Hyderabad news live: Chandrababu Naidu stages protest at Tirupati airport

Chittoor and Tirupati urban police wings denied permission to Telugu Desam party chief N Chandrababu Naidu's protest programmes slated to be held at the district headquarters and in Tirupati on Monday citing Covid-19 guidelines, model code of conduct and other reasons. READ MORE

Tension gripped many several parts of Chittoor district on Monday as the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) workers tried to evade the police in their bid to reach out to N Chandrababu Naidu who landed at the Tirupati airport. Many key party leaders have been placed under house arrest. READ MORE

Covid vaccination drive for the general public will have a ‘soft launch’ on Monday with the rollout in select private and government hospitals across the state. The vaccine will be given to the elderly (above 60 years) and people in the 45-59 age-group with comorbidities, both vulnerable categories. Over 50 lakh people in these categories will be covered for vaccination in the state over a periodof four-and-a-half months. READ MORE

The state is ready for Covid vaccine drive for general public in Hyderabad. For this, Hyderabad district administration and district medical and health department have identified a total of 24 hospitals, including 12 government hospitals and 12 private hospitals to kick start drive for Covid-19 vaccination in the city.

Eighteen-yearold Adarsh Narayanapuram has achieved what many budding footballers can only dream of. The teen became the first from Telangana to secure a European player licence in the junior category. Though not there yet, the Hyderabadi has joined the small list of Indian players such as Bhaichung Bhutia and Bala Devi who have represented foreign football clubs. Read more

A medical equipment maintenance fraud, allegedly worth crores, is unfolding in Andhra Pradesh. Documents of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and health department, accessed by TOI, reveal alleged irregularities in biomedical equipment (BME) maintenance service contracts akin to Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) fraud in Telangana where hundreds of crores were siphoned off for purchase of medicines and equipment by inflating prices by Insurance Medical Services (IMS) former director Ch Devika Rani. The IMS chief, who had allowed shell companies to supply medicines at higher prices to ESI hospitals by fabricating records, was arrested subsequently. Read more

Chief minister of Telangana, K Chandrashekhar Rao has congratulated the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the successful launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C51/Amazonia-1 mission.

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for successful launch of PSLV- C51. The chief minister said that with the launch of PSLV- C51, the first dedicated commercial satellite, ISRO has proved to be one of the world's leading space research organisations,a release from Rao's office said.

With the information technology exports from Telangana likely to grow at seven per cent to cross Rs 1.40 lakh crore during 2020-21, the state's IT minister K.T. Rama Rao on Sunday said the growth rate would have been much higher if the Centre had not scrapped the ITIR project. The Minister said he was delighted that projected Telangana IT export numbers show terrific growth, at a much higher rate than national average.

Coming out of the Covid-19 induced crisis strongly, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams on Saturday approved a budget estimate of Rs 2,937 crore for 2021-22.

Coming out of the Covid-19 induced crisis strongly, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams - the richest Hindu temples body in the country - approved the budgetary estimates for the financial year 2021-22 on Friday. Read full story

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi Working President K. T. Rama Rao on Saturday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying to defame the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party at every level. He said that both BJP and Congress have no worth to ask for votes in Telangana.

A Hyderabad-based couple along with family members has adopted the 121-year-old Galapagos Giant Tortoise at the Nehru Zoological Park. According to an official release of zoo, Saroj Devi and her husband Ashish Kumar along with family members visited Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad on Saturday and offered to adopt a "Galapagos Giant Tortoise" which is 121 years old and also known as a senior citizen of the Zoo.

In what could be a record of sorts in the country, a massive 164 candidates are in the fray for the two graduate constituencies of the legislative council of Telangana, going to the polls on March 14. As many as 93 candidates will be trying their luck for the Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahbubnagar seat and 71 contestants will fight it out for the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda seat. These figures are three times more than the number of candidates who had fought the elections in 2015.