Hyderabad has it all. A galaxy of educational research institutions, outstanding infrastructure, an affordable lifestyle, and a cosmopolitan culture that makes it the hub of global tech companies. It is now reaching out for the next level. Cabinet Minister for Panchayat Raj & IT, Telangana State, K. T. Rama Rao spoke on how he plans to go about the transformation On his technology vision There is a definitive sense of purpose in what we have been doing in the last fifty days. We are at the second position in IT exports at eight billion dollars and want to scale up swiftly. For this, we have a three-pronged strategy.One is to build a tech incubator ecosystem and a start-up culture in the ...

Jayesh Ranjan, VC & MD, Telangana Industrial Infrastructure Corporation, shares the spirit of the Telangana industrial policy, that is to be unveiled shortly, in an interview with ToI. How interested is industry and the investor community since the new Telangana government has taken charge? Just about 2 months have passed by since the new state has been formed and the new government has taken charge. The kind of enthusiasm that has come from international, domestic and local industrialists and investors, I haven’t seen such a phenomenon before. Practically the who’s who of the business community has paid a call to Hyderabad to meet the Chief Minister. No single week has passed without one mega investment decision or the other getting announced. ...

The Registrar of Companies (RoC) is reported to have announced that AP has only 19,673 registered firms as against 73,306 in Telangana. The RoC also said that not many companies are now transferring base from TS to AP as Inter State transfer came into effect and the transfer process is now complex. In the two months after Parliament passed the Bill and before the Appointed Day, around 700 firms had shifted base to AP. According to latest figures of the Registrar of Companies, in June, post bifurcation, around 211 new companies with Rs 36.74 crore authorised capital were registered in AP and 177 with Rs 10.96 crore authorized capital in Telangana. Prior to this, in May, Uttar Pradesh had 250 (13.97 per cent) ...

In a charged atmosphere about safety of kids, some schools in Hyderabad are exploring new ways to assure parents that there kids are safe in their schools. They are technology to the utmost and installing CCTVs, creating mobile Apps, opening customer service lines for parents to call and enquire. There have been series of incidents in all metros across the country recently, involving school kids, that raised the hackles of parents. Cases of negligence in baby care centres too prompted several of them to install CCTVs and monitor in a central room. Now the institutes are extending the monitoring right into the parents’ hands. Some schools have installed closed-circuit television (CCTV) system and parents have been given access through a ...

 - KT Rama Rao One of the major challenges confronting the IT industry today is ‘technology adaptation’. The latest buzz in IT is SMAC (social, mobility, analytics on big data and cloud computing). Some term it as the fifth wave of the IT architecture. The technology landscape is undergoing significant changes in the current world, and it is redefining ways in which technology interacts with humans. About half a century ago, the computer was perceived to be an elusive daemon, sitting in a research and development lab with a world market for maybe five units. The variables in the information technology industry are very transient in nature. Even today it would be very difficult to predict how the industry will ...