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The traffic police has requested the business community and hawkers to cooperate with them in making Hyderabad an encroachment-free city. (Representational image)

Hyderabad: Traffic cops hike jail-time for encroachers

Traffic police would henceforth seek the closure of shops that repe-atedly violate anti-encro-achment law.

16 Feb 2017 2:48 AM IST

Police and excise department officials take part in a workshop on NDPS Act with reference to Ganja trade and persecution at Zilla Parishad Hall in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday. (Photo: DECCAN CHRONICLE)

Andhra Pradesh: Drug mafia gets away as cops lack evidence'

Most of the cases related to ganja trade have ended in acquittals due to this.

16 Feb 2017 2:47 AM IST

Police arrested Faizal Shah for attempt to murder (307 IPC), attempt to robbery (390 IPC) and under the Arms Act and produced him in court. (Representational image)

Hyderabad: Gang that looted transgender welfare society bank busted

The suspects were caught at Nanded after the police tracked their vehicles through CCTV cameras.

16 Feb 2017 2:40 AM IST

In the wake of a heavy rush of pilgrims at the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, the cops have imposed restrictions on tractors in the nearly 5-km Pamba-Sannidhanam stretch.

Cabinet approval for Sabarimala airport plan

More than 3 crore pilgrims visit the famous hill shrine annually.

16 Feb 2017 2:36 AM IST

Vindicating a declining trend in those seeking jobs abroad, the number of emigration clearances granted by the Protectors of Emigrants (PoE) across the country has come down by nearly half.

Return of Keralites on downtrend: Study

This has been revealed by a study that shows that there is a declining trend in the number of returnees from different...

16 Feb 2017 2:29 AM IST

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (Photo: PTI)

KCR to keep his T-vow, offer gold moustache to the Lord

The Chief Minister promised gold ornaments to various deities if Telangana was achieved.

16 Feb 2017 2:29 AM IST

Policy and programmes developed by the Ministry of Housing under the NDA government, has been supported by budgetary interventions, bringing in a new era of reforms in the real estate sector.

Telangana sleeps on real estate act

The Act is supposed to come into force across the country from May 1 this year.

16 Feb 2017 2:27 AM IST

n HNSS phase I and II designed to meet drinking water needs of 33 lakh people by utilising 40 tmc of water from Krishna river, Galeru Nagari phase I to irrigate farm land in Kadapa, Chittoor, and Nellore

Expert committee pours cold water on Telangana govt's hopes

Panel has no authority to allocate waters, state told.

16 Feb 2017 2:24 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (Photo: AP)

Fill teacher posts, Supreme Court tells AP, Telangana

Guntur Prabhakar, counsel for AP, submitted before a bench headed by Justice Misra that all the 25,000 vacancies have...

16 Feb 2017 2:23 AM IST

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao

K Chandrasekhar Rao stuns panel with tips, says live & let live'

KCR told the panel that he had given the same suggestion to his AP counterpart N. Chandrababu Naidu many a time.

16 Feb 2017 2:20 AM IST

S.M. Vijayanand

Staff plan stir but SM Vijayanand firm on setting up state cadre

Mr Vijayanand told this newspaper that the government would go ahead with the decision to form KAS.

16 Feb 2017 2:20 AM IST

Army Chief General Bipin Rawat in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)

Those displaying Pak, ISIS flags will be treated as anti-national...

We will treat who have picked up arm as anti-national elements and go helter-skelter for them, says Rawat.

16 Feb 2017 2:18 AM IST