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With Cyclone Murasu 260 km from Chennai early on 2 November, schools and colleges were shut in Chennai, Tiruvallur and Eluru. IMD has red alerts for Krishna, Guntur, Bapatla, Prakasam and Nellore, and Telangana has orange and yellow alerts. Landfall is due near Ongole between 11:30 pm and 4 am.
Subhash Gupta2 min
Police moved the phone-tapping case against BRS leader T. Harish Rao from Panjagutta to Siddipet One Town station and registered a fresh FIR with five or six added sections, naming him accused no. 1 and ex-DCP Radha Kishan Rao no. 2. Harish Rao calls it political revenge.
Amita Sahani2 min
Telangana declared 365 mandals in 31 districts drought-affected for the kharif season and called an all-party meeting on 28 October. Maharashtra's Cabinet approved a Rs 5,000 advance for 1.5 crore farmers in 304 drought-hit talukas, at a cost of Rs 7,500 crore, to be paid before Diwali.
Reyaansh Agarawal4 min
A report says the Telangana special investigation team is preparing an additional chargesheet naming former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao as prime accused in the phone-tapping case. The BRS calls it vendetta. The chargesheet is not reported as filed.
Subhash Gupta4 min
The Supreme Court collegium has recommended Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty of Calcutta as chief justice of Telangana, Justice P. Sam Koshy for Delhi, Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak for Gujarat and Justice Sudhir Singh for Uttarakhand. The Centre must process the names before they are notified.
Reyaansh Agarawal4 min
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy asked Maharashtra for a 152 metre height for the Tummidihetti barrage when he met Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai. Fadnavis said he was ready to review the 148 metre agreement of 2016 if Maharashtra is not harmed, and proposed a joint committee of officials.
Amita Sahani4 min
The Election Commission has declined an RTI request for the name and version of its ECINET software, citing commercial confidence, and says no new software was bought for the SIR. Separately, officials expect five to six lakh more deletions in Telangana after a duplicate-flagging tool runs.
Prateek Rawat4 min
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy will meet Maharashtra's Devendra Fadnavis at the Sahyadri guest house in Mumbai on Monday. The talks are to settle clearances for the Tummidihetti barrage, stuck on its height: Maharashtra agreed to about 148 metres, Telangana wants 150 to 152.
Subhash Gupta4 min
Telangana will run a Rs 150 crore drought-mitigation pilot in Midjil, Uppunuthala and Makthal mandals. A committee is to declare drought-hit mandals by 31 October, after a preliminary assessment flagged 358 mandals and the Chief Minister asked farmers to defer one crop.
Reyaansh Agarawal4 min
