Taken aback by wild rumor-mongering of ABN and Andhrajyothy media house that they are ‘quitting’ the Hyderabad Metro Project, HMR MD NVS Reddy and MP Naidu Project Director at L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Ltd, issued public statements that the propaganda is ridiculous. They pointed out that the Telangana Government didn’t even officially convey to them their proposed revisions to the metro rail project, so they wondered how can the media house come up with those wild speculations. They reiterated L&T’s commitment to the metro project and said they have no second thoughts on going ahead.  They pointed out that the works are going at brisk pace. They are working on good timeline with regard to the trial run for Corridor-3′s Stage-1 between Nagole and ...

Popular Goa dance music festival ‘Sunburn’ may come to Hyderabad if IT minister KTR’s plans work out. As part of a wider strategy to make Hyderabad a leisure destination, Telangana government is planning several initiatives to create more avenues for entertainment. The city boasts of several lakhs of high-spending professionals in Technology industry and the new initiatives seem to be aimed to increase the quality of leisure available in the city while at the same time tapping the market and create a new avenue of industry to generate jobs and revenue. Sunburn is a 3 day electronic music festival packaged with music, entertainment, food, shopping and lifestyle that attracts music tourism in India. Sunburn was ranked by CNN in 2009 ...

On Friday, a demonstration of the functioning of the  180 ton Major Atmosphere Cherenkov Experiment (MACE) gamma-ray telescope was given to media persons at the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) here. This telescope built by ECIL with technology support from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) will be flagged off on Saturday. The MACE telescope will be transported by nearly 50 trucks to its destination at Hanle, Ladakh, which is 2,500 km away from Hyderabad. “Even though the MACE telescope is the second largest in the world, its performance will be comparable to that of the largest one in Namibia,” said Ramesh Koul, head, astro physical sciences division, BARC. The MACE telescope is intended to detect flashes of Cherenkov light. “There ...

The ICT (Information and Communications Technology) industry of the newly carved Telangana state put forth the industry growth recommendations to the state government. The recommendations are aimed at taking the industry to one million level in five years from the present base of 400,000 direct employees. These recommendations, presented at the industry round table with Information Technology minister KT Rama Rao on Friday, were stated to have arrived at think-tank meetings held over past two weeks collectively by all organizations representing different facets of the IT industry. The organisation included Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association (HYSEA, formerly ITsAP), National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), TiE Hyderabad and American Chamber of Commerce in India (AMCHAM). According to a press release, the recommendations primarily related ...

His family’s financial position was not a deterrent for Nalla Ramu, son of a mechanic, to do well in studies and he proved it by topping the IIT-JEE examination in the OBC category recently. By bagging 362nd rank in the examination, he showed that poverty is no hindrance in education. Even before his achievement sank in, Ramu and his father Nalla Vishwanatham are worried about arranging funds to be paid during his admission into a premier institution. In the online choice of institutions held recently, Ramu has opted for mechanical engineering and computer science at IIT Mumbai, Kanpur and other places. If he gets a seat in any of these institutions, which he is sure of, he will have to ...