AP CM Chandrababu Naidu’s 2nd stint as CM of AP started with a jinx. He was expressing his dissatisfaction over how power is allocated between AP and Telangana as part of bifurcation process and how AP lost almost 1500MW due to the approach. Of course, Telangana Electricty Engineers led by K Raghu differed over this and proved the loss, if that term can be used at all, is at 340 MW. However, despite his dissatisfaction, Naidu has been maintaining that he would try getting additional power from Centre for AP’s needs and would not seek to grab power that is already allotted to Telangana as part of  AP Re-Organization Bill. On Wednesday, he did exactly the opposite. Upon Naidu’s direction, AP energy dept. ...

While Telangana Government found out that there are a minimum 640 people from Telangana in Iraq, some of them from Iraq say most of them are in the safer regions, away from the city of Mosul, the centre of civil war right now. They say Telanganas are mostly in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Erbil and some in southern Iraq. These are away from regions of turbulence and life is life is normal, as per them. Meanwhile International Red Crescent confirmed that 40 Indians, mostly Punjabis, were kidnapped by rebels in Mosul. The abductors are supposedly from ISIS, the Jihadist group which is the cause of the present strife in Iraq. Indian embassy is yet to establish contact with the kidnappers ...

Warangal Fort and its Keerthi Thoranas, one of the most important icons of Telangana state have found place on the tentative list of World Heritage Sites of Unesco (United Nation’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). A communication to that effect was received by Kakatiya Heritage Trust on April 15, 2014. According to World Heritage Convention Unesco’s official website, it was submitted under the title ‘The Glorious Kakatiya Temples and Gateways’ by the permanent delegation of India to Unesco. The proposal consists of three serial sites of the remnants of Swayambhu temple and Keerthi Thoranas, Warangal fort; Rudreswara Temple (Thousand-pillar temple) at Hanamkonda and Rudreswara (Ramappa) Temple at Palampet. The three proposed serial sites have a common linkage characteristic of Kakatiyan ...

Here is the complete video of CM KCR’s spectacular speech in the historic 1st assembly session last week. The Chief Minister took the mike at 11.30 am and for the next 150 minutes, legislators cutting across all party lines, listened in rapt attention. We shared videos earlier in bits and pieces but here is the complete one. He steered the separate Telangana agitation single-handedly to its logical conclusion and now slipped effortlessly into the administrative role. Using the first available opportunity in the newly constituted Telangana Assembly, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao succeeded in sending the message across to the Opposition benches that he wished to take them along in steering the State of Telangana to all round development. Known ...

The helpline setup by Telangana Government received around a 100 calls in the first few hours from anxious families of those who are working in Iraq. Almost all of them are workers engaged in construction industry. However, there details can not be verified with embassy in Iraq as they are unregistered and didn’t complete due formalities. Workers who returned from Iraq recently say there are around 1000 workers in Kurdistan, which is a safer place than Mosul, which is presently in severe strife. However, it is hard to determine the exact number of workers right now as they are unregistered workers and often illegal immigrants, who risked their way to Iraq via other gulf countries rather than directly from India. The reason ...