Category: Current Affairs

The Andhra Pradesh government plans to utilise the abandoned portion of Andhra National College by setting up a fisheries polytechnic college. Freedom fighters led by Kopella Hanumantu Rao have established the premiere institution in February 1910, offering various courses including technical education and industrial training. Mahatma Gandhi spent two days at the college in 1921.…

Privatisation of higher education is rampant in both the Telugu States, if the statistics of the recent All India Survey of Higher Education of the Ministry of HRD are to be believed. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have the highest private unaided colleges in the country. If 76 per cent colleges are private in the country,…

Addressing a gathering at T-Hub, a technological incubator promoted by the Telangana Government, Nadella advised the startup community to learn from the failures. “We are here to be a part of your success, with our accelerators where we aim to work with T-Hub. But most of all, I’m here to be inspired by your dreams,”…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began Day 2 of his visit to Moscow with a tour of EMERCOM, the Russian national crisis management centre, where he interacted with officials at their state-of-the-art office.  ‘Ready for emergency response. 240000 employees from EMERCOM r on operational duty daily, using 62000 equipment units,” tweeted foreign ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup…

Opposition parties are slamming Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao for spending crores on performing a religious ritual called ‘Ayutha Chandi Maha Yagnam’ aimed to appease the gods as Telangana faces drought-like situation due to scanty rainfall. KCR and his family members maintain that it is strictly a personal affair which is being done for…

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s farmhouse near Hyderabad is all decked up to host Ayutha Chandi Maha Yagam, a mega religious ritual he is organising for “world peace and well-being of people of the state”. With the five-day yagam beginning on December 23, Rao will be fulfilling the vow he had taken four years…

The first phase of passenger service of Hyderabad Metro will be flagged off in the first half of 2016. Speaking at the end of the first commuter trial run between Mettuguda and Uppal, IT and Panchayat Raj Minister K.T. Rama made this announcement on Friday at the Nagole Metro Depot after the trial run. “The…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will recalibrate budget priorities in 2016 to focus on social initiatives, such as the country’s first major crop insurance scheme, while capping previously prioritised infrastructure spending, officials say. Modi splurged on roads and railways this year in a strategy to spur economic growth. But it came partly at the expense of…

Talasani Srinivas Yadav, a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Telangana, is serving in the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) cabinet as commercial taxes and cinematography minister since 16 December 2014. This unethical continuance of Yadav in the TRS cabinet for more than six months, without disqualification from the assembly, questions…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the ‘Make in India’ initiative has become a movement in Japan and the island nation has created a fund of about USD 12 billion for it. “Today, there is a ‘Make In India’ movement in Japan. I have been told that USD 11-12 billion fund has been earmarked for…

1. The United Nations conference on Trade and development projected that India’s GDP is expected to grow at ____ in 2015 (3) (1) 7.0% (2) 7.25% (3) 7.50% (4) 7.75% (5) 8.00% 2. Which of the following bank register the highest increase in the gross NPA (Non Performing Assets)? (4) (1) Bank of Baroda (2)…

Rivals from the two ends of political spectrum, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi were seen shaking hands and exchanging civilities at Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar’s 75th birthday celebrations. Mr Gandhi greeted the Prime Minister with a ‘Namaste’ before he was about to leave. The two followed it up…