SR Innovation Exchange (SRiX), Warangal, in partnership with Tech Mahindra has launched Xelerate, a three-month acceleration programme for start-ups working on niche technologies such as Internet of things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. A release on the launch said applications were being invited for the programme from revenue stage start-ups in agritech and healthtech from … Read more
Raju Guntukula, PhD scholar at the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, has secured the “Best Paper Award” for his paper titled “Do the Climatic Factors Affect the Rice Yields in Telangana? Evidences from Just and Pope Production Function” at the 4th annual conference of Telangana Economic Association (TEA) held at Kakatiya University, Warangal. The … Read more
Technology enabled legal service provider called Epiq on Thursday opened a global capability centre in Hyderabad. The US firm, which operates in 15 countries with more than 80 offices and has 14 data centres worldwide, has staffed the new facility with 450 people. It plans to take up more space at the same location and … Read more
Tessy Thomas, Director General for Aeronautical Systems, DRDO, said on Thursday that while 50% of the population comprises women, they hold only 1% of the world’s property and though they perform better than male counterparts, equality remains a dream. Ms. Thomas was speaking at the Society for Cyberabad Security Council’s She M Power Women’s Conclave … Read more
After Telangana, it is the turn of Andhra Pradesh to unearth fraud of hundreds of crores of rupees in purchase of drugs, medical equipment, surgical tools and other items by the Director of Insurance Medical Services (IMS). Sleuths of AP’s Vigilance and Enforcement (V&E) wing stumbled upon evidence suggesting that prima facie at least ₹151.40 … Read more
Hyderabad’s loss is Delhi’s gain! The still-born electric mobility policy and dithering by various departments led to the city-based firm to move its fleet of electric autorickshaws to provide the first and last mile connectivity to passengers of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) instead of the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR). HMR had announced, a … Read more
The Enforcement Directorate filed a counter affidavit in the Telangana High Court over a writ petition filed by N. Srinivasan of India Cements Limited who sought an order to quash the case registered by the Enforcement Directorate against him relating to the quid pro quo matters involving Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy. According … Read more
Furniture brand Godrej Interio has launched its first Social Office experience centre in southern India in Hyderabad. Spread across 4,100 sq ft area, the facility in Kondapur has been created to give a first-hand experience of the social workspace, Chief Operating Officer Anil Mathur said here on Thursday. While it has three Social Office experience … Read more
Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit the capital to participate in a pro-CAA meeting being organized by State BJP party at the L.B. Stadium on March 15. Mr. Shah would dispel apprehensions on CAA as “this law will not affect citizenship of any Indian citizen,” said party president K. Laxman on Thursday. At … Read more
NMDC chairman-cum-managing director N. Baijendra Kumar was presented The Business Leadership Award 2020 at the 7th edition of Governance Now PSU Awards in New Delhi on Thursday. The public sector company was also adjudged the Best Performer – Financial and CSR in Infrastructure Development. Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development … Read more
Khammam division, the major chilli-growing belt of Telangana, seems to be fast emerging a hub of well-entrenched inter-state spurious seed racket if the seizure of a huge quantity of spurious chilli seed from an unlicensed seed manufacturing unit at Gudimalla village in Khammam rural mandal by the task force police on Wednesday is any indication. … Read more
An Applied AI Research Centre for Mobility and Healthcare, which is an initiative involving IIIT-Hyderabad, chipmaker Intel, Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) and Telangana government, was formally launched by Industries and IT Minister K.T.Rama Rao here on Wednesday. The facility, already operational and set to be located at the IIIT-H campus, is likely to … Read more
Various farmers organisations of the State have expressed their opposition to any trade deal with the United States of America when its President Donald Trump pays a visit to the country on February 24 and 25. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, leaders of these organisations said they will not allow dairy, poultry and … Read more
Telangana government is keen on engaging with the medtech sector and as part of this approach has decided to set up a common testing laboratory, in partnership with the industry, at the Medical Devices Park in Sultanpur, Industries and IT Minister K.T. Rama Rao said on Wednesday. Spread on nearly 280 acres, the park, developed … Read more
“In the past couple of years, quite a few people have come up to me with assumptions that, as an artiste, because I play a bunch of different shows and that I’m going from city to city, that I am constantly surrounded by alcohol and women, and that my life is one continuous party of … Read more
The Forest Department will soon launch a vigorous awareness campaign on tiger movement issues in villages lying along the banks of Penganga river on the border that Adilabad district’s Bheempur mandal shares with Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. All the villages which fall in the corridor area will be subjected to the awareness programme once the … Read more
Telangana State Post Graduate Engineering Common Entrance Test (TSPGECET-2020) for admission into first year of ME, M.Tech, M.Arch and M.Pharm post graduate courses, will be conducted by Osmania University from May 28 to 31 in Hyderabad and Warangal. The CET committee meeting, headed by TSCHE chairman T. Papi Reddy, held on Wednesday finalised the schedule. … Read more
Telangana government and MedTechConnect have joined hands to launch Project Tej, an initiative to enable aspiring entrepreneurs test their innovative ideas in the field of medical technologies. MedTechConnect is a platform founded by engineering and technology solutions company Cyient and Xynteo’s India2022 coalition. On Wednesday, at the BioAsia 2020, Telangana’s Research and Innovation Circle of … Read more
A good piece of music can impact us in various ways: we feel calm or energised, invigorated or peaceful, and transported to a different time and space. A unique musical symphony to be held this weekend promises such an experience with a blend of music and rhythm to create a mood that blends spirituality with … Read more
The fairly large group of journalists from Mancherial, Dandepalli and Jannaram mandals in Mancherial district and Kadem and Dasturabad mandals in Nirmal district, which was the audience at the focussed awareness programme on wildlife, especially the tiger, conducted by Jannaram Forest Division of Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR) on Wednesday returned home a happy lot, thanks … Read more
Mohd Sattar Khan, the recipient of the notice from Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) directing him to prove his Indian citizenship, is living in fear. He is unwilling to talk, but after much prodding, he agrees to speak for a couple of minutes. “I do whatever work I get. I drive an auto, and … Read more
As Teerthala village, the abode of Lord Sangameswara Swamy, in Khammam rural mandal is all set to host the five-day annual Mahasivaratri Jatara from Thursday midnight, the official machinery has made all necessary arrangements to make the jatara a hassle-free event. The annual mega religious fair is expected to draw a large number of devotees … Read more
The Telangana High Court on Wednesday ordered notices to the Principal Home Secretary and the Director General of Police in a PIL petition which stated that police were depriving people of right to protest by not permitting demonstrations, public meetings and rallies. A division bench of Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A. Abhishek … Read more
Former Union Minister and BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has claimed that AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will lose their citizenship soon. “The file is on the Home Minister Amit Shah’s table and soon they will lose their citizenship,” he said while delivering a lecture on “CAA – a historical imperative beyond … Read more
BJP leader and MP Subramanian Swamy stressed the need for ensuring economic growth at 10% a year for the next decade for the country to become a super power. Towards this end, efforts should be made to see that investors are not terrorised by the provisions of the income tax and goods and services tax. … Read more