An assistant animal keeper was injured after a lioness allegedly pounced on him at its enclosure in the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad, officials said on Tuesday.
Daughter of legendary Telugu actor and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister the late N T Rama Rao (NTR), Uma Maheswari, allegedly died of suicide at her residence in Hyderabad on Monday, police said.
Police on late on Thursday night broke the five-day-old indefinite hunger strike of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, at the Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad and got him shifted to a government hospital.
Azad, an M Tech degree holder from Warangal regional engineering college, had been with the Maoist movement since the last three and a half decades and had the reputation of being an expert strategist. He was an accused in the killing of Congress legislator C Narsi Reddy along with 10 others in Mahbubnagar district on August 15, 2005.
The chief minister also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh for the families of those killed in the bomb blast, and of Rs 20,000 for those injured
The jawan reportedly told the police that he shot at the official, as he was frustrated over denial of leave to him.
The state government submitted the first post-mortem report of 20 people, who were killed in police firing in Seshachalam forests of Chittoor district on April 7.
A team of doctors at NIMS, attending on the Kadapa MP, administered IV fluids after his health indicators including blood pressure and glucose levels dropped drastically, a NIMS official said.
With 11 people succumbing to swine flu in Telangana so far this year, the state government on Wednesday sought Centre's help to check the spread of the deadly virus.
The health condition of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday improved a bit after doctors at the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, where he is being treated following his indefinite fast against Andhra Pradesh bifurcation, administered IV fluids to him.
YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who was shifted to a government hospital in Hyderabad from jail following a five day-long indefinite fast against bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, has refused to be put on intravenous fluids, doctors said.
Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali has kicked up a controversy with his remark that the historic 'Charminar' will be razed if it becomes dilapidated while defending his government's decision to rebuild the 90-year-old Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad.
Rao's death triggered a political slugfest in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh with the Telugu Desam Party holding the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government there responsible for the veteran leader's suspected suicide.
Nelli Praveen Kumar, aged about 25, a first semester student of Master of Fine Arts course of Department of Fine Arts, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, was found hanging from ceiling in the room at about 4.15 am
'Every disease has traits and we have found out that actually 99 per cent of people who have got COVID-19, should recover.'
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