Tirumala: More than a lakh devotees thronged the holy hill shrine of Tirumala on Saturday to have the ‘Uttara Dwara Darshan’ of Lord Venkateswara on the occasion of auspicious Vaikunta Ekadasi. Devotees had queued up for darshan since Friday night. By the end of the day around 72,000 devotees had Uttara Dwara Darshan of Lord Venkateswara…
Hyderabad: Telangana on Saturday logged 12 new COVID-19 cases with Hyderabad reporting the highest number of infections at nine, a health department bulletin said. The remaining three cases were reported from Rangareddy, Sangareddy, and Warangal districts. No fresh fatalities were reported in the state, it said. The total number of cases under treatment or isolation…
Vijayawada: A team of Election Commission officers on Saturday reviewed the preparedness for next year’s general elections and directed officials to ensure that the electoral rolls are free of any errors and maintain transparency while conducting polls. The ECI team led by Senior Deputy Election Commissioners Dharmendra Sharma and Nitish Kumar Vyas issued these directives…
Amaravathi: The Quality Council of India on Tuesday signed an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh government to provide technical support to empower agriculture and allied sectors at various levels and thereby enhance quality and farmers’ income. The two entities forged the agreement at the Gunvatta Sankalp event held at Vijayawada in the presence of Agriculture…
Hyderabad: President Droupadi Murmu arrived here on Monday as part of the annual southern sojourn. Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, his deputy Bhatti Vikramarka, Ministers Seethakka and D Sridhar Babu, and senior officials received the President at the Begumpet airport. The President will stay at the Rashtrapathi Nilayam located in Bollarum…
Hyderabad: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday stressed the need for maintaining traditions of the armed forces while adopting innovation and said there has to be a balance between both of them. Addressing the Combined Graduation Parade at Air Force Academy at Dundigul near here, Singh opined that following traditions would only make the system…
Hyderabad: The Telangana Legislative Assembly on Saturday witnessed a stormy debate on the Motion of Thanks to the Governor’s address with the ruling Congress and the opposition BRS indulging in a war of words over the track record of the two parties while in power, alleging ‘family rule’ and others. BRS Working President K T…
Hyderabad: Observing that the people in Telangana gave a clear verdict to liberate themselves from 10 years of repression in the recent assembly polls, Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Friday said the government will stand by every promise it has made to the people. In her address to the joint session of the legislature, the first…
Hyderabad: Former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who underwent hip replacement surgery was on Friday discharged from the hospital. A source close to him said Rao would be going to his residence at Nandi Nagar here from the hospital. The BRS chief on December 8 successfully underwent an operation of left Total Hip Replacement at…
New Delhi: The Election Commission has revoked the suspension of Telangana DGP Anjani Kumar after the officer tendered an unconditional apology, sources said on Tuesday. Kumar was suspended on December 3 after he had called on state Congress chief (now chief minister) A Revanth Reddy with a bouquet when the counting process was still on. While…
