Hyderabad : Alarmed over the child marriages with old Arab Shaiks in the Old city, the city police plunged into action and nabbed five Omani and three Qatar Shaiks along with three qazis, four lodge owners and five brokers on Wednesday. The accused foreign nationals were identified as Mayahi Habib Ali Issa (principal …

Hyderabad : Sixteen flights, including five international flights, bound to Mumbai were diverted to the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad following the closure of the primary runaway at the Mumbai International Airport on Tuesday night. The runway at the Mumbai airport was closed after a domestic flight overshot the runaway and landed in mud. The airlines made alternative arrangements and provided accommodation to …

Hyderabad: Leader of Opposition in the Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Tuesday expressed his grief over the sudden demise of Karnataka Minister Qamarul Islam. In a condolence message, Shabbir Ali said it was a great loss to Karnataka, especially for the people of Kalburgi to where he belonged to. He said Qamarul …

Hyderabad : A record number of 41,111 tender applications were received by the Excise Department for 2216 liquor shops in Telangana State. According to Excise Commissioner Chandravadan one Tuesday alone as many as 23,750 applications ere received. The tenders for the shops would be finalized through lottery system by the Collectors on September 23 for which all arrangements …

Hyderabad : The CCS sleuths arrest the son of city corporator for allegedly threatening and harassing several girls on social media. Several girls were stated to have lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police against Abhishek Goud, son of TRS Corporator of Malkajgiri N. Jadishwar Goud, and two of his friends …

Hyderabad: Two junior doctors were allegedly attacked and injured by relatives of a patient who died minutes after being brought to Gandhi Hospital in the wee hours of Wednesday triggering off a flash strike by the junior doctors in protest. According to the striking doctors one 70-year old Mohd. Muneer was brought to the Emergency Ward …

Hyderabad: Two Telugu students belonging to Telangana State, studying medicine in Ukarine, met with watery grave while playing beach volleyball on Tuesday. According to information reaching here, the deceased were identified as Shivakanth Reddy and Ashok Murthy, both residents of BN Reddy Nagar of Hayathnagar. Both were in the final year of medicine and …

Hyderabad: Textiles Minister KT Rama Rao today directed that the Bathukamma sarees distribution should be completed in two days without any interruptions. The minister held a review meeting on the floral festival and distribution of the sarees among the women. The meeting assumes importance as there were some incidents of burning the sarees …

Hyderabad : Chitra Ramachandran Special Chief Secretary for Housing today stated that GST impact is less on double bedroom scheme which was launched under VAT regime in the state and contractors should not worry as the government will release funds on time. She was addressing an orientation program at FTAPSI here …

Hyderabad : Telangana State BJP president K Laxman today demanded that the State government order a judicial probe into the distribution of low-quality of saris to women and also tender an apology. Speaking to mediapersons at the party office here, Laxman alleged that Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao had insulted the …