KARIMNAGAR: Godavarikhani police on Sunday arrested six people on the charge of circulating fake currency notes in Karimnagar district. The police seized counterfeit notes of the face value of Rs 3.65 lakh from the accused.Following a tip-off that fake currency being carried by some persons, a police team led by deputy SP S Malla Reddy and Town-I inspector Venkateswarlu conducted searches at the local...

Source : Times Of India | 12 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar

Singareni strike halts production

KARIMNAGAR/ ADILABAD/ KHAMMAM: Production in Singareni Collieries was affected on Tuesday as about 62,000 employees struck work in response to a call given by national trade unions against the Centre's move to privatize coal mines. The strike will continue for five days.Police arrested several leaders of INTUC, AITUC and HMS in Karimnagar and Khammam districts when they stopped workers from entering...

Source : Times Of India | 52 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar

Two killed in cylinder blast

A roadside vendor and his daughter died in a gas cylinder blast at Kapuwada area in Karimnagar town on Saturday.According to One Town police, Kura Prabhakar, 62, was preparing food when the regulator of the LPG cylinder came off resulting in the blast. He died on the spot while his daughter Padma, 35, received serious injuries.She was rushed to government hospital with 60% burns. She died while undergoing...

Source : Times Of India | 76 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar

Denied pension, 3 die of ‘shock’

Three more persons died allegedly due to shock after officials refused to pay them pension under the new norms.Though the victims have been receiving pension for several years, local officials declared them ineligible under the new guidelines issued by the state government. At least a dozen such deaths have been reported from various parts of the state in the last two months.Angered over the incidents,...

Source : Times Of India | 76 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar

Property tax defaulter faces ‘stinking’ protest

KARIMNAGAR: Ramagundam municipal corporation (RMC) workers on Thursday resorted to a rather weird protest over a house-owner's failure to pay property tax for the past four years. They parked vehicles laden with garbage outside the residence of the defaulter who owes Rs 4.97 lakh to the civic body. The RMC sanitary staff even threatened to unload the stinking waste in front of his house if he failed...

Source : Times Of India | 78 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar

Two killed in explosion at toy-making unit

KARIMNAGAR: Two persons were killed today and one was seriously injured in an explosion at a toy manufacturing unit on the outskirts of Karimnagar town.The explosion took place at around 7am when the workers at the private unit, where toys are made out of Plaster of Paris (PoP), were diluting an outdated chemical with water near a gas cylinder kept in the premises, Karimnagar Deputy Superintendent...

Source : Times Of India | 90 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar

2 girls die as rain lashes two districts

KARIMNAGAR/NIZAMABAD/HYDERABAD: Two girls died as heavy rain accompanied by lightning hit parts of Karimnagar and Nizamabad districts on Wednesday evening. Several houses were damaged in Karimnagar district. However, the rain brought relief to farmers, who are facing severe drought conditions due to failure of monsoon this year.An eight-year-old girl, identifi ed as Zaheda, died in house collapse due...

Source : Times Of India | 107 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar

2 brothers sentenced to death for killing wife, parents in-law in Telangana

Karimnagar Sixth Additional Sessions Judge G Venkata Krishnaiah convicted Junnugari Devender (26) and his cousin Junnugari Naresh (24) on charges of killing four persons and pronounced that they must be hanged until death.According to Additional Public Prosecutor S Giridhar Rao, the accused Devender, a resident of Eight Incline Colony at Godavarikhani in Karimnagar district, used to allegedly harass...

Source : DNA | 133 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar

BJP Ex-MP Vidyasagar Rao as new Maharashtra Governer

state for Home affairs, Mr.Ch.Vidyasagar Rao has been appointed as the Governor of Maharashtra. His appointment as Governor has come as a great surprise to many though Vidyasagar Rao is known as a close associate of Narendera Modi for almost two decades. The 73-year-old Vidyasagar, who is also former Karimnagar MP from Telangana state, hailing from a strong political family of Karimnagar...

Source : Webindia123 | 186 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar

Vidyasagar Rao is BJP leader from Telangana

Vidyasagar Rao, appointed the new governor of Maharashtra Tuesday, is one of the top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Telangana.Hailing from Karimnagar district, he served as the union minister of state for home in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.The 69-year-old was also the BJP president in united Andhra Pradesh and was elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Karimnagar. He was defeated...

Source : Newkerala | 186 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Karimnagar