The Telangana State Government has taken a decision to celebrate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister and Telangana politician P V Narasimha Rao on a grand scale on June 28. Government Advisor and former IAS officer Ramana Chary today held a high-level review meeting at the Secretariat here. He is said to have directed the officials to take all measures for the event to recall the exemplary services of former Prime Minister, Telangana politician and economic reformist, who brought laurels. News Ads and programs are being designed to mark the event.

The purging exercise taken up by the Telangana government to recover encroached land has revealed that 17,513 acres of government land worth Rs three lakh crore in Ranga Reddy district was taken over illegally by individuals and institutions, many of them being either politicians or industrialists from the Seemandhra region. And leading the pack was a former minister in the previous Congress government who had held an important portfolio.This was the finding of a recent survey conducted by the Ranga Reddy district administration. As per the survey, the total government-owned land in RR district stands at 5.53 lakh acre. Most of the encroached land is located in Qutubullapur, Uppal, Malkajgiri, Medchal, Serilingampally, Saroornagar, Hayathnagar, Shamirpet, Moinabad and Balanagar.Suspecting that revenue ...

The Telangana Government has zeroed in on the backward district of Mahbubnagar to set up an integrated 1,000 mw solar power generation park. The project will to be taken up by Telangana Industrial Infrastructure Corporation in partnership with Solar Energy Corporation of India. The SECI has given in-principle approval for the park, K. Pradeep Chandra, Principal Chief Secretary, Industries, Government of Telangana, said. Speaking on the sidelines of CII PaperTech conference, he said that typically one MW requires an investment of about Rs 6 crore. The developers of projects will bring in these investments. The Government role will be limited to facilitation and creation of necessary support infrastructure. Industrial policy He said that the Government will soon come out with ...

The newly formed Telangana government is building the country’s biggest incubation facility and creating a technology development bank to woo start-ups to the capital Hyderabad, whose image has taken a beating due to the Telangana statehood movement. The technology development bank (TDB) will provide funding to innovative start-ups in both hardware and software sectors, state information technology minister K.T. Rama Rao said on Thursday. The incubation facility, spread over 100,000 sq. ft, will be located in Gachibowli locality that also houses the offices and research labs of top information technology companies such as Microsoft Corp., CA Technologies Inc., Capgemini S.A., Infosys Ltd, and Wipro Ltd. The initiative will involve the city’s two premier educational institutes, the Indian School of Business ...

The Government of India under the pretext of constructing Polavaram Dam, in the process of paying compensation to the tribals whose lands are under threat of being submerged has gone to the extent of issuing an ordinance transferring seven Mandals in the tribal district of Khammam from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh. This is unconstitutional, undemocratic, anti-tribal and against the spirit of federalism. At a time when Parliament is about to meet in a week’s time resorting to bring an ordinance in such an hurried manner as if there are no important matters of public interest in front of Modi Government is ridiculous. Transferring of a tribal Village or a Mandal that has predominantly tribal land, from one authority to a ...