Live Updates: Hyderabad, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh News Today 13 November 2021

Union Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister YSJaganmohan Reddy offered prayers at Tirumala.

Telangana has won 12 'Swacch' awards under Swachh Surekshan 2021. The categories include Garbage Free City Rating 2021 and Safai Mitra Suraksha Challenge. The awards will be given away by the president Ram Nath Kovind during the Swachh Amrit Mahotsav scheduled to be held by Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) at Vignan Bhavan in New Delhi on November 20.Read more

Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC) accorded permission to the discoms for the purchase of solar power. On the request of the discoms to purchase solar power from Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), the APERC allowed them to purchase 10,000 mega watts of solar power by September 2026.Read more

Telangana government will allocate Rs 10 crore to strengthen the health systems in the state, said Health Minister Harish Rao. The minister on Saturday inaugurated 100-bed ICU unit at Niloufer hospital in Hyderabad. Later speaking to media, Harish Rao said that the government would bring another 800-bed ward in Niloufer by spending Rs 33 crore. He also asked the doctors to provide medical services on par with private hospitals.Read more

Hyderabad: Telangana State Planning Commission vice-chairman B. Vinod Kumar has claimed that the data gathered by the Centre proves that paddy cultivation has taken up over 59 lakh acres in Telangana during Kharif season. He asked state BJP president Bandi Sanjay what he will say now after criticising Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao over the extent of paddy cultivation. Vinod Kumar pointed out that according to the Remote Sensing Centre which mapped paddy cultivation across the country, paddy is being grown in 2.374 million hectares that is 59 lakh acres. This is expected to yield 7.543 million tonnes of paddy.Read more

India Veterans Organisation AP and Special Police Officers Organisation AP (organized by ExDefence Armed force, Police officers of the Union) members staging a protest, at the dharna chowk in Vijayawada on Saturday.

NGO state president Bandi Srinivasa Rao, AP JAC Amaravati Chairman Bopparaju Venkateswarlu, and AP JAC leaders addressing the press conference,at NGO Home in Vijayawada on Saturday.

The four-year-old girl who was found dead in front of a close shop in Dwarakapuri colony of Punjagutta was killed by her, said the police who arrested the woman and two others in connection with the case. Investigations revealed that the woman killed her daughter to save her extra marital affair. The police nabbed the accused in Ajmer of Rajasthan. They are said to be residents of Old City in Hyderabad.Read more