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TRS is making good of it’s promise to operationalize the 1,000 bed healthcare facility in NIMS Bibinagar campus within next 2 months. Telangana Government put pressure on NIMS to take the campus works on priority and NIMS has resumed work on the campus and is completing pending electrical and civic works. The building itself was ready 4 years ago but the works were not completed, allegedly deliberate neglect to delay the campus operations. The campus will cater to the healthcare needs of people from the 4 districts of Nalgonda, Mahbubnagar, Medak and Warangal districts. Now with Telangana becoming a reality, NIMS is completing the works which may take some time for the whole of 1000 bed facility but the outpatient departments would start working in ...

After repeated directions by the load dispatch centres, the APERCs and the Central ERC to AP to maintain status quo regarding the power PPAs fell on deaf ears, the whole PPA cancellation gameplan by AP is heading towards a political settlement at the Centre. The ERC said this in as many words when it asked Centre to take the final call as it’s own authority has been questioned by AP with it’s continued defiance. With the Centre visibly inclining towards AP, due to the political alliances, Telangana is already seeing red.  The ERC’s decision not to involve itself in the power struggle came as surprise as the commission was asked to be the regulator for both the states till a separate ...

Telangana IT & Industries Minister K Taraka Ramarao on Wednesday inaugurated a Retrofitting center on the premises of Tech Mahindra in Madhapur, Hyderabad. Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TSIIC), in technical cooperation with the Indo-German Environment Partnership Cell (IGEP), of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, has setup this Center and launched the Retro-fitting Programme for Information Technology Parks in Cyberabad Zone. Representatives from German Emabassy and many CEOs of IT companies participated at the event. Retrofitting is about adding new green-friendly features to older systems. It is aimed at improving the economic performance, work environment, employability and environment performance of the IT parks and will be initially tested in IT parks in Madhapur and Nanakramguda. “GIZ has already done ‘greening’ of industrial parks and retrofitting ...

  One of the most lasting legacies of the Deccan has been the water management policy formulated by the Kakatiya dynasty, which relied mainly on small tanks for its irrigation and drinking water requirements. There was a time when the Telangana countryside boasted of thousands of tanks which ensured a perennial supply of water for settlements across the region. The Qutub Shahi rulers continued the practice by adding numerous tanks of their own, especially in the areas abutting the citadel at Golconda. A majority of those tanks continued to serve the population till post-reorganisation exploitation of the region’s resources led to their being either rendered dry or unusable due to pollution. Following the great floods of 1908, Mahboob Ali Khan, the ...

Swedish furniture retailer Ikea AB is expected to open its first outlet in India at Hyderabad and the Telangana government has promised to fast-track all necessary clearances as the new state seeks to attract investments. After a meeting with top Ikea executives, chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao was quoted as saying all necessary clearances will be given through a single window to expedite the process of opening the store in the city. A high-level team from the company represented by Juvenico Maeztu, Ikea Indian arm chief executive officer, and Preet Dhupar, chief financial officer, met Rao at the Secretariat here on Wednesday, a state government press release said. “He (Maeztu) explained in detail the genesis and growth of the company. ...