Hyderabad, June 29 (IANS) Telangana Minister Ponnam Prabhakar on Monday ploughed the field and sowed seeds on the occasion of Eruvaka Purnima, which marks the beginning of the new agricultural season.The Minister for Transport and Backward Classes Welfare joined the farmers to sow seeds, thus inaugurating agricultural activities.Prabhakar participated in the activity in Kurella village of Koheda Mandal, Husnabad constituency, Siddipet district, thereby inaugurating kharif agricultural activities…
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Amaravati, June 14 (IANS) Four persons, including three children, drowned when a boat they were travelling in overturned in the Krishna River in Andhra Pradesh’s Palnadu district on Sunday. The incident occurred at Konur in the Acchampet mandal of the district.According to police, 10 people belonging to the same family travelled in a boat to attend a family function at Konur. While returning home, the boat overturned, and all of them started drowning.While six of them were rescued by the villa…
Hyderabad, May 7 (IANS) Three youths drowned in a stream in Telangana’s Siddipet district, police said on Thursday. The tragedy occurred at Nacharam in Wargal mandal of Siddipet district on Wednesday but came to light on Thursday. According to police, the youths drowned in the Haldhi Vaagu near Nacharam on Wednesday.Their bodies were retrieved on Thursday morning. The deceased have been identified as Yerragolla Prasanth (27), Vikas (26) and K. Anand Reddy (27).All three youths were residents o…
Hyderabad, March 22 (IANS) The government of Telangana has allocated Rs 9,000 crore under Rythu Bharosa scheme to provide financial assistance to farmers for cultivation on 1.50 acres.Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Sunday released first instalment of Rs 3,590 crore at a public meeting held at Narmeta in Siddipet district.With Sunday being a holiday, the amount will be credited in the bank accounts of farmers on Monday.He announced that second instalment of Rs 2,650 crore will be released wit…
Hyderabad, Feb 8 (IANS) The Telangana Forest Department has intensified its operation to catch a tiger which continued its cattle killing spree in the villages of the state’s Siddipet district. Panic gripped people in the Arepally village of Koheda Mandal after some farmers spotted the elusive tiger.The big cat killed five calves near Chandranaik Thanda. Farmer Maloth Ramesh lost his cattle.Alerted by the locals, the Forest Department officials, along with the police, reached the area to collect…
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (IANS) The examination of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the telephone-tapping case was underway at his residence here on Sunday.Amid tight security, a team of SIT officials reached KCR’s house at 3 p.m. in Nandi Nagar in Banjara Hills.The officials were seen carrying documents, believed to be related to the case. The former chief minister was apparently being examined on the basi…
Hyderabad, Jan 29 (IANS) Former Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has conveyed to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the phone-tapping case that he will not be available for examination on Friday and requested that it fix any other date.Hours after SIT issued a notice to K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR), the latter wrote to the investigating officer P. Venkatagiri that he was preoccupied in connection with the municipal elections.The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief wrote that …