Hyderabad news live: Water users can link Aadhaar data with CAN

Domestic consumers can visit nearby MeeSeva centres in their areas and link their Aadhaar card data with their consumer account number (CAN) to avail the 20 kl free water supply scheme. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has made this facility available to its consumers by liasioning with MeeSeva centres in the city and GHMC peripheral areas.

Fourteen people were killed and four others sustained injuries in a road accident reported along the National Highway 44 near Madar Puram village in Veldurthi Mandal of Kurnool district on Sunday early morning. Read full story

A spike in colon cancer cases in Hyderabad over the past couple of years has left oncologists worried. Not only are they seeing more cases, they are also seeing increased incidence among the young. Read full story

A 45-year-old tribal farmer committed suicide by consuming pesticide in Vikarabad on Saturday. Police suspect that the deceased, Rathod Gopal, took the extreme step due to financial stress as his farm got flooded last year and left him with losses. Read full story

A 19-year-old student’s alleged claim of kidnap and gang-rape at Ghatkesar turned out to be a concocted story to stay away from her family. Read full story

If Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala in Andhra Pradesh is one of the most sacred pilgrimage centres in the country and the world, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao wants to make Yadadri one of the top spiritual sites of India. Touted as “Telangana’s Tirumala,” Yadadri temple, formerly Yadagirigutta, is getting a new and bigger complex with all amenities for pilgrims. Read full story

Telangana withdrew its petition after the Supreme Court brushed aside its claim over a five-acre prime land in Sangareddy district projecting it as a ‘Billa Dakhala’ (an unsurveyed land purchased by a petitioner and described as ‘Billa Dakhala’ property in revenue records) land. Read full story