Category: Regional

Hyderabad: Tripura former Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma was sworn in as Telangana Governor on Wednesday in a function attended by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and his Cabinet colleagues. Alok Aradhe, Chief Justice of Telangana administered the oath to the new Governor. Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy and several senior officials also attended…

Hyderabad:  A 26-year-old woman passenger was raped by a driver of a private sleeper bus travelling from Nirmal district of Telangana to Prakasam in Andhra Pradesh, police said on Tuesday. The woman called the ‘Dial 100’ and informed the police about the incident after midnight on Monday when the bus was on the outskirts of…

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday launched the second phase of his government’s crop loan waiver scheme with an outlay of over Rs 6,198 crore, which would benefit about 6.40 lakh farmer families. The chief minister and his cabinet colleagues started the second phase of disbursal of money for the loan waiver…

Bhubaneshwar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Monday said he will hold a meeting with his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu to resolve the Polavaram issue between the two states. Majhi, upon his arrival from Delhi after attending the Governing Council meeting of the NITI Aayog on July 27, said he had a discussion…

Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government has renamed half a dozen welfare schemes, some of which were named after former chief minister and YSRCP supremo YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, with yesteryear stalwarts who championed education. As part of the new nomenclature, ‘Jagananna Amma Vodi’, a scheme which used to offer financial help to mothers educating their…

Hyderabad: In a sharp rebuke, Irrigation Minister Capt. N. Uttam Kumar Reddy criticized the BRS party for spreading false information about the Kaleshwaram project. Speaking at a press conference at Jal Soudha, Reddy dismissed the demands made by BRS Working President K. Tarakarama Rao (KTR) to fill the Kaleshwaram reservoirs by starting pumping operations at…

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday said his government has filled up 30,000 job vacancies within 90 days after assuming office and is in the process of recruiting another 30,000 youth within its first year. Speaking at the passing-out parade of the new batch of firemen here, he said the government has handed…

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday compared YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar as he slammed the state of law and order and alleged drug menace in the past five years. Releasing a white paper on law and order and ganja (marijuana) prevalence, Naidu claimed that…

New Delhi: The government has no plans to privatise Singareni Collieries Company in Telangana and efforts will be made to further strengthen it, Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Wednesday. The coal mining company is jointly owned by the Telangana government and the Union government, and its reserves stretch across 350 kilometres…