HYDERABAD: India won the 1971 Indo-Pak war, but Hyderabad-based 70-year-old war veteran P Seetaramaraju, who actively participated in the conflict, has been continuously fighting a battle with his own system to obtain a free house site promised to war widows, disabled personnel, and ex-servicemen. After being severely injured in the war, he was medically boarded…
Telangana HC to hear plea over Vijayendra Prasad remarks. HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court has posted the hearing in a petition filed against the Saifabad police to July 8 for not registering a case against a reputed film writer and Rajya Sabha member, Vijayendra Prasad, for allegedly making derogatory, scandalous and insulting remarks against Dr…
Vijayawada: A 94-year-old woman, who gave up her Indian citizenship over two decades ago after becoming a US citizen, has now appealed to the Centre to restore her citizenship so that she can spend her final years in her native village in Bapatla district of Andhra Pradesh.In an emotional plea to Bapatla district collector V…
Hyderabad: Telangana govt on Friday appointed senior IAS officer Sanjay Jaju as the new chief secretary of the state. A 1992-batch officer, Jaju will succeed incumbent K Ramakrishna Rao, who retires on June 30.Jaju, currently serving as secretary in the Union ministry of development of the north eastern region, was repatriated to his parent Telangana…
Hyderabad: As the debate over 33% reservation for women returns to centre stage, a new NITI Aayog working paper has highlighted another persistent gender imbalance: Women remain overwhelmingly underrepresented in India’s core engineering trades.The report — Girls and Women at the Centre: Advancing Non-Traditional Livelihoods in India — shows that while women account for 93%…
18-year-old Intermediate student allegedly threw her newborn from her college washroom (AI-generated image used for representation purposes) HYDERABAD: A murder case was registered against an Intermediate student after she allegedly threw her newborn baby from the second-floor washroom of her college building in Golconda on Tuesday.Local police said the 18-year-old girl developed labour pain early…
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to look into the death of law graduate Hyderabad: Close to four years after his death, the Telangana high court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the suspicious death of young law graduate Dharawath Nikhil from Suryapet.The body of the 22-year-old, belonging to Scheduled Tribe, was…
Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday began producing gold after bringing back to life the gold mine that had been inactive for over two millennia, with the launch of India’s first private gold mining project at Jonnagiri village in Kurnool district.The mine, which is one of the oldest gold mines in the world, is known to…
Hyderabad: Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will begin from Thursday, with booth-level officers (BLOs) distributing enumeration forms to nearly 3.38 crore electors. Voters will have a month to fill out and return the form, retain the acknowledged copy, and contact the BLO or election officials if they do not receive one.The exercise…
Hyderabad: As many as 39 companies from Telangana have made it to the list of top 500 most valuable companies in India, led by Divi’s Laboratories with a valuation of Rs 1.7 lakh crore. This was up from nine companies since the list began in 2021.The fifth edition of the ‘500 most valuable non-state-run companies…
