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TGSPDCL crackdown: 60 engineers get notice over illegal power connection

Hyderabad: Telangana Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TGSPDCL), in a massive crackdown on illegal constructions, issued show-cause notices to approximately 60 engineers for authorising electricity connections to buildings that did not have…
Hyderabad-Vijayawada bus meets with accident in Telangana

Hyderabad: A Telangana Road Transport Corporation(TGSRTC) bus heading from Hyderabad to Vijayawada met with an accident on Thursday, January 29, in Nalgonda district. The accident occurred on a national highway in Kattanguru…

Telangana HC warns Centre over credit report data privacy

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has given a final warning to the Union Finance Ministry on the sharing of personal data through credit reports. As a Public Interest Litigation is pending for…
SIR in TN: Voter enrollment deadline ends on January 30

Chennai: The extended deadline for inclusion of names in the electoral roll in Tamil Nadu will end on Friday (January 30), the Election Commission has reiterated, urging all eligible voters to complete…
Rubio details how Trump administration will control Venezuela’s oil money

Washington: The Trump administration soon will allow Venezuela to sell oil now subject to US sanctions, with the revenue initially dedicated to basic government services such as policing and health care and…
Telangana municipal polls: 902 nominations filed on first day

Hyderabad: A total of 902 nominations were filed on Wednesday, the first day for next month’s municipal elections in Telangana. According to State Election Commission (SEC), 890 candidates, including 55 independents, filed…
Delivery agents transporting drugs will face strict action: Sajjanar

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Commissioner of Police VC Sajjanar on Wednesday, January 28, warned against the misuse of e-commerce and courier services to deliver marijuana and other banned substances and said enablers will face…

This govt works for liquor companies, neglects farmers: Harish Rao lashes out

Hyderabad: In a fresh attack on the ruling Congress government, former minister and senior Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Harish Rao said the administration had “opened the doors to fresh corruption” in…
Pilot opted ‘missed approach’, says firm owner over Baramati plane crash

Mumbai: VK Singh, owner of VSR Ventures whose aircraft carrying Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar crashed in Baramati on Wednesday, January 28, said the pilot apparently could not see the runway…
Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs, to replace workers with generative AI

New York: Amazon is slashing about 16,000 jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the e-commerce company in three months. The tech giant has said it plans to use generative…
Will talk tomorrow: Father of attendant recalls her last words before crash

Mumbai: His voice filled with emotion and his eyes welling up, a distraught Shivkumar Mali said his daughter had promised to speak to him “tomorrow,” but that moment will never come. His…
Committee to probe rape, assault allegations against Janasena MLA

Amaravati: The Pawan Kalyan-led Janasena on Wednesday, January 28, announced a committee to probe sexual harassment and assault allegations against its MLA Arava Sreedhar. The allegations were made by an unidentified woman,…
India’s economic foundation growing stronger: President Murmu

President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday, January 28, addressed the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, signalling the start of the Budget Session, where she said that the country’s economic foundation has…
UP man held for killing co-worker over ‘tricking’ him into eating beef

Varanasi: A man was arrested for allegedly killing his 31-year-old co-worker who “deceitfully” fed him beef and taunted him repeatedly over it, the Uttar Pradesh police said on Wednesday, January 28. The…
GHMC to digitise birth, death certificate issuance

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has renewed its process of issuing birth or death certificates by integrating government and private hospitals in its 300 wards and 60 circles following the…