Telangana continued to register a decline in fresh infections with 4,693 new Covid-19 cases being recorded on Thursday, pushing the caseload to 5,16,404, while the toll mounted to 2,867 with 33 deaths, a government bulletin said. More

The election commission on Thursday deferred legislative council polls in nine seats in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana due to the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. More

Several government and private hospitals in the city continued to receive a heavy rush of patients.As a result, Covid bed availability was as overstretched as most other days on day 1 of the lockdown. More

Cyberabad police arrested the two accused in the sensational armed robbery at HDFC bank ATM in Kukatpally on April 29. More

While migrant workers in construction sites continued to work on Wednesday, hundreds of daily wage labourers started leaving the city as a 10-day state-wide lockdown took hold in Telangana. More

Hyderabad MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi has appealed to the people to offer Eid-ul-Fir prayers at home. More

Mangalhat police arrested two persons for killing their 22-year-old younger brother, M Prasad, at Guffa Nagar on May 9. More

In view of the lockdown in the state, Telangana State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) on Wednesday informed banks in the state that all branches will have to operate for four hours from 8 am to 12 noon to render essential services like cash deposits, withdrawals, remittances, clearing of cheques and government businesses. More

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The Tokyo Olympics door was slammed shut on shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Kidamabi Srikanth after the Singapore Open, the last of the qualifying events for the Games before the June 15 deadline, was cancelled on Wednesday due to a surge in Covid-19 cases globally. More

The Telangana government has urged the Centre to allocate 13 lakh Covid-19 vaccine doses immediately to meet the state’s requirements. The government said allocations of medicines, oxygen and ventilators should be made to the state considering the surge in the positive cases and patients belonging to other states coming down to Telangana for Covid-19 treatment. More

Telangana has reported 4,723 new cases of Covid-19 and 31 deaths in the 24-hor period. With this, the total number of cases so far since the beginning of the pandemic is 5,11,711, while the death toll rose to 2,834. More

Covaxin developer Bharat Biotech is taking its detractors head on yet again. A day after Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow other companies to manufacture Covaxin and Covishield to tide over the vaccine crunch, the Hyderabad-based vaccine-maker has hit back. More

A 110-year-old patient undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at the state-run Gandhi Hospital here has recovered from the disease. More

The announcement of a lockdown has jolted many migrant workers, many of whom don’t have enough money to go back to their home states. Many said that unless someone comes to their rescue, they won’t be able to survive for the next ten days or go back to their villages, without earnings. More