HYDERABAD

High-level meeting held to review Bonalu arrangements

Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari and Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav discuss preparations for upcoming Bonalu festival, joined by Minister Indrakaran Reddy, Malla Reddy, and DGP Anjani Kumar. Hyderabad: A meeting of ministers and officials on Friday discussed the arrangements for this year’s Bonalu, the state festival that is to start at Sri Jagadambika temple in Golconda on June 22. The festival will be held at Sri Ujjaini Mahankali in Secunderabad on July 9 and on July 16 at Sri Akkanna Madanna temple in the Old City. The state government will present traditional silk clothes to 26 temples to mark the occasion. Later, animal husbandry minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav, while briefing the media said, “The government provides financial assistance to many private…

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TS POLYCET 2023 results out

Surabhi Sharanya of Suryapet district and Cheerla Ramesh of Jayashankar Bhupalapally district topped the MPC and MBiPC streams respectively. Hyderabad: The Telangana State Polytechnic Common Entrance Test (TS POLYCET) 2023 results have been announced with 81.77 per cent candidates in MPC stream and 82.17 per cent of students in MBiPC stream declared qualified out of 98,274 candidates who appeared for the entrance test. In the results declared by Commissioner of Technical Education Navin Mittal here on Friday, Surabhi Sharanya of Suryapet district and Cheerla Akash of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district topped the MPC and MBiPC streams respectively. Girls have outperformed boys. A total of 43,574 girls recorded qualifying percentage of 85.73 in MPC and 86.63 in MBiPC stream, while 54,700 boys secured qualifying percentage of 78.61…

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US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti praises Hyderabad, terms it ‘future’

The new US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti on Friday was all praise for Hyderabad, terming the city as the ‘future’ U.S. Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti addressing a press conference at T-Hub in Hyderabad. Hyderabad: On his first visit to the city, the new US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti on Friday was all praise for Hyderabad, terming the city as the ‘future’. After a visit to T-Hub, considered the largest incubator on the globe, the Ambassador speaking to the media persons said, “This place (Hyderabad) has captured my imagination. If you want to see the future, it’s right here in Hyderabad. You see it in the enthusiasm of the people, space like this (T-Hub) and growth, construction and momentum of the…

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TS BJP struggles to grasp orders given to it in Hindi

Most things the BJP wants to do in Telangana to challenge the BRS and take on the Congress are being lost in translation. HYDERABAD: The Telangana BJP is facing a strange predicament, grappling to find a middle ground over directions issued by its leadership in Hindi and conveying the same to the public, either in a language not understood by all or losing key messages in translation. On the one hand, it needs to follow the directions of the party’s national leadership on ‘sashaktikaran’, an instance of a Hindi term, for making itself strong enough to take on the ruling BRS party in the coming Assembly elections. On the other, much of the central BJP’s plans are unravelling at the ground…

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BRS MLAs hit back at Oppn on ORR, GO 111 allegations

BRS MLAs K.P. Vivekanand and D. Sudheer Reddy. HYDERABAD: Facing political heat over the withdrawal of GO 111 and awarding the ORR contract to IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd, BRS MLAs K.P. Vivekanand and D. Sudheer Reddy on Thursday hit back at TPCC president A. Revanth Reddy and BJP MLA M. Raghunandan Rao for levelling allegations against Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and minister K.T. Rama Rao. Addressing media persons at the BRS office, Quthbullapur MLA Vivekanand said: “The tender clauses are very much in the public domain. There is no clause in the contract which mandates the company to deposit 10 per cent as advance. Without verifying the facts, Revanth Reddy has levelled baseless allegations against the CM and KTR. We…

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BRS under pressure from Minorities for nomination to 2 MLC seats under Guv’s quota

BRS MLC Farooq Hussain. (DC File Photo) HYDERABAD: The BRS leadership is under pressure to nominate MLCs from the minority categories for the two seats under the Governor’s quota that will fall vacant on Saturday. The two seats are represented by D. Rajeshwar Rao, a Christian, and Farooq Hussain (Muslim). Sources said that the chances of BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao re-nominating either of them is bleak as they have been nominated twice earlier. In fact, Rajeshwar Rao, from Nizamabad district, has served as MLC for three terms, with the first one being in the undivided Andhra Pradesh. There are no names from the minority categories that are doing the rounds in BRS circles. Instead, the names that…

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BJP’s Rajendar meets with former BRS leaders amid political speculation

Senior BJP leader Etala Rajendar. Hyderabad: Senior BJP leader Etala Rajendar, who heads the party committee to invite leaders, on Thursday had a long and hush-hush meeting with former BRS leaders Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, and Jupally Krishna Rao, amidst rumours that they were getting close taking a decision on their political action plans. Asked about the meeting, Rajendar said they were his friends for many years and it was not uncommon for them to meet once in a while. “This was a meeting between friends,” he said. The meeting came in the midst of some speculation that the two former BRS leaders were considering either setting up a regional party of their own, and were inviting like-minded leaders to join…

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Rise in mercury levels make people crave ice apples in Hyderabad

Called Thati Munjalu locally, the translucent ice apples are tucked inside hard purple-black or green coloured shells, each containing 2 to 4 ice apples depending on the size of the shell Amid the high temperatures, vendors are seeing huge demand from customers resulting in brisk business across Hyderabad. Vendors of ice apples have been recording good sales with pushcarts or road side stalls in places such as Pisal Banda, Chandrayangutta, Balapur, Kothapet, LB Nagar, Santoshnagar, Vanasthalipuram, Hayathnagar, BN Reddy Nagar, and Karmangh. “We bring these fruits from Mall, a village in Yacharam Mandal, in an auto-trolley and sell them in different parts of the city. The fruits arrive in April every summer and be available till May,” said Venkatesh, a…

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Congress proves to be no different from BJP in treating fellow Opposition parties

Congress party has repeatedly failed to win the confidence of other opposition parties to lead a coalition against the BJP Hyderabad: The Congress party has repeatedly failed to win the confidence of other opposition parties to lead a coalition against the BJP at the national level. This was evident from the recent oath-taking ceremony of Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah in Karnataka, where the Congress party could not utilise the opportunity for opposition unity and instead, chose to portray itself as the only alternative to the BJP at the Centre. Of late, majority of the non-BJP parties have been favouring a joint fight against the BJP at the Centre on different issues ranging from failed promises and hate politics to misuse of Central agencies and…

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Hyderabad likely to get respite from scorching heat

The IMD forecast indicates a partly cloudy sky with the possibility of thunder and lightning development, signalling a change in weather patterns that will bring much-needed relief to denizens. Hyderabad: Is the worst of this summer over? Appears to be so given the weather forecasts being made for the city. Hyderabadis can finally heave a sigh of relief as the hot weather conditions seem to have come to an end, according to the latest predictions by the India Meteorological Department-Hyderabad (IMD-H). With maximum temperatures expected to remain below 40 degrees Celsius for the next six days, the city can look forward to a respite from the sweltering heat that has gripped it for the past few weeks. The IMD forecast indicates a partly…

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