Below is a PTI report that came today; Looks at the lines in bold below. This looks like a ‘leak’ from union home ministry to spread propaganda that hate crimes are committed against Andhras in Hyderabad. Home Ministry issued a circular few days ago handing over powers to Governor for law & order over Hyderabad. This leak seems to be preparing ground for further action on that front to put Telangana Govt. in bad light before snatching it’s powers. ——————————————————————————————————————————— The Telangana government has dismissed the suggestions of the Home Ministry to form a joint force comprising police of the new state and residuary Andhra Pradesh to control the law and order in Hyderabad and set up a special cell ...

The Telangana BJP called the bandh call given by the TJAC and Communist parties have evoked no response from public and is an utter flop. The bandh call was supported by TRS and Congress while allies BJP and TDP stayed away. BJP went a step ahead and criticized the bandh as a political stunt to divert public attention from TRS’s poor governance in Telangana. Here is the press release of BJP in which it said Telangana Govt should focus on implementing loan waivers and fee reimbursements and forget about protesting the Centre’s action on Polavaram and Governor’s powers in Hyderabad! BJP dished out a advice to the State Government to concentrate on ‘development’ and refrain from calling ‘destructive bandhs’ and counted ...

The centre thinks Telangana is the only state in India that doesn’t require an AIIMS like institution! While the Centre granted AIIMS-like institutes to the 4 States of Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, AIIMS-like institutions have already been established in the 6 states of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, Chatisgarh and Uttarakhand.  The union health ministry  announced it has written to all remaining States, barring the sparsely populated north-eastern states, to identify lands for setting up AIIMS. The catch is that the centre has written to the 11 States Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Punjab and not for Telangana. In effect, Telangana is the only State the Centre has no plans to ...

Suresh Chanda, Principal Secretary Energy to Telangana Government, has directed the southern and northern power distribution companies  to finalise and sign the power purchase agreements with Hinduja National Power Corporation Ltd, which is at the advanced stage of commissioning the 1,040-MW thermal power project near Visakhapatnam. The erstwhile Andhra Pradesh State had earlier entered into an agreement. Now, with the state division, power generated from the project will be shared in the ratio of 53.89 and 44.11 between the two states. AP Transco has been called upon to sign up with the two discoms in accordance to the sharing formula between the two states. The Hinduja project is nearing completion after 15 years of its initial plans and is expected to ...

The TJAC and the communist parties have called for shutdown on Saturday to protest the passage of Polavaram bill in Lok Sabha merging 7 mandals of Telangana with AP displaying lakhs of tribals. The TJAC urged all sections of people to voluntarily take part in the strike to register their protest. The CPI, CPI(M), New Democracy and Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML) have also called for shutdown. Ruling TRS which has been fighting a legal battle over Polavaram expressed it’s support to the bandh. Telangana Congress too supported the protests. TJAC chairman M. Kodandaram told reporters that the central government’s move in passing the bill without consent of Telangana is against Article 3 and so is unconstitutional. The communist leaders reiterated ...