The Election Commission on Saturday announced the schedule for bypolls to the Medak Lok Sabha. The Poll will be held on Sept 13. The Notification would be issued on 20th Aug and Nominations would be received from that day till 27 Aug. They can be withdrawn till 30 Aug. The results of the poll would be out on 16th Sept. Along with Medak, 3 other Lok Sabha Constituencies and 33 Assembly Constituencies in the country would go to polls on Sept 13th.

Preparations are in full swing by TeNA for it’s maiden Telangana float at the India Day parade. The Brand Ambassador of Telangana, Sania Mirza will accompany the Telangana Float in India Day Parade on Sunday, 17th Aug in New York City, said a TeNa release. TeNA has been participating in the New York City parade for the past two years and proudly showcasing the Telangana identity and culture in front of more than 150,000 people from all over the world. This time being very historic and special, as we got our dream state of Telangana, TeNA is coming up with a Telangana Float in the parade and also inviting prominent Telangana people as special guests from Telangana. The entry fees for the Telangana Float is $4000 and the ...

CM KCR spoke at length about State’s welfare schemes at the I-Day fete at Golconda. Listing out his manifesto promises which are being implemented, the CM stated that Rs 482 crore is  released towards input subsidy for farmers who suffered losses for five years due to drought and cyclonic rains. He also reminded that his Govt. has given Rs 6.50 crore  to provide immediate succor to weavers and waive off power loom arrears. Toddy shops will be restarted after Dasara festival as per the longstanding demand, besides giving pensions to old, widow and handicapped, he added. While stating that  Rs 1000 crore is allocated  in  the State Budget for welfare of Muslim Minorities, he said a committee would be set up ...

Chief Minister KCR criticized the opposition parties for raising a hue and cry on the Intensive Household Survey to be conducted on Aug 19. Addressing the gathering at Golconda fort after unfurling Tricolor for the first time, the Chief Minister criticized that some bad elements are coming in the way of the survey aimed to implement welfare schemes avoiding misuse of funds. There is no need of doubt or confusion in this regard, he said. Since the government has no proper details of people, they  are conducting the survey,  he said adding that it is proved that successive governments have involved in irregularities with regard to ration cards, housing to poor and pensions besides implementing welfare schemes. ‘We want to weed out bogus ...

The Telangana government on Thursday cleared the air that the survey on August 19th is voluntary and not mandatory. The survey is done for sprucing up welfare programs and plug leakages and fix irregularities, the Govt informed the court. Earlier, Justice Vilas Afzulpurkar of the Hyderabad High Court admitted the writ petitions field by Rajasekhar Tulasi and Seethalakshmi, called for records and posted the case for final disposal. R. Raghunandan Rao, senior counsel appearing for Seethalakshmi, contended that Parliament has already enacted the Collection of Statistics Act, 2008 and the Collection of Statistics Rules 2011. He argued the State has no jurisdiction to conduct such surveys under Article 162 of the Constitution. The petitioner also contended the State Govt. has ...