Tag: Telangana

Hyderabad/Bhubaneswar: TS EAMCET 2018 Hall tickets has been released on its official website. TS EAMCET exam will begin on May 2 and end on May 7. The exam is conducted for admission to undergraduate engineering, pharmacy, and agriculture courses offered at institutes and universities in the state of Telangana. The hall tickets have been made […]

Hyderabad/Bhubaneswar: Top Maoist leader Jampanna alias Jinugu Narasimha Reddy heading the Odisha State Committee’s military commission surrendered before Telangana police along with his wife on Friday, media reports said. However, official announcement of the development is awaited. The top extremist who carried a reward of Rs 24 lakh on his head was leading KKBN (Kalahandi-Kandhamal-Boudh-Nayagarh) […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the Government of Telangana extended its support to Odisha on Polavaram row, Leader of Opposition, Narasingh Mishra today lambasted BJD-led State government for being over-excited about it. Mishra alleged that the BJD is only politicising the Polavaram matter. “There are many ways to do politics and BJD is always looking for […]

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah is scheduled to begin a 15-day ‘Vistaar Yatra’ (party expansion tour) covering five states including Odisha, Telangana, Gujarat and Lakshadweep from today from Naxalbari in West Bengal. Informing newsmen about Shah’s plans at the saffron party headquarters in New Delhi, Union Minister Smriti Irani said 3.68 lakh BJP workers […]

Taking up the plight of Odia migrant labourers again, senior BJD MP from Kendrapara Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda has written a letter to Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao seeking his intervention in the matter, said sources here today

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday announced Rs 25 lakh financial assistance each to kin of the 40 CRPF troopers killed in the February 14 Pulwama terror attack. He made the announcement while moving a resolution in the state Assembly to condemn the terror attack claimed by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror […]

Visakhapatnam: Telangana Chief Minister and TRS President K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Sunday embarked on a mission to cobble up a Federal Front, halting at this port city in Andhra Pradesh to worship at a temple and seek blessings of a seer. KCR, as Rao is popularly known, along with his family members left Hyderabad in […]

Hyderabad: K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Thursday took oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana for a second term in a row. Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader at a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan. Mohammed Mahmood Ali, a member of Telangana Legislative Council, also […]

Hyderabad: With the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) headed for a landslide victory in the state’s Assembly elections, the Congress on Tuesday voiced the suspicion that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were manipulated. State Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy demanded that 100 per cent counting of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) be taken up. […]

New Delhi: The Congress took early significant leads in BJP-ruled Rajasthan and was locked in a close fight in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh as officials counted the millions of votes polled in Assembly elections in five states. Election Commission officials also said on the basis of preliminary trends that the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi […]

Hyderabad: Polling began in Telangana at 7 a.m. on Friday amid tight security to elect a new Assembly. The polling will be held from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 106 constituencies, while in 13 Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected constituencies, the polling will conclude at 4 p.m. Around 2.8 crore voters will decide the […]

Hyderabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said if the BJP comes to power in Telangana, it will rename Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar. Addressing a series of election rallies in support of BJP candidates in the state on the last day of the campaign, he said only BJP could turn Hyderabad into Bhagyanagar. “Hyderabad […]

New Delhi: Ahead of his visit to Telangana, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said on Monday that the state was born out of “idealism”, but in the last four years the “arrogance and corruption” of the BJP and ruling TRS has made the people “cynical”. “Telangana was born of idealism and great dreams. But, four years […]

Hyderabad: “India is my father’s country. Nobody can force me flee,” was how MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday reacted to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s comment that if BJP comes to power in the Telangana, Owaisi will have to flee. “It is my religious belief that Prophet Adam when he descended on the […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Friday appointed former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin as the working president of the party’s Telangana unit. The move is being perceived at placating the former parliamentarian who is said to have been unhappy the way the party was treating him. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2009 […]