2025

During interrogation, the accused revealed that they were transporting the ganja from Odisha to Surat on behalf of an unidentified person. Kazipet police and Task Force police arrested two accused, Titu Palai and Renu Samal, with 40 kg of ganja worth Rs. 10 lakh on Sunday. The accused were caught carrying the ganja in two bags near Kazipet railway station. During interrogation, the accused revealed that they were transporting the ganja from Odisha to Surat on behalf of an unidentified person. The accused had gotten off at Kazipet to change trains and were on their way to eat when they were caught by the police. The police also seized two mobile phones from the accused.

Outraged relatives of Gadhe Kavitha (35), killed in an accident on Thursday, staged a protest at Fathima Junction here on Friday. Outraged relatives of Gadhe Kavitha (35), killed in an accident on Thursday, staged a protest at Fathima Junction here on Friday. They alleged that the Kazipet police were showing negligence in handling the case. Kavitha, who was coming out of the St. Gabriel school’s polling station after voting, was about to get on her husband Joseph’s motorcycle when a car hit her dragging her several metres. Despite Joseph’s efforts to rush her to MGM Hospital, Kavitha succumbed to her injuries on the way. The family members accused the police of shielding the accused, citing bias in the investigation. In response, authorities asserted that a case was filed against the accused.

BRS leader Vinod Kumar recalled that the BRS for the last ten years was fighting for a strategic railway line that would facilitate the establishment of the steel plant as promised in Kothagudem district. Former MP and senior BRS leader Vinod Kumar on Saturday said the recently announced 173 km railway line from Pandurangapuram in Bhadradri Kothagudem district (via Bhadrachalam temple town) with Malkangiri in Odisha would help translate into reality the proposed Telangana Steel Plant at Bayyaram. Addressing a news conference at Telangana Bhavan, he recalled that the BRS for the last ten years was fighting for a strategic railway line that would facilitate the establishment of the steel plant as promised in Kothagudem district. The NMDC had agreed in principle to set up a steel plant either at Bayyaram or any other place in the vicinity provided a rail line was built connecting the region with Bailadilla in Chhattisgarh. He stated that such a rail project would help in procuring iron ore from Chhattisgarh and Odisha. The Bayyaram steel plant project was not implemented so far on the ground that it lacked the sufficient raw materials, particularly iron ore available locally. It was claimed that the iron ore available in the region was of low grade and insufficient in quantity. The local iron ore deposits are estimated to be around five million tonnes, whereas the requirement for a steel plant is approximately 200 million tonnes. The new railway line which would be opening up south Chhattisgarh and South western Odisha would emerge as a vital communication link connecting four States including East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh making iron ore and other raw material available abundantly for the Bayyaram steel plant. Now the responsibility of ensuing the implementation of Bayaram steel plant would rest mainly on the BJP MPs elected from Telangana. The BJP government at the Centre should undo the injustice meted out to the State. The Centre did not spend even Rs.10 during the last 10 years on the proposed Steel plant. It did not implement even the railway coach factory at Kazipet. The BRS leader feared that the new rail line could also be used for depriving the region of the mineral wealth especially the iron ore deposits it was endowed with for the benefit of Gujarat or steel units elsewhere. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should ensure that the rail project would help benefit Telangana and the proposed Bayyaram steel plant. He should help foil any moves intended to deprive Telangana of its rich mineral deposits, Vinod Kumar added.

As a large number of crowd gathered at the spot, a police constable slowly held the body by its hand, as it was floating near the edge of the waterbody and gingerly began pulling it ashore. That was when the twist in the story came. Monday morning for the people residing near the Reddypuram Kovelakuntla here began with the quite disturbing sight of a body of a man floating in the waterbody. The residents immediately alerted the police and the 108 ambulance service. As a large number of crowd gathered at the spot, a police constable slowly held the body by its hand, as it was floating near the edge of the waterbody and gingerly began pulling it ashore. That was when the twist in the story came. The ‘body’ suddenly woke up, and the man looked up at the constable to see who was pulling him out of the water. It gradually turned out that the man, identified as a resident of Kavali area of the Nellore District, was ‘tired’ and had decided to cool off with a nap in the water! The man, who works as a labourer in a granite factory in Kazipet, told the police personnel that he had stepped into the water to “relax”. “I work 12 hours a day. I was very tired. I wanted to relax for sometime and so decided to lie in the water for some time,” he said. It was then that the police personnel told him that people around had thought that he was dead and had asked the police to retrieve the “body”. The man claimed that he was not drunk and interestingly, even requested the police personnel to lend him Rs.50 to reach his house in Kazipet.