Telangana

[tel-uhn-gah-nuh]

1. a state of central S India since 2014. 44,340 sq. mi. (114,840 sq. km). Hyderabad (shared with Andhra Pradesh).

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Chilukuri Paramathama, who runs a pharmacy in Nalgonda city in the southern Indian state of Telangana, told the BBC that in 2014, he filed a public interest petition in the high court in Hyderabad after reading news reports about a three-year-old who had died in Noida city after she was administered a wrong injection for fever.

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This is the first federal law to ban online betting platforms, though the sector has long faced scrutiny, with states like Odisha, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana already enforcing their own bans.

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In the southern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the family members of another of the abducted men - Amaralingaeswara Rao who worked as an assistant general manager at the factory - are waiting anxiously for him to return home.

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This party traces its ideological roots to a 1946 peasant uprising in the southern state of Telangana.

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Maoists enjoy support in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from mainstream political parties.

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