Tag: Telangana
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Patanjali to set up food park in Telangana
The Patanjali Group will set up a large food park in Telangana with units for processing edible oil, fruit pulp and spices. It signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Telangana government on Wednesday. Patanjali Group also expressed interest in developing indigenous seed varieties and animal feed value chain in the state. The MoU...
November 15, 2017 -
Explosives, bikes seized in Telangana; three held
The police today seized a cache of explosives during a search at a village here and arrested one person in this connection, an official said. They also seized 12 motorcycles kept without proper documents in two houses and arrested two persons, he said. The explosives were apparently being supplied to granite mines without having any...
November 14, 2017 -
Two powerful landmines unearthed, defused in Telangana
The police on Monday unearthed and defused two powerful landmines allegedly planted by Maoists below a road in Telangana’s Bhupalpally district. During road-checking, a police team spotted a wire on the roadside between Abbaigudem and Aluvaka villages at around 4.30 am, Additional Superintendent of Police (Eturnagaram) Rahul Hegde said. Suspecting it to be a landmine,...
November 6, 2017 -
TDP confident of strengthening base in Telangana
Undeterred by the exit of its 13 MLAs and other key leaders in Telangana, the Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) state unit is hopeful of emerging stronger in the next elections. The TDP, led by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, had won 15 Assembly segments and a Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana in the...
November 5, 2017 -
Telangana govt prepares draft policy on electric vehicles
The Telangana government has prepared a draft policy on electric vehicles which proposes benefits for manufacturers and to put in place the necessary support system towards embracing the new mode of transport. The policy has three components — for manufacturers, users and support mechanisms, an official said. “The policy has been drafted. We have consulted the...
October 29, 2017 -
Telangana students selected for NASA challenge
A team of five students from an engineering college in Telangana has been selected for the prestigious NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The team from SR Engineering College, Warangal, will participate in the fifth annual challenge to be held on April 12-14, 2018, in Huntsville, Alabama, US. It is one of the four teams from...
October 12, 2017 -
MeT forecasts more heavy rain in Telangana
The MeT department has predicted more rains today in the city which is reeling under the impact of heavy downpour, even as the civic body and other agencies are trying to restore normalcy in affected areas. The relief personnel of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and other government agencies are making efforts to drain...
October 4, 2017 -
Five killed in Telangana bus accident
Five people were killed and 14 others injured when a bus collided with a stationary truck in Telangana’s Suryapet district on Sunday, police said. The accident occurred at 3 a.m. near Muddulacheruvu, about 150 km from Hyderabad. The bus belonging to Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) was en route to Hyderabad from Vijayawada....
October 1, 2017 -
7 die as roof of under construction tunnel collapses in Telangana
Seven construction workers were killed and one injured when the roof of an under construction tunnel of an upcoming irrigation project collapsed in Telangana on Wednesday, officials said. The incident occurred in Kaleswaram lift irrigation project (KLIP) in Rajanna Siricilla district. Three of the deceased were from Chhattisgarh, two from Odisha and one each from...
September 20, 2017 -
Telangana marks Hyderabad merger day
The merger of Hyderabad with the Indian union in 1948 was celebrated across Telangana on Sunday, with the unfurling of the national flag at the offices of political parties. While the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the main opposition Congress and others celebrated the merger day, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrated it as “liberation...
September 17, 2017 -
Rajnath to attend BJP’s meet on Telangana Liberation Day
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh would attend the public meeting proposed to be organised by the Telangana BJP unit on 17 September 17 to celebrate ‘Telangana Liberation Day’. The ‘Telangana Liberation Day’ is celebrated as on September 17, the erstwhile Nizam state merged with the Indian Union in 1948. “BJP is going to organise Telangana...
August 17, 2017 -
‘GST is an experiment, wait for results’
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday said having uniform Goods and Services Tax all over the country is an experiment and one has to wait to see the results. "GST is an experiment. Many countries have brought in the GST. Due to some problems at the implementation level, some countries have withdrawn it....
August 7, 2017 -
Telangana MP Kavitha gifts helmet to minister-brother
Telangana's Industry and Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama Rao received 'rakhi' and a helmet as gift from his sister and Parliament member K. Kavitha. Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, on Monday tied 'rakhi' to her brother and also presented him a helmet as part of her 'Sisters4Change' campaign. Through her...
August 7, 2017 -
Venky Atluri’s film is a different love story: Varun Tej
Basking in the success of Telugu film "Fidaa", a love story set against the backdrop of Telangana, actor Varun Tej says his upcoming yet-untitled Telugu outing with director Venky Atluri will be a very different love story. "People must be wondering why I'm doing two back-to-back love stories. Venky's love story is very different and...
August 1, 2017 -
Telangana TS EdCET results 2017 declared at tsedcet.org | Osmania University
Candidates waiting to get their TS EdCET results 2017 don’t need to wait anymore. As per the latest updates, Osmania University has declared the Telangana State Council of Higher Education – Common Entrance Test (TS EDCET) results 2017 on the official website tsedcet.org. Candidates trying to check their TS EDCET results 2017 have to visit...
July 27, 2017 -
Telangana MLA booked for misbehaving with woman collector
The police have booked a legislator of the ruling TRS for his alleged rash behaviour with a woman collector of Mahabubabad district in Telangana. At a public meeting organised during the programme to launch 'Harita Haaram' (a massive plantation programme) in Mahabubabad yesterday, the local MLA, B Shankar Nayak, allegedly behaved in a rude manner...
July 13, 2017 -
Andhra, Telangana, Gujarat best in ease of doing business: NITI CEO
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Gujarat are the three best-performing states in "ease of doing business", NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on 10 July. One the other hand, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam fare worst in the rankings, he told reporters here. Kant presented the rankings based on key development and social indicators across states...
July 11, 2017