
A 110-year-old man has recovered from Covid-19 at a hospital here, thus becoming probably one of the oldest patients in the country to recover from the dreaded virus, doctors said on Wednesday.

Senior Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader and Huzurabad MLA Eatala Rajender, who was sacked from the state cabinet following allegations of land encroachments, is keeping his followers as well as the media guessing as to what his plan of action is going to be, after he comes out of the TRS.

The unusual silence of senior TRSi leader and Huzurabad MLA Eatala Rajender, who was sacked from the state cabinet by CM K Chandrasekhar Rao early this month, has led to the talk that he is sending feelers to the party leadership for a compromise.

Roads wore a deserted look in Hyderabad and the rest of Telangana on Wednesday morning as the 10-day lockdown began across the state to check the spread of Covid-19.

As the Telangana government announced a brief lock down for 10 days, all the wine shops were crowded with hundreds of people.

Within minutes of the Telangana government announcing a 10-day lockdown from Wednesday in view of surge in Covid-19 cases, hundreds of people queued up at liquor shops in Hyderabad.

The sudden decision of the junior doctors of Telangana to strike work from May 25, if the state government doesn't fulfil their demands pending for over a year, has evoked a lot of criticism from various quarters.

Within minutes of the Telangana government announced imposition of lockdown across the state for 10 days with effect from Wednesday as part of containing the Coronavirus, long queues were witnessed at the liquor shops in various parts of the state, particularly in Hyderabad, on Tuesday morning.

At last, the K Chandrasekhar Rao government in Telangana has decided to impose lockdown in the state from 10 am on Wednesday for a period of 10 days to contain the spread of Coronavirus in the state.

The Ramagundam police in Telangana, who arrested Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader and former MLA Putta Madhukar in Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district, after intense search for him for over a week, surprisingly let him off after questioning him for three days.

Telangana high court on Tuesday took serious exception to the state government’s instructions to the police to stop the Covid-19 patients coming from Andhra Pradesh to Hyderabad for better treatment.

It looks like there is going to be a long wait, at least for a few more months, for the Congress party in the state to get a new president for Pradesh Congress Committee.

In a move to prevent suicides and keep people away from depression and anxiety during Covid pandemic times, Rachakonda police on Monday launched psycho-social counselling services for citizens of Telangana.

At last, wisdom seems to have dawned upon the Telangana government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao over the need to impose lockdown in the state, in view of the growing number of Covid-19 cases in Telangana and also neighbouring states.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s decision not to impose lockdown even partially in the state to check the spread of Coronavirus has drawn a lot of criticism from various quarters.