Fissures have started to appear in the State unit of Indian Medical Association (IMA), the representative voluntary organisation of doctors. The body was split wide open when on Sunday, several senior doctors hailing from Telangana held a meeting at the IMA building in Koti and formed an adhoc committee that will formalise the future course of action and formation of IMA, Telangana. sWhile this being the case, the office-bearers of the State-unit (parent body) of IMA on Sunday maintained that the meeting was ‘illegal’ and Central IMA observed elections to form separate bodies of IMA Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are scheduled to be held on July 12 in Vijayawada. Senior nephrologist Dr. A. Gopal Kishan is the Chairman of the ...

Bhadrachalam ITDA Governing Body meeting here on Saturday passed a unanimous resolution demanding that the Centre retain the seven submersible mandals in Khammam district with Telangana State and revoke the recently promulgated ordinance on Polavaram. The ITDA governing body meeting began in the Khammam district Collectorate in the morning and legislators, MPs belonging to Congress, TRS, TDP and YSRCP discussed the ordinance on Polavaram.  Speaking on the occasion, CPM’s Bhadrachalam MLA Sunnam Rajaiah demanded that the NDA government change the design of the Polavaram project and continue the seven submersible mandals in Khammam district in the Telangana State. District Collector Sreekanth Srinaresh, ITDA project officer Divya, MPs Sitaram Naik, Srinivas Reddy, MLAs Jalagam Venkat Rao, Sunnam Rajaiah, Venkata Veeraiah, Venkateshwarlu, Payam Venkateshwarlu, Mallu Bhatti Vikramarkha, Puvvada Ajay Kumar, MLCs Balasani Lakshminarayana, Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy, ...

Telangana State is preparing for the worst case scenario now as AP started using all power it is producing without sharing it with Telangana as per the provisions of AP ReOrganization Act. AP even stopped sharing information with central power utilities about the power it produces, on a daily basis. The reason the utilities are told by the AP Officials is that they have withdrawn from PPAs notwithstanding the objections from Union Energy Ministry and the Telangana Government. Now that they withdrawn, all power they produce of for intra-state purposes and so there is no need to share any info with other states or central utilities. And to make matters worse, the AP government seems to be keen to invoke Section ...

The Southern Grid is facing grave risk due to the adamant behaviour of the AP Generation Corporation. “Andhra Pradesh is playing an extremely dangerous game with the Southern Region Load Despatch Centre, Bangalore. Given its behaviour today, the grid can collapse if AP overdraws,” a top official source told a national daily.  Noticing the seriousness of the situation, Telangana chief minister Mr K Chandrashekar Rao rushed power secretary Mr Suresh Chanda to Delhi this evening. The latter also spoke to the secretary, Union ministry of power and NTPC authorities. Mr Rao asked officials to immediately talk with other states to purchase power if the situation demands. The chief engineer of the AP Genco has to give the production schedule a day in advance to the Bangalore Centre. AP is treating its power projects ...

The government of Telangana has intensified its efforts to counter the move by the Andhra Pradesh government to cancel power purchase agreements (PPAs) after news broke that AP is aggressively pursuing the matter despite Centre’s earlier rejection . Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao Friday asked the officials to collect all the relevant material and submit the same to the union government. He has asked Principal Secretary, Energy, Suresh Chandra to stay in New Delhi for few days for discussion with union government officials. The official already held talks with the union power secretary and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) authorities. With the Andhra Pradesh government’s move threatening to plunge the newly created Telangana state into a power crisis, the chief minister Friday reviewed ...