The Telangana police chief on Sunday denied reports that he ordered all police officers to undergo Covid-19 test.
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Policemen and medical professionals, who are in the forefront to combat spread of Covid-19, are becoming the targets of the attacks by unruly elements amid lockdown.
The Telangana police department is using the drone technology to identify people who are violating the lockdown restrictions and moving freely, posing threat to others in the wake of the present Coronavirus threat.
The Telangana government headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced payment of full salaries to the police and medical department employees including doctors and paramedical staff, but ignored many other frontline departments.
Health officials in Telangana's Ranga Reddy district were trying to trace the contacts of a woman who tested positive after her death.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter and former Nizamabad MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha had stopped going into the people of her constituency ever since she was defeated by the Bharatiya Janata party candidate Dharmapuri Aravind in May last year.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said on Thursday that those who died due to Covid-19 are martyrs.
Telangana reported three more deaths due to Coronavirus disease and as many as 30 new positive cases on Wednesday, a statement made by the Telangana government after midnight said.
The health and police employees in Telangana will not only be paid full salary for March but will also get cash incentive in recognition for their efforts to check the spread of coronavirus.
Telangana Home Minister Mohammed Mehmood Ali on Wednesday denied he was not allowed to meet Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao by the latter's security personnel.
There has been a criticism against Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao that he runs the state like his personal fiefdom and he doesn’t allow anybody in the party and the government to hold any power.
It was just around a week ago, the Telangana government issued an order ( GO Ms No. 45 Dated March 22, 2029), enforcing the week-long lockdown till March 31, which was later extended up to April 15.
After hectic efforts of search and enquiries, the Telangana police have so far identified as many as 1,030 people from the state who attended a religious congregation of Tablighi Jamaat at Nizamuddin in Delhi from March 15 to 17.
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Though the Central government has banned operation of all international flights into the country, it has started operating special flights to evacuate German nationals who got stranded in Hyderabad due to lockdown.
Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday strongly condemned the hasty decision to cut salaries of state government employees almost by 50% in Telangana by the state government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.