In the chill of bifurcation and the subsequent confrontations over several issues, CMs KCR and CBN never met. The mush awaited Iftar party hosted by the Governor which was expected to be their first meeting after becoming CMs, didn’t quite happen as KCR didn’t make it. So when they met at Begumpet airport, there was a photographer’s delight. And it is satisfied big time. The CMs not just greeted and introduced their cabinet colleagues to each other but were involved in an animated cheerful exchange. The Governor, who is known for his penchant for wit, joined them. The occasion was receiving President Pranab Mukherjee at the old airport at Begumpet here. KCR welcomed Naidu when he reached the airport. The ...

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 ...

Telangana just got a breath of fresh air as the Centre’s committee decided AP is wrong in denying Telangana it’s share of power. The decision should come as a relief to Telangana which is mired under huge power deficit, thanks to AP’s misadventure. The high power committee headed by CEA Chairman Neeraj Mathur reportedly came to the conclusion that AP has violated the AP Reorganisation Act in letter and spirit by unilaterally canceling the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and refusing to let Telangana use it’s share of power - 53.89 per cent. The CEA’s decision is a severe blow to the unethical behavior of AP Govt. which put Telangana to tremendous hardship by forcing it to undergo big power-cuts by choking it without ...

 - 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 ...

While there is too much speculation in some sections of media over the ‘friction’ between L& T and Telangana Govt. over the very future of metro rail project, the state govt and Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) are already planning expansion of Metro! KTR, the minister of IT & Industries, has urged the HMR authorities to explore expansion the Metro Rail distance from the present plan of 72 km to 250 km. Launching the 1st batch of  17 students of the 1 year PG program at the Institute of Metro and Rail Technology (IMRT) in Hyderabad on Friday, the minister said “Hyderabad is projected to grow to a mega metropolis in the next 20 years, we may have to draw up plans to increase the metro network ...