Rachakonda Traffic Police in Hyderabad registered over 38,000 cases under the Motor Vehicle Act from October 30 to November 5 and imposed a fine of over ₹1.36 crore. Most violators were booked for driving without helmets while overspeeding was the second-highest violation reported. In the same period, 11 persons lost their lives and 43 received injuries in 45 road accidents.

The Department of Expenditure, which comes under the Finance Ministry, on Wednesday asked all ministries and departments to clear dues of Air India and purchase tickets by making cash payments. Since the disinvestment process of Air India has started, the airline has stopped extending credit limit, it said. Earlier, the government sold Air India to Tata Sons for ₹18,000 crore.

Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale has said, “I advise Shah Rukh Khan to send Aryan Khan to a de-addiction rehabilitation centre associated with the ministry. He should be there for one to two months instead of keeping him in jail.” He added, “In one to two months, he will be cured of drug addiction.”

Speaking about his days selling tea as a child and later becoming the Prime Minister of India, PM Narendra Modi said, “If I can, anyone can!” “I don’t get awed by the trajectory of my own life. I get awed by…our people, who can pick a poor child and make him reach where I have,” he added.

Telangana minister KT Rama Rao said that the state government is developing flyovers in Hyderabad at a cost of ₹10,000 crore. He presented a report on infrastructure development during the ongoing Assembly on Monday. He also urged his colleagues to make a list of pending projects so that the government can take them up immediately.

As India set a record by administering 2.5 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a day on PM Narendra Modi’s birthday on September 17, he said, “I always stayed away from birthdays, but it was an emotional day yesterday.” “With the efforts of all of you (healthcare workers), it became a very special day for me,” he further said.

India produced the largest amount of social media misinformation on Covid-19 due to its internet reach and users’ lack of internet literacy, a new study has said. India (15.94 per cent), the US (9.74 per cent), Brazil (8.57 per cent) and Spain (8.03 per cent) are the four most misinformation-affected countries, PTI said quoting the study.

Telangana government has released ₹10 crore for the Reddy hostel building which is being constructed in Budwel, on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The state government has allotted 15 acres to Raja Bahadur Venkata Rama Reddy Educational Society in Budwel for the construction of hostel building for the Reddy community. Reddy Jana Sangha Advisor Dasaratha Reddy thanked CM K Chandrashekar Rao.

Pointing out that intelligence sources say CM KCR’s popularity has plummeted drastically, former minister and BJP leader Eatala Rajender alleged that the people of Telangana no longer trust the TRS chief. Speaking to the media here on Thursday, Rajender lambasted KCR for cancelling the Praja Darbar programme, which was launched by former Andhra Pradesh Chief Ministers to address and resolve the grievances of people. He also blasted the TRS supremo for not appointing an SC CM, as the latter had promised previously.

A BJP worker has constructed a temple for PM Narendra Modi in Pune’s Aundh area. As per the worker, the temple is a tribute to PM Modi for building Ram Temple at Ayodhya and abrogating Article 370, among other things. Built at a cost of ₹1.6 lakh, the temple has PM’s bust and a poem displayed next to the structure.

Nara Lokesh on Wednesday said a website, itdpblog.com, has been launched to protect the party’s cadres. “The itdpblog.com website has been designed for the protection of party activists. This is another step in the direction of standing by the TDP family,” said Lokesh. He advised the opposition party activists to make use of the WhatsApp phone number listed on the website to alert in the event of any trouble from the police or YSRCP supporters.

Shaharyar Ali, a professor at SRK College in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad, has been arrested for allegedly making vulgar remarks against Union Minister Smriti Irani on Facebook in March. Ali had surrendered before Additional Sessions Judge Anurag Kumar and moved an interim bail application on Tuesday. The judge, however, denied the bail plea.

Amid the Pegasus controversy, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed the government wants to turn India into a surveillance state and added, “This isn’t a democracy but a detective-ocracy.” “The phones have become recorders to them,” she said. As she urged Opposition parties to come together against BJP, the Trinamool Congress chief said, “2024 isn’t far.”

PM Narendra Modi on Friday warned the citizens that coronavirus is “still among us” and the possibility of it mutating is also there. “We have to further enhance the preparedness of the country to meet the challenges ahead,” he asserted. PM Modi has launched six crash course programmes to train around 1 lakh frontline workers to help fight COVID-19 pandemic.

India will need to spend an additional ₹80,000 crore ($11 billion) to provide free vaccines and food to crores of people impacted by the second COVID-19 wave, Bloomberg reported citing sources. The government will earmark ₹70,000 crore to provide food to over 80 crore people till Diwali and will need an additional ₹10,000 crore to provide free vaccines, sources said.