Telugu has been made compulsory in all schools in Telangana. Chief minister, K Chandrasekara Rao, instructed officials in the education department to make the language, a compulsory subject from classes 1 to 12. Rao further said that only education institutions teaching Telugu as a compulsory subject should be given permission[Read More…]
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Telangana: 16,000 teacher posts to be filled; best teacher awards to be introduced
Nearly 16,000 posts of teachers to be filled in 525 residential schools in Telangana, said deputy chief minister, Kadiam Srihari adding that the government is taking steps to enhance facilities at the schools to provide quality education. He also said that the teachers need not apply for the best teacher[Read More…]
Having tough time buying ‘Bakra’ this Bakrid? Order it on WhatsApp!
If you are still having tough time buying sheep or goat for sacrifice on Bakrid, you don’t need to worry anymore. In fact, you can book your sacrificial animal on WhatsApp, with traders messaging you in English to hit a deal. They will even send you pictures of the ‘product’[Read More…]
Leopard dies of electrocution, body found hanging on pole in Telangana
On Monday morning, a male leopard was killed after getting electrocuted on an electrical pole in Nizamabad district of Telangana. The animal is reported to be around four years old and the reason for him climbing the pole near Thanakalan forest has not been ascertained as yet. According to District[Read More…]
This 12-year old fills up potholes on roads ‘to save lives’ in Telangana
Ravi Teja, a 12-year old boy from Habsiguda in Telangana, is doing a task that the authorities and the government have failed to do. Aware of the dangers a potholed road holds, the young boy has taken up the task of filling up potholes and repairing the road rather than[Read More…]
Another HC judge speaks up, calls cow, ’substitute to Mother and God’
Days after a Rajasthan HC judge said that cow should be made the national animal, a Hyderabad high court judge on Friday, said that cow is “sacred national wealth” and is a “substitute to Mother and God”. Justice B Siva Sankara Rao of Hyderabad HC quoted from a Supreme Court[Read More…]
Veteran Congress leader P Govardhan Reddy passes away
Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP P Govardhan Reddy died in the early hours of Friday morning after suffering from cardiac arrest, aged 80. Reportedly, Reddy was on his way to Manali to attend a meeting, when he suffered the attack. He was rushed to a government hospital in[Read More…]
Telangana: Triple Talaq facilitated in the guise of counselling centres
Where the issue of Triple-Talaq has been a hotbed of discussion in India recently, there are NGOs in the South-West zones of Hyderabad which facilitate an instant divorce under the guise of family counselling centres. The centres collect a ‘mediation fee’ ranging from Rs 35,000 to Rs 50,000. In a[Read More…]
Court allows Swami Aseemanand to travel out of Hyderabad till May 17
A Hyderabad local court on Friday granted permission to Swami Aseemanand to travel out of Hyderabad till May 17. The court asked Aseemanand to return to Hyderabad by May 17 for the Mecca Masjid blast trial. On April 13, Swami Aseemanand had moved a local court seeking its permission to[Read More…]
Swine flu claims 22 lives in Telangana
Telangana Muslim reservation bill a ‘trash paper’: BJP
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday called the reservation bill for Muslims in Telangana as a trash paper and said the bill would be quashed at the central level as it has no legal sanctity. The party also added that it would project the ruling TRS party in a bad[Read More…]
Telangana hikes Muslim reservation quota
The Telangana assembly on Sunday has passed a bill to hike reservation in educational institutions and jobs for Muslims and Scheduled Tribes. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had moved the Backward Class, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Reservation Bill, 2017 at a special session of the State legislative assembly[Read More…]
Osmania University to raise funds from internal resources
Dalit youth brutally murdered for loving an upper caste girl
A 25-year-old Dalit youth from Khanapur village in Peddapally of Telangana was allegedly murdered for loving a girl from a higher caste. According to reports, the boy was a farmhand working with the family of the girl , whom he got romantically involved with, and was murdered for the same[Read More…]
BJP MLA demands Telangana govt to act against illegal slaughter houses
Child born with three legs in Telangana
Telangana: Only ‘unmarried’ women are eligible to study in residential women’s degree colleges
The Telangana government is seeking admission of ‘only’ unmarried women in the social welfare residential women’s degree colleges in the state. Bizarrely, the regulation has been in position for a year now. Around 4,000 such women are already studying in these hostels and will pass to the second year in[Read More…]
Will oppose the proposed bill for 12% reservation for Muslims: Telangana BJP
Gujarat ignores WHO warning, Polio virus detected in sewerage in Ahmedabad
Despite the WHO warning about the return of Vaccine-Derived Type 2 Polio Virus (VDPV2), some of the blood samples collected on August 30 in Ahmedabad city tested positive for Sabin-like type 2 polio virus. Earlier, World Health Organization had warned Gujarat and Telangana about the return of the polio virus.[Read More…]
Telangana man carries wife’s dead body in a cart for 60 kilometres
A man from Telangana was forced to use a wooden cart to carry his wife’s body more than 60 km in Medak district as he was not able to afford an ambulance,PTI reports. Gunna Ramalu, a begger, told the Police that his wife Kavita died on Friday afternoon in Langarhouz. He[Read More…]
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana top ease of doing business list
In a list prepared by the World Bank with the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) on the ease of doing business, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana jointly topped the rankings for 2015-16. Last year’s topper, Gujarat, slipped to third position. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released the report[Read More…]
Telangana chief minister to present 11 kg gold crown to Goddess Durga
On the occasion of Durga Navratri, Telangana chief minister Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will present an 11.7 kg gold crown worth over ₹3 crore to Goddess Bhadrakali at Warangal on Sunday. The offering is towards fulfillment of Rao’s vow, which he had made during the agitation for a separate Telangana.[Read More…]
Pay and stay in prison for a day!
For all those looking for adventure or some cheap thrill in life, Telangana is the perfect destination. Because the newest initiative called ‘Feel the jail’ will literally make you FEEL the jail! If your childhood is also marked with movies like ‘Sholay’ and ‘Kaala Patthar’ (like mine) and if you[Read More…]
Released from jail, murder accused kills minor after raping her in Telangana
In a shocking incident, a 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by a man who was released from jail only a few days ago in Secunderabad on Saturday evening. The suspect, 30 year-old Anil Kumar is an accused in eight murder cases is on the run now. The police[Read More…]