Amaravati, July 28 (IANS) Three devotees were killed and 13 injured when a van they were travelling in was hit by a truck in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district, police said.The accident occurred past midnight near Chelluru when the truck rammed into the stationary van. Three persons, including a boy, died on the spot while 13 others were injured.According to police, the speeding truck dragged the van for about 500 meters. Sixteen people belonging to three families from Visakhapatnam and Vi…
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Hyderabad, July 27 (IANS) Peddapalli MP Gaddam Vamsi Krishna and Telangana Labour Minister Dr G. Vivek Venkataswamy called on Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy in New Delhi on Monday and urged him to expedite the Tadicherla-2 coal block project while ensuring maximum benefits for local people and Singareni workers. During the meeting, the MP and the minister pressed for early completion of the Tadicherla-2 project.They requested that at least 1,000 jobs be provided to local youth, wi…
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) India’s operational data centre capacity is likely to rise from 2.2 GW in 2025 to 12 GW by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 per cent, a report said on Monday.AI-dedicated capacity is expected to expand nearly 24-fold over the same period, rising from 275 MW to 6,546 MW, driven by demand from hyperscale cloud providers, enterprise digitalisation and artificial intelligence, the report from Wood Mackenzie said.”India’s data centre market is entering a…
Hyderabad, July 27 (IANS) Telangana BJP president N. Ramchander Rao said on Monday that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s proposal to reduce the minimum age for contesting elections from 25 to 21 is merely an attempt to divert public attention. Addressing a press conference, he alleged that the Chief Minister mooted the proposal out of fear that Gen Z youth would question the failure of the Congress government to release pending fee reimbursements of around Rs 12,000 crore to approximately 20 l…
Hyderabad, July 26 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is in favour of lowering the minimum age limit for contesting Assembly and Lok Sabha elections from 25 years to 21 years, to enable youth to step into legislatures. He told IANS that when individuals at the age of 21 are being appointed as civil servants and becoming mayors, why can’t they be allowed to contest Assembly and Lok Sabha elections?He demanded an amendment to the relevant law to allow contesting for the Legislative…
Chennai, July 26 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government has nominated two Cabinet ministers to represent the state in the Southern Zonal Council, the Centre’s key inter-state coordination forum, marking the first appointments to the body under the TVK-led coalition government, which assumed office in May.According to a Gazette notification issued by the government, Energy Resources and Law Minister R. Nirmalkumar and School Education, Tamil Development, Information and Publicity Minister Rajmohan ha…
Bengaluru, July 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s Bengaluru Zonal Office on Saturday filed a chargesheet under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, against online gaming firms Gameskraft Technologies and RummyTime Technologies Private Limited, along with their founders and directors, for allegedly cheating users of real-money rummy platforms and laundering proceeds of crime amounting to nearly Rs 19,984 crore. The complaint was filed before the Special Court in Bengalu…
Hyderabad, July 24 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Friday directed officials to establish a dedicated bureau for traffic management and road safety in the state. He stated that a comprehensive study of the transportation system should be conducted, and the bureau for traffic management and road safety should have an institutional structure. The Chief Minister reviewed traffic management and road safety in Telangana with senior officials.According to the Chief Minister’s Off…
Hyderabad, July 24 (IANS) The Health Department of Telangana has said that there is no need for concern over an increase in COVID-19 cases. Dr B. Ravinder Nayak, Director of Public Health & Family Welfare, Telangana, said on Friday that the present increase in COVID-19 cases is a mild seasonal uptick, consistent with the trend observed during the same period last year. There is no evidence of increased disease severity or the emergence of any new Variant of Concern, he said in a COVID-19 and…
Hyderabad, July 24 (IANS) Telangana’s Director General of Police, C.V. Anand, on Friday directed all unit officers to improve the State’s performance across all cyber security parameters prescribed by the Government of India and strive to secure a top position in the national rankings. Telangana is currently ranked 15th in cyber security parameters. He said that the Telangana Police must stay ahead in technology to effectively combat the growing threat of cybercrime. The DGP reviewed the imple…