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Updated: Counting of votes is underway. Share Article AAA Congress party workers during the counting of votes for Rajasthan Municipal Election 2021 result, in Ajmer on January 31, 2021.   | Photo Credit: PTI Counting of votes is underway. The ruling Congress in Rajasthan on January 31 won 398 wards, while the BJP bagged 333, according to results available for 994 of the 3035 wards for which polls were held. Counting of votes is underway. Fourteen wards have been won by the NCP, 12 by the RLP...

Parkal TRS MLA’s house attacked Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA BJP workers allegedly attacked the house of TRS MLA from Parkal Challa Dharma Reddy at Hanamkonda on Sunday with stones and eggs in protest against his comments over donations raised for construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya. Mr. Reddy said at a function earlier in the day that BJP collected funds without maintaining accounts. He alleged that ₹1,000 crore was received by the party in Telangana alone. “At this rate, ...

300 cases in capital Updated: Updated: Test positivity rate at 6.74% Share Article Test positivity rate at 6.74% The capital district recorded 300 COVID-19 cases and 382 recoveries as the caseload fell to 4,304 on Sunday. While 4,447 people were subjected to testing during the last 24 hours, the test positivity rate stood at 6.74%. Barring two imported cases, almost all the new cases have attributed to local transmission of the disease. The source of infection is unknown in 92 cases. Five healt...

Updated: Share Article AAA On the first day of Pulse Polio programme, a total of 36,42,598 children aged 0-5 years in Telangana were vaccinated on Sunday. There are over 38.31 lakh children in that age group in the State. On Sunday, the drops were administered at 23,331 booths. House-to-house activity would be taken up on February 1 and 2 to immunise the children who missed taking the pulse polio drops. Due to large extent of area in Hyderabad, the programme would be conducted on February 3 in ...

Modi likely to open phase I extension Updated: Updated: Prime Minister likely to visit Chennai on February 14 Share Article Prime Minister likely to visit Chennai on February 14 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Chennai on February 14 when he will inaugurate the Metro Rail project’s Washermenpet-Wimco Nagar line, an extension of phase I, among other schemes, according to a senior official. Sources in Chennai Metro Rail Ltd. said though the construction work on stations has b...

6 held in GST fraud case, 340 firms identified Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Six men were arrested in connection with a GST refund scam, the police said on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Shailesh Kumar (29), Sandeep Singh Negi (30), Vivek Kumar (42), Harish Chand Girish (45), Gaurav Rawat (33) and Manoj Kumar (41), they said. The police received a complaint that some unknown persons had got three GSTINs issued on complainant’s PAN and Aadhaar card. GSTINs were issued in th...

Pulse polio given to 90% of children Updated: Updated: Those not covered to be vaccinated in the next two days Share Article AAA A child being administered polio drops at the Ernakulam General Hospital on Sunday.   | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat Those not covered to be vaccinated in the next two days With a total of 1,88,798 children below the age of five being administered the polio vaccine on Sunday, around 90% of the targeted children in the district were covered. As many as 2,033 booths we...

631 kg of ganja seized Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Sattupalli police on Sunday seized around 631 kg of ganja concealed in a load of vegetable trays in a van at the Ring Centre in Sattupalli town. The police foiled an attempt by peddlers to smuggle the huge quantity of ganja from the Agency area of Andhra Pradesh to Warangal when they chanced upon the contraband in a van during a vehicle checking drive on the outskirts of the town. A car which was accompanying the ganja-laden van w...

Ballot papers titled ‘2020 election’ to be used in GP poll Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA East Godavari Collector D. Muralidhar Reddy on Sunday said that ballot papers titled ‘Gram Panchayat elections-2020’ would be used in the gram panchayat elections, 2021. In an official release, Mr. Muralidhar has appealed to the voters not to be confused over the title of the ballot papers in the polling to be conducted in February. “We have printed the ballot papers meant for the March 20...

Man strangles wife to death Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A 36-year-old woman, according to the police, was strangulated to death by her husband at Uday Nagar in Old Jewargi Road locality in Kalaburagi city on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Sheetal. The police said that the accused, Prem Singh, married Sheetal 16 years ago and they have three children. The husband, the police said, suspected that his wife was unfaithful to him. The two would fight regularly and this led to the m...