KHAMMAM: A day after joining the Congress, former MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy on Monday alleged that the state government had failed to provide sufficient security to Rahul Gandhi during his meeting here on Sunday. He said that people could feel the difference between the enthusiasm at Rahul Gandhi’s meeting and the Avirbhava sabha of BRS, both held here. He said …
HYDERABAD: With a self-imposed deadline of declaring beneficiaries under the pattas for podu land programme of the state government, officials involved with the exercise of vetting lakhs of applications with claims over forest land are learnt to be grappling on how to go about the task. Sources in the government, involved with the current exercise, said enormous pressure was being …
HYDERABAD: The Telangana state government, facing the ire of the state forest department officials and their families following the brutal murder of forest range officer Ch. The department also informed the state government in July 2018 that for three years prior to 2018, MLAs, MPs, and ministers, including minister for environment, forests, science, and technology A. Indrakaran Reddy, had stated …
HYDERABAD: Pained over losing a colleague and attacks on others going unabated, Telangana forest service officers have decided to take a tough stand and demanded that the state government take immediate steps, including providing arms to frontline staff to prevent further attacks. M. Raja Ramana Reddy, general secretary of State Forest Service Officers Association, told Deccan Chronicle that a delegation …
Hordes of cadres of the Left and various other Opposition parties, a clutch of farmers’ and mass organisations laid siege to the national and state highways at 21 different locations in the erstwhile composite Khammam district on Tuesday as part of “Sadak Bandh” demanding sanction of pattas for podu farmers as per the Forest Rights Act, 2006. The five-hour “Sadak …
