The usual bustle on roads in the city was missing on Thursday as people preferred to stay indoors, with mercury shooting up. With summer advancing relentlessly, temperature crossed 40 degree Celsius. Met authorities warned that the temperature would touch 42 degrees Celsius in the coming days, indicating a torrid summer ahead. Now, it is just [...]
Aligarh: A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Nagla Kalar area in Aligarh on Thursday, sparking violent protests by locals and prompting police to use force in which at least seven persons were injured.
Minister for Revenue N. Raghuveera Reddy on Thursday said that the government has handed over 3,782 acres of reserve forest in the district to the Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation (APMDC) eventually enabling it to establish an iron ore beneficiation plant in cooperation with the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL), providing employment to a [...]
హైదరాబాద్: సార్వత్రిక ఎన్నికలకు ముందు వైయస్సార్ కాంగ్రెసు పార్టీ అధ్యక్షుడు వైయస్ జగన్ ఉప ఎన్నికలను ఎదుర్కోవడానికి ఆరాటపడుతున్నారు. ఇందుకు అనుగుణంగా తన వర్గానికి చెందిన కాంగ్రెసు, తెలుగుదేశం పార్టీల శానససభ్యుల రాజీనామాలను సాధ్యమైనంత త్వరగా ఆమోదింపజేసుకోవడమో, వారిపై వేటు పడేలా చూసుకోవడమో చేయాలనే ఉద్దేశంతో ఉన్నారు. అందుకు అనుగుణంగానే పార్టీ శానససభ్యులు వ్యవహరిస్తున్నారు. ప్రభుత్వం మాత్రం ఉప ఎన్నికలకు సిద్ధంగా లేనట్లు కనిపిస్తోంది. పార్టీల విప్లు ధిక్కరించిన తమ పార్టీల శాసనసభ్యులపై తెలుగుదేశం, కాంగ్రెసు ఫిర్యాదు [...]
A team of doctors at Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad, gave a new lease of life to a premature six-and-a-half-month-old baby. At the time of birth the baby was 26 weeks old and weighed just 550 grams with bleak survival chances as it was diagnosed with respiratory problems. Gynaecologist V. Padmini and paediatrician and neonatologist T.P. Karthik [...]
For their first feature film, producer Prince Thampi and director Unni Vijayan wanted a hard-hitting premise. Thampi suggested adapting Anita Nair’s novel Mistress into a Malayalam film and the producer-director duo met the author. In course of the conversation, Anita Nair suggested they read her new work, Lessons in Forgetting. “We read the story and [...]
New Delhi: Government has “navigated a middle path” on the Land Acquisition Bill to ensure fair compensation to the land losers and industry should not have any cause for complaint, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said in New Delhi on Thursday.