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KCR’s Surprise About FAST Is Out! Scholarship Directly To Students With 75% Attendance

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Last week, when CM KCR met with Journos and was asked about FAST and the 1956 cut-off, he quipped there is another ‘angle’ to the FAST scheme which will come out soon. Now it is out! FAST (Financial Assistance to Students of Telangana – FAST) Scholarship is turning the fee reimbursement scheme upside down and may cause major heartburn for managements of engineering colleges. The erstwhile fee reimbursement scheme was criticized to be an employment scheme for college managements rather than a scheme to help needy students. The latest FAST scholarship s set to rectify those mistakes and remove irregularities from the newly introduced scholarship scheme to help the really needy and also bring up the quality of education with the ...

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Was Amitabh Born In Gujarat? Did He Play Garba To Be It’s Ambassador?

Amitabh is Gujarat' Ambassador; Shah Rukh Khan is Bengal's Ambassador

The BJP which has been mysteriously silent on all major issues Telangana has been facing ever since it became a state, has now woke up and raised its voice, only to shoot itself in the foot. In a hurry to corner the TRS Govt, the BJP got several things wrong. While it could have acted like a much needed constructive opposition in the new state, clearly it’s heart is in catering to the agenda of andhra leadership. Otherwise why would it try tying up a welfare scheme like FAST scholarship with State’s brand ambassadorship? The BJP asked why Sania, born in Maharashtra and married to Pakistani, is declared brand ambassador and not a local? Don’t these BJP leaders know that Modi ...

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CM KCR Nominated By Centre To Represent Southern States!

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The Central government has nominated Telangana CM KCR as the Vice Chairman of Southern Zonal Council. Union Home Minster Rajnath Singh is nominated as the Chairman. The Southern Zonal Council, comprises the States of  Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha was the Vice-Chairman for an year till 10 July, 2014 and KCR is nominated to succeed her, retrospectively, from 11 July, 2014 and his term will be for 1 year. The Vice-Chairman post is taken by rotation by all member states for 1 year. The nomination is interesting coming in the middle of visible bias of the centre in favor of AP ruled by ally TDP in all it’s ...

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Telangana Engineer Plans 9600 KM Solar Odyssey To London!

solar tuk tuk

Naveen Rabelli is planning for his dream journey across Asia and Europe, for which he has been planning for last 2 years. He will drive across Eurasia in a tuk-tuk, called Tejas, or auto rickshaw, which is powered entirely by electricity and solar power. He will leave India on a 9,600-km odyssey through 10 countries to promote the idea of environmentally friendly travel. Naveen plans to ride his tuk-tuk from Bangalore to Mumbai, before putting it on a boat to Iran. Picking up the journey in the Persian Gulf, he will ride to Turkey before crossing into Bulgaria and heading across Europe to the French port of Calais. From there, he will go to the United Kingdom. Naveen and his teammate ...

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