Sunday
April 7, 2024
HYDERABAD
04
In Brief
HYDERABAD
Voter
awareness
Mall-goers at GVK
were treated with in-
teractions and cultural
programmes that
aimed to increase
awareness about vot-
ing. The programme
was conducted as a
part of SVEEP under
the Jubilee Hills Circle.
Meanwhile, enforce-
ment teams on Friday
seized Rs 6.53 crore,
the highest in a day.
Not a single farmer died
by suicide: Congress
STATE BUREAU
Hyderabad
Three senior Ministers of the
Congress government have
argued that not a single
farmer ended his life after
their party came to power
and pooh-poohed the BRS
charge that 200 farmers had
died by suicide in the first 100
days of Congress rule.
At a joint press conference
on Saturday, Ministers N
Uttam Kumar Reddy (Irriga-
tion), Jupally Krishna Rao
(Tourism ) and Ponnam
Prabhakar (Transport)
charged: “It is a blatant lie.
Just like during the Telan-
gana movement how people
were instigated to commit
suicides, the BRS is now in-
citing farmers to take ex-
treme steps,”
The press conference was
to rebut the statement of BRS
chief K Chandrashekara Rao
KCR remarks: PRRD
dept in action mode
STATE BUREAU
Hyderabad
Days after BRS chief K Chan-
drashekhar Rao found fault
with State government for ne-
glecting Mission Bhagiratha,
Panchayat Raj and Rural De-
velopment department
swung into action and di-
rected the Operation and
Maintenance (O&M) agen-
cies to complete the pump
sets’ repair works by Friday.
PR and RD Secretary
Sandeep Kumar Sultania held
a review meeting with offi-
cials and O&M agencies rep-
resentatives here on Satur-
day. Citing the current water
issues at many places in the
State, the O&M agencies were
directed to accord top prior-
ity for ensuring sufficient
water supply to households.
who said the details of 209
farmers, who died by suicide,
were submitted to Chief Sec-
retary Santhi Kumari. The
BRS chief had inspected the
withered crops at Jangoan,
Suryapet and other places
last week and demanded that
the government release
water to the fields for saving
the standing crops. Subse-
quently, water was released
from the Nagarjunasagar left
canal. However, at the Satur-
day’s press meet, Uttam
Kumar Reddy said the Con-
gress government was releas-
ing water as per their plan
and schedule.
Efforts were being made to
save maximum crops with
minimum water supply. Na-
garjunasagar water was re-
leased as Palair reservoir was
dried up and only to ensure
drinking water supply to
Khammam and Suryapet but
not out of BRS chief’s inspec-
Any minor snags in pump
sets, pipeline leakages, and
disruption in power supply
can affect water supply to
habitations, Sultania said to
officials.
All the repairs in pump sets
should be completed by Fri-
day. To this effect, the O&M
agencies should chalk out an
action plan and share the
same with Chief Engineers.
The agencies should also
arrange spares in advance, he
said, adding that O&M agen-
cies should fix pipeline leak-
ages within 12 hours.
The department officials
were instructed to identify
habitations that were prone
for more drinking water prob-
lems. They were asked to ini-
tiate measures to ensure
drinking water was supplied
daily in such habitations.
tions fear, he argued. He said
people had taught a fitting
lesson by defeating the party
in the Assembly elections. Of
the 39 BRS MLAs, about 20 to
25 MLAs were ready to join
the Congress, he said.
Tourism Minister Jupally Kr-
ishna Rao said it was due to
improper administration and
poor planning by the BRS
government that Telangana
was facing drought like situa-
tion. Alleging there was ram-
pant corruption in Mission
Bhagiratha, he said the BRS
was getting jittery as the Con-
gress was fulfilling all prom-
ises made to the people. He
also found fault with opposi-
tion parties for trying to
politicise Chief Minister A
Revanth Reddy’s frequent
visits to New Delhi. “Not just
12 times, the CM will visit 32
times, why are opposition
leaders so upset,” Jupally
asked.
HYDERABAD
BRS stages protests in
support of farmers
Cadre slams government for its delay in supporting agrarian community
STATE BUREAU
ADILABAD
BRS district president and
former Minister Ramanna
said that the State govern-
ment utterly failed in the
implementation of Rythu
Bandhu scheme introduced
by the former BRS govern-
ment, which extended a
slew of initiatives for the
welfare of agrarian commu-
nity. He was speaking at a
protest staged by the party
at the Roads and Building
Department’s guest house
here on Saturday.
Ramanna launched a
scathing attack against the
Congress government. He
demanded that the govern-
ment should immediately
resolve the challenges
faced by the farmers if it
was committed to keeping
its electoral promises. He
regretted that the farmers
were struggling to raise
crops due to delay in realis-
ing promises by the Con-
gress on which it won the
elections.
The BRS district presi-
dent stated that crops being
grown on 20,000 acres
were being affected due to a
lack of water supply. He
flayed the Congress for fail-
ing to link MNREGA with
the agriculture sector and
to offer crop loan waivers
‘CM more focused on defections’ CBI busts child
STATE BUREAU
Hyderabad Kishan Reddy says
State BJP president G Kis-
han Reddy said Chief Min-
ister A Revanth Reddy was
more focused on engineer-
ing defections from rival
parties rather than imple-
menting the Six Guaran-
tees promised to the peo-
ple of Telangana.
Addressing party work-
ers on the occasion of BJP
foundation day at the party
State office, Kishan Reddy
alleged that the Chief Min-
ister was giving more pri-
ority to poaching MLAs
Rogue elephant
returns to Maha
SANTOSH PADALA
Kumram Bheem Asifabad
The rogue elephant has fi-
nally returned to Maha-
rashtra from where it
strayed into Telangana
and panicked locals after
trampling two farmers to
death in the Kagaznagar
forest division in a gap of
24 hours. The develop-
ment brought relief to the
Forest officials and the
public as well.
Forest officials, in a
statement, said that the
wild tusker entered the
forests of the Aheri range
in neighbouring Maha-
rashtra after crossing the
Pranahita River at Jilleda
village in Penchikalpet
mandal on Saturday
morning. The forest offi-
GHMC food safety
teams on alert
CITY BUREAU
Hyderabad
Following a complaint on
micro-blogging platform
X which alleged the bad
quality of cake sold by
Pista House in the city,
the GHMC has alerted the
food safety teams in the
zone.
A user who goes by
Karvendhan on the plat-
form has tweeted videos
and a picture of what he
News from
BRS district president Jogu Ramanna, along with party leaders, stages a sit-in, in Adilabad on Saturday.
to the farmers. He wanted it
to extend an interest-free
loan of Rs 3 lakh to the
farmers as assured at time
of elections.
Mancherial BRS district
president Balka Suman de-
manded that the govern-
ment pay Rs 25,000 per acre
trafficking racket
CM neither imple-
menting guaran-
tees nor focusing
on issues related
to the State
and leaders from rival par-
ties than implementing the
guarantees. “There are a
lot of issues in the State,
but the CM was more fo-
cused on engineering de-
fections. He is neither im-
plementing the guarantees
cials of Maharashtra con-
firmed the arrival of the
pachyderm into their
area, the statement read.
The officials met near
Pranahita and exchanged
information about the
movement of the animal.
The lone male tusker
drifted towards Telan-
gana after getting sepa-
rated from its herd mov-
ing in Gadchiroli district
of the neighboring state in
search of water and food
on Wednesday afternoon.
Its entry created a flutter
in the district which saw
the sighting of the ele-
phant for the first time.
However, it wreaked
havoc in this region as it
trampled two farmers to
death in two separate in-
cidents.
called a Banana Cake, and
wrote, “Beware All!
Bought a Banana cake
from Pista house Uppal,
yesterday (5th) evening.
Saw the below scenario
morning and how could
this be acceptable. Expiry
Date is till 10th Apr. Food
safety has become a joke
in Hyderabad, even from
well known outlets (sic),”
He went on to attach the
bill for the purchased
item.
to distressed farmers. He
along with the party’s can-
didate for the Peddapalli
Parliament segment Kop-
pula Eshwar took part in a
protest meeting at the MRO
office in Chennur on Satur-
day. Eshwar too criticised
the government for its
nor focusing on the issues
related to the State,”he
said.
Coming down heavily
on Congress, the Union
Minister said the downfall
of Congress had begun in
the State as it had failed to
fulfill promises made to
the people. “Congress has
thrown all its promises to
the winds,” he alleged.
Stating that the BJP was
gaining strength in Telan-
gana, he expressed confi-
dence that the party would
win more than ten seats in
the State in the ensuing
Lok Sabha polls.
Big brands at NT-TT auto show
STATE BUREAU
Nalgonda
Chairman of the Telangana
Legislative Council, Gutha
Sukhender Reddy on Satur-
day appreciated Namasthe
Telangana and Telangana
Today for not only creating
awareness among citizens
with their news but also or-
ganising an auto show with
two and four-wheeler com-
panies to cater to the needs
of people.
Participating as the chief
guest at the Namasthe
Telangana and Telangana
Today Auto Show at NG
College Ground, Nalgonda,
he said it was good to organ-
ise a mega auto show of this
kind in Nalgonda and hav-
ing the participation of
Benz, Volvo, and Audi was
cherry on the top.
“After the formation of
Telangana State, the eco-
nomic status of people has
improved and so their buy-
ing power for luxury cars,”
he said. Speaking on the oc-
Coast Guard rescues 9 fishermen
STATE BUREAU
Hyderabad
In a swift operation, the In-
dian Coast Guard ship
Veera, which was on patrol
off the Andhra Pradesh
coast saved nine fishermen
who had suffered severe
burn injuries after their boat
caught fire and sunk at sea
on Friday, a Coast Guard
spokesman said.
delay in supporting farm-
ers.
Meanwhile, Asifabad
MLA Kova Laxmi said that
200 farmers died in the
regime of the Congress. She
found fault with the gov-
ernment for failing to con-
sole the bereaved families
STATE BUREAU
Hyderabad
The CBI has busted a net-
work of infant traffickers al-
legedly involved in buying
and selling of infants across
India.
As part of the operation,
CBI sleuths conducted
searches at seven locations
across Delhi and Haryana.
The officials rescued two
male infants and one female
child of one month during
the operation. Seven ac-
Chairman of the Telangana Legislative Council Gutha Sukhender
Reddy at the NT and TT auto show, in Nalgonda on Saturday.
casion, Namasthe Telan-
gana GM (Advt), N Suren-
dra Rao said similar auto
shows were being organised
in all the district centres
across the State.
He urged the people of
Nalgonda to avail the bene-
fits of the auto show which
has various two and four-
wheeler companies on a sin-
gle platform apart from dis-
The ICGS Veera had re-
ceived a radio message from
nearby fishing boat about a
raging fire onboard Indian
fishing boat (IFB) Durga
Bhavani at location around
65 Nm from Visakhapatnam
harbour. IFB Durga Bha-
vani, an Andhra registered
boat, had sailed from Kaki-
nada harbour with nine
crew on March 26. On Fri-
day, the boat caught fire re-
A
of the farmers. She stated
that farmers had nothing
but tears in ruling of Con-
gress. She said that the
agrarian community was
reeling under severe crisis
due to negligence of gov-
ernment in fulfilling its poll
promises.
cused persons were also
nabbed.
A bureau press release
said a criminal case under
provisions of the IPC and
Juvenile Justice Act 2015
was registered against ten
accused persons. Investiga-
tion revealed that the ac-
cused persons through so-
cial media platforms like
Facebook and WhatsApp
get connected with the
childless couples across the
country, who desire to
adopt babies.
count offers and the facility
of loan. The progamme was
attended by Manager, Cha-
ran, Namasthe Telangana
branch manager, T Mahen-
der, Bureau Incharge, Marri
Mahender Reddy, Edition
Incharge, M Narender, Advt
Manager, K Shiva Kumar,
Circulation Manager, Mal-
sur Goud, AGM Raji Reddy
and others.
sulting in explosion of a gas
cylinder on board. All nine
fishermen jumped into the
water to escape but some
suffered severe burn in-
juries in the process.
The fishing boat, dam-
aged due to explosion, sank
within minutes. The infor-
mation regarding fire and
explosion was relayed to
Coast Guard by a nearby
boat.