The Union Minister for Fertilisers and Chemicals Ananth Kumar said that very soon, financial sanction for setting up a new Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET) campus over a 20-acre spread in Rudraram of Medak district at a cost of Rs. 50 crore would be accorded. It would take students intake up from the current 2,500 to about 5,000 in about two years, he said, to applause. It would be the biggest CIPET campus in country. He was speaking after inaugurating the international plastics exhibition. Hyderabad already boasts of a basic CIPET learning centre that trains 2,750 students. Currently, there are over five high learning CIPET facilities across the country — one each in Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Lucknow and Kochi. The ...

CM KCR on Saturday shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejecting the Ministry of Home Affairs’ letter’s proposals to the State Government on Friday handing over state subjects of law & order to the Governor. The CM pointed out that bypassing the council of ministers by the Governor, as suggested by the letter, is neither sanctioned by the Constitution nor the AP Reorganisation Act. The CM doubted if the PM knew about the contents of the letter. In his two-page letter, Mr. Rao told the Prime Minister that he was sure that the letter was sent without the PM Modi’s clearance. “Therefore, I appeal to you to look into the matter and order that the instructions be rescinded forthwith in accordance ...

While Telangana has been demanding the railway division at Kazipet for years now, the Centre which gave nothing in the railway budget despite Telangana now being a separate state, is now moving to take Telangana areas in Secunderabad division from south central railway and attach them to the Gulbarga division it is planning to set up! The Gulbarga division is likeley to come up under South Western Railways. The areas SCR is bound to lose are important stations like Vikarabad, Tandur and Zaheerabad will be transferred to Gulbarga. Despite protests from Telangana MPs, the Centre is working on this plan also to merge the Telangana areas into Gulbarga division of South Western Railway. According to the proposed plan Raichur to Wadi section will ...

The Union government is treating Telangana, India’s 29th State, as a special case, if it’s latest letter to the State is anything to go by. Somehow either the Centre thinks Telangana people are unfit to rule themselves or simply can’t get out of the deadly embrace of Andhra capitalists invested in Hyderabad. The Centre wrote to Telangana government to entrust ‘special responsibilities’ to the Governor in maintenance of law and order in Hyderabad, as if Hyderabad is in the throes of a civil war and badly needs a rescue from Centre. The letter has been signed by MHA Joint Secretary S Suresh Kumar. The Telangana Government immediately snapped, with Chief Secretary Rajeev Sharma replying to the Centre within two hours of ...

The Government made it clear all residents of a household should be at home on 19th August to be considered in the social audit being conducted by the Telangana State Government. The Government is trying to plug loopholes and irregularities in the State’s welfare programs to the tune of  nearly Rs 10,000 Cr each year. The Government addressed concerns of NRIs and students studying abroad that they need not worry about not being at home as the Govt will figure out alternate mechanism for considering the NRIs. Parents of students studying abroad though are recommended to provide documentary proof of their wards studying abroad. The Government termed the survey a social audit and has categorically said it has nothing to ...