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 ...

After a gap of almost 58 years, Gandhi Bhavan, the Congress party headquarters, is going back to the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee. The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee will function from a swanky multi-storied Indira Bhavan building on the Gandhi Bhavan premises from Saturday. With two PCCs in place, the Congress leadership decided to have separate entities as well as premises. Initially, it was thought that the APCC office would function from the present old building and Telangana PCC would shift to the new building. But, objections by senior Telangana Congress leaders put paid to the efforts to retain the building for APCC. According to former APCC general secretary G. Niranjan, the foundation for Gandhi Bhavan was laid on October 7, ...