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Inaugurating the CII organized cyber security conference ‘Counter Measures to Face the Threats’ here on Friday, IT minister KTR said Kaspersky Labs had placed India as the 2nd most vulnerable country to cyber attacks. IT minister, who was also the chief guest, the IT minister said that around 85 per cent of websites — both public and private — complained of being hacked at least once and stressed on the need to adopt cyber security measures to thwart such attacks. He pointed that neighboring China has 25 million cyber warriors guarding it, India lags far behind with only 22,075 cyber security professionals. India is the second-most cyber attacks on mobile devices prone country with a major chunk of these intrusions designed for phishing and stealing banking ...

President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to a bill that facilitates handing over of over 530 villages spread across seven mandals in Telangana to the residual state of Andhra Pradesh for setting up of the multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project.The President has given his consent to Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill yesterday making it an Act, official sources said.The Bill was passed by Parliament last week.The project involves relocation of about 50,000 families especially in Khammam in Telangana, besides 2,000 families in Odisha and Chhattisgarh.Polavaram project has been accorded national project status by the Centre. The dam across the Godavari river is under construction and located in West Godavari district and East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, with its reservoir spreading ...

Notwithstanding the furor caused by the dharna of the Gurukul teachers against RS Praveen Kumar IPS, Secretary, Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society, CM KCR firmly backed the officer and asserted in the T News Live show that the IPS officer’s services would continue to be used for the cause of education. This is the 2nd time in last week that the CM extended support to the beleaguered officer. On 14th July, the Gurukul teachers held talks with the Secretary over the multiple objections they raised against him. The talks happened after the teachers realized the State Govt., despite all the employee-friendly policies, will not succumb to their demand to transfer the IPS officer from social welfare back to his police department. ...

In the T News Live show yesterday, CM KCR said the Delhi rulers have by force separated 7 mandals of Telangana and merged them into AP. He said it is a bitter reality now and not much can be done. With this, the curtains came down on the contentious issue. Earlier, while the TRS was claiming to go to court over procedural lapses in getting the amendment passed, they seem to have accepted the reality right after passage of the Polavaram ordinance. The State Government till now did not approach the supreme court on the issue. This is perhaps out of the realization that the NDA government is determined to make the amendment even if the court nullifies the amendment. A ...

The controversy ridden Lanco Hills project at Manikonda is back into focus with the government hinting at resuming the ‘wakf’ land. This is yet another setback to the infrastructure major which suffered a blow after the A.P. High Court ruled that the 108 acre of land being developed as a residential-cum-commercial venture actually belonged to the Wakf Board. In fact the vast tracts of land allotted by the A.P Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) in Manikonda jagir belonging to Dargah Hazrath Hussain Shah Wali to various companies are embroiled in controversy right from 2007. Both the Telugu Desam and YSR governments are accused of giving away prime chunks of land to companies at throw away prices. According to the Wakf Board ...