Hyderabad :  Accusing the congress of becoming curse to the farmers,  Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao today lashed out at the former for blaming the government. Addressing a press conference at TRS Legislature Party office along with Home Minister N Narsimha Reddy and others, Harish took serious exception to the congress …

Nirma : One person was killed and 23 others injured   in a Bus accident near Dhyanapurvillage of Sarangpur mandal in this district today. According to information, one person was killed and 23 passengers injured when the RTC bus in which they were travelling overturned after hitting a car. The bus was proceeding from Hyderabad to Nirmal. Passengers …

Hyderabad : The GHMC has made arrangements for distribution of sarees on the occasion of Batukamma festival in the city. The GHMC would distribute 7,66,983 sarees to woman during Bastukamma festival on September 18, 19 and 20. The sarees would be distributed through ration card shops from 9 am to 5pm.            The beneficiaries must …

Hyderabad, Sept.8 (PMI): U.S. Consul General Katherine Hadda presented the 2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Hero Award to Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat, Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda, at an event held here today.             Telangana Director General of Police for Railways and Road Safety, T. Krishna Prasad, senior police officials, including Principal Secretary …

New Delhi : Nirmala Sitharaman took over charge as Defence Minister, here today. On her arrival at the Ministry of Defence in South Block,  Sitharaman was received by outgoing Defence Minister  Arun Jaitley, Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre, Defence Secretary  Sanjay Mitra, Defence Secretary (Defence Production)  AK Gupta, Chairman …

Hyderabad : Dr V Narasimha Charyulu, Secretary, Telangana Legislature today called on Governor ESL Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan here. The meeting assumes importance as Narsimha Charyulu has succeeded incumbent Raja Sadaram on Aug 31 and took charge as the new secretary of Telangana Legislative Assembly. Dr S Raja Sadaram, former Secretary of Telangana Legislature …

Hyderabad : Federation of Handloom Organizations is conducting a state level meeting ‘against imposition of GST on handloom products’, at Sundarayya Vignana kendram, Bagh Lingampally here, at 10 am on September 9. Federation President Macherla Mohan Rao said in a press note today that leaders of different political parties from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and …

Hyderabad : Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the first phase of the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project here. The Chief Minister addressed a letter in this regard to the Prime Minister on Thursday. Since the PM is participating as chief guest at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the international community to join hands to halt the massacre and mass expulsion of Muslims in Myanmar. In a meeting with the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, held in Tehran on Wednesday, Zarif called for …

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined that the new US administration’s policy to humiliate and intimidate other nations would reach nowhere. Speaking at a meeting with the Japanese prime minister’s special envoy, Masahiko Komura, in Tehran on Wednesday, President Rouhani pointed to recent tensions in East Asia and US …