Latest reports from Delhi say the Joint Secretary (Exploration) in Oil Ministry Giridhar Aramane has been transferred to Andhra, his home cadre. A senior IAS officer who handled sensitive gas pricing issue and matters pertaining to Reliance Industries Limited-held KG D6 block, Mr Giridhar was in news when he took action against Mukesh Ambani-owned RIL for shortfall in production and failure to fully implement the field development programme in the KG D6 block. Soon after, in August last, the then minister Veerappa Moily created a controversy when he relieved majority of Giridhar’s duties like gas pricing, acquisition of E&P assets abroad, all establishment and administrative matters related to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Videsh Limited and unconventional hydrocarbon. Opposition then ...

A PIL has been been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Constitutional validity of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act that led to creation of the new State of Telangana. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and A K Sikri today refused urgent hearing of the PIL, filed by V R Krishna Iyer Free Legal Aid Committee and ordered that it be tagged along with other similar petitions on the issue. Advocate G Venkatesh Rao, appearing for the committee, sought urgent hearing of the PIL by citing media reports that said that a “war room” is being created to drive out persons, who do not hail from Telangana, from Hyderabad. “Let it be tagged with other similar petitions,” the ...

Here is the trailer of ‘మన కాళోజి’. This is a film exploring the relevance of Kaloji Narayana Rao (1914-2002) in the current times, captured through his personal life and ideas of resistance. The full screening of the film is on 29th May Thursday from 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM at LaMakaan, Hyderabad. There is no entry fee and all are invited. You can follow this event & interact about this on the FB page here. Mana Kaloji, was shaped with the archival interviews of his wife – Rukmini Bai, grandson –Santosh and Kaloji himself. Kaloji’s life, narrated as memories by his wife and grandson, has been juxtaposed with his own interview where he counters with his own ideas of life ...

KCR held a 5 hour meeting with retired engineers yesterday and discussed about the present conditions and his plan for irrigation in his Telangana. Reiterating that Irrigation is his Govt’s top priority, KCR conveyed the group in the meeting at Telangana Bhavan that he would waste no time in fastening to Palamuru–Ranga Reddy lift irrigation scheme which has the potential to create 10-lakh acre ayacut in Mahabubnagar, Ranga Reddy and Nalgonda districts. He seems to have conveyed that he is exploring options to get ‘National Project’ status for this from Center. “Let us complete all the 26 pending projects in Telangana in two years’ time. For the completion of these projects Rs 18,000 crores will be needed and it would help ...

Here is the list making the rounds in Delhi. Modi is yet to announce his cabinet colleagues officially. Telangana’s Bandaru Dattatreya doesn’t figure in this list! #NaMo cabinet 24 Ministers - Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Venkaiah Naidu, Sadanand Gowda, Uma Bharti, Najma Heptullah, Gopinath Munde, Ramvilas Paswan, Kalraj Mishra, Maneka Gandhi, Ananth Kumar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Anant Geete, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Narendra Singh Tomar, Jual Oram, Radha Mohan Singh, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Smriti Irani, Dr. Harshvardhan List of 10 MoS (Independent Charge) - VK Singh, Rao Inderjit Singh, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Shripad Naik, Dharmendra Pradhan, Sarbananda Sonowal, Prakash Javadekar, Piyush Goel, Dr.Jitendra Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, List of 11 MoS - G.M. Siddeshwara, Manoj ...