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Telangana highway horror: Stuck to car bonnet, woman’s body dragged for 2 km

A woman was killed on the spot after hit from behind by a speeding car and her body travelled for two kilometers stuck to the vehicle’s bonnet before the driver panicked and fled in Telangana on Sunday.

Demonetisation: Telangana CM backs Modi, urges him to go for ‘total cleanup’

More than five weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 rupee notes that triggered nationwide uproar, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday came out with a statement “wholeheartedly” supporting the decision.

Telangana’s Ibrahimpur becomes first cashless village in south India

Last week, the sleepy village about 125 km from Hyderabad officially became the first hamlet in south India to go cashless. Except for school-going children, about 1,200 villagers belonging 370 families - were given debit cards.

As it happened | Day after Cyclone Vardah, TN and Andhra limp back to normalcy

A day after Cyclone ‘Vardah’ barrelled through parts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, the coastal towns of the states are limping back to normalcy with officials monitoring the rescue and rehabilitation operations closely.

Cyclone Vardah: At least two die of electrocution in Andhra’s Chittoor district

The district administrations of Nellore and Chittoor declared holiday for schools and colleges on Tuesday on account of heavy rains and forecast of further rains later in the day.

Andhra govt under fire for hiring 25 journalists for Naidu’s PR work

The Andhra Pradesh government’s decision to appoint 25 journalists on specifically for publicity work for chief minister N Chandababu Naidu has drawn flak from various quarters.

Highlights: ‘Worst over for Chennai’ as cyclone Vardah moves westwards

Four people were killed in Tamil Nadu on Monday as a tropical storm slammed into India’s southeast coast with monstrous ferocity, uprooting trees and power cables, toppling vehicles and damaging houses besides dumping heavy rain across two states.

Cyclone ‘Vardah’ likely to hit Tamil Nadu, Andhra today; navy on alert

The severe cyclonic storm Vardah is likely to make a landfall between Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore and Tamil Nadu’s Chennai by Monday afternoon and cause heavy rainfall in the region.

After huge new cash seizure, Chennai bizman removed from Tirupati temple trust

The revenue department (endowments) ordered removal of Reddy from the TTD Trust Board, which manages the Lord Venkateshwara Swamy temple on Tirumala, after instructions from Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.

Director who created imaginary city in Baahubali to design Amaravati

National award-winning Telugu director SS Rajamouli, who recreated the imaginary city of Mahishmati in his magnum opus film Baahubali, will help the Andhra Pradesh government design its new capital Amaravati.

Hyderabad: 11 bodies recovered from collapsed building, search ops called off

Authorities said the search operations, lasting 36 hours, were called off after all the missing people were accounted for.

Sculptor makes Jayalalithaa’s wax statue in less than 8 hours

D Rajkumar Vudayar, who runs a fine arts institute in Kothapet village near Amalapuram in East Godavari district, was an ardent follower of Amma.

Cyclone Vardah nears Andhra coast, likely to make landfall on Dec 12

The severe cyclonic storm packing wind speed up to 130 km per hour will also pound Andaman and Nicobar on Friday and Saturday.

Her last rites: Why was Jayalalithaa buried, and not cremated?

The burial, rather than cremation, of J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday alongside the memorial of her mentor and former Tamil Nadu chief minister MG Ramachandran on Marina Beach, generated curiosity.

For Jayalalithaa, no public display of faith, but no shying away either

J Jayalalithaa, born a Brahmin, might not have publicly performed yagnas or homams while leading a Dravidian party in a state where anti-caste Dravidian ideology held sway, but she made no effort to hide her ardent following of Hindu religious rituals.

Landing in Chennai, a city in silent mourning for Jayalalithaa

The state government has declared a holiday on Tuesday for its offices and three days for educational institutions.

Why not national anthem in bars and clubs: Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varma

Telangana villagers rename village after KCR’s daughter Kavitha

The Khanapur gram panchayat passed a resolution a couple of days ago to rename the village after Kalvakuntla Kavitha, the daughter of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, as a “token of their reverence for coming to rescue them after they were displaced by a project on Godavari river.

Soft skills must be integrated into police training, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for a qualitative change in the police force through a collective training effort.

KCR steps into his vaastu-compliant bungalow with bullet-proof toilet

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will step into his dream house –- a new palatial and fully-Vasthu compliant residential bungalow –- at Begumpet at 5.22 am on Thursday.

Hyderabad univ rules out caste angle as student attempts suicide, campus tense

The suicide attempt by Moses Abraham, a research scholar of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), once again heated up the atmosphere on the campus on Friday evening, with the student community alleging discrimination of the marginalised sections by the university administration.

Demonetisation jitters for Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films

Southern film industries, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films, have been hit hard by demonetisation. A number of high-profile films have been put on hold. These include films by Ram Charan Teja, Chiranjeevi and Nandamuri Balakrishna.

Sachin Tendulkar’s pet village in AP transforms into a swank hamlet

Former cricketer and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar was virtually stumped on Wednesday by the transformation of a remote dusty hamlet in Andhra Pradesh, that he adopted two years ago, into a smart, swanky village.

Dwindling revenue forces Telangana to put welfare schemes on the back burner

The Telangana government has slowed down implementation of its social welfare schemes because of dwindling revenue following the Centre’s decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes.

Panicked Telangana woman allegedly kills self over stored cash of Rs 54 lakh

A middle-aged homemaker in Telangana committed suicide on learning that bank notes of Rs 54.40 lakh she had stored in denominations of 1,000 and 500 rupees were “as good as waste paper”.

To study stars, pollution, Hyderabad’s TIFR readies balloon flights

Equipped with telescopes, balloons will be launched between November 16 and April 10

Andhra CM hails currency withdrawal decision, says PM Modi ‘heeded my tip’

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has claimed his share of “credit” for the union government’s scrapping of 1,000 and 500 rupees bank notes, pointing out that he had formally made the suggestion to the Prime Minister last month.

Leprosy patient in Telangana pushes dead wife’s body in cart for 24 hrs

A 53-year-old beggar suffering from leprosy was forced to push a cart carrying his dead wife’s body for more than 80 kilometres and 24 hours in Telangana because he didn’t have the money a local hospital demanded for an ambulance.

NSA Doval holds talks with Chinese counterpart as Beijing delivers warning on LAC

National security adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval had a high-level meeting with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in Hyderabad on Friday to thrash out issues concerning bilateral ties.

AP, Telangana beat bifurcation blues to rank No. 1 in ease of doing business

Chandrababu Naidu and K Chadrashekar Rao have been touring various countries showcasing their advantages besides formulating new industrial policies decked with incentives.