Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, on Sunday while addressing a press conference, said schools should not increase fees even by one paise for 2020-21 academic year, in view of the hardships caused by Covid-19 lockdown.
It just took 20 days for the Telangana government to convert a 14-storey tower at Gachibowli sports complex in the city, into a 1,500-bedded COVID-19 special hospital.
Edited by Maitree Baral | Monday April 20, 2020, New Delhi
On private schools he said the schools have been instructed not to increase fees in this academic session. He said schools should not increase fees even by one paise for 2020-21 academic year.
A 47-year-old woman died on Friday while waiting in line at a bank to withdraw Rs 1,500 that is being provided by the Telangana government as coronavirus lockdown aid, police said.
NIRDPR's Communication Resource Unit (CRU) and UNICEF are working closely with the state governments of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in preparedness and responses to contain the pandemic.
An accountant at a private firm lost Rs 92,000 to online fraudsters while trying to buy liquor after they lured him to make payment on the promise of delivering it to his home during the lockdown period, police said on Tuesday.
Due to the lockdown extension announced by the Telangana government, all the Common Entrance Tests (CETs) scheduled to be held in next months including EAMCET-2020, ECET-2020, PGECET-2020, ICET-2020, PECET-2020, LAWCET-2020, PGLCET-2020 and EdCET-2020.
Four states - Telangana, Maharashtra, Punjab and Odisha - have extended the coronavirus lockdown, currently in effect across the country, in their respective territories till April 30
Written by Uma Sudhir | Thursday April 02, 2020, Hyderabad
A 23-year-old man who had trekked 500 kilometres from Nagpur on his way home to Namakkal in Tamil Nadu, collapsed and died while resting at a shelter home in Secunderabad on Wednesday night.
Written by Uma Sudhir | Thursday April 02, 2020, Hyderabad
Three more deaths and 30 positive cases of COVID-19 were reported in Telangana on Wednesday, taking the total number of deaths to nine and total cases to 106. At least 14 people have recovered from the highly infectious disease.
Written by Uma Sudhir | Monday March 30, 2020, Hyderabad
The Telangana government decided to impose big salary cuts ranging from 10 per cent to 75 per cent for its executive, political representatives and employees, as the country completed six days of the three-week lockdown to slow the march of the coronavirus. There will be cuts for all Public Sector Undertakings, institutions that are receiving government grants, government employees and retirees.
A doctor couple are among the three persons who tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday taking the total number of COVID-19 cases in the state to 44.
Written by Uma Sudhir , Edited by Arun Nair | Thursday March 26, 2020, Hyderabad
Hundreds of people, mostly students, queued up outside police stations across Hyderabad - compromising social distancing - for passes to return to their hometowns as the 21-day nationwide lockdown to check coronavirus began on Wednesday.
