76-year-old K.R. Amos, Congress MLC and veteran T-movement leader switched over to TRS from Congress yesterday plunging the Congress morale in the newly carved out State of Telangana. He along with 4 other senior MLCs from congress joined TRS yesterday. On the occasion, KCR praised Amos richly for his contribution to Telangana movement and recounted how his lost his job in the process. Amos has been vocal about the injustice met to Telangana even while Congress high command has been dragging it’s feet on the issue and even while the state is ruling by rabid anti-Telangana CMs. While the Congress veteran can be an asset to the TRS government with his experience with administrative matters, on which he has written ...

Taking cue from Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s pet scheme ‘Amma Canteens’, which proved a big hit with people in Chennai, the TRS government has decided to introduce heavily subsidized canteens in market yards in the city. Tiffin will be served for Rs 3, while spending Rs 5 will fetch one a meal at these canteens.  This novel scheme will be implemented on pilot basis in Bowenpally market yard, initially, and later on will be extended to other markets. Marketing minister T Harish Rao and Excise Minister T Padma Rao inspected Bowenpally marketyard along with senior officials on Tuesday. Both went around the market yard and checked the facilities, besides interacting with farmers, hamalis and coolies.Harish Rao informed that this ...

Nine members of Legislative Council — including five from Congress and two from TDP — in Telangana today crossed over to TRS, boosting the strength of the ruling party in the upper house. TRS also got a shot in the arm in the Legislative Assembly, with BSP MLAs A Indrakaran Reddy and Koneru Konappa joining it. The legislators joined TRS today in the presence of party supremo and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. TRS’s strength in the 119-member Assembly now goes up to 65. The nine MLCs are: K R Amos, Jagadeesh Reddy, Bhanuprasad Rao, Rajalingam and Bhoopal Reddy (all Congress); Venkateswarlu and Salim (both TDP); Pula Ravinder and Janardhan Reddy (both elected from teachers’ constituencies). This takes TRS’s strength in the ...

A spate of copyright-violation notices issued to video channels on YouTube for uploading Carnatic music rendition of compositions of saint Thyagaraja, has raised the hackles of musicians and fans of the art form. An online petition has now been launched asking YouTube to initiate a discussion on the matter, which musicians feel strike at the heart of the art form. The issue escalated after ‘Parivadini,’ a popular video channel in the Carnatic music circles, uploaded on YouTube a recording of a concert in Chennai marking the World Music Day. Almost immediately, the owners of the channel received violation notices claiming that certain compositions of Thyagaraja, which were part of the concert performance, were in fact copyrighted material of few famous ...

Telangana State Government is focusing fully on restoring old lakes and water bodies as an immediate task to rescue farm cultivation in rural pockets.In a joint meeting with CM KCR and collectors, Irrigation Minister, T Harish Rao directed the officials concerned to initiate steps to renovate all water bodies on war-footing. It is the time for district officials to refurbish all the tanks, lakes and water bodies to boost up irrigation facilities in villages. Avoiding wastage of rain water, storage of water in the lakes and old tanks that were kept unused for many years will prove handy to increase water table, Harish Rao seem to firmly told. The Government has taken up measures in this direction with adequate funding and district officials should now shoulder the ...