Category: Current Affairs

  • Government to revive Masula college where Gandhiji stayed

    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.…

  • Telangana, AP have highest number of private colleges in India

    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,…

  • Microsoft to work with Telangana to give a push to the startup ecosystem

    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,”…

  • PM Modi visits Russian anti-crisis hub on packed Day 2 in Moscow

    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…

  • KCR’s solution for Telangana drought: ‘Rs 15 crore’ on ‘Maha Yagnam’

    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…

  • 1,100 priests, a mega ritual: Telangana CM to keep statehood vow

    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…