Stay updated with the latest deccan-chronicle news, articles, and insights from trusted sources. Explore in-depth coverage and expert analysis on deccan-chronicle topics.
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 >
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad police took into preventive custody several BJP leaders including State president N Ramachander Rao for trying to stage a protest in front of the office of Director-General of Police (DGP) in Lakdi-ka-Pul here on Thursday. The BJP leaders tried to gather in front of the DGP's office to protest against the shootout incident that occurred at Pocharam on Wednesday night. A gau rakshak Sonu Singh suffered bullet injuries in the incident. He underwent a surgery at a corporat ...Read More >
Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu reviewed the rain situation with officials concerned from Dubai. He asked the Home Minister V Anitha to be alert and take necessary precautions and advised officials to take steps to prevent people from facing any problems. He suggested that steps should be taken to prevent loss of life and property. Revenue, police, municipal and electricity departments should work in coordination, he said, instructing officials to evacuate peop ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Police have arrested three individuals in connection with the shooting of Govrakshak Bidla Prashanth kumar near Pocharam IT Corridor on Hyderabad's outskirts on Thursday. The accused have been identified as Mohammad Ibrahim Qureshi, Hassanbin Mosin, and Kuruva Srinivas, while another accused, Mohammad Haneef Qureshi, remains absconding, according to Rachakonda police.The incident occurred on Wednesday near Yamnampally when Ibrahim and his associates intercepted Sonu Singh's vehicle. S ...Read More >
New Delhi: Four wanted criminals allegedly involved in multiple cases of murder in Bihar were killed in a shootout with a joint team of Delhi Police and Bihar Police in Rohini in the early hours of Thursday, police said.The accused, identified as Ranjan Pathak (25), Bimlesh Mahto alias Bimlesh Sahni (25), Manish Pathak (33) and Aman Thakur (21), all residents of Bihar's Sitamarhi district, were part of the 'Sigma Gang', they said. The encounter, which took place around 2.20 am on Bahadur Shah M ...Read More >
Mumbai: Senior Congress leader and former Mumbai president Bhai Jagtap on Wednesday said that the Congress will not ally with Raj Thackeray or even Uddhav Thackeray in the coming civic polls in Mumbai. Mr. Jagtap said almost all Congress workers expressed the same view in a meeting with party's Maharashtra in-charge Ramesh Chennithala. Mr. Jagtap said, "This is a battle of grassroots workers. I have said that we should contest alone. I am not the only person with this stance in the party; our P ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Suspense continued within the BRS whether its president and former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao will campaign for his party's candidate, Maganti Sunitha, for the upcoming by-election to the Jubillee Hills Assembly seat. Whether or not he will campaign, if so, how, remained unclear, but according to party sources, Chandrashekar Rao could take part in a roadshow towards the end of the camping period for the November 11 byelection. The BRS chief, who is scheduled to meet with th ...Read More >
Vijayawada: Education, IT and Electronics minister Nara Lokesh, on the fourth day of his tour in Australia, held a series of high-level meetings for arriving at or elevating AP's partnership with Australia in education, trade, aquaculture, and sports infrastructure. During a meeting with Griffith University vice president (Global) Marnie Watson at the Gold Coast campus, Lokesh urged the establishment of a Griffith University India Centre in Andhra Pradesh to coordinate research, student exchang ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: A school bus belonging to Delhi Public School (DPS), Nadergul campus, caught fire near the Jalpally-Laxmiguda road in Mailardevpally on Wednesday afternoon. Fortunately, no casualties were reported. According to Chandrayangutta fire officer S. Srikanth, the control room received a distress call at around 2.59 pm. A fire tender was rushed to the spot, and the blaze was extinguished within 20 minutes. However, by then the bus had been completely gutted. Preliminary inquiries revealed t ...Read More >
New Delhi: New details have emerged about the intensity of Operation Sindoor, as the Central government has published in the Gazette of India the citations of Indian Armed Forces personnel who were awarded gallantry medals on Independence Day for their roles in the four-day conflict. The citation for Group Captain Ranjeet Singh Sidhu, Commanding Officer of the Rafale Squadron, who was awarded the Vir Chakra, stated that his squadron was selected for strike missions over predetermined targets in ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said Hyderabad has long been a hub of science and innovation and was now emerging as a global centre for system design. Speaking at the Bioinspired Frontiers 2025 International Conference on Space Economy, Biomimicry and Extraterrestrial Resources on Wednesday, he invited global research institutions, investors and innovators to collaborate with Telangana, assuring world-class infrastructure and a supportive ecosystem under Chief Minister ...Read More >
Patna: After days of squabbling that left them pitted against one another in five assembly constituencies of poll-bound Bihar, the Congress and the RJD on Wednesday tried to mend fences and put up a cohesive fight against the formidable ruling NDA. Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, apparently under instructions from the party's top leadership, flew down to hold talks with RJD president Lalu Prasad and his son and heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav.Accompanied by AICC Bihar in-charge Krishna Allava ...Read More >
MEDAK: Leaders and activists from the ruling Congress and Opposition BJP are showing keen interest in joining the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) across several districts of Telangana. Ahead of the upcoming local body elections in rural and urban areas, large-scale inductions are being witnessed, particularly in the undivided Medak and Nizamabad districts. Most of these joinings are taking place under the leadership of former minister and BRS MLA T. Harish Rao. With elections due for gram panchaya ...Read More >
NELLORE: AP Municipal Administration minister Ponguru Narayana met on Wednesday the family of Tirumalashetty Lakshminaidu, who had been brutally murdered at Darakanipadu village in Gudluru mandal of Prakasam district on October 2. Narayana assured Lakshminaidu family full support and promised strict action to prevent such incidents in the future. At a meeting held at the Roads and Buildings Guest House in Nellore, the minister handed over financial assistance of ₹5 lakh each to Lakshminaidu's ...Read More >
Warangal: An official from the Road Transport Authority (RTA) in Warangal district was defrauded of ₹10 lakh by an unidentified person who impersonated an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officer and threatened him with arrest on false corruption charges. According to Station House Officer (SHO) Bollam Ramesh, the fraudster, identifying herself as "Nisha" and claiming to be an ACB deputy superintendent of police, called the RTA official and pressured him to transfer money through online payment to ...Read More >
Chennai: In online space, the annual September-October period of the festive season sees a peak in demand. While the seasonality is highest in electronics and mobiles, it is lowest in grocery. As per a study by RedSeer, mobiles and electronics exhibit the highest levels of seasonality, making them the riskiest to manage operationally. Mobiles have the most dramatic swing, with a Seasonality Index Difference of 1.7 between the highest and the lowest month. Electronics follows closely with a dif ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a bid to curb user harm from AI-generated deepfakes and synthetically produced content, the IT Ministry has proposed draft amendments to IT rules that mandate labelling and prominent markers to ensure users can distinguish synthetic and authentic content and mooted greater accountability for major social media platforms. With the increasing availability of generative AI tools and the resulting proliferation of synthetically generated information (deepfakes), the potential for misu ...Read More >
New Delhi: The pipping ceremony of Olympic gold medallist and Lt. Colonel (Honorary) Neeraj Chopra was held on Wednesday in New Delhi, marking another significant milestone in his decorated career. The ceremony was attended by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Upendra Dwivedi. According to The Gazette of India, the appointment took effect on April 16. Neeraj joined the Indian Army as a junior commissioned officer in the rank of Naib Subedar on August 2 ...Read More >
Amaravati/Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu began a three-day tour of UAE on Wednesday to woo investments and invite industrialists to the forthcoming CII Partnership Summit in Vizag on November 14 and 15, an official source said. Chief minister left Amaravati for Hyderabad on Wednesday morning and took off for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from there. "The Chief Minister embarked on a three-day visit to UAE," said a press release.The southern state is inviting indus ...Read More >
Kolkata: Contradictory positions taken by two advisors, holding ministerial positions, in the interim government in Bangladesh about the cancellation of 10 Indo-Bangladesh agreements, triggered confusion in diplomatic circles of both the countries. On Sunday, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, who is adviser on local government, rural development and co-operatives of the Bangladesh interim government, in a post on Facebook provided a list of 10 agreements that he called 'cancelled.' He wrote, "A disc ...Read More >
New Delhi: The continued unhygienic state of washrooms in court complexes across the country constitutes a persistent violation of the fundamental rights and the right to dignity of all users, including judges, advocates, litigants and staff, according to status report filed on behalf of different High Courts before the Supreme Court. The apex court was informed that the poor condition of washrooms, even in High Courts in metropolitan cities, was not an isolated incident but showed a systemic a ...Read More >
Stay updated with the latest None news, articles, and insights from trusted sources. Explore in-depth coverage and expert analysis on None topics.