Water Board supply schedule goes awry
The Water Board is not adhering to scheduled water supply timings, putting citizens to severe inconvenience. With temperatures rising and most borewells already empty, the erratic water supply is leav
IIT aspirant ends life over poor show
A 20-year-old IIT aspirant committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room at LB Nagar. The deceased L. Sashikanth was depressed as he apparently did not do well in two competitive examinatio
T-men told not to disturb students
The poor performance of students in the Intermediate first year examination in Telangana districts is a cause for concern to educational institutions and parents in the region. The poor results may fu
Techie killed due to ‘family fight’
Nandiraju Sri Sri, 28, software engineer in Deloitte, was waylaid and murdered in Neredmet on Sunday evening. Police suspects a family dispute led to the murder. Nandiraju, a resident of Sainathapuram
Schools clueless on 25% seats for poor
City schools are flooded with Right to Education Act (RTE) queries after the recent Supreme Court judgement mandating all private schools to enforce the RTE Act and reserve 25 per cent quota in admiss
Planet at risk of famine
Can the nuclear race in the Indian subcontinent lead to a major famine in the world, with even big nations like the United States of America and China being hit by an acute shortage of food?
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Metro rail work on fast track
Work on the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) project along the Nagole-Mettuguda stretch has been accelerated to make up for the initial delay of about six months in beginning the work.
The contractor, L&
Thieves breach high-security secretariat
An attempt was made to break into the office of principal secretary (Home), Mr P. Gautham Kumar, in A Block, in the high-security Secretariat on Friday night.
The Saifabad inspector of police, Mr. V.
Montek stirs up a storm in a teacup
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday raked up a a controversy when he announced at Jorhat in Assam that tea would be declared as National Drink by April next year. C
Do not split votes: Goud to BJP, TRS
TNGOs’ leader Swami Goud on Saturday advised the TRS and BJP leadership to sort out their differences and ensure that only one party contests the Parkal byelection on the Telangana plank. “In the inte