Top storyUnion Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the silver jubilee celebrations of Prathima Medical College in Karimnagar on the 4th of this month, marking 25 years since the college began. He will lay the foundation stone for the Prathima Deemed University building, unveil a pylon, open a photo exhibition and address a students' meeting. Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar inspected arrangements. Shah reaches Begumpet at 9 pm on the 3rd and Karimnagar at 2 pm on the 4th via Thoopran in Medak district.
District Collector Hanumantha Rao has issued show cause notices to 82 staff of the Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district government hospital. Action was taken against 19 employees absent from duty without permission and 63 who did not follow timings. He made a surprise inspection of the hospital on Thursday, examining it for three hours. He expressed displeasure at the contractor over incomplete works and at sanitation staff over poor sanitation, spoke to four emergency ward patients and said quality must not be compromised.
District Election Officer and GHMC Commissioner Ronald Ross said enforcement teams in Hyderabad have so far seized Rs 21,85,37,377 in cash, other goods worth Rs 16,70,35,260 and 26,576.325 litres of illicit liquor during the Lok Sabha election period. Cases were booked against 276 people for poll code violations and 274 were arrested, while FIRs were registered against 376 people. Officials resolved 582 complaints on cash and goods and 38 on MCC violations.
A paddy procurement centre has been set up at the municipal office in Narayanpet town for the convenience of farmers. The centre is run by the Town Women's Federation under MEPMA. Municipal Vice Chairman Manjula attended as chief guest and inaugurated it on Thursday. She said paddy should be procured without inconvenience to farmers and that basic amenities be arranged. Market secretary Lakshman, supervisor Bharathi, district MEPMA DMC Shivakumar and MLA's PA Madhava Reddy participated.
A man was killed by his wife in Gosangi Colony of Ward 20 under Kamareddy municipality, Telangana. According to police, Kodandam Lakshmi attacked her husband Shivaji with a sickle kept at home. He died on the spot after severe injuries to the neck. The couple reportedly had family problems for some time and frequent quarrels. Police shifted the body for post-mortem, took Lakshmi into custody, registered a case and are probing other angles.
Soil tests were carried out on Thursday at Old Ashok Bazaar in Lakshminagar, Godavarikhani's main trade centre, under the Ramagundam Municipal Corporation. Proposals for an integrated commercial complex worth about Rs 25 crore under the Urban Challenge Fund were recently approved at a council meeting. Executive engineer Shanti Swaroop said soil samples were drilled, collected and sent to a Hyderabad laboratory. Mobile and cloth shop traders, whose shops were demolished a year ago, expressed concern.
Rain, cloudy weather and high humidity could expose kharif chilli crops to sap-sucking pests and fungal diseases, Warangal district horticulture officer Srinivasa Rao said. To check root and stem rot, copper oxychloride at 3 grams per litre of water should be drenched at the plant base. He advised spraying imidacloprid 0.5 ml per litre for whitefly, prifonil 2 ml for thrips and dicofol 5 ml for mites. Officials also suggested 10-15 sticky traps per acre and measured fertiliser use.
International Day of Older Persons was observed at the Jangaon integrated collectorate under the District Rural Development Agency. Collector Sandeep Kumar Jha said priority must go to the health, financial security and dignity of the elderly, and that Section 23 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 allows cancellation of property transfers. He said toll-free number 14567 operates from 8 am to 8 pm. Pranam centres serve 50-60 elderly persons daily.
State Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy and Sattupalli MLA Dr Matta Ragamayi Dayanand toured Tallada mandal in Khammam district on Thursday and took part in several programmes. In Tallada town they attended the tenth-day rites of the late Guvvala Rami Reddy, placed garlands on his portrait and consoled the family, assuring support. They later visited the family of Dundeti Kesava Reddy, who died recently, in Gollagudem. Former TGIDC chairman Muvva Vijayababu and mandal Congress president Godugunuri Lakshma Reddy participated.
Congress leader Vijaya Reddy, daughter of PJR, has moved the Telangana High Court seeking a direction to the Election Commission not to issue the notification for the Khairatabad bypoll. The court rejected her lunch motion petition seeking an urgent hearing. Vijaya Reddy, who lost Khairatabad to BRS candidate Danam Nagender in the 2024 assembly election, filed an election petition in 2024 alleging his affidavit did not fully disclose Form-26 details. It remains pending.
The birthday of BRS former MLA Ala Venkateshwar Reddy was celebrated in Peddarajamur village of Devarakadra mandal. Participants set off fireworks, arranged DJ boxes and danced to KCR songs, and cut a cake in the presence of village elders, youths and children. They recalled the development works he carried out for Devarakadra constituency over the past ten years and hoped he would win again as MLA in the coming elections and become a minister in a BRS government. PACS chairman Bhuneti Ravinder Reddy, former sarpanches and party workers attended.
Six students fell ill due to suspected food poisoning at Uppalchiluka UPS in Penuballi mandal of Khammam district on Wednesday. The school served upma with groundnut chutney in the morning and rice with sambar at 12 noon. Soon after, Sravanthika, Manoj Kumar, Naveen, Shiva Kesava, Lakshminarayana and Udayasri suffered vomiting and stomach pain. Teachers shifted them by auto to Penuballi area hospital. Lanka Sagar PHC medical officer Kiran said their condition is stable. MEO Mohan Rao has begun an inquiry.
Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju said a special action plan is under way to develop Hyderabad as a national and international centre for gaming, VFX and animation. He reviewed arrangements for the Telangana Global Summit, to be held in December at Bharat Future City, at the Secretariat on Thursday. The summit will feature Comic Con, DreamHack, India Game Utsav and a B2B expo. The city already has 50 large and 150 mid-sized firms; students from 70 colleges and 50,000 visitors are expected.
An awareness programme marking Civil Rights Day was held on Wednesday in Settipalli village of Amangal mandal, Rangareddy district. The tahsildar, deputy tahsildar, village sarpanch, ward members, police officers, village elders, women and residents took part. Officials explained civil rights, rights granted by the Constitution, equality and the eradication of untouchability. They also outlined key provisions of the SC, ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, victims' rights and available legal remedies, urging citizens to respect others' rights.
A house was gutted after a short circuit triggered a fire at Mulugupalli village in Mahamuttaram mandal of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district on Thursday. Mandapu Lachimallu and his sons Mohan and Prabhakar lived in three rooms of the same house and had locked up and gone for farm work when the fire broke out. Gas cylinders in the rooms exploded, destroying the house. Family members said cash and gold and silver ornaments were burnt. Nobody was inside. Firefighters, alerted by locals, doused the blaze.
Teams from STF Hyderabad, AC Enforcement Mahabubnagar, DTF Nagarkurnool and Kalwakurthy police conducted joint raids on Wednesday at Pochammagadda Thanda and Siloni Bavi Thanda in Veldanda mandal of Nagarkurnool district. Officials destroyed 1,450 litres of illicitly prepared FJ wash and seized 10 litres of ID liquor and 480 kg of jaggery. One person was arrested and six cases registered, officials said, adding that checks and raids against illicit liquor will continue.
Hyderabad has 70 private vehicles for every 100 people, Lok Satta chief and former IAS officer Jayaprakash Narayan said. In an interview to a YouTube channel he said Singapore has 11, Shanghai 17, and London and New York 24-26 per 100 people. He attributed the trend to the absence of quality public transport and first and last mile connectivity, which forms 20% of distance but 40% of time and 60% of cost. Expanding Metro and RTC services is the solution, he said.
The Centre has allotted 2,200 electric buses to Hyderabad under the PM e-Drive scheme. The RTC has reported to the government that the first batch of 137 buses will be available in the CURE area in November, with the final batch of 385 buses arriving in January 2028. Tender-1 covered 2,000 buses and tender-2 covered 200. Per-kilometre hire ranges from Rs 54.91 to Rs 66.60. EVEY Trans received 60 AC and 1,025 non-AC low-floor buses.
Chief Minister Revanth Reddy inaugurates the 1,082-bed Dr Marri Chenna Reddy Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences at Sanathnagar in Hyderabad at 4:30 pm on August 17, The Hindu reported. Health Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha will attend. Officials said services begin with about 582 beds, with the rest ready by October. Built on 22.6 acres at a cost of Rs 1,070-1,126 crore, it has 37 departments, 15 operation theatres and 2,360 sanctioned posts.
Telangana Jagruthi president Kavitha said the condition of cotton farmers is distressing, speaking to the media in Adilabad on Tuesday. She said Cyclone Montha damaged the crop and alleged traders were cheating farmers citing moisture content. She demanded the government buy cotton with more than 20% moisture at the full support price. Questioning what MLAs and MPs were doing while CCI rules troubled farmers, she said Chanaka-Korata barrage works stopped after Congress took office.
