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Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has passed an interim order allowing private engineering colleges to collect tuition fees directly from students who are eligible under the fee reimbursement scheme if the government does not release the payments from the academic year 2026-27. Justice Juvvadi Sridevi made it clear that this decision is only a temporary arrangement. The judge also directed that colleges must return the fees to students if the petitions filed by the institutions are dismissed during the final decision. The order came after hearing arguments in a group of 14 petitions filed by different private colleges. The fee reimbursement scheme was introduced in 2008 in the undivided Andhra Pradesh. During the hearing, engineering colleges said they are facing serious financial problems due to non-payment of large amounts under the Telangana government scheme. They stated that it has become difficult to manage daily operations, including paying salaries to teaching and non-teaching staff. On the other hand, the government informed the court that due to budget sessions, it could not provide clear instructions regarding the release of funds. The court noted that despite several chances, no counter affidavits were filed by the government within the given time. The judge also observed that there is no clear timeline for releasing the pending payments, which is affecting the functioning of the colleges. The case has been posted for further hearing on April 30.
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao (KTR) arrived back in Hyderabad on Thursday after completing his official tour of the United Kingdom. The visit, aimed at promoting Telangana's investment potential, included high-level meetings with business leaders, investors, and representatives of the Indian diaspora. During his UK tour, KTR showcased Telangana's achievements in sectors like IT, pharma, life sciences, and infrastructure development. He also addressed various business forums, emphasizing Hyderabad's emergence as a global investment hub. "Telangana co ...Read More >
Himachal Pradesh faced nature's fury. Bridges collapsed in Shimla, Lahaul, and Spiti. Cloudbursts and flash floods caused widespread damage. Over 300 roads closed, disrupting travel. A police post swept away, shops damaged. No casualties reported yet. Orange alert issued for more heavy rain. The state has suffered significant financial losses this monsoon. Many people have died in rain-related incidents. Several bridges were washed away in Shimla and Lahaul and Spiti districts, while over 300 roads, including two national highways, have been closed across Himachal Pradesh following fresh inci ...Read More >
Hyderabad, June 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Telangana's former Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T. Prabhakar Rao, a key accused in the phone tapping case, returned from the United States on Sunday. He is likely to appear before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Monday as per the undertaking given to the Supreme Court. The retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who has been in the United States for 14 months, returned to India as directed recently by the apex court. He recently gave an undertaking to the Supreme Court that he will return to India soon after receiving emergency trav ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Telangana's former Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T Prabhakar Rao, a key accused in the phone tapping case, returned from the United States on Sunday, June 8. He is likely to appear before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Monday as per the undertaking given to the Supreme Court. The retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who has been in the United States for 14 months, returned to India as directed recently by the apex court. He recently gave an undertaking to the Supreme Court that he will return to India soon after receiving emergency travel documents and ...Read More >
HYDERABAD, Apr 5: State governments across the political spectrum recognise that strengthening judicial infrastructure is not optional but essential, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said on Sunday here. Addressing the gathering after laying the foundation stone for Telangana High Court Zone II, which includes residential buildings for judges and the chief justice, Justice Surya Kant said that when the judiciary and executive align in purpose, the Constitution truly comes alive. "The momentum across the country gives me great confidence. In the past few months alone, I have had the privileg ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana government's Special Leave Petition (SLP) challenging the Telangana High Court's interim stay on 42 per cent reservations for Backward Classes (BCs) in local body elections will come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Thursday. The state government moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday against the High Court's September 9 order suspending GO 9, which enhanced the BC quota in local bodies to 42 per cent. The SLP, filed by advocate Devina Sehgal on behalf of the state government, said the decision reflected "the will of the people" and was backed by scientific data. T ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Sunday said that in a democracy, the three branches-legislature, executive, and judiciary-operate with autonomy, interdependence, and mutual respect. Speaking at an event where Chief Justice of India Surya Kant laid the foundation stone for Telangana High Court Zone II (residential buildings for judges and the Chief Justice), Reddy said it is the duty of the executive to provide the best infrastructure to the judiciary so that it can deliver justice swiftly. "We believe all pillars must work with mutual respect and avoid confrontations. ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Sunday said that state governments across the political spectrum recognise that strengthening judicial infrastructure was not optional but essential. The CJI was addressing the gathering after laying the foundation stone for Telangana High Court Zone II, comprising residential buildings for judges and the chief justice. "When the judiciary and executive align in purpose, the Constitution truly comes alive," he said. He said that the construction of the new High Court complex in Telangana was truly magnificent terming it a pivotal project for th ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Apr 7 (PTI) The Telangana government's Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University here received a bomb threat on Tuesday, which was later found to be a hoax. The university administration received the threat by email, and the police were informed. The email claimed that bombs were planted in the university, police said. Upon receiving information, thorough checks were conducted, and the threat was declared to be a hoax, a police official told PTI. Further investigation was underway. The CBI court, the Telangana High Court and the IMD office in the city were among several institut ...Read More >
Hyderabad/New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) A day after the Assam police searched his Delhi residence, Congress leader Pawan Khera on Wednesday moved the Telangana High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case filed in Guwahati in connection with his allegations against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife. The chairman of AICC's Media and Publicity Department, who showed his residential address in Hyderabad, requested the court to release him on bail in the event of his arrest. Khera's wife hails from Telangana and he has a residence in Hyderabad. The state is ruled by the Congress. The p ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday underlined the need to deal strictly and without mercy with the culprits involved in sexual assaults on children via social media. He affirmed that the state government is fully prepared to take all necessary actions in this regard. The Chief Minister highlighted the need to combat emerging threats such as child pornography and online exploitation and stressed the importance of cross-sector collaboration to ensure holistic rehabilitation and justice delivery. He was addressing the state-level conference ...Read More >
The Telangana government on Friday formally issued orders providing 42% reservation for Backward Classes (BCs) in rural and urban local bodies across the state, marking a significant move towards enhancing political representation for the community. The decision follows recommendations by a commission led by retired IAS officer Busani Venkateshwara Rao, which conducted a detailed Socio-Economic, Educational, Employment, Political, and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey. According to the government, the enhan ...Read More >
Khera approached the high court seeking anticipatory bail before single judge justice K Sujana, arguing that no arrest was warranted in what was, "at the highest", a case of alleged defamation, and accusing Sarma of using the state police to harass and intimidate him. Senior counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Khera, told the court that the Assam CM was acting with political vendetta and, in sending his state police after Khera, was behaving like a "constitutional cowboy" who could "put ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Within hours of the State Election Commission (SEC) announcing the panchayat poll schedule, BC welfare minister Ponnam Prabhakar and animal husbandry minister Vakiti Srihari urged all political parties to file affidavits in the high court affirming their support for the 42 per cent reservation Bills passed in the assembly and council.At a media conference in Gandhi Bhavan, joined by BC association leaders, the ministers also appealed to petitioners to withdraw the case filed against th ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Apr 5 (PTI) Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Sunday said that in a democracy, the three branches -- legislature, executive, and judiciary -- operate with autonomy, interdependence, and mutual respect. Speaking at an event where Chief Justice of India Surya Kant laid the foundation stone for Telangana High Court Zone II (residential buildings for judges and the Chief Justice), Reddy said it is the duty of the executive to provide the best infrastructure to the judiciary so that it can deliver justice swiftly. "We believe all pillars must work with mutual respect and avoi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday has dismissed the Telangana government's plea challenging the Telangana High Court's interim order that stayed the State government's decision to increase Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation in local body elections in the State to 42 per cent which took the overall reservations in the States' local bodies to 67 per cent. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, however, clarified that their decision to dismiss Telangana's plea will not affect the High Court from deciding the case on merits. The Telangana govern ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: The Telangana High Court has permitted the Indian Navy to proceed with its Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) radar project in Damagundam, located in Vikarabad district, while retaining oversight of environmental compliance. A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin clarified that there would be no restriction on execution of the project. However, the PIL will remain pending for six months to review the progress of compensatory afforestation undertaken by the Forest department. The matter is scheduled for further hearing on October 5. The PIL, filed in 2020 ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 18 (PTI) A three-storey chawl collapsed in the western suburb of Bandra here in the early hours of Friday, with at least 10 people feared trapped in the debris, civic officials said. As many as seven people have been rescued from the debris so far and admitted to the civic-run Bhabha Hospital, they said. According to preliminary information, chawl number 37 in the Bharat Nagar area of Bandra East collapsed around 5.56 am. Eight fire engines are at the spot along with teams from the Mumbai police and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's local ward machinery, an official from ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Apr 5 (PTI) State governments across the political spectrum recognise that strengthening judicial infrastructure is not optional but essential, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said on Sunday here. Addressing the gathering after laying the foundation stone for Telangana High Court Zone II, which includes residential buildings for judges and the chief justice, Surya Kant said that when the judiciary and executive align in purpose, the Constitution truly comes alive. "The momentum across the country gives me great confidence. In the past few months alone, I have had the privilege o ...Read More >
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant emphasized the essential nature of judicial infrastructure. He laid the foundation stone for Telangana High Court Zone II. This project includes residential buildings for judges and the Chief Justice. The new complex aims to meet needs for the next century. Construction is expected to be completed within two years. Hyderabad, State governments across the political spectrum recognise that strengthening judicial infrastructure is not optional but essential, Chief ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Motihari in Bihar Tomorrow on July 18 where he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth Rs 7,200 crore. In a post on X, PM Modi said, 'Will be in Motihari, Bihar, tomorrow, 18th July. Development works worth Rs. 7200 crore will be dedicated to the nation or their foundation stones would be laid. These works cover Software Technology Parks, four new Amrit Bharat trains, road projects and more.' https://x.com/narendramodi/status/1945871093668978943 According to a statement from ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: Hours after the Telangana State Election Commission issued a notification for conducting the elections to the local bodies in the state on Thursday, the Telangana High Court ordered an interim stay on the Panchayat elections. Allowing the batch of petitions filed challenging the 42% reservations to the backward classes in the elections and after hearing at length the petitioners and the state counsels, a division bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin directed the state to file a counter affidavit on the petitions in four weeks and granted two more weeks ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has dismissed the Telangana government's plea challenging a high court order that stayed a government order granting 42% reservation to Backward Classes in local bodies. The high court had previously issued an interim stay, citing petitions that argued the increased quota breaches the 50% reservation ceiling. The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the Telangana government's plea challenging a high court order which stayed a government order providing 42 per cent reservation to ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will be addressing a meeting of the party's grassroots workers in Hyderabad on Friday and will also review the performance of the Revanth Reddy-led Telangana government during the last 18 months. Kharge, who landed in the state on Thursday, will be addressing 15,000 grassroots workers at the LB Stadium as part of the "Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan" movement. He will also have meetings with the party's state leadership at Gandhi Bhavan, the state Congress headquarters. The meetings of the party's Telangana unit and ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) In a setback to the Telangana government, the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed its petition challenging a high court order which stayed a government order providing 42 per cent reservation to Backward Classes in local bodies. "You continue with your elections with the same reservation which was existing. Dismissed," a bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said. The Congress government in Telangana had issued the government order (GO) on September 26 to provide 42 per cent reservation to Backward Classes in local bodies. The state government had challenge ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has sought responses from the Madhya Pradesh government and High Court registry regarding the refusal to raise judicial officers' retirement age from 60 to 61. The Madhya Pradesh Judges Association challenged the High Court's administrative decision, alleging it violated previous Supreme Court directives. The apex court had previously indicated no legal impediment to this enhancement. The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Madhya Pradesh government and the high c ...Read More >
Bhongir MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy came down heavily on BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao and senior leader Harish Rao for their remarks on the High Court verdict regarding Group-1 examinations. In a statement here, he said the only intention of the BRS was to stall the Group-I at any cost, as they could not conduct it in their 10-year rule. "You couldn't even conduct DSC, Group-1, Group-2 or Group-4 exams. Was it not during your time that the Group-I papers ended up at photocopying centres ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Congress on Monday urged all political parties to submit affidavits in the Telangana High Court supporting the state government's decision to provide 42 per cent reservation to the Backward Classes communities in local bodies, saying it was time for them to prove their sincerity on social justice. Addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan, Ministers Ponnam Prabhakar and Vakiti Srihari, along with other Congress BC community leaders, said the government had taken every step to implement the enhanced quota and now expected all parties to help overcome legal hurdles to GO 9, ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Backward Classes (BC) Welfare minister Ponnam Prabhakar has appealed to all political parties to have their counsels file their affidavits before the Telangana High Court bench headed by the chief justice , expressing their support to the state government's decision to go ahead with conduct the Telangana local body elections by implementing 42 percent reservations for BCs. Addressing the media at Gandhi Bhavan on Monday, September 29, he said that the arguments in the High Court on the case will be heard on October 8. He urged the petitioners who filed cases in the High Court agai ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Apr 9 (PTI) The Telangana High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing to April 10 on the anticipatory bail petition filed by Congress leader Pawan Khera in a case filed against him by the Assam government over his allegations against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife. Congress leader and senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, who virtually argued for Khera, alleged political vendetta in the case by the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led government. Assam Advocate General Devajit Saikia, who argued against Khera's petition, stressed that there is no political vendetta and that the petitio ...Read More >