While industrial effluents and improper disposal of municipal waste are known causes of pollution, experts said another major source for groundwater contamination in the state are modern agricultural

A new strain of swine flu virus with the potential to cause another pandemic has emerged, causing concern to health planners. The new strain, a variant of H3N2 virus that circulates in pigs, has acqu

The state government has finally given permission to Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation to collect professional tax within the city limits. This will give a major boost to the revenues of the ci

In what seems to be a blessing in disguise for the information technology industry, attrition rate has drastically fallen. The attrition rate in IT-enabled services and the BPO sector from a high of 6

The fate of around 400 students from the state hangs in balance, as the Herguan University in the US sacked its CEO Jerry Wang on Saturday. Mr Wang has been charged with visa fraud, bringing back memo

The Infosys employee who was found dead on the night of July 31 had sent an email to her husband B. Suresh Reddy minutes before she purportedly jumped off the Infosys building here, indicating that sh

High drama ensued as wives of police constables stormed the main gate of the AP Special Police 8th battalion at Kondapur on Saturday, protesting against the alleged harassment of their husbands by hig

Refusing to be divorced, an NRI doctor staged a protest in front of the locked house of her in-laws here on Saturday, with a resolve that she would locate her husband, who is absconding. Dr Yamini, a

Karnataka MLA and Gali Janardhan Reddy’s brother Gali Somasekhar Reddy appeared before the Anti-Corruption Bureau for the second day on Saturday in connection with the cash-for-bail scam. Mr Somasekh

The petroleum ministry’s stand that Union petroleum minister S. Jaipal Reddy had no role in deciding matters in respect of gas allocation, was echoed by state panchayati raj minister K. Jana Reddy, a