken to the Tirupati police station for questioning.The individual, identified as Kuttadi Tirupati, a resident of Nizamabad district, managed to scale the in…