BRS leader KT Rama Rao (KTR), speaking exclusively with NDTV, offered an “unconditional apology” for his recent remarks on women which have triggered a political firestorm in Telangana.  During a speech to party workers yesterday, KTR spoke about women utilising the state’s free bus travel scheme which was introduced shortly after the Congress came to […]

An alleged attempt to sexually assault a woman house surgeon at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital sparked a spontaneous protest by around 150 house surgeons practising under the Compulsory Rotating Medical Internship. The man involved in the act was taken into custody by the police following intervention by the hospital authorities, a senior medical officer

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader KT Rama Rao’s remarks at a gathering in Hyderabad yesterday have prompted an inquiry by the Telangana State Women’s Commission (TSCW). During a speech to party workers, KTR spoke about women utilising the state’s free bus travel scheme which was introduced shortly after the Congress came to power in the

The Telangana Women’s Commission has initiated a suo moto inquiry into some alleged derogatory remarks made by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao. Women’s Commission chairperson Sharada Nerella said the Commission has taken suo moto cognisance of a media post made by Rama Rao, the MLA from Sircilla constituency. “The said post

A four-year-boy, who was bitten by a stray dog on June 27, died of suspected rabies in Tamil Nadu today. The boy, Nirmal hailing from Arkonam in Ranipet district of Tamil Nadu, was bitten by a stray dog while he was playing in the street near to his home. He was admitted to Chengalpattu Government

The police have arrested a teacher for attempting to rape an 11-year-old schoolgirl in the classroom in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district, said officials on Wednesday. The incident was reported from a government school located in the limits of Nimbarga police station in Aland taluk of the district. According to police, the victim was studying in Class

The deadly landslides in Kerala’s ecologically fragile Wayanad district were triggered by a heavy burst of rainfall, made 10 per cent heavier by climate change, according to a new rapid attribution study by a global team of scientists. The team of 24 researchers from India, Sweden, the US and the UK said that more than

One of the gates of the Tungabhadra dam in Karnataka was washed away this week due to the snapping of chain link. A flood alert was sounded in downstream Koppal as authorities immediately opened all except five dam gates to take off the pressure on just one. Anticipating a potential threat from the Tungabhadra reservoir

A drug smuggling operation, seemingly taking cues from the 2021 superhit Telugu film “Pushpa”, was busted by excise officials in Telangana on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, the officials attempted to stop a tractor in the Bhadradri district on Tuesday. The driver of the tractor sped towards the Bhadradri bridge, abandoning the vehicle eventually. A

At Hyderabad’s ‘Manam Chocolate Karkhana’, you are sold not just premium India-crafted chocolates but a story. It is a profound story about the origins of that chocolate from Indian cacao, grown in the farms of West Godavari, and its unique journey to become people’s object of desire in the store, with credit to everyone along