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Municipality workers wearing protective suits prepare to bury a coronavirus victim at a cemetery on the outskirts of Bahawalpur, in central Pakistan. AP Photo

Telangana: 100 dead in TIMS, Gandhi Hospital

Officials maintain that not every death is because of Covid-19

24 April 2021 8:54 AM IST

Power supply for agriculture in Porumamilla, Badvel, Mydukur, Siddavatam and Vontimitta areas has been getting severely disrupted frequently.

Covid impact: Telangana power utilities unions say 1,200 staffers...

The only medical facility available to power staff is a small dispensary at Vidyut Soudha premises, headquarters of...

24 April 2021 8:27 AM IST

A policeman on guard outside Telangana Secretariat (Photo: video grab)

Restrictions on entering temporary Telangana Secretariat

Telangana Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar orders for suspension of visitor and temporary passes of BRKR Bhavan

24 April 2021 8:13 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a meeting with chief ministers of all states over the rising cases and current status of Covid-19, New Delhi, Thursday, April 8, 2021. (PTI)

Modi asks states to act against hoarding

PM asks states to prevent panic drug buying

24 April 2021 8:01 AM IST

People inspect an ICU ward after a fire broke out in Vijay Vallabh COVID-19 hospital at Virar, near Mumbai, India, Friday, April 23, 2021.

14 Covid patients dead in Maharashtra hospital ICU fire

TV visuals showed the smoke-filled ICU in a disarray after the blaze, with the ceiling falling off in some places

24 April 2021 7:53 AM IST

Workers sort medical oxygen cylinders meant for Covid-19 patients, before dispatching them to hospitals, amid surge in coronavirus cases, at BMTC bus stand in Bengaluru, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (PTI)

Armed Forces to import 23 mobile O2 generation plants from Germany

Each mobile oxygen plant has a capacity to produce 40 litres of oxygen per minute and 2,400 litres an hour

24 April 2021 7:44 AM IST

A health worker collects a nasal swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a government hospital in Hyderabad on March 31, 2021. (NOAH SEELAM / AFP)

Senior resident doctors in Telangana boycott Covid work, raise six...

Senior resident doctors staged a protest in front of the Government General Chest Hospital, Erragadda, holding placards...

24 April 2021 1:39 AM IST

Telangana High Court dismissed the pleas of Karvy Stock Broking Ltd. (PTI Photo)

High Court pulls up Telangana State on Covid crisis, says figures...

In 3 hrs of virtual adjudication, the court faulted the governmental perspective like allowing political rallies and...

24 April 2021 12:33 AM IST

IT and industries minister K.T. Rama Rao. (Photo: Twitter @MinisterKTR)

Minister KTR tests positive before polls

Rama Rao accompanied his father and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao to Yashoda Hospital on Wednesday

24 April 2021 12:25 AM IST

Night curfew announced after Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy reviewed the Covid-19 situation in AP at an emergency meeting held at the CMs camp office in Tadepalli on Friday evening. (Photo: Twitter @AndhraPradeshCM)

Night curfew in Andhra Pradesh from today

The state government will provide Covid-19 vaccine for free to all per persons aged 18 years and above

24 April 2021 12:03 AM IST

State health authorities said they are making the necessary arrangements. TrueNat machines can be used for testing tuberculosis, hepatitis B or C etc and these will be programmed to conduct Covid-19 tests. (Photo: DC/Narasimha Murthy)

Andhra Pradesh to fast-track Covid tests to curb spread of virus

AP govt to resume the TrueNat tests and enhancing the RT-PCR tests to check the rapid rise in COVID-19 infection

23 April 2021 11:47 PM IST

Tamil Nadu government has not woken up despite the fact that the doctors have gone on a fast thrice. AP Photo

Duty doctors found missing in Covid wards of Kurnool GGH

Another patient said toilets in the male ward are not being maintained properly

23 April 2021 11:41 PM IST