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Hyderabad: BRS senior leader G Jagadish Reddy today, Sunday, said that party MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha has been speaking the words of those who want to destroy the BRS. Reacting to Kavitha's comments, he claimed that she was repeating whatever Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy had said and what an editor of a Telugu newspaper had written. "There were no new issues in Kavitha's latest comments. She has been talking like the people who are enemies of KCR and who have been character assassinating KCR f ...Read More >
Principal Secretary, Irrigation and Command Area Development, Rahul Bojja, submitting the report on Kaleshwaram project to Chief Minister Revanth Reddy in Hyderabad on Friday. The PC Ghose Commission report on Kaleshwaram project was submitted to Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Friday and it is likely to come up in the next Cabinet meeting. Principal Secretary, Irrigation and Command Area Development, Rahul Bojja, submitted the report to the Chief Minister in the presence of Deput ...Read More >
MUMBAI: After the transfer of Mahadevi, an elephant belonging to a Jain shrine in Kolhapur, to Vantara, an animal rescue and rehabilitation initiative by the Reliance Foundation in Jamnagar, those who were unwilling to let go staged a march on Sunday. Thousands of locals and leaders from the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Kolhapur marched for 45 km from the shrine to the collector's office, demanding that Mahadevi be brought back, following which CM Devendra Fadnavis said he would hold a meeting on ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The state cabinet, which will meet here on Monday, will deliberate on the Justice PC Ghose Commission's report on alleged corruption and irregularities in the construction of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation (KLIS) project. This was confirmed by Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday. He clarified that a final decision will be taken after the issue is discussed threadbare by the cabinet. The report focuses on cost escalation and alleged mismanagement during the BRS government's ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Kaleshwaram project was characterised by "rampant and brazen procedural and financial irregularities", the Justice P.C. Ghose commission of inquiry is learnt to have concluded in its report. The commission is learnt to have indicated that such unabashed level of laws being ignored, or rules violated, were likely a result of "sole decision taking" by then-Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, starting with him picking locations for the Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages. The ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The crucial meeting of the cabinet, led by chief minister A Revanth Reddy, will on Monday discuss the report submitted by the PC Ghose Commission on alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme.Additionally, the report of the high-level three-member committee, comprising senior IAS officers of irrigation and general administration, and the secretary of the law department, would be placed before the cabinet. The state govt has constituted the committee to study the ...Read More >
Peddapalli, Aug 3 (UNI) Telangana Irrigation, Food & Civil Supplies Minister Capt N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Sunday declared that the state would oppose Andhra Pradesh's Banakacharla project "at every level," terming it a violation of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act and the 1980 Godavari River Water Agreement. Speaking at a series of programmes in Peddapalli district, where he inaugurated the Ramagundam Lift Irrigation Scheme in Anthargone mandal, Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the Central Wate ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The conspicuous silence of the BRS over the Justice P.C. Ghose commission of inquiry allegedly indicting former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and former irrigation minister T. Harish Rao in the Kaleshwaram project damage has sparked widespread speculation in political circles. The party chief has reportedly passed a gag order on the matter. The commission, which submitted its report to the government on July 31, is reported to have pinpointed the role of Chandrashekar Rao and H ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Deputy chief minister Bhatti Vikramarka on Saturday said the Congress govt will not allow the AP govt to proceed with its Godavari-Banakacherla project until Telangana completes all its pending irrigation projects in the basin area and secures its rightful share of river water.He also assured the people that the Congress govt would fight at all levels to reclaim the seven mandals of the combined Khammam district which were merged with Andhra Pradesh on the pretext of the Polavaram pro ...Read More >
Khammam: Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka made it clear that not a single drop of irrigation water that rightfully belongs to Telangana will be given up, and that state interests are more important than politics. He stated that the blame for the Banakacharla issue squarely lies with the BRS, and that the AP government's conspiracies and deceptions will be firmly countered. Bhatti Vikramarka on Sunday laid the foundation stone for the construction of 10,000 metric tonnes capacity warehou ...Read More >
Hyderabad: After a 15-month probe into the sinking of some piers of Medigadda barrage and damages to Annaram and Sundilla barrages, which are part of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme (KLIS), the Justice PC Ghose one-man commission submitted its report to Telangana govt on Thursday. Justice (Retd) Ghose handed over the nearly 650-page report, which runs into three volumes, to principal secretary, irrigation, Rahul Bojja at the secretariat on the last date of the commission's extended term.T ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Former irrigation minister T Harish Rao said the BRS would approach the Supreme Court to stall the Banakacherla-Godavari project, proposed by the Andhra Pradesh govt. He questioned why the Congress and BJP MPs from Telangana have not been raising the issue in the ongoing Parliament session.Strongly reacting to Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh's statement that they would get the required permissions for the Banakacherla project, Harish Rao said, "If they (AP) know how to get perm ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Former irrigation minister T Harish Rao said the BRS would approach the Supreme Court to stall the Banakacherla-Godavari project, proposed by the Andhra Pradesh govt. He questioned why the Congress and BJP MPs from Telangana have not been raising the issue in the ongoing Parliament session.Strongly reacting to Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh's statement that they would get the required permissions for the Banakacherla project, Harish Rao said, "If they (AP) know how to get perm ...Read More >
Mumbai: Bombay High Court has now got its fifth bench, located in Kolhapur. The HC bench at Kolhapur will start functioning from Aug 18, as stated in a notification issued on Friday."I, Alok Aradhe, Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, with the approval of the Governor of Maharashtra, appoint Kolhapur as a place at which Judges and Division Courts of the High Court may also sit, with effect from August 18, 2025," the notification dated Aug 1 said. The other benches of the HC ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: The Cabinet will discuss the Justice P.C. Ghose commission of inquiry report at its meeting on August 4. The single item on the agenda would be the report on the various aspects related to the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme barrages. To assist the Cabinet to study the 650-page three-volume report, the government has set up a committee of three senior IAS officers - general administration department secretary Navin Mittal, principal secretary irrigation Rahul Bojja, and law secret ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Aug 1 (PTI)) Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday directed senior officials to study the judicial commission's report on alleged irregularities in Kaleshwaram project during the previous BRS regime and submit its summary to the state cabinet on August 4. State Chief Secretary K Ramakrishna Rao and other officials presented the commission's report to the Chief Minister in the presence of Deputy CM Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and other ministers. Reddy instructed that a pane ...Read More >
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy appealed to his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N. Chandrababu Naidu to cancel the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Project and not obstruct the Palamuru-Rangareddy project. "If appeals don't work, we, as the children of Palamuru, know how to fight for our rights," he warned, adding that at any cost, Palamuru, which was neglected in the past, would be developed. In an emotional tone, he said that 'Palamuru's son' is now the Chief Minister and would take care of its develo ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday announced that local body elections will be held soon in the state and urged Congress workers to be prepared. Launching a sharp attack on the BRS by likening its activists to "ganja plants", he said, "Not even one ganja plant should be allowed to grow. If the Congress cadre decides, they can send BRS into political oblivion, especially in the (erstwhile) Nalgonda district." Speaking at a public meeting in Thungathurthi, Suryapet district, afte ...Read More >
HYDERABAD/SIRCILLA : BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Thursday threatened to take legal action against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for levelling "baseless and slanderous" allegations against him. Rama Rao was responding to the comments made by Revanth during a chit-chat with the media persons in Delhi, linking him to drug cases in the state. "Revanth Reddy, I will drag you to the courts and make you pay for every slanderous statement of yours," he posted on X platform. "The filth Revan ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) A court here on Wednesday sent former Engineer-in-Chief of Telangana's Irrigation Department C. Muralidhar Rao to judicial custody for 14 days in a disproportionate assets case. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), which arrested Rao on Tuesday, produced him before the ACB court. After hearing arguments from both sides, the magistrate sent him to judicial custody. He was subsequently shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail. The anti-graft agency has registered a ...Read More >
Telangana irrigation scam: Former Engineer-in-Chief sent to 14-day judicial custody in DA case Hyderabad: A court here on Wednesday sent former Engineer-in-Chief of Telangana's Irrigation Department C. Muralidhar Rao to judicial custody for 14 days in a disproportionate assets case. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), which arrested Rao on Tuesday, produced him before the ACB court. After hearing arguments from both sides, the magistrate sent him to judicial custody. He was subsequently shifted ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Retired Engineer-in-Chief of the Telangana Irrigation Department, Muralidhar Rao, has been remanded to 14 days of judicial custody by the ACB (Anti-Corruption Bureau) court following his recent arrest. Police transported him to Chanchalguda Jail after the court's order. The arrest comes in the wake of a major anti-corruption investigation related to the alleged accumulation of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. On Tuesday morning, July 15, ACB officials conducte ...Read More >
A case has been registered against Muralidhar Rao under the Prevention of Corruption Act. ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * Former Engineer-in-Chief Muralidhar Rao arrested in disproportionate assets case by Telangana ACB * ACB conducted raids at ten locations linked to Mr Rao in Hyderabad, Karimnagar, and Zaheerabad * Searches included Mr Rao's residence and his son's office over suspected illegal money diversion Did our AI summary help? Let us know. As part of ...Read More >
Hyderabad: In a major development in the alleged corruption in the Kaleshwaram irrigation project, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Telangana, on Tuesday arrested Chetti Muralidhar Rao, former Engineer-in-Chief of the Irrigation department, in a disproportionate assets (DA) case. Rao played a key role in the construction of the multi-crore Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) during the previous BRS government. The ACB conducted searches in the houses of Muralidhar and his close family m ...Read More >
Agartala (Tripura) [India], July 16 (ANI): In a significant move to enhance the income of pineapple cultivators in Tripura, Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister Ratan Lal Nath announced that the state government plans to establish a new fruit processing centre at Nalkata under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. Addressing the Pineapple Festival at Geetanjali Auditorium in Kumarghat, Minister Nath emphasised the government's commitment to promoting pineapple cultivation and exports ...Read More >
HYDERABAD Former minister for irrigation and senior leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) T. Harish Rao has alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy continues to politicise the issue of Kaleshwaram barrages, though about 80 tmc ft of water is flowing past the Medigadda Barrage every day. The Congress government is continuously indulging in spreading misinformation on Kaleshwaram barrages, and repeatedly is stating that the project has collapsed. He sought to know from the government h ...Read More >
Hyderabad: BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao launched a scathing attack on the Congress government in the state, holding it responsible for the severe water crisis affecting the state's farming community for the deliberate negligence in releasing of water through the canals of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project, which he termed a lifeline for agriculture in the state. In a statement, Rama Rao said that the frustration was building up among the farming community with prevailing drought condit ...Read More >
Suryapet (Telangana), July 14 (UNI) Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy today declared that the ration card is not just a welfare document, but a symbol of the poor's self-respect, identity, and their primary shield against hunger. Speaking at a massive public meeting in Tirumalagiri, Thungathurthy constituency of Suryapet district, the Chief Minister launched the distribution of new ration cards and launched a sharp attack on the opposition, particularly the previous BRS government. CM R ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA T Harish Rao on Friday, July 11, asked Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy to call a special session of the Assembly for discussion on the water sharing dispute with Andhra Pradesh. "The BRS is ready for such a discussion. The only condition that we want is that microphones should not be switched off when we are speaking, and the House should not be abruptly adjourned," Rao said in a statement. The former Telangana minister was responding to the ...Read More >
GURGAON: The investigation into the murder of a 25-year-old former international tennis player, allegedly by her father, has revealed a sudden deterioration in their relationship. The apparent reason was a disagreement over the academy she ran near their house, but the roots clearly run deeper. The father, who claims to have spent Rs 2 crore on his daughter's tennis career, told interrogators he was troubled by questions about her "character" that some of his associates had raised.Deepak Yadav, ...Read More >
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