Bengaluru: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), who has been rallying opposition forces against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, yesterday hinted at a grand opposition alliance and said there will be sensational news in the next two to three months regarding such a front. The Telangana Rashtra…
Political Leadership and State’s Prosperity
July 10, 2021On July 9, Kitex Garments, the second-largest children’s apparel manufacturer in the world, announced that the company would invest an initial Rs. 1,000 crore in Warangal, Telangana. How this investment came about has lessons for many States and its Ministers. Initially, this was a Rs. 3,500-crore project, which was supposed to come up in Kerala…
COVID medication delivery via Drones in Telangana
June 2, 2021Telangana: Dunzo, a deliver service on Tuesday, announced that it is all set to pilot drone delivery of medicines under the ‘Medicine from the Sky’ project launched by the Telangana Government in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The Google-backed delivery start-up is leading a Med-Air consortium along with industry experts to conduct experimental Beyond…
Eight-year-old girl flies solo from Hyderabad to Mysuru
June 14, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Desperate times call for desperate measures and here is an incident reported from city to prove that. An eight-year-old girl was united with her mother after three months following lockdown and the little one flew alone from Hyderabad to Mysuru in Alliance Air flight. The incident came to light after the Airport Authority of…
Telangana woman rides 1,400-km to bring back her son stranded in Andhra Pradesh
April 10, 2020Hyderabad: A 48-year-old woman in Telangana rode nearly 1,400 km on a scooter for over three days amid the nationwide lockdown to bring her son who was stranded at Nellore in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. Razia Begum, a headmistress at a Government School in Nizamabad, about 200 kms from Hyderabad, set out on the arduous…
When Gavel Breaks, Gun Fires
December 7, 2019Yesterday at an ungodly hour, four ungodly men were shot dead by the Telangana Police. All hailed it as justice served. A justice of biblical proportions in modern times, as the line from the Old Testament reads, “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” So yes, ancient style of justice was delivered in modern times and…
K. Chandrasekhar Rao sworn-in as Telangana CM
December 13, 2018Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao took oath as Chief Minister of Telangana today. KCR, as he is popularly called, was administered the oath of office and secrecy at 1.34 pm, an “auspicious” time according to the chief priest of the Yadadari Temple. He has returned for a second term as Chief…
Congress set to form Govt. in Rajasthan & Chhattisgarh
December 11, 2018Cliffhanger in MP; TRS retains power in Telangana; MNF wins in Mizoram New Delhi: In the first biggest win for Rahul Gandhi since he took over as AICC President last year, the grand old party Congress seemed all set to form Government in the BJP-ruled Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The trends for counting of votes for…
The State as a conspiracy ?
October 30, 2018By TJS George As Chief Ministers go, K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) is in a class of his own. He is known as an effective speaker and he is a good tactician. These were factors in the success of his mission to carve Telangana out of the original Andhra Pradesh. His decision to dissolve the assembly…
ECI sets month-long poll schedule for 5 States
October 7, 2018By-polls to three LS seats and two Assembly segments in State on Nov.3 New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday announced that the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana will be held from Nov.12 to Dec.7. The results for all the States will be declared on Dec.11. With…
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