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Start with Gujarat if you can: TRS dares BJP to 'impose' Hindi across India

The party is of the view that India does not have a national language and Hindi is one among the many official languages

Bharat Jodo Yatra: Rahul Gandhi to wind up Karnataka leg, enter Telangana

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' resumed from Yermarus here to make a final exit from Karnataka and enter Telangana via that state's Gudeballur in Mahabubnagar on Sunday morning. According to Congress office-bearers, the yatra will halt at Gudebellur where Gandhi will stay for the day. During his journey in Telangana, the former Congress president will walk through Makthal, Narayanpet, Kodangal, Pargi, Vikarabad, Sadashivapet, Shankarampet and Madur for 16 days covering 376 km, before entering Maharashtra via Nanded district. Gandhi had started his padayatra on September 7 from Kanyakumari and entered Karnataka on September 30 via Gundlupet. According to the Wayanad MP, the objective of his 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' is to unite the country against "divisive forces" that are "spreading hatred" in the country.

Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul to enter Telangana on Sunday

The Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi will enter Gudebellur in Telangana on Sunday morning, after exiting Karnataka from Raichur. The Telangana leg of the march will begin from Gudebellur in Mahabubnagar district. Telangana Congress has made elaborate arrangements to welcome Rahul's marathon walk at the entry point on Karnataka-Telangana border. After breakfast at Gudebellur, the Yatra will break for Diwali for three days from October 23 noon till October 26, a press release from TPCC said. After that, the Yatra will resume on October 27 morning from Gudebellur. It will reach Maktal and continue for 16 days in Telangana, covering 19 assembly and 7 Parliamentary constituencies for a distance of 375 km, before entering Maharashtra on November 7. The 16-day yatra will take three days for Diwali and a one-day general break on November 4, it said. Rahul will be undertaking 20-25 KM 'padyatra' per day holding corner meetings and will participate in a meet at Necklace Ro

Telangana police aims to install 150,000 CCTV cameras across state: DGP

Telangana police aims to install 15 lakh CCTV cameras across the state even as six lakh have been set up in the capital Hyderabad so far, Telangana Director General of Police M Mahendar Reddy said on Friday. He was speaking at Police Commemoration Day here. The police department so far has installed over 10 lakh CCTV cameras across the state in villages and towns with public cooperation. In Hyderabad city alone there are nearly six lakh cameras. In the coming days, the state police is moving forward with an aim to install 15 lakh CCTV cameras throughout the state," Reddy said. He said the city has been retaining its position as the most Livable City in the world for the past several years and it is due to the better law and order situation. The police official said better policing is also one of the reasons for the state being able to attract huge investments from multinational corporates. He said as per the vision and direction of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, the police ..

Telangana willing to prepare list of sexual offenders, says KT Rama Rao

Telangana is willing to prepare the list of sexual offenders and Minister for IT and Industries KT Rama Rao has asked noted social worker Sunitha Krishnan to present a concept note to the state government. The minister was responding to Krishnan's tweet on Thursday that whether the state can set up a Sex Offenders Register of convicted offenders on the lines of the one in the USA which can be accessed by the public for the purposes of recruitment, among others. Her request came days after a four-and-a-half-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by a driver in her school in posh Banjara Hills here. The accused has since been arrested. "Let's absolutely get it done. Please present the concept note and we will take it forward," KTR said in the tweet on Thursday. In the USA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in its website said the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) coordinated by the Department of Justiceenables everyone to search the latest ...

Rahul Gandhi-led Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra to enter Telangana on Oct 23

: The Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi will enter Telangana on October 23 and will continue till November 7, said Manickam Tagore, AICC in charge for Telangana. In a tweeton Monday, he said, We are ready for #BharatJodoYatra. Happy to share the details of the Telangana state Yatra details. We Will welcome with our Leader @RahulGandhi ji on 23 rd October and he will be in Telangana till 7 th of Nov 2022. Hope @INCTelangana make it wonderful & historic. As per the details provided on Tagore's twitter handle, there will be a break in Yatra on October 24, 25 and 26 on account of Diwali. Rahul will start the march at Makthal on October 27 and enter Hyderabad city on November 11. He will hoist national flag at Charminar on that day. The Yatra will leave Telangana at Jukkal in Kamareddy District. Former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh had earlier said the Yatra will cover 360 Km in the state.

Hetero acquires J&J's Telangana plant, to invest Rs 600 crore more

Pharmaceuticals firm Hetero on Monday said it has acquired the manufacturing plant of Johnson & Johnson at Penjerla in Telangana and will invest additional Rs 600 crore on its upgradation. According to sources, the company has acquired the plant for Rs 130 crore. The facility is spread across 55.27 acres and will be Hetero's flagship sterile pharmaceutical and biologics manufacturing unit and will generate 2,000 new jobs, the company said in a statement. "We are committed to an investment upwards of USD 75 million, (approximately Rs 600 crore) to upgrade and enhance existing facilities at the site and expand manufacturing of our global biologics and sterile pharmaceutical products," Hetero Managing Director Vamsi Krishna Bandi said. Hetero said the brownfield manufacturing facility together with land, plant and machinery has been acquired from Johnson & Johnson Pvt Ltd in a slump sale without disclosing the financial details. PwC acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the

Malabar Gold to set up Rs 750-crore manufacturing facility in Telangana

Malabar Gold & Diamonds, one of the largest gold and diamond retail chains in the country, on Saturday said it laid foundation stone for the construction of Malabar Gems and Jewellery manufacturing unit in Telangana. A press release from the firm said the facility is set to become the largest jewellery manufacturing unit of the group. Telangana Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao laid the foundation stone of the manufacturing facility. Located at General Park, Maheshwaram in Rangareddy District near here and spread over 3.7 acre, the manufacturing facility is slated to be operational soon. It will have the capacity to manufacture 10 tonne gold jewellery and 1.5 lakh carats of diamond jewellery annually, it said. It will also house a state-of-the-art gold refinery facility with an annual gold refining capacity of 180 tonne. The facility will roll out a diverse range of jewellery including gold, diamonds, precious gemstones, platinum and uncut diamonds, it said. Malabar ...

Bridge across Krishna to meet long-pending demand of Telangana, AP people

The iconic cable-stayed cum suspension bridge approved by the Centre across the Krishna river will meet a long pending demand of the people of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Diverting, diluting issue: BJP leader slams KTR's remarks on Hindi row

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rachana Reddy said that Telangana minister KT Rama Rao was "diverting and diluting" the issue relating to the Hindi language imposition while also stating that the Centre has issued clarification numerous times in this regard.The BJP leader's remarks came after KTR took to Twitter to slam the Centre over the ongoing Hindi imposition row, where he shared a news piece which stated Union Home Minister Amit Shah-led parliamentary panel has recommended replacing the English language with Hindi in the IITs and courts."India does NOT have a National language & Hindi is one among the many official languages. To impose Hindi by way of mandating in IITs & central Govt recruitments, NDA Govt is flouting the federal spirit Indians should have a choice of language & we say No to #HindiImposition," tweeted KTR on Wednesday.Reacting to KTR's remark, Rachana Reddy said that the preference should be given to the mother tongue including Hindi."The KTR ...

Congress office set afire in election bound Munugode in Telangana

Unidentified persons set afire Congress party's office in Telangana's Munugode Assembly constituency where by-election is scheduled on November 3.

BJP leader slams KTR, says he 'represents a failed govt' in Telangana

BJP leader Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy condemned the "irrelevant remarks" made by Telangana minister KT Rama Rao against the RSS, saying that he himself "represents a failed government"

Top Naxalite Usha Rani alias Bhanu Didi surrenders before Telangana police

Top Naxalite Aluri Usha Rani alias Vijayakka alias Pochakka alias Bhanu Didi surrendered before the state police

KCR stopped going to state secretariat on advice of tantriks: FM Sitharaman

Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman hit out at Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Saturday, alleging that he stopped going to the state secretariat and did not induct women in his cabinet for a long time on the advice of "tantriks" and numerologists. The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader also claimed that Rao, popularly known as KCR, changed the name of his party on the advice of "tantriks" (occultists). Earlier this week, Rao renamed his Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) as Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) as part of his national expansion plans ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. "TRS was formed to realise Telangana's sentiment. Rao betrayed Telangana and changed TRS's name to Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on the advice of tantriks," Sitharaman said in a statement. She added that when Telangana was formed, Rao talked about women empowerment, "but for four years, from 2014 to 2018, there was not a single woman minister in the TRS government". Even after the TRS was

TRS to BRS: Will KCR's name-change gamble pay off at 2024 LS polls?

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's attempt to catapult the TRS party to the centre stage of national politics by renaming it is being watched by political pundits. Some see it as a move that could help increase his stature nationally, while others fear it could turn into a misadventure. In a politically-significant development in the regional political landscape, the two-decade-old Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was rechristened Wednesday as Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), with an aim to establish KCR as a national leader. The name change resolution was passed by the party general body meeting in Hyderabad as party workers cheered and banners with slogans like "Desh ka neta KCR," "Dear India, he is coming", and "KCR is on the way" were prominently displayed around the venue of the meeting. Several analysts also surmise the idea as an exercise to fortify his party base in the state -- where the BJP is making inroads and intensifying political activity ahead of 2023 assemb

Asaduddin Owaisi welcomes BRS; BJP calls it KCR's 'misadventure'

AIMIM on Wednesday welcomed the decision of TRS to enter national politics by changing its name to Bharat Rashtra Samithi while BJP has termed it as misadventure by CM K Chandrasekhar Rao

Telangana Rashtra Samithi general body meet underway, name change imminent

The crucial general body meeting of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi to change the party name to herald its national push in politics kicked off on Wednesday at the party headquarters here. While the meet is underway, the party is expected to pass a resolution soon to rechristen TRS as 'Bharata Rashtra Samiti' (BRS) to venture into national politics. Telangana Chief Minister and TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao earlier reached Telangana Bhavan, the TRS headquarters, from his camp office-cum-official residence. En route, he was accorded a grand welcome by the party activists. Former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and other JD(S) leaders and Tamil Nadu's VCK leader Thol. Thirumavalavan, who came at the invitation of Rao, had breakfast at 'Pragati Bhavan', the Chief Minister's camp office-cum-official residence. Earlier in the day, Rao, also known as KCR, performed puja on the occasion of Vijaya Dasami along with his family members at the Pragati Bhavan.

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JD(S)' Kumaraswamy airdashes to Telangana to join forces with KCR

Senior JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy along with 20 of his party MLAs left for Hyderabad on Tuesday to back Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, who is expected to announce the Telangana Rashtra Samiti's foray into national politics on October 5. The TRS is likely to be renamed as Bharata Rashtra Samiti' (BRS), the ruling party sources said in Hyderabad. Kumaraswamy, the JD(S) second-in-command, and the MLAs left for Hyderabad by a special plane on Tuesday. Rao, the TRS President, had called on former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda and his son Kumaraswamy in May this year in Bengaluru and had a discussion on this issue with them. Kumaraswamy too had visited Hyderabad recently and had an interaction. According to a JD(S) insider, the BRS will be a conglomeration of various regional parties, which are fighting against the BJP in their respective states. The idea is to put up a united fight against the BJP. Basically, it's a combination of various regional .

NGT slaps Rs 3,800 cr fine on Telangana govt for waste management failure

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of Rs 3,800 crore on Telangana government for its failure to treat solid and liquid waste