Top storyWeldi Hari Prasad, a weaver from the Rajanna Sircilla district headquarters, has woven a special shawl carrying portraits of Dubai royal family members in thread on a traditional loom. The portraits of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan and Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed took about 15 days of work. It will be displayed at the ETCA Bathukamma celebrations in Dubai on the 11th of this month and then presented to the royal family under ETCA representative Pichara Kiran Kumar.
Women, girls and students in Rajanna Sircilla district should not bear harassment silently but complain without fear, District SP Mahesh B. Gite said. Based on complaints received by the She Team in the past two months, 4 FIRs and 5 petty cases were registered against offenders, who were counselled in the presence of their parents. She Team squads keep watch in mufti at identified hotspots, and complaints can be made to 8712656425.
Early Bathukamma celebrations were held at Sri Raja Rajeswara Sanskrit School in Vemulawada. Temple Executive Officer L. Ramadevi attended as chief guest and played Bathukamma with students and teachers. Girl students arranged Bathukammas with flowers and sang traditional songs, while boys performed kolatam and dandiya. Ramadevi said Bathukamma symbolises Telangana culture and reflects people's bond with nature. She later carried the Bathukamma on her head for immersion. Supervisors Venkatalakshmi, Pujitha, the principal and teachers participated.
Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, after visiting the Bhimeshwara Swamy temple at Vemulawada in Rajanna Sircilla district on Tuesday morning, asked whether BJP leaders had ever said 'Om Namah Shivaya'. He said the Chief Minister had described Shiva as the god of the poor, that his party opposed no deity, and that Shiva was the deity of southerners. Government whips Adi Srinivas, CH Vijayaramana Rao and Vemula Veresham accompanied him. Madhu Yashki Goud said BJP leaders practise politics in god's name.
Chief Minister Revanth Reddy will visit Sircilla on Wednesday. At 3 pm he will inaugurate the collectorate building complex in Karimnagar and review work with district officials. At 4 pm he will travel by helicopter to Sircilla and join a rally from Ambedkar Chowrasta to the meeting venue. He will then lay foundation stones for development works worth Rs 345.78 crore and address the gathering. Congress has arranged to mobilise about one lakh people from seven constituencies. The meeting continues till 7.45 pm.
Kolanur residents Dasari Naresh and Gajula Srinivas have written postcards to Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy seeking sanction of a new government high school building. They said the existing structure, built about four decades ago, has been unused for five years after turning dilapidated, leaving more than 90 students studying in tin sheds. They sought demolition of the old building and development of the 800-metre Kolanur–Chinna Bonala road as a tar road. The CM visits Sircilla on the 30th.
The Sircilla town Congress committee celebrated the birthday of Government Whip and Vemulawada MLA Aadi Srinivas. Held under town Congress president Soora Devaraju, the event saw district Congress president Sangeetam Srinivas and other leaders cut a cake. Speakers said Srinivas entered politics as a student, stayed among the people despite losing four assembly contests, and brought hundreds of crores of rupees for the development of the Vemulawada Rajarajeswara Swamy temple.
Police in Telangana's Rajanna Sircilla district arrested a man making country bombs and a gang poaching wild animals. Chandurthi CI Venkateswarlu said a buffalo owned by Dharmaram farmer Mudike Mallesham died after biting a country bomb, and a case was booked on his complaint. Seizures included 7 bombs, gun powder and Rs 2,000 from Pittala Rajalingam, 10 bombs each from Padige Lasmayya and Tummala Kanukaraju, and 40 bombs from Mogili Anjayya. Cases were filed under BNS, Explosives and Wildlife Acts.
BRS working president and MLA KTR will tour Rajanna Sircilla district on Wednesday. At the three-day KCR Kanti Velugu camps held in the Veernapalli and Garjanapalli clusters of Sircilla constituency, 2,042 people were screened. He will hand over eyeglasses to 1,340 people with eye problems at Veernapalli. He will then console the family of former MPTC Nandikonda Srinivas at Rajannapet and, in Sircilla, the family of weaver Vengala Venkatesham, recently killed. District president Thota Agayya inspected meeting arrangements.
Two of five intermediate students who went swimming in the Mid Manair reservoir at Gopalaraopalli in Thangallapalli mandal of Rajanna Sircilla district drowned on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as Haricharan Goud (18) of Shantinagar in Sircilla town and Manikanta (17) of Chirlavancha R&R Colony. According to preliminary information, Manikanta could not swim and clung to Haricharan as he was swept along; both drowned during the rescue attempt. The other three are safe. Police shifted the bodies for postmortem, registered a case and began an investigation.
Mohammad Parvez has been appointed general secretary of the Congress party in Rajanna Sircilla district. District Congress president Sheikh Riaz handed him the appointment letter. Parvez thanked the party leadership for assigning him the post in recognition of his work as a party worker in strengthening the organisation. He said he would work in coordination with leaders and workers, explain the party's ideology and government welfare schemes to people, and strengthen the party at the grassroots. Leaders and workers congratulated him.
