Hyderabad: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday inaugurated a regional hub of the elite anti-terror National Security Guard (NSG) here. The hub has come up at a cost of Rs.37.96 crore on 22 acres of land at Tirmulghery in Secunderabad, Hyderabad's twin city. Speaking on the occasion, Chidambaram said the NSG were being provided modern weapons and the world-class training to thwart terrorist attacks and hijacking of airplanes. He...
11:23:23 AM Dec 06, 2011
HYDERABAD: In the concrete jungle that the city is, children grow up without even so much as touching a plant, except perhaps at a park once in a blue moon. While one cannot ignore the requirements of development of any urban space, has Hyderabad been able to maintain a balance between ecological and economical concerns? The answer from most officials, activists and citizens is a resounding NO. Mention Hyderabads green...
08:25:00 AM Dec 06, 2011
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder late N T Rama Rao's widow N Lakshmi Parvathi was on Friday evicted from the house, in which she had been staying since the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister's death 15 years ago. According to the police, the house, located in posh Banjara Hills, was vacated following a court order. Lakshmi Parvathi was not present in the house when the police shifted the items....
11:45:23 PM Dec 02, 2011
HYDERABAD: With inflation becoming an all-pervading evil, the effect has also been felt on the big fat Indian wedding. Weddings are important events for every Indian family and in most cases a major portion of ones savings is kept aside for the ceremony. However, with increasing prices for the past six months, weddings and their business have gone pale, say caterers and owners of wedding halls. Trilok Chandan, a research...
08:58:00 AM Dec 02, 2011
HYDERABAD: Eight Assistant Medical Officers of Health of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation are alleged to have misappropriated around Rs 55 lakh, by diverting collected trade licence fee. Initially, the vigilance wing of the GHMC conducted an enquiry and found the officials had swindled the money. As the issue was of serious nature, the previous GHMC commissioner referred the matter to the state vigilance department. After their probe, they found...
08:32:00 AM Nov 30, 2011
HYDERABAD: With the Armed Forces Special Protection Act (AFSPA) being a bone of contention between civil rights groups and the governments, 'Saving Sharmila' campaign might not be an easy objective. But, a five-member team of civil society representatives, who were in the city on Monday, have named their campaign in honour of the iron lady of Manipur, Irom Sharmila. "We want to reach out to people and not just make...
09:37:00 AM Nov 29, 2011
HYDERABAD: Despite assurances from the organisers of 10 K Run, Sport 18, to keep the event environment-friendly, the health run was far from it. People's plaza, from where the run began, was a mess by the end of the event. About a 100 GHMC workers worked on the whole of Sunday to clean up the 10 kms track, according to social scientist WG Prasanna Kumar, AP Pollution Control Board. In...
08:55:00 AM Nov 29, 2011
HYDERABAD: About 400 pro-Telangana students and sports lovers, wearing Tshirts and holding placards and banners, participated in a 10K Run here on Sunday. Though they did did not resort to any protest or shout slogans, the participants, affiliated to two little known organisations, carried banners, one of which read: "Every kilometre I run represents one district of my motherland." The Telangana students claimed that they had took permission from the...
09:00:00 AM Nov 28, 2011
HYDERABAD: It is meant to be a health run but it seems not so healthy for the environment. Last year, the Hyderabad 10 K Run left 400 kg of plastic waste. With Peoples Plaza being one of the points, many bottles were found strewn around the Hussainsagar lake. This time around, the AP Pollution Control Board, Save Our Urban Lakes NGO and Buddha Purnima project authority have decided to ask...
08:38:00 AM Nov 26, 2011
HYDERABAD: Pre-paid autorickshaw service has been introduced at the Secunderabad railway station here. It was inaugurated by transport minister Botcha Satyanarayana on Thursday. On an average, 1.5 lakh passengers visit the station in a day either for boarding trains to other destinations or arrive from other places. It is expected that the new service will prevent fleecing of passengers by unscrupulous autorickshaw drivers. The pre-paid service booths will collect Rs...
08:40:00 AM Nov 25, 2011
HYDERABAD: An accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case, Bharat Bhai whose custody was granted to the National Investigation Agency was opposed by his counsel on Wednesday. Bharat Bhai, presently lodged in a prison in Ajmer, was arrested by the NIA on the May 18, 2007 in the Mecca Masjid blast case. On a petition filed by the NIA, a city court gave 15-day custody of the accused to NIA....
08:33:00 AM Nov 24, 2011
HYDERABAD: To discourage mediators involvement and provide timely services in a transparent manner, the Regional Passport Office here has set up Passport Seva Kendras in the twin cities and at Vijayawada, Tirupati and Nizamabad. Speaking to mediamen here on Tuesday, regional passport officer K Srikar Reddy said the Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) would function shortly. The state capital will have three kendras, one each at Ameerpet, Tolichowki and Begumpet. These...
09:17:00 AM Nov 23, 2011
HYDERABAD: The citys swish set are wary of visiting pubs nowadays. With the traffic police arresting people caught drunken driving and producing them in court, most youngsters who frequent pubs are preferring to drink at home, to avoid being caught drunk driving on roads. This has led to a decline in business between 20 and 40 per cent in the past one month, according to pub owners. With city police...
11:21:00 AM Nov 22, 2011
Hyderabad: With the Lokpal debate all set to be re-ignited in the winter session of the Parliament, a group of students from various degree colleges in Hyderabad came together on Sunday at Vanita Mahavidyalaya to discuss and debate the Lokpal bill, a la Parliament style. Termed as the "youth parliament" session, students deliberated on several key issues including bringing the Prime Minister under the Lokpal ambit, jurisdiction of Lokpal and...
01:13:58 PM Nov 21, 2011
HYDERABAD: Over 50 percent of the properties belonging to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation are either missing or have been encroached upon in various mandals of Hyderabad. This came to light after the Town Planning wing of the GHMC surveyed 272 properties and found that 142 properties could not be traced with extent of land to the tune of 15,197 sq. yds, worth a few hundred crores of rupees. The...
08:50:00 AM Nov 21, 2011