Telangana

India registers highest single-day spike of nearly 23K COVID cases

11:14 pm July 4, 2020

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally neared 6.5 lakh cases on Saturday with a record single-day spike of 22,771 new infections, even as the recovery rate further improved to 60.81 per cent. The government said several people-centric measures taken as part of the “test, trace, treat” strategy have removed the impediments for COVID-19 testing. Facilitation of […]

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Online classes: Telangana to come out with policy by July 13

11:20 pm July 3, 2020

Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Friday said it would come out with a clear policy by July 13 on the commencement of the academic year and also the conduct of online classes for students of government and private schools. A division bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed […]

Record spike of 28,701 COVID-19 cases takes India's tally to 8,78,254

India’s COVID-19 cases jump from 2 lakh to 3 lakh in 10 days as it records worst daily spike

5:02 pm June 13, 2020

New Delhi: Ten days after recording two lakh COVID-19 cases, India surpassed the three lakh-mark on Saturday with the worst daily spike of 11,458 infections, while the death toll too climbed to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said. India took 64 days to cross the 1 lakh-mark from 100 cases, then […]

Ancient shrine’s portals thrown open for all devotees

8:03 pm June 11, 2020

Tirupati: Amid strict COVID-19 precautionary steps, the Lord Venkateswara shrine was thrown open on Thursday for all devotees after a over 80-day coronavirus lockdown entry ban, but only a few thousands were present in view of the curbs in place following the pandemic. Earlier, the TTD that manages the 2000-year-old hill shrine had conducted a […]

Heavy rains lash Telangana, normal life crippled

South-West monsoon advances into most parts of Telangana

7:03 pm June 11, 2020

Hyderabad: The South-West Monsoon 2020 has advanced into most parts of Telangana on Thursday, the weather office here said and forecast heavy rainfall during the next three days in some parts of the state. Conditions are becoming favourable for further advance of South West Monsoon into remaining parts of Telangana during next 48 hours, IMD’s […]