China continues its aggressive policies in the Indo-Pacific

New Delhi: Beijing has been making efforts...

Dera did not help BJP get extra seats in Haryana

All the seats where Ram Rahim was...

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Jagan sweeps AP municipal polls, shocks Naidu

Naidu had tried his best to prove that CM Jagan had lost popular base in the last two years.   Ruling YSR Congress by Chief Minister...

KCR fields PV’s daughter in MLC polls to take on BJP

MLC polls come at a time the BJP is emerging as the principal opposition replacing Congress in Telangana.   The biennial elections to Telangana’s legislative council...

Covid vaccine to be around Rs 250 per dose

Centre has asked the states to involve the private sector to expedite the vaccination to a vast majority of eligible people. As the entire country...

Jagan retains hold over gram panchayats, Naidu disputes the numbers

Three of the four phases of gram panchayat elections in Andhra Pradesh have so far been peaceful and smooth, while the last and final...

Sharmila’s entry stirs up Telangana politics

‘Her party will be an independent entity and has nothing to do with her brother’s YSR Congress in AP’. Y.S. Sharmila, 47, younger sister of...

AP panchayat polls amid tussle between SEC, Jagan government

Ruling YSR Congress blames SEC Ramesh Kumar for playing into the hands of opposition TDP.   The ongoing poll process for around 21,800 gram panchayats in...

Delhi violence tarnishes protesting farmers’ image nationwide

Solidarity protest camps in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Chennai and Bangalore have begun disappearing.   The violence that rocked the national capital Delhi on the Republic Day has...

More TRS MLAs demand KTR as CM

Interestingly, these legislators are asking KCR, who is also the party president, to install his son in the top post.   A section of ruling TRS...

How Congress high command has remained indecisive

There is no clarity on a new Telangana PCC chief even after N. Uttam Kumar Reddy quitting. One single case of a Pradesh Congress Committee...

Why KCR has taken a U-turn on farm laws

BJP welcomed the policy shift, claiming that at least now, KCR has realised his mistake of opposing the farm laws.   Telangana Chief Minister and TRS...

Loan apps with Chinese links under scanner

These apps offer instant loans to Indians on attractive terms, without any collateral security or paper work.

Electoral rolls to be used for vaccination

India will perhaps be the first country in the world to take the voters’ list as the basis to identify people for vaccination.   Efforts are...

Foreign envoys laud India’s Covid vaccine making capacities

The large contingent of foreign diplomats who visited Hyderabad’s Genome Valley on Wednesday were quite impressed with the facilities for manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccine...

TRS shocked by BJP’s record surge in GHMC polls

One major consequence of the results is that TRS cannot retain the mayor post, reserved for women this time, without the support of AIMIM,...

BJP turns heat on TRS in GHMC polls

KTR has been harping on PM Modi’s slogan ‘vocal for local’ to seek votes for his ‘Pucca Local Party’. The BJP has turned the heat...

BJP keen on winning GHMC, drafts Bhupender Yadav

BJP wants to expand its wings in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh by the next general elections. Buoyed by the victory in the just concluded...

Dubbaka shocker for KCR, BJP emerges as challenger

The unexpected defeat of the ruling TRS in the hands of the BJP in the Dubbaka Assembly by-election has come as a shocker to...

PM’s ‘Svamitva’ can be model for Telangana’s land survey

The Telangana government can emulate Svamitva’s salient features and make its survey foolproof.   Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a comprehensive land records survey “Svamitva,” an...

Onam in the time of Covid, a lesson for festive season

People of Kerala were said to have discarded safety measures during the festival.   Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to the people on Tuesday to be...

Lessons for Hyderabad from century’s worst floods

Removal of illegal structures and improvement in facilities are needed.   Hyderabad city received very heavy rains and floods in a century (112 years to be...

New water Bill will solve interstate disputes

If made into law, it will ensure greater cohesion among states and help in effective utilisation of water resources.   The Interstate River Water Disputes (Amendment)...

Protests against farm laws more to do with politics

The bumper harvest expected this Kharif season will prove how the new laws would help farmers.   Farmers across the country are likely to benefit from...

High Covid recoveries leading to public complacency

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his video conference with seven most Covid-19 affected states’ chief ministers on Wednesday, stressed on the need to micromanage...

Bullet train boost to three southern metros

The Government of India’s big-ticket infrastructure initiative of launching six more bullet trains (high speed rail services) in the coming years would transform the...

Unlock 4.0 brings forth systemic resilience

The Centre has taken enough care to ensure that metro services don’t spread the virus in any manner.   The Unlock 4.0 guidelines announced by the...

AP moves to fix meters for farm power

Move may be emulated by other states which offer fully or partly subsidised power to the agricultural sector.     Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan...

Kerala model in online classes worth studying

Enough rehearsals were held by the time the online classes began three months ago.   The Union education (erstwhile HRD) ministry’s guidelines this week to states...

NEP is ok for southern states, except for Tamil Nadu

CM Edappadi Palaniswamy isn’t ready to hand over political ammunition to the Opposition ahead of polls.   The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, approved by the...

Defence auxiliary units will flourish in Hyderabad, Bangalore

The two metros can grow into major hubs of modern warfare.   Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s announcement on 9August, banning import of 101 items by his...

States play bigger role in pharma self-sufficiency initiatives

One after the other different departments in the Government of India have been responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Atmanirbhar Bharat call”, intended to...

Time to clean up nursing educational institutions

Nursing schools or training institutes are mostly run by cronies of politicians.   After adopting the long overdue New Education Policy, the Centre should pay its...

How Congress lost PV’s family on his centenary

PV’s family will boycott the year long fete organised by the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee.   The Congress, after losing its two traditionally supporting families—the Scindias...

Voluntary lockdowns, sign of public helplessness

Public is finding it difficult to get support from governments.   Though the Centre is ready to rollout Unlock-3 in a fortnight, several cities and towns...

Online education costly, hits poor students

Online education is bound to widen the digital divide in society.   School students, especially those who study in government institutions, are one of the worst...

Southern cities need Delhi-type Covid focus

A uniform strategy is needed due to lack of coordinated efforts by local govts.   A Delhi-type focus by both the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)...

How the South can welcome back migrants

Efforts should be made to find ways to accommodate returning migrants.   Return of migrant labourers to their workplaces in southern states of India is likely...

KCR rejects Covid testing on dead bodies, moves SC

Telangana Chief Minister decides not to implement High Court directive to test all those who die in hospitals.   Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao...

Former TDP minister held in ESI scam, more arrests to follow

Hyderabad: The Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy-led government in Andhra Pradesh cracked down on opposition TDP leaders in various corruption scams by arresting former labour...

Migrant workers may not return before Dasara

This is as per indications reaching officials of the labour department in Hyderabad.   Hyderabad: Most of the migrant labourers who left for their homes in...

Containment zone can be a house or apartment

Hyderabad: Now the radius of containment zones for Covid-19 patients is fast shrinking in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Once extended to an area of...

Tirumala set to open from 11 June, with riders

Initially, only 7,000 devotees will be allowed per day, at the rate of 500 per hour.   Hyderabad: The world’s richest Hindu temple of Lord Balaji...

Hyderabad to open bars, pubs, amidst scarcity of workers

Hyderabad: All bars and pubs in Hyderabad city are expected to be opened from Monday as the Telangana government is planning to apply the...

Telugu states for maximum easing of restrictions

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have conveyed their mind on this issue when the MHA consulted them. Hyderabad: A majority of cash-strapped states want no further extension...

‘Migrant workers actually got half of their wages’

Rest of their agreed daily wages went into the hands of multiple middlemen. Hyderabad: A majority of the migrant labourers who built roads, flyovers, dams...

Telangana readies choppers, fire tenders to battle locusts

Government machinery is ready to spray chemicals, pesticides from choppers and fire tenders. Hyderabad: Telangana which is in the grip of invisible coronavirus is faced...

Tollywood for phased reopening from Sunday

Telugu film industry provides employment to 14,000 people directly and another 25,000 indirectly. Hyderabad: The Telugu film industry, also called Tollywood, that provides employment to...

Jagan comes up with his own stimulus package

His version will put cash in the hands of different walks of people in the state. Hyderabad: As there is not much of the direct...

Corporate hospitals’ 14-day Covid package costs Rs 10 lakh

This is in sharp contrast to the free-of-cost treatment at government hospitals. Hyderabad: Now that many states have allowed corporate hospitals to treat coronavirus or...

TDP to hold annual Mahanadu through Zoom

Both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, where TDP is present, will be under lockdown restrictions until that time.   Hyderabad: Opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is perhaps...

Third wave of Covid outbreak may peak by July end

This is as per an assessment of experts from the Centre on tour of Telangana, Andhra.   Hyderabad: The current third wave of the Covid-19 outbreak...

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