SP held hostage by suspended head-constable
A Superintendent of Police of Police Transport Organisation (PTO) was on Wednesday allegedly held captive by a suspended head-constable in Saifabad area here.
The head-constable, identified as Giripr
Poor kids suffer due to AP ‘fund crunch’
The 25 per cent quota for poor students in private schools under the Right to Education Act remains only on paper due to the apathy and lack of political will of the state government. Even though the
Centre wary of red terror in ‘T’: Shinde
The Union home minister, Mr Sushilkumar Shinde, on Monday said that the Centre would not make any announcement on Telangana without considering the Naxal problem. Stating that reports had indicated th
CBI claimed inability to probe land acquisitions
The state government in an affidavit, said that the joint director, CBI, South Zone, Chennai, had informed the state government, through a letter dated January 29, 2007, that the Bureau had already re
Centre sits idle on IPC amendments
The Centre has been sitting on amendments of several Acts and the Indian Penal Code proposed by the state government. Amendments by the state to the IPC regarding acid attacks, re-enactment of AP Con
Cyberabad cops gear up for CoP-11
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) specialists will be part of the foolproof security system for the upcoming Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CoP-1
Raise road level, end divider woes
A city-based structural engineer has offered a simple and inexpensive solution to the problem created by a divider on the Begumpet flyover, which has resulted in many accidents, traffic jams and frigh
Consumers to get inflated power bills
The Central discom has not refunded Fuel Surcharge Adjustment charges collected in the month of July, despite a High Court order. Meanwhile, the final hearing for FSA claims for the year 2010-11 is to
Donations to TRS steadily grew
Individuals like Srinivasaraju Chalapathi, Jayasekhar Talluri of New York, Mukkamala Appa Rao of NRI Medical College, hotelier Mohammed Saleem of the city and B.C. Janardhan Reddy of Kurnool had donat
Tummy worms affect TB vaccine
The age-old advice to regularly get children and adults dewormed has now got some solid scientific backing. An Indian research team have found that the presence of worms in the stomach makes tuberculo