The Telangana Bill is likely to be introduced in Parliament during its upcoming winter session, according to highly-placed sources. The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Telangana met the secretaries of various government departments today as part of its brief to look into the proposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. The GoM will on November 12 and 13 meet with the representatives of political parties from Andhra Pradesh to elicit their views on the process of bifurcation of the state. Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Minister for Agriculture, Kanna Lakshmi Narayana, today arrived in Delhi to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi. While there was information that he met Gandhi, there was no immediate confirmation of the same. Source: PTI

Telugu Trailer of DHOOM:3. Starring Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Katrina Kaif & Uday Chopra. The franchise has a history of doing well in Telugu version too. With Aamir in, the 3rd part too is ready to rake in the moolah when it releases on 20th December.

Nalgonda is among the worst fluoride affected areas in India and the World. The Decades old problem made news in BBC 10 years ago . Yet, nothing got done. As one more effort, Telangana Development Forum (TDF) and Telangana Netizens Forum (TNF) have organized a 1-day fast this Saturday, 9 Nov at Indira Park, Hyderabad. Anyone expressing solidarity with the victims of fluoride and who wants to be part of the solution can join the Deeksha.

The Telangana cinema chamber of commerce (TCCC) dashed off a letter to the Group of Ministers(GoM) asking it to review allotment of land to the Telugu film industry(TFI) and detect violations before concluding the State’s bifurcation process.In a letter to the GoM, TCCC said, “As a part of division of assets and liabilities, you are requested to review the lands allotted to the film industry and detect the violations.” TCCC general secretary Syed Rafi claimed that contrary to popular belief, language has not been a unifying factor in Andhra Pradesh. He said, “It has been proved that there is a great barrier between the Telangana and Seemandhra regions of the State due to the supremacy of wealthy of Andhra capitalists, ...

Anyone who read Chandrababu Naidu’s latest letter to PM must be wondering how similar the points and language used in it are with Loksatta JP’s oft-repeated statements. Naidu’s letter focuses on ‘federalism’, JP’s pet aspect when it comes to criticizing center’s Telangana decision. JP keeps insisting that the decision made by Center to bifurcate AP before the State’s assembly resolution is in violation of India’s ‘federalism’ and Naidu’s letter made the same point. Naidu’s letter also quotes JP’S favorite one from Vallabhai Patel – “It will be a folly to ignore realities; facts take their revenge if they are faced squarely and well”. Originally the quote was made in Loksatta’s report submitted to Sri Krishna Committee! Since then, JP quoted ...