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Fire breaks out at newly constructed Telangana Secretariat building

Sources said the fire erupted from the top floors where the wood work for interiors was on around 3 am. The workers noticed smoke and immediately alerted their in-charge. Hyderabad: A fire broke out at the newly constructed Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Telangana Secretariat Complex building on Friday early hours. Sources said the fire erupted from the top floors where the wood work for interiors was on around 3 am. The workers noticed smoke and immediately alerted their in-charge. On receiving information, about 12 fire engines rushed to the spot and the fire department and police personnel took part in the fire fighting. Fire officials said the fire was completely brought under control. They were ascertaining the actual reasons for the fire accident. Fire Department…

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Telangana Legislative Assembly session from Friday, Cabinet to meet on Sunday

This would be the last budget for the current BRS government ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections later this year File Photo Hyderabad: The Telangana State Legislative Assembly Session is all set to start from Friday with Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan addressing the joint session of the Assembly and the Council at 12:10 pm on the first day. After a gap of two years, she will be addressing the State Legislature on the first day of the Budget session. Last year, the State government had conducted the Budget session without customary speech by the Governor, as it was continuation of the earlier session which was not prorogued. The State government has already sent the speech copy for the latest session to the Raj Bhavan.…

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BJP, BRS responsible for neglect of Telangana in Union Budget: TPCC

 TS Congress president A. Revanth Reddy said that no funds have been allocated for Bayyaram steel plant and irrigation projects. The BJP and BRS were equally responsible for the injustice caused to Telangana in the Budget. (File Photo: DC) Hyderabad: TPCC president A. Revanth Reddy slammed the NDA government for ignoring the interests of Telangana state in the Union Budget-2023.  In the same vein, he ridiculed the state government and BRS leaders for being silent spectators. Speaking to reporters in New Delhi on Wednesday, the TPCC chief said that no funds have been allocated for Bayyaram steel plant and irrigation projects. The BJP and BRS were equally responsible for the injustice caused to Telangana in the Budget, he said. He demanded…

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Telangana ignored in Union Budget again

The fund deficiency that Telangana will be forced to tackle in 2023-24 due to this is expected to be of around Rs 35,000 crore to Rs 40,000 crore New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2023-24 on the second day of Budget Session of Parliament. (ANI Photo/Sansad TV) Hyderabad: Continuing its blatant discrimination against Telangana, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre once again cold-shouldered the country’s youngest State in the union Budget, standing it up against the possibility of a severe shortfall in Central funds for development and welfare schemes. The fund deficiency that Telangana will be forced to tackle in 2023-24 due to this is expected to be of around Rs 35,000 crore to Rs 40,000 crore. The…

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‘Slogans like Sabka Vikas…’: Owaisi slams Centre as funds for minority schemes slashed

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday criticised the Union Budget 2023 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as it slashed funds for minority schemes. The Budget allocation for the Ministry of Minority Affairs was reduced by 38 per cent for the financial year 2023-24. Taking to his official Twitter handle, the Hyderabad MP wrote, “The Modi government cut the budget of the Ministry of Minority Affairs by 40%. Perhaps according to Modi, poor minority children do not need the “efforts” of the government, slogans like “Sabka Vikas…” are enough.” (sic). मोदी सरकार ने अल्पसंख्यक कार्य मंत्रालय का बजट 40% काट दिया। शायद मोदी के हिसाब से ग़रीब अल्पसंख्यक बच्चों को सरकार के “प्रयास” की ज़रूरत नहीं है, “सबका…

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Governor Tamilisai issues two notifications on joint Budget session

 Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan will address the joint session on the first day of the state Budget.(Photo:DC) Hyderabad: Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Tuesday issued two notifications summoning the joint meeting of the Assembly and Legislative Council on February 3 for the Budget session. The Governor will address the joint session on the first day. The state Budget will be presented on February 6 although the BRS government is yet to make an official statement in this regard. The Governor will be addressing the joint session after nearly two years. She last addressed the joint session on March 15, 2021.  Following the rift with the Governor on various issues, the state government had done away with the customary Governor’s address in 2022. The…

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KCR govt hopes its long wishlist will be met in Budget

 Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (Twitter/@TelanganaCMO) Hyderabad: The Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS government is keeping its fingers crossed over the allocations to be made to Telangana in the Union Budget 2023-24, hoping that the long wishlist it submitted during the pre-Budget meetings held by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be met. The Union Budget is being closely watched in both the BRS and political circles given the ongoing face-off between the BRS and the BJP and the CM’s efforts to forge an anti-BJP alliance in order to defeat the BJP-led NDA in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. While Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao criticised the Centre over the Union Budget last year, alleging discrimination against Telangana, ministers K.T. Rama Rao,…

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Lobbying begins as AICC in-charge Thakre set to visit Telangana

 All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Telangana Manikrao Thakre is scheduled to visit in the first week of February. (Photo: Twitter: @Manikrao_INC) Hyderabad: As the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Telangana Manikrao Thakre is scheduled to visit in the first week of February, the Telangana Congress leaders, who were displeased to be left out of the last jumbo political executive committees. announced last year, have started intense lobbying for the further expansion of these committees. Thakre is most likely to approve the names of the PCC secretaries and DCC presidents for at least nine districts, including Secunderabad, Sangareddy, Ranga Reddy, Jangaon, Suryapet, Bhupalpally, and Khammam. Aspirants are vying with one another and intensifying their efforts to secure these…

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Orphans from state homes rue lack of facilities

 Children from government orphanage homes across the state during the protest in Hyderabad. (DC) Hyderabad: More than 300 children from various government orphanagehomes across the state have launched a protest against the BRS government,stating that their living conditions are appalling due to a lack of amenities and that the promises made by the government nearly eight years back remained unfulfilled. The children from the orphanages, aged between two and 25, marched to theDharna Chowk in Indira Park with the support of Shantha Sinha, the founderof the Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation (MV Foundation), and MandaKrishna Madiga, the leader of the Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS),to express their displeasure with the BRS party over a number of issues,including insufficient facilities. On June 23, 2015,…

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Palla slams Bandi’s claim of 10,000 farmer suicides in TS

 Palla also strongly refuted Bandi’s contention that only rich farmers were receiving Rythu Bandhu benefits, citing statistics to support his claim that 91% of those receiving benefits were small and marginal farmers with an average landholding size of less than 10 acres. Of them, 81% belong to the SC, ST, and BC categories. — DC File Image Hyderabad: Rythu Bandhu Samithi chairman and BRS MLC PallaRajeshwar Reddy  on Monday strongly refuted comments made by BJP statepresident Bandi Sanjay Kumar that almost 10,000 farmers had committedsuicide in the last eight years while the TRS (now BRS) was in power as aresult of debt, a lack of MSP, and procurement issues. Speaking to media along with MLA Guvvala Balaraju, MLCs M.S.Prabhakar andV.Gangadhar Goud…

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