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Presently, the GHMC is the only urban local body in Telangana which is raising funds through bonds. Rama Rao is trying to get ratings for 12 other municipal corporations and eight municipalities in Telangana. (Photo: twitter @MinisterKTR)

KTR plans Taiwan-specific industrial cluster in Telangana

Wang appreciated various steps initiated by TS to improve EoDB and congratulated the state for being amongst the best in...

29 July 2021 8:49 AM IST

Godavari River water diversion through Polavaram project spillway, at Polavaram in West Godavari district on Friday. (Photo:DC)

Centre okays Rs. 47,725 crore as Polavaram project cost: YSRC

Shekhawat assured the MPs that he would recommend to the Cabinet that it approve the revised cost estimate of Polavaram...

29 July 2021 8:43 AM IST

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, speaks as Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam‚ Jaishankar listens during a joint news conference at Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan (JNB) in New Delhi. (Photo:AP)

At Delhi talks: US, India spar over human rights

-'We talk about challenges we are both facing in renewing and strengthening our democracies and I think humbly we can...

29 July 2021 7:20 AM IST

A tigress in the Amrabad Tiger reserve carries a piglet for its cubs. (DC Image)

Kawal extension plans on backburner, big cats to be confined

The reserve forests that are part of the tiger corridor are under tremendous pressure from people who have been...

29 July 2021 2:55 AM IST

The fishing harbour will be a boon to fishermen families to enhance their livelihood. Representational Image. (Twitter)

45 acres of land handed over for fishing harbor at Juvvaladinne...

The balance land is being acquired by paying compensation to landowning farmers.

29 July 2021 2:47 AM IST

Under the performance-based challenge fund of Rs.8,000 crore for incubation of new cities, Rs 1,000 crore are available for each proposed new city. (Representational image: DC file image)

Centre earmarks Rs 1,000 crore for new cities

The 15th Finance Commission recommended that the ministry of housing and urban affairs would set up an expert committee

29 July 2021 2:23 AM IST

Zydus Cadila launched the cheapest generic version of Gilead Sciences antiviral drug remdesivir in India. (PTI Photo)

NPPA caps Covid life-saving drugs

The medicines used for Covid 19 management have been added in the National List of Essential Medicines to make it...

29 July 2021 2:12 AM IST

Thakur said the Budget estimates for the current fiscal was Rs 30.42 lakh crore, which was increased by over Rs 4 lakh crore to Rs 34.50 lakh crore for the next fiscal. By arrangement

Two Srisailam dam crest gates lifted

Srisailam dam chief engineer Muralinath Reddy said that the reservoir is steadily getting an average inflow of 3,00.000...

29 July 2021 1:57 AM IST

Andhra Pradesh govt faults TDP for financial crisis

Krishna explained that the outstanding payables as on March 31, 2019, were to the tune of Rs 39,000 crores

29 July 2021 1:38 AM IST

Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao announced from the floor of assembly setting up of a task force headed by an IAS officer to monitor the treatment and the charges made by corporate hospitals in the state. (PTI Photo)

20 lakh acres of patta lands marked -'prohibited-' in Dharani

The govt-owned barren, poramboke, Wakf and endowments are placed in the prohibited list, under section 22-A of the...

29 July 2021 1:09 AM IST

Work has begun to clean the Kapra lake of remaining hyacinth as well as the lakebed. (Gandhi)

Dumping of hyacinth irks residents of Jawahar Nagar

Environment activists from the city wrote a letter to the state government, expressing their concerns with the decision

29 July 2021 1:01 AM IST

Taking up the report as suo motu, the court issued the guidelines to the Centre and the state government and said it would monitor how the authorities were working to achieve the permanent world heritage tag for the Ramappa temple. (PTI Photo)

Heritage tag to Ramappa: HC asks ASI, KHT to be attentive

This is a golden opportunity which knocked at the doors of the Telangana government, said Justice Kohli

29 July 2021 12:50 AM IST