HYDERABAD

IT raids on Telangana minister and relatives at multiple locations

Income tax officials, on Tuesday, raided the residence of Telangana minister Malla Reddy and those of his relatives at multiple locations since 5:30 am. Around 40 IT officials also carried out raids in several of the colleges and other institutions owned by him. The move came at a time when the Special Investigation Team of Telangana issued lookout notices for BJP ally Tushar Vellapally and Dr Jaggu Swamy after they did not respond to the summons over the MLA poaching case. Contrary to TRS social media team and a section of the media’s claims, no lookout notice was issued against BJP leader BL Santosh who has informed the SIT that he would be available on any other mutually agreeable date.…

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Youngster killed, one injured in road accident at Bibinagar

Yadadri-Bhongir: One youngster died while another was injured in a road accident on the Hyderabad-Warangal highway at Bibinagar of Yadadri-Bhongir district. The incident took place at 12.30 am when the motorcycle they were travelling on collided with a vehicle. adham Shekhar from Raheemkhangudem died on the spot. More details are awaited. Source.

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KNRUHS: First phase web counselling for Nursing, BPT courses from Nov 21

Hyderabad: Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) on Monday has notified to conduct first phase of web-counselling for admissions into B.Sc (Nursing), Post Basic Bachelor of Science (PB BSc) (Nursing) and Bachelor in Physiotherapy (BPT) under competent authority quota for academic year 2022-23 in affiliated government and private colleges in Telangana. Accordingly, candidates whose names are notified as eligible candidates in the provisional final merit list course wise for the academic year 2022-23 on the KNRUHS website are eligible to exercise web – options online from computer with internet connection. All the eligible candidates can exercise web options from 8 am on Tuesday, November 21 to 6 pm on Friday, November 25 in the website (https://tsparamed.tsche.in). Candidates must exercise web…

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Unemployment rate in Telangana witnesses sharp fall

Hyderabad: The unemployment rate in rural Telangana has witnessed a sharp fall from 65 in 2017-18 to 34 in 2020-21, while in urban areas, it fell from 94 to 77 during the corresponding period. The unemployment rate recorded was for every 1,000 persons residing in the State. The all India unemployment rate too dwindled from 53 in 2017-18 to 33 in 2020-21 in rural India. In urban areas, it came down from 78 to 67 during the corresponding period. As per the latest Handbook of Statistics released by the Reserve Bank of India, the unemployment rate was cut down by nearly half in rural Telangana. Accordingly, the overall rural unemployment rate came down from 65 persons for every 1,000 persons in 2017-18 to 34 per every…

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GHMC proposes 25 function halls

Hyderabad: Buoyed by the popularity of multipurpose function halls among the urban poor, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has now proposed to establish more such facilities in Hyderabad. The GHMC has proposed 25 multipurpose function halls at a cost of Rs 95.70 crore out of which nine such facilities, developed at a cost of Rs 30.10 crore, are already available. Since the launch of the function halls, very quickly they have turned into a cheaper alternative for the urban poor to perform marriages and other private functions. Besides the nine existing facilities, construction of nine more multipurpose function halls are underway with Rs 31.89 crore and they will be inaugurated soon,’ GHMC in a press release on Monday said. In addition to…

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Telangana police aim to reduce road deaths

Hyderabad: With an aim to reduce road accident deaths in the State, the Road Safety wings of the Telangana police have adopted a multipronged strategy of identifying and plugging the shortcomings in traffic management and training the stakeholders in emergency trauma care. The Director General (DG), Road Safety, Sandeep Shandilya said that the immediate focus was to tackle the grave traffic violations across the State. “Every life matters to us. So after every accident, an analysis is done and suggestions sent to the local officials to prevent reoccurrence of it,” he said. This year, a total of 6,149 people have lost their lives in road accidents across Telangana while the number during the same period last year was 6,208. “We are focusing on curbing the…

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MLA poaching case: B Srinivas reaches ICCC building to appear before SIT

Hyderabad: Advocate B Srinivas of Karimnagar, who is a relative BJP State president Bandi Sanjay, had come to ICCC building Banjara Hills to appear before the Special Investigation Team on Monday. The SIT had issued him a notice under Section 41 CrPC asking him to appear before them for questioning in connection with the MLAs poaching case registered at Moinabad police station last month. Police has found the advocate had booked the air ticket for Simhayaji, one of the accused in the case, on October 26 from Tirupati to Hyderabad Three more persons Tushar and Dr Jaggu from Kerala and BJP national secretary BL Santosh were asked to appear before the SIT at Banjara Hills. Source.

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Temperatures across Telangana continue to drop; Sirpur shivers at 7.3 degree Celsius

Hyderabad: Temperatures across the State are continuing to dip, with the real feel of winter gripping several districts where temperatures went well below 10 degree Celsius. In the last 24 hours, Sirpur (U) in Kumram Bheem Asifabad district recorded the lowest temperature of 7.3 degree Celsius, while by 8.30 am on Monday, the same place recorded 9.3 degree Celsius. According to the Telangana State Development Planning Society, areas in the erstwhile Adilabad were registering the lowest temperatures so far, with Neradigonda recording 9.4 degree C, while in Bela, the temperature at 8.30 am was 9.7 degree C. Bharatpur in Talamadugu mandal recorded 10 degree C, while Jainad recorded 10.4 degree C. Nyalkal, Kuntala and Chaprala in Bela to recorded temperatures below…

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Hyderabad Traffic Police issue over 1.32 lakh e-challans for irregular number plates

Hyderabad: A whooping 1,32,392 e-challans were issued by the Hyderabad Traffic Police against motorists moving around with tampered or no registration number plate, so far this year. The police also booked 525 criminal cases against the violators. Since the beginning of the year, the Hyderabad Traffic Police have taken up special drives in the city against the wrong number plates after the top brass noticed such vehicles were used in criminal offences. “During the special drive, we are seizing these vehicle for violation of the prescribed number plate display rule and lodging a complaint at the nearest local law and order police station. A criminal case is booked and the vehicle owner is arrested,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) AV Ranganath. The…

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Fake certificate menace: TSCHE to embed smart chips into certificates

Hyderabad: Intensifying measures to curb fake certificate menace, the Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) and State universities are planning to embed smart chips into the certificates, particularly the marks memos, which will be tough to tamper with. This high-end security feature in the certificates will be in addition to the existing features that include unique code number for each certificate, logo, and watermark and paper thickness. Despite the present security features, unscrupulous elements were found to be tampering and creating fake certificates for the purpose of admission and jobs. The new smart chip feature will come embedded with the academic credentials of the graduated students and will be implemented for all undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma and certificate programmes offered by the State…

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