Hyderabad news live: Telangana adds 165 Covid-19 cases, 1 death takes toll to 1,623

Residents of Serene County, Gachibowli, protested against Transmission Corporation of Telangana officials and rued that officials have started digging the land inside their housing society and blasted rocks without furnishing court orders.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Thursday sent a chadar to be presented at the Ajmer Dargah during Urs celebrations. Urs is the death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at his shrine and is celebrated for his union with God.

Less than 24 hours after the murder of high court advocate couple — Gattu Vaman Rao and his wife PV Nagamani — Ramagundam police have arrested three persons, including prime accused Kunta Srinivas, TRS Manthani mandal president.

Manthani observed a bandh on Thursday following a call given by the Congress and BJP. Shops, eateries and other establishments remained closed. Policemen were deployed at several places.

Despite Covid-19 induced lockdown and lockdown guidelines were eased months later, Telangana continued to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). The state came eighth in the FDI charts by getting $1,516 million FDI between October 2019 and November 2020.

Around 26 patients from the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Hostel near Journalist Colony, Gowlidoddi were rushed to a private hospital with symptoms of fever and loose motions.

Greater Hyderabad has been recognised as 2020 ‘Tree City’ of the world by the Arbor Day Foundation and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It is the only city from India to have been recognised as a tree city. The city was chosen for this recognition for its commitment towards growing and maintaining its urban forests.

Residents of Serene County, Gachibowli, protested against Transmission Corporation of Telangana officials and rued that officials have started digging the land inside their housing society and blasted rocks without furnishing court orders.

Since the launch of the APC in July 2020, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), with the help of residents who tipped officials, was able to save 23,340 square yards of government property from land grabbers. The total value of the properties that were eyed by the land sharks and later protected by the APC, runs into crores of rupees. Most of the land saved till date is lung spaces marked as parks and open spaces in layouts.

In view of the rise in fuel prices, scores of cab drivers took over the protest site at Indira Park on Thursday urging cab aggregators to hike fare, reinstatement of off-boarded drivers, minimum business guarantee among other demands.

In yet another initiative to overcome glitches in maintenance of agriculture land records, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the government will soon take up digital survey of all farm lands in the state and provide coordinates. The CM directed the officials to make arrangements for floating tenders in this regard.

Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar on Wednesday participated in a mega plantation drive organised by the city police which aims to plant 10,000 saplings. Kumar said that every member of the police department, from security guards to senior officers, would participate in the plantation drive. (ANI)

Nearly three hours of recee was done by the accused before executing the sensational murder of two advocates -- Gattu Vamana Rao and his wife Nagamani -- in Peddapalli district on Wednesday. READ MORE

Taking a judicial note of the brutal murders of a lawyer couple at Peddapalli area, the Telangana high court on Thursday issued notices to the state government, the home secretary, the DGP and the police commissioner of Ramagundam. Read full story

A total of 5,17,883 people have so far enrolled to vote in the elections to Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad graduates’ constituencies, scheduled to be held on March 14. They will be able to exercise their franchise across 799 polling stations. “The number of voters will increase; the final number will be announced on February 26. Of the 799 polling stations, 183 are proposed auxiliary stations,” said a GHMC official.

The election code for the two graduate MLC constituencies has affected lakhs of people waiting for welfare schemes and sops from the state government. Schemes such as unemployment allowance, issuance of new ration cards and extension of Aasara pensions for the new category of people aged between 57 and 65 years among other benefits cannot be rolled out as the poll code is in force for the MLC elections. Read full story

More than 100 passengers had a narrow escape when an RTC bus came in contact with the power line at Sanga Reddy on Wednesday. Three passengers suffered burn injuries but were out of danger.

At a time when fuel sales in India rose for the first time in September 2020 and started rallying since the lockdown in March last, Telangana continues to be behind other southern states in sales of petroleum products. The state also suffered a 30% drop in the sales in the financial year 2020-21, resulting in Rs 1,000 crore dip in income. Read full story