Live Updates: Hyderabad, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh News Today 27 November 2021

Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh police have arrested five people so far in connection with online marijuana sale racket busted by Madhya Pradesh police with the arrest of two persons who were registered with Amazon as vendors, a top police official said on Saturday. The investigations so far revealed that one Srinivas Rao acting as the contact point of two men from Madhya Pradesh was supplying marijuana (ganja) from Visakhapatnam to Madhya Pradesh as an ayurvedic medicine to control diabetes.Read more

Heavy Downpour now in #Nellore city. A Huge rain storm moving into Nellore district now. https://t.co/bBhIeQMx3X pic.twitter.com/WKsdTSf35k

— Andhra Pradesh Weatherman (@APWeatherman96) November 27, 2021

A man was brutally murdered by unidentified assailants here at Malyalapalli of Ramagundam mandal in Peddapalli district. The victim, Kampalli Shankar, native of NTPC Kajipalli was working as an operator at Mee-Seva. The police found his severed head and hands behind NTP cooling centre in Malyalapalli outskirts. The police who were alerted by the villagers rushed to the spot along with the dog squad. The torso of the man is yet to be found. Meanwhile, family members of Shankar accused his wife of killing her husband following which the police took her into custody and are investigating. A case has been registered by the police.

INTENSE Rains just moving into South Parts of #Nellore district while Moderate showers spreading into East #Chittoor including Tirupati, as said earlier.

Next 2 hours mild drizzles are expected to spread into #Kadapa district as well. pic.twitter.com/cogPwdvjww

— Andhra Pradesh Weatherman (@APWeatherman96) November 27, 2021

Andhra Pradesh: The Andhra Pradesh government's decision to introduce reduced movie ticket prices has left the Telugu film industry in dire straits. With the directive of the government, the distributors or producers cannot hike the tickets for their movies and have lost control over many other trade-related issues. At this juncture, big-budget Telugu movies won't make profits, as the movie ticket rates will be locked up by the state government in Andhra Pradesh. In fact, some movies might not even recover half of their investment even if the film is a huge hit.Read more

The Telangana government on Friday released the list of public holidays under Negotiable Instruments Act. The list also contains general holidays and optional holidays to be observed in the year 2022. According to the list, there will be around 23 public holidays, 28 general holidays for government offices along with five optional holidays besides public holidays for occasions/festivals. Further, all the State government offices will be closed on all Sundays and Second Saturdays in all the months , except the Second Saturday (12.02.2022) in the month of February, 2022 which will be a working day instead of public holiday declared on January 1, 2022. The holidays for Idu'l Fitar, Idu'l Azha, Muharram and Id-e-Milad will be announced in advance prior to holiday as per the moon sight.

In a protest against the attitude of traffic police, a man from Adilabad set his bike on fire on Saturday. Getting into details, the man, Maqbul, a native of Khanapur was fined by the traffic police while he was travelling on bike near Ambedkar crossroads. Dissatisfied over the attitude of the traffic police for imposing challans frequently, the man set his bike on fire. The police rushed to the spot and doused the flames.

The counselling schedule for TS EAMCET 2021 BiPC has been released. According to the schedule, candidates can book the slots for ceritificate verification between December 1 and 13. The ceritificate verification will be held on December 3 and 4 and the web options can be exercised between December 3 and 5: Read More

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted moderate rains in Telangana today and tomorrow due to the flow of winds from northeast direction. The winds are due to a low-pressure that is expected to form over West Andaman islands: Read More