Telangana
Capital: Hyderabad
Breaking in Telangana
Bomb threat emails hit Mumbai and Pune civic offices, and the searches find nothing
An email naming Mumbai's mayor office, a bank, a court, Amitabh Bachchan's Jalsa bungalow, Mahalaxmi Racecourse and the airport set off searches on Thursday morning. Pune Municipal Corporation received its own threat soon after. Nothing suspicious was found.
Arrogance of power: Rohit Pawar takes on Fadnavis as the NCP merger formula takes shape
Rohit Pawar accused Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of "arrogance" and of running a politics of blackmail over the NCP merger question. In the party, the formula under discussion gives Sharad Pawar the president post and Sunetra Pawar the working president post.
No eye on Gokul: Fadnavis says the amendment only unties a legal knot
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis defended amending the cooperative societies law, saying the government needed to end a statutory deadlock over the Gokul dairy chairmanship. Congress leader Satej Patil is going ahead with a November 9 protest, calling the move a trampling of the farmers' mandate.
Cancer bills fall from Monday: 137 drugs cut, some by 96%, ₹3,502 crore saved a year
Revised prices for 137 anti-cancer drugs take effect on Monday after the NPPA capped trade margins at 30% of the maximum retail price. Seventy-six companies have cut prices on 1,225 formulations, with 600 brands down more than half and the steepest cut at 96.45%. Estimated annual savings: ₹3,502.31 crore.
Ten thousand flagged land deals later, Telangana CID picks up four over the Dharani portal
Telangana's CID has searched the homes and offices of suspects in the alleged Dharani land records scandal and arrested at least four people, including a Bhu Bharati portal operator. The case turns on three acres in Kollur village, mutated in another man's name.
BREAKINGRs 81.5 crore in two days, and Netflix already has the papers: Suriya's Scene is on a run
Scene, the Tamil crime thriller with Suriya, Nazriya Nazim and Naslen, has grossed Rs 81.5 crore worldwide in two days. Reports say Netflix has bought the digital rights for Rs 88 crore, though no streaming date has been announced.
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Telangana plans to move Classes 11 and 12 into schools from next year
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has asked officials to end the separate two-year Intermediate system and bring Classes 11 and 12 into schools from the next academic year, citing high dropout rates after Class 10.
10+2 school system from next year, but teachers oppose merging Intermediate
Telangana will move to a 10+2 structure from the next academic year, covering nursery to Intermediate. Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy ordered officials on Wednesday to prepare. The Intermediate teachers' JAC has opposed folding Intermediate into school education.
Ministers vs MLAs, and now the AICC: Congress walks into its third year with an open family quarrel
Factional disputes in Telangana's ruling Congress have moved beyond individual constituencies and reached the state leadership and the AICC. A flashpoint in Delhi saw two senior leaders trade abuse, and both stayed away from the peace meeting the state chief convened.
Ten thousand flagged land deals later, Telangana CID picks up four over the Dharani portal
Telangana's CID has searched the homes and offices of suspects in the alleged Dharani land records scandal and arrested at least four people, including a Bhu Bharati portal operator. The case turns on three acres in Kollur village, mutated in another man's name.
A beard doesn't make a tiger: Revanth Reddy's Diwali jibe at KTR
Telangana chief minister A. Revanth Reddy used Diwali morning to mock BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao over his beard. A fox in tiger stripes is still a fox, he said. The remark drew a direct line between facial hair and political leadership.
Deepfake videos and a ₹5 crore demand: six arrested for extorting a Telangana MLC
Narsingi police have arrested six people for allegedly threatening Telangana Legislative Council member Mirza Rahmath Baig with morphed photographs and deepfake videos. The gang demanded ₹5 crore and collected ₹4.7 lakh.
Fake Rs 500 notes worth Rs 6.78 crore, a printing unit and a police costume
Four men were arrested near Ramoji Film City on the outskirts of Hyderabad with counterfeit Rs 500 notes of face value Rs 6.78 crore, police said. A printing unit was found in a rented house at Kuntloor. The gang allegedly posed as police officers, with fake IDs, walkie-talkies and a dummy pistol, to intimidate buyers and take their real money.
Shah calls INDIA rally a 'save infiltrators' march, dares Congress to debate SIR in Parliament
Addressing a BJP padayatra in Hyderabad in support of the SIR, Home Minister Amit Shah called the INDIA bloc's Delhi rally a 'save infiltrators' rally. He rejected the charge that 13 crore voters had been removed, saying six crore had changed address and three crore were dead. He challenged the Congress to a Parliament debate on SIR and EVMs.
Four satellites short and running on one clock: how NVS-03 pulled NavIC back
ISRO's GSLV-F18 placed the 2,250-kg NVS-03 navigation satellite in orbit on Friday night, restoring capacity to NavIC, which had been hobbled since a defunct atomic clock on IRNSS-1F failed in March. ISRO chairman V. Narayanan said about 80 per cent of launch-related spending goes to Indian private and public companies.
Four arrests, a year later: how the Khammam CPI(M) leader murder probe turned
Khammam police have arrested four men for the October 2025 murder of CPI(M) veteran and former sarpanch Samineni Rama Rao, 72, after polygraph tests on 24 people and forensic work by a team from Gujarat's NFSU. Police cite financial and political motives.
Voter list deadline moves to Nov 25 in Delhi, Nov 13 in Maharashtra after a nudge from the Supreme Court
A day after the Supreme Court asked the Election Commission to consider giving more time, the EC extended the claims-and-objections window in six states and reopened it in five. Final rolls are now due November 30 in five states and December 22 in Delhi.
Six space startups get ₹1 crore each to put AI on board Indian spacecraft
IN-SPACe has picked six private space companies for seed grants of up to ₹1 crore each under its AI INSPIRED programme, out of a ₹6 crore outlay. Agnikul Cosmos, Digantara, EON Space Labs, OrbitAid Aerospace, Omnipresent Robot Technologies and TakeMeToSpace are the grantees.
Seven named, murder case filed: CBI takes over a 25-year-old's custodial death
The CBI's Hyderabad branch has registered a murder and criminal conspiracy case against an inspector, four constables, a home guard and a private individual over the death of Gade Sai Krishna at Krishnalanka police station in Vijayawada.
Kavitha shuts the door on BRS, launches her own party and says Telangana is ready for a woman CM
K Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, has ruled out any return to the BRS, launched a new outfit called Telangana Rashtra Sena, and said the state is ready for a woman chief minister. She accused the Revanth Reddy government of turning Telangana into an 'ATM' for the Congress.
Revanth Reddy: Rahul Gandhi should be PM if backward classes are to get justice
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy called for Rahul Gandhi to become prime minister. He said Rahul's leadership was needed to secure justice for backward classes. Reddy also announced a cabinet sub-committee to examine BC-A status for the Mudiraj community.
Bills for a bribe: two PMKSY officials held over 25% 'commission'
Telangana's Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested two PMKSY 2.0 project officials for allegedly demanding 10% to 25% commission from a contractor to clear pending bills and allot more work.
Bhairava is back: Prabhas returns in Kalki 2898 AD sequel first look on his 47th birthday
On Prabhas's 47th birthday, director Nag Ashwin and the team of Kalki 2898 AD released a first-look video showing his return as the bounty hunter Bhairava. Amitabh Bachchan and Kamal Haasan are back for the sequel, while Deepika Padukone has exited the project.
Nani's The Paradise lands on Netflix 24 minutes shorter, dance cut
Nani's Telugu action drama The Paradise began streaming on Netflix on October 22 in a version about 24 minutes shorter than the theatrical cut, with a much-trolled dance sequence removed.
An effigy, a stick attack and a threat: 'next time we'll bury them'
A Dussehra effigy casting Chief Minister Revanth Reddy as Ravana and BRS chief KCR as Rama triggered a clash in Hyderabad. A Congress leader said BRS workers would be 'buried next time'.
Revanth Reddy effigy as Ravan sparks Congress-BRS clash in Hyderabad
BRS workers in Hyderabad replaced Dussehra cutouts of Ram and Ravan with those of K Chandrashekar Rao and Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, triggering a scuffle and a sharp exchange between the two parties. The Congress warned it would not tolerate the symbolism.
Dussehra effigies spark BRS-Congress clash in Hyderabad, Revanth cast as Ravan
In Hyderabad's Sitarambagh, BRS workers reportedly replaced a Ram effigy with one of party chief K. Chandrashekar Rao and cast Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy as Ravan. A scuffle followed with Congress workers. A Congress leader was quoted threatening the rival camp.
Left keeps Congress guessing as Telangana braces for Graduates' MLC polls
The Congress is facing uncertainty over support from its Left allies in the coming Graduates' constituency MLC elections in Telangana, with the CPI yet to endorse its candidates and the CPM weighing an independent contest. The Congress has announced its candidates for two seats.