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- India
Zomato now available in Hindi, delivering 150K orders via regional language platforms
New Delhi: Online food delivery platform Zomato on Friday announced it is now available in Hindi and other widely spoken regional languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu.…
- Hyderabad
Kolkata: Rachakonda cops bust call centre which hired Telugu-speaking scamsters
Hyderabad: Rachakonda police on Wednesday arrested nine individuals in Kolkata who ran call centres and employed Telugu-speaking people to dupe people in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The fraud call centers, which would…
- Telangana
Respect local languages: KTR to Indigo airlines after ‘discriminatory’ incident
Hyderabad: Telangana minister for IT and industries KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Sunday requested Indigo Airlines to start respecting local languages after an instance of language-based discrimination went viral on Twitter. Devasmita…
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Suppression of local languages by Nizams led to Hyderabad’s annexation: freedom fighter
Aurangabad: Imposition of Urdu as a medium of instruction in schools and suppression of local languages like Telugu, Marathi and Kannada by the Nizam rulers of Hyderabad triggered a movement that culminated into…
- Andhra Pradesh
PM Modi condoles veteran Telugu actor Krishnam Raju’s demise
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday condoled the demise of veteran Telugu actor and politician U.V. Krishnam Raju. “Saddened by the passing away of Shri UV Krishnam Raju Garu. The…
- Telangana
Telangana: Poet Venu Sankoju awarded for outstanding work in Telugu literature
Hyderabad: The Telangana Government announced on Wednesday that noted Telugu Poet Dr Venu Sankoju has been selected for the prestigious Dasarathi Krishnamacharya award of 2022. The award was instituted in the name…
- Hyderabad
Messaging app Koo signs MoU with Telangana Government
Hyderabad: Multi-lingual social media platform Koo on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Telangana government to open a development center in Hyderabad. Telangana Government aims to work with the…
- NRIs Corner
TTA organizes mega convention in US
New York: Dr. Pailla Malla Reddy, founder of Telangana American Telugu Association (TTA) has organized a mega convention in New York, the United States. After the pandemic, it was the first mega…
- Telangana
Telangana: Schools suggest alternatives to compulsory Telugu mandate
Hyderabad: A cluster meeting of school principals was organised by Hyderabad Sahodaya Schools Complex (HSSC) on Thursday over the Telangana government’s mandate to make Telugu compulsory as a second language. Telangana government…
- Entertainment
Telugu film producer Narayan Das Narang passes away
New Delhi: Veteran film producer Narayan Das Narang, who has bankrolled many Tollywood movies, has passed away. He was 76 when he breathed his last in Hyderabad on Tuesday. Indian film critic…
- Entertainment
As Hindi row flares up, Prakash Raj says ‘we love our mother tongue’
Chennai: After A.R. Rahman, multi-lingual actor Prakash Raj has responded strongly to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent remarks that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English. Quoting a media…
- Telangana
Let people decide what to eat, what language to speak: KTR to Amit Shah
Hyderabad: TRS Working President and Minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Saturday countered Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s call to make Hindi the alternative to English and termed it as ‘language chauvinism’.…
- Telangana
160 more Telugu students return home from Ukraine
Hyderabad: An additional 160 Telugu students have returned home from war-torn Ukraine, officials said. On Friday, the seventh day of the evacuation of Indian citizens, 94 students of Telangana and 66 of…
- Andhra Pradesh
Telugu film stars, directors meet CM Jagan over ticket pricing issue
Amaravati: As the Andhra Pradesh state government recently reduced film ticket prices, stars from the Telugu film industry met Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday to negotiate the ticket prices…
