Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], August 10 (ANI): Nagarjuna Sagar Project authorities will open the crest gates tomorrow by 6 am and 1 lakh cusecs of flood water will be released.

Nalgonda (Telangana) [India], April 28 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Thursday conducted a review of development work in the Nalgonda town and instructed the officials concerned to expedite the work.

Hyderabad Dec 29 PTI An intensified political rivalry between the ruling TRS and BJP that virtually manifested in the paddy wars between the state government and the Centre the saffron party delivering yet another electoral surprise and the covid peak in April turned out to be the significant events in 2021 for Telangana Paddy procurement emerged as a contentious issue between the TRS government and the BJP that saw repeated war of words between the two camps marked by some acrimonius exchange The BJP which now aspires to form government in Telangana the second southern state after Karnataka in 2023 followed up its 2020 electoral surprises in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation GHMC and Dubbak assembly bypolls with the Huzurabad byelections in 2021 with Etala Rajendar who was removed from the state cabinet over allegations of land grabbing emerging victorious in the hustings Rajender who had dismissed the allegations against him retained the seat overcoming a formidable challenge from the Telangana Rashtra Samiti TRS TRS however tasted sweet success in the MLC polls and bypoll to Nagarjuna Sagar assembly segment asserting its supremacy However its loss to former partyman at Huzurabad is seen as a setback Subsequenty the rivals sparred over a number of issues the paddy procurement among them taking the cake TRS supremo and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao held a dharna in November along with his ministers MLAs and others on the paddy procurement issue He protested against the NDA governments alleged unhelpful stance over paddy procurement The TRS government had demanded that the Centre convey the annual target for paddy procurement from Telangana BJP leaders meanwhile said the Centre would procure paddy from Telangana as per the agreements between the state government and the Food Corporation of India FCI and that the state government had given a written commitment that it will not deliver parboiled rice to the FCI in future Stepping up its attack on the BJP and the NDA government at the Centre TRS again in December held protests against the NDA governments alleged anti-farmer policies including paddy procurement Party MPs who protested over the issue inside the House during the winter session of the Parliament had later boycotted the remainder of the session BJP leader and Union Minister G Kishan Reddy accused the CM of raking up the paddy procurement issue in order to divert the peoples attention from the defeat of TRS in the Huzurabad assembly seat bypoll The rivalry reached a crescendo when Rao said he would cut the tongues of the BJP leaders if they didnt refrain from allegedly using bad language to criticise him TRS is the largest party with the highest number of representatives in the state So far we have tolerated your comments as dog barking Henceforth if you indulge in loose talk utter nonsensical words we will take legal action against you and question you on roads If you continue to talk nonsense we will slice your tongues be careful Rao warned On the administration front the TRS government launched its flagship Dalit empowerment scheme Dalit Bandhu on a pilot basis and was described by some as the biggest ever DBT scheme in the country where each beneficiary family would get Rs 10 lakh under the scheme The Congress had a forgetful 2021 as it put up a dismal performance in the Huzurabad bypoll Newly-appointed PCC president and MP A Revanth Reddy is faced with the tough task of resurrecting the party in the face of stiff challenge from the TRS and BJP even as it it is seen as a divided house Heavy rains lashed different parts of the state leading to a waterlogging in the city and elsewhere Away from the world of politics Telangana was hit hard by the deadly second wave of covid-19 from April to about June The states caseload is however less compared to some of the others in the country Telangana has achieved 99 per cent coverage in administering the first dose of vaccination and 61 per cent in the second dose by December 22 In the world of sports Hyderabad-based shuttlers P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth brought laurels to the country during 2021 Sindhu who had won silver in the Rio Olympics earlier secured bronze in the Tokyo Olympics becoming the first Indian woman to claim medals in two Olympic games Srikanth bagged the silver medal in the BWF World Championships in December PTI SJR SA SA

Hyderabad Oct 25 PTI TRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday said the party has fixed deposits of Rs 425 crore which it received as donations TRS has emerged stronger financially also We have Rs 425 crore of donations in the form of fixed deposits They are donations received as per legal means like how all parties across India receive donations We are getting an income of Rs two crore per month on that We conduct our activities with that he said Rao who was addressing the partys plenary spoke about the progress achieved in Telangana under the TRS government and said the state is ahead of others in the country in various sectors including agriculture welfare electricity drinking water IT and industries Rao popularly known as KCR was re-elected president of TRS for a fresh term at the party plenary He formed the TRS in 2001 Saying that the party faced many impediments in its glorious journey he said a case was filed in the High Court that he should not hold a public meeting when bypoll was held to Nagarjuna Sagar assembly constituency a few months ago In the Huzurabad assembly constituency bypoll where polling would be held on October 30 an attempt was on to see that he does not hold a meeting he claimed He alleged that the Election Commission was crossing its scope or jurisdiction The Election Commission of India should function like a Constitutional body It should uphold its respect They are crossing their scope or jurisdiction he said Yes As a senior political leader in this country as a responsible president of a party as one of the chief ministers in this country I advise the Election Commission to stop these cheap attempts dont reduce your respect I warn that it is not respectful for you KCR should not hold a meeting What is this matter Is this the way it should be he said TRS leaders in Huzurabad have told him that if he makes a brief mention from the party plenary it would give more mileage to the party than organising a public meeting he said He told Dalits in Huzurabad that Election Commission or anyone else cannot stop the implementation of the TRS governments flagship Dalit welfare scheme Dalit Bandhu after November 4 when the poll process comes to an end The Election Commission can only stop the implementation of the scheme only till November 4 he said The Election Commission has recently directed that the implementation of the Dalit Bandhu scheme be stopped in Huzurabad Assembly constituency till the October 30 bypoll is over The scheme which is presently being implemented on a pilot basis at Huzurabad and few other places in the state would be extended to the whole state by March next year Rao said He told the people of Huzurabad that Dalit Bandhu would be completed in the constituency on a war footing in November-December this year Rao also said a demand was made by some people in the Nanded region of Maharashtra that welfare schemes being implemented in Telangana should be provided to them or that they should be merged with Telangana Recently the MLA of Raichur in Karnataka sought implementation of Telanganas welfare schemes or a merger of Raichur with Telangana he said Thousands of representations are being received from Andhra Pradesh that TRS should be launched in the neighbouring state as well he said Meanwhile the plenary passed various resolutions including reminding the Centre about the TRS pending demands for caste-wise BC census seeking reservation for backward classes in Parliament and assemblies formation of a Union ministry for the backward classes categorisation of SCs and realisation of the assurances given to Telangana in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014 It also passed amendments including entrusting the presidents responsibility to the Working President K T Rama Rao in the absence of the former PTI SJR GDK SJR BN BN

Hyderabad Sep 18 PTI AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday downplayed BJPs assertions that it will come to power in Telangana in the next assembly elections saying the national party has suffered electoral setbacks in certain recent polls in the state Owaisi who described BJPs win in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls late last year as a pyrrhic victory said the party was nowhere when Telangana and Hyderabad were badly affected by the COVID-19 second wave which came due to the mistakes of the Narendra Modi government BJPs sitting MLC was defeated in an election and the saffron party lost its deposit in the bypoll held to Nagarjuna Sagar assembly constituency he said It is their democratic right to fight an election Every party should fight People of Telangana will give answer he told reporters His reaction came when asked for his response on Union Home Minister Amit Shahs comments in a public meeting in Telangana on Friday that the BJP would form the government in the next assembly elections in the state On reports that the US was pushing to extend a United Nations waiver on a travel ban against the Taliban he demanded to know whether the NDA government will follow the US diktats or take and independent stand as it now heads the UN Sanctions Committee On the Prime Ministers comments that radicalization is a challenge to peace he said Modi should also take note of alleged incidents of mob lynching in the name of cow or in the name of religion some people calling Nathuram Godse a saviour and the Chief Minister of the biggest state of our country saying abba jaan PTI SJR APR APR