Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao on Wednesday paid a surprise visit to Jala Soudha at 10 AM and found most staff were not attending duties on time. While officials informed Harish that the punctuality had improved after the introduction of the biometric system for attendance, the minister wasn’t satisfied to see employees not turning up even by 11: 30 AM when he was leaving. He told the officials to set right things before his next visit, in next few days. He also instructed the officials to keep the office clean when he saw unclean tables and chairs. When he enquired about heaps of files all around, the officials reportedly mentioned sharing Jala Soudha with AP created space constraints. Harish Rao directed the ...
Read More »Telangana’s Industrial Policy To Be Out In 3 Days
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao said the State’s Industrial policy will be out in 3 days and it would combine the best of suggestions and policies the State Government looked at in last 2 months. Speaking with a group of delegation led by Piramal Group chairman Ajay Piramal, he assured that the policy would be implemented in its letter and spirit. He reiterated a ‘chasing cell’ would be monitoring from the CMO the progress of investment in the industrial sector by industrialists from all over the country and abroad. He said that the government would identify a land bank, declare that land exclusively for industrial purpose, develop it in all aspects, provide power and water and then place it at the ...
Read More »Karnataka Gets A Laxman, Another Anti-Woman Comment
Hardly has the furore over Telangana BJP’s Laxman’s ‘daughter-in-law’ comments against Sania Mirza died down, an RSS activist and columnist in Karnataka threatened a woman activist on Facebook with rape, simply because she has an opposite point of view. Earlier, Laxman was challenged by woman activists why his party got film star Pawan Kalyan as poster boy, who would be an ‘Australian son-in-law’ going by his logic, and if his ‘in-law’ view works only against woman! Laxman’s comments were as much anti-woman as communal, claimed critics. Now the Karnataka columnist goes a step ahead and embarrasses RSS, which quickly distanced itself from him with a press release. Police case has been lodged against V R Bhat, a columnist with Hosa Digantha, a Kannada daily, ...
Read More »Don’t Attend APSCHE’s Counseling, Says Jagadishwar Reddy
Telangana Education Minister G. Jagadishwar Reddy said students of the state need not attend the certificate verification process for which the notification was issued by the APSCHE. Mr. Reddy termed the APSCHE’s notification as illegal and a ploy by A.P Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and APSCHE to mislead students and defame the Telangana Government. He pointed out that the AP Govt. didn’t even issue a GO to start counselling but enacting a drama with APSCHE. He added that engineering classes started only in October in the last five years and counseling in the past never happened in July He assured students from the State that Telangana Government will conduct its own engineering counselling soon after completing ongoing college inspections of task force. This ...
Read More »Belarus Proposes To Partner With Telangana In Medical Education
Belarus has shown keen interest to coordinate efforts with Telangana in the realm of medical education including research, student exchange programmes and also conducting international conferences, the government said. A delegation from the east European nation comprising Sergei Trotsyuk, First Secretary in the Embassy of Belarus, Alena Beliakova, Vice Dean of Vitebask State of Medical University along with V Rajaram, Authorised Representative of Medical University of Belarus called on the Telangana Deputy Chief Minister T Rajaiah at the Secretariat here, an official release said. During the discussions, the delegates expressed keen interest on student exchange programmes besides research and coordination in academic programmes in medicine with Telangana, it said. Rajaiah expressed his happiness at the offer made by the delegates and directed State officials ...
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