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It is important to keep all schools and colleges ready by January 25, both for classes to resume as well as for ministers to visit the welfare hostels, says KCR. Representational image: DC

Telangana high schools, colleges to reopen from February 1

The Chief Minister directed officials to ensure that all arrangements are made for the reopening of both government and...

12 Jan 2021 12:14 AM IST

Andhra Pradesh High Court suspends gram panchayat polls

The SECâ€™s decision to conduct elections would hamper the mammoth vaccination programme taken up by the Centre,...

12 Jan 2021 12:07 AM IST

Jagan said the government is also introducing computer literacy courses from Class 8 to allow poor students to compete with the children from the affluent families. (DC Photo)

Andhra Pradesh CM offers option to choose laptops to Amma Vodi...

The government had last year supported 42 lakh Amma Vodi beneficiaries and this number has increased to 44.48 lakh this...

12 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar

Andhra Pradesh SEC sacks its JD for breach of code, indiscipline

JD Sai Prasad has also been barred from entering into any other government service directly or indirectly

12 Jan 2021 12:00 AM IST

The court is likely to pronounce orders on Tuesday on issues related to the farm laws and the farmers protests at Delhis borders and may take a call on setting up a committee headed by a former Chief Justice of India to find ways to resolve the impasse. (Photo:AFP)

Supreme Court hints at stay on 3 farm laws

As the farmer-'s protest entered Day 48, CJ SA Bobde expressed anguish over the govtâ€™s failure to resolve the strike...

11 Jan 2021 11:50 PM IST

The states have been advised, to seed the mobile numbers of all vaccine beneficiaries with Aadhaar for registration and communications through SMS and to ensure that there are no proxies in this process since the beneficiaries need to be uniquely identified. (Representational photo:PTI)

Aadhar-seeded mobile needed for Covid vaccine

Officials of the Central government guided administrators from the states and Union territories on Co-WIN software...

11 Jan 2021 4:53 AM IST

The ministry has also recommended relaxing detention norms to prevent drop-outs this year as well as a slew of measures to address learning loss due to the coronavirus-induced shutdown of schools. (Representational file photo)

States told to identify kids out of school

A door-to-door survey to identify out-of-school children and prepare an action plan for their enrolment

11 Jan 2021 4:39 AM IST

The move was being effected since the colleges have remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and were conducting online classes. (Representational Image: AFP)

Tamil Nadu college students to get free data card for online classes

Students in self-financed institutions will also be covered under the initiative

10 Jan 2021 9:36 PM IST

Police use water cannons to disperse farmers during their Kisan Mahapanchayat rally in Kaimla village, in Karnal. (PTI)

Protesting farmers ransack venue of CM Khattar-'s -'kisan...

Earlier, Haryana Police used water cannons and lobbed teargas shells to prevent farmers from marching towards the...

10 Jan 2021 9:23 PM IST

People walk past a placard pasted outside a government-run hospital where dry run or a mock drill for Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine delivery was held in Hyderabad on January 2, 2021. (Noah SEELAM / AFP)

351 new COVID-19 cases, two deaths in Telangana

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation accounted for the most number of fresh cases

10 Jan 2021 11:23 AM IST

In this file photo taken on December 8, 2020 a member of staff draws the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine out of a phial at the Southmead Hospital, Briston. (Graeme Robertson / various sources / AFP)

Volunteer-'s death in Bhopal not related to our vaccine: Bharat...

The volunteer was reported to be healthy in all the site follow-up calls post seven days of his dosing, the vaccine...

10 Jan 2021 10:04 AM IST

The PLA soldier is being dealt with as per laid down procedures and circumstances under which he had crossed the LAC are being investigated. (Representational Image:AP)

Chinese soldier held on Indian side of LAC in Ladakh

People-'s Liberation Army soldier being dealt with as per procedures, says Indian Army

10 Jan 2021 4:46 AM IST