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Hyderabad: BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao on Saturday declared that the "victory march and renewed fight of the BRS against the Congress government's failures and betrayals" will begin from the Jubilee Hills constituency. Rama Rao, addressing a meeting of party leaders and workers from the constituency, going for the byelection on November 11, said, "We may have been deceived once, but let not the people of Jubilee Hills be fooled. The Congress made tall promises, misled people of the stat ...Read More >
Vijayawada: In the wake of the recent Kurnool bus accident that claimed 19 lives, the Andhra Pradesh Transport Department has intensified its state-wide enforcement drive to ensure safety compliance among private travel buses operating with All India Permits. Over the last two days, officials have registered 289 violation cases, seized 18 buses, and collected Rs 7.08 lakh in compounding fees. They are inspecting the buses to find out whether they are having valid documents and their validity a ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Telangana Waqf Board, in collaboration with the Association of Telangana Sajjada Nasheen Mutawallis and Khidmat Guzaran of Waqf, conducted a training session on Saturday at Dargah Hazrath Shah Khamoosh, Nampally. The session aimed to raise awareness on the importance of properly registering details of Waqf institutions on the UMEED portal under the guidance of Waqf Board chairman Azmattullah Hussaini, CEO Mohammed Asadullah and the association chairman Moulana Syed Ali Akbar Niza ...Read More >
BENGALURU: The proposed road tunneling project in Bengaluru city by the ruling Congress government has been questioned by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament Tejasvi Surya citing threat to Lalbagh Rock, said to be over 3,000 million years old rock recognized as a National Geo-Heritage Site by Geological Survey of India. The MP representing Bengaluru South seat requested Union Minister of Mines G. Kishan Reddy to make a geological impact assessment of the proposed tunnel road via L ...Read More >
Bengaluru: "Under the circumstances, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will definitely complete his term (remaining two-and-half years)," son of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Congress MLC Dr Yathindra Siddaramaiah reiterated in a chat with reporters in Mysuru on Saturday and again made it clear "No discussion in the party on reported change of guard happening in November." However, the buzz in the political circles is that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah would make way for his Deputy D.K. Shivakumar to ...Read More >
Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) is gearing up to operate more buses based on the demand, as people are preferring to travel by its services for safety in the aftermath of a tragic mishap involving a private travel bus at Kurnool, claiming the death of 19 persons. The state road transport corporation has a fleet of 11,000 buses, and nearly 1,000 will be put on standby to respond to public demand. Almost 200 buses will be in the high-end segment to offer g ...Read More >
New Delhi: Sensing unrest within the Bihar Congress over the role of AICC in-charge Krishna Allavaru, the party has appointed veteran general secretary Avinash Pande to coordinate and oversee the poll process in the state. Pande will act as a liaison between the Congress and its alliance partners, and also address the grievances of state leaders who have expressed dissatisfaction with ticket distribution. The Congress leadership aims to contain discontent among cadres with polling just ten days ...Read More >
Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh): The driver of the ill-fated Bengaluru-bound bus which caught fire and killed 20 people on Friday here, had escaped the inferno by jumping out through the passenger door and failed to gauge the situation, a police official said on Saturday. Currently, both the driver, Miriyala Lakshmaiah (42) and the additional driver are in police custody. A case was filed regarding the incident on Friday.As many as 19 passengers travelling in the private bus and a motor bike rider wer ...Read More >
Kurnool: The DNA profiling of victims of Andhra Pradesh bus fire accident will take 48 hours and is expected to be completed by October 27, said an official on Saturday. As many as 19 passengers travelling in the private bus and a motor bike rider were charred to death in the wee hours of Friday after it collided with a two-wheeler at Chinnatekuru village of Kurnool district. There were 44 passengers in the bus and several managed to escape the fire.Kurnool district collector A Siri said sample ...Read More >
Vijayawada: Education and IT minister Nara Lokesh on Friday projected Andhra Pradesh as India's next global innovation hub, citing its transformative initiatives in education, industry and sports on the sixth day of his Australia tour. He held a series of meetings in Melbourne, including the Education Round Table, Austrade Executives' Round Table, CII Partnership Summit Roadshow and an interaction with Cricket Victoria officials on Friday. Lokesh outlined AP's integrated roadmap towards a $2.4 ...Read More >
Mumbai: Maharashtra revenue minister and senior BJP leader Chandrashekhar Bawankule sparked a row by warning his party workers that their mobile phones and WhatsApp groups are being monitored ahead of the upcoming local body elections. Reacting strongly to his remarks, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut demanded Bawankule's arrest and alleged that the phones of several Opposition leaders were also being tapped in this manner. Speaking at a Diwali gathering in Bhandara, he urged party members to ...Read More >
Hyderabad: HYDRAA on Friday said it had carried out encroachment removal operations on Friday in Kondapur's Raghavendra Colony and in Pocharam's Pratapa Singaram. At Kondapur, HYDRAA removed encroachments from a Rs 30-crore worth site extending to about 2,000 sq. yds, meant for a park and a community hall. Some encroachers using by-survey numbers, generated 10 plots and attempted to encroach on the land, HYDRAA said Officials found that the plot had been encroached, and on each "plot" a shed w ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Bengaluru Torpedoes defeated the Ahmedabad Defenders 10-15, 15-11, 15-13, 15-13 in the second semi-final of the RR Kabel Prime Volleyball League powered by Scapia at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad on Friday. Sandeep was named the Player of the Match. The Torpedoes will play in the final against the Mumbai Meteors on Sunday, October 26th, 2025. Bengaluru started strong with Jalen Penrose making an immediate impact. Sethu tested the opposition from the service line. Nandhago ...Read More >
Nalgonda: Transport minister Ponnam Prabhakar said Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka would meet to draft joint safety measures for inter-state buses after Friday's Kurnool tragedy. "Strict enforcement of speed limits and vehicle fitness has been ordered. An inquiry has begun," he said. The Gadwal collector and transport officials were sent to assist the families of the deceased, he said. The minister warned transport operators to follow safety norms. "Those carrying passengers, especiall ...Read More >
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh government has imposed a complete ban on manufacture, sale and use of carbide guns, a makeshift explosive device, after more than 300 people, mostly aged seven to 14 years, suffered eye injuries during the Diwali celebrations in the state. The Madhya Pradesh government has launched a statewide crackdown on the sale of the carbide gun as part of enforcement of a ban on the device, sources said. Carbide guns or 'agri-cannons' are used by farmers to scare away monkeys and b ...Read More >
New Delhi: Two suspected ISIS operatives have been arrested from Delhi and Madhya Pradesh with police seizing explosive-making material including plastic bombs, Molotov cocktail, timer devices and an ISIS flag from a house in the national capital, officials said on Friday. The accused, Mohammad Adnan Khan alias Abu Muharib (19) from Delhi and Adnan Khan alias Abu Mohammad (20) a resident of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, were allegedly planning to carry out a terror strike in a high-footfall area of ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Kurnool fire station leading fireman M Venkataramudu was the first responder to the bus accident spot in the district early Wednesday. Braving traffic chaos at the spot after the incident, the six-member fire-fighters team led by Venkataramudu reached the spot in the opposite direction and carried out a fire-fighting operation. It was the second fire call that the fire station received since midnight. The fire-fighters from the station attended a call around 1.30 am in town where a ...Read More >
Agartala: Ten people, including three government officers, were injured as the shutdown called by a newly-floated outfit turned violent in Tripura's Dhalai district on Thursday evening, prompting the government to impose prohibitory orders, officials said. The 24-hour bandh was called by the 'Tripura Civil Society', demanding the implementation of the Tiprasa Accord, detection of illegal immigrants, and setting up of detention camps in each district. Violence broke out in Santinagar Market in ...Read More >
Hyderabad: BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao on Thursday alleged that under Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy's rule, Telangana had been turned into a hub of gun culture and mafia-style politics." He accused the Congress government of presiding over large-scale corruption, administrative collapse, and lawlessness and said: "The stench of corruption has spread throughout Telangana." Rama Rao said Revanth Reddy had lost all control over his administration and ministers. "Even when his own minist ...Read More >
Vijayawada: Twenty Point Programme implementation committee chairman Lanka Dinakar expressed strong confidence here on Thursday regarding Andhra Pradesh's investment climate, emphasising that investments come only when favourable conditions exist. He noted that from 2019 to 2024, investor confidence in the state waned, with many existing investors leaving and no new investments materialising during the previous government. Dinakar attributed the current revival in investments to the "double eng ...Read More >
Nellore: In a fiery post on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, Sarvepalli TD MLA Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy launched a blistering attack on former chief minister and YSRC chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, accusing him of hypocrisy, corruption, and political deceit. Somireddy remarked that those "who commit sins shouldn't preach morality," responding sharply to the former chief minister's recent press meet. He accused Jagan Mohan Reddy of attempting to distance himself from the fake liquor scam whi ...Read More >
Vijayawada: Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand directed the state power utilities to ensure 24x7 uninterrupted and reliable electricity supply while maintaining strict financial prudence in procurement. Chairing a review meeting with senior officials of APGenco, APTransco, Discoms, and NREDCAP on Thursday, he reiterated the need for dynamic and cost-effective procurement strategies through continuous monitoring of market prices and renewable energy trends. The Chief Secretary noted that power avail ...Read More >
Vijayawada: Revenue minister Anagani Satya Prasad on Thursday hit out at YSRC chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, accusing him of misleading people with baseless allegations against the state government. Addressing reporters at the Telugu Desam Central Office, Satya Prasad said Jagan Mohan Reddy's two-hour-long press conference lacked evidence and substance. "Jagan Mohan Reddy seems afflicted with a curse that prevents him from telling the truth," he quipped, remarking that "even his family wouldn't ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A violent crime trail that stretched from Bihar's Sitamarhi to the national capital ended early on Thursday morning in Delhi's biggest encounter since 2019, when a joint operation by the Delhi and Bihar Police killed four wanted gangsters. The slain men, part of Bihar's Sigma & Company extortion gang, were allegedly planning violent strikes ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. The encounter, conducted jointly by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police and the Bihar Police, took p ...Read More >
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The police higher-ups in Palakkad district have reportedly issued a show cause notice to Alathur Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) R Manoj Kumar over a controversial WhatsApp status criticising President Draupadi Murmu's visit to Sabarimala temple on Wednesday. The Palakkad SP has reportedly sought a detailed explanation from the DySP on the issue. DySP Manoj Kumar had posted a WhatsApp status in the late hours of Wednesday, alleging that President Murmu's Sabarimala pi ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: In a major boost to Odisha's industrial growth, Vedanta Group chairman Anil Agarwal on Thursday met Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi at Lok Seva Bhawan and announced plans for large-scale investments in the state, including a Rs 2,000 crore ferro-alloy plant and two new aluminium parks. According to official sources, Vedanta will invest around Rs 1 lakh crore in Odisha over the coming years, creating over one lakh direct and indirect employment opportunities. The state gove ...Read More >
Chennai: India's exports of processed potato products have surged multi-fold in the past three years with the rising demand from other Asian markets. Dehydrated potato granules and pellets, potato flour, starch, chips, and ready-to-eat potatoes have witnessed strong growth, finds GTRI. India's exports of dehydrated potato granules and pellets have jumped from $11.4 million in FY2022 to $63.3 million in FY2025 -- a surge of more than 450 per cent. Exports of other value-added potato items have ...Read More >
Srinagar: As Jammu and Kashmir gears up for its Rajya Sabha elections on Friday -- the first since the 2019 bifurcation of the erstwhile state into Union Territories -- the political landscape has been marked by calculated alliances, lingering rifts, and high-stakes negotiations. These long-overdue biennial polls, announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in September, aim to fill four vacant seats in the Upper House that have remained unoccupied since February 2021 following the reti ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Indian refiners are poised to sharply curtail imports of Russian oil to comply with new U.S. sanctions on two top Russian producers, industry sources said on Thursday, potentially removing a major hurdle to a trade deal with the United States. The change comes as India faces punishing 50% tariffs on its exports to the U.S. - with half of those duties in retaliation for Russian oil purchases - and negotiates a potential trade deal that could bring those tariffs in line with Asian peer ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to hand over the investigation into the alleged Police Sub-Inspector (SI) recruitment scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The decision was taken by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Wednesday evening. The recruitment drive, conducted by the Odisha Police Recruitment Board (OPRB) for 933 Sub-Inspector posts, had drawn more than 1.53 lakh applicants. The examinations, originally scheduled for October 5, 2025, were postponed followin ...Read More >
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