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KTR opens City’s first modern bus shelter • Minister says 30 such bus shelters • GHMC to have 800 new bus shelters • Modern Grade 1 shelter has baby feeding room, toilets, AC, SoS button, kiosks, eateries     Hyderabad : Minister for Municipal Administration & Urban Development K T Rama Rao on Tuesday inaugurated an air-conditioned modern bus shelter opposite Shilparamam at HITEC City. The minister said that the City would have at least 30 such bus shelters with ultra-modern facilities. The minister also inspected the baby feeding room, kiosks, and SoS button, in the modern bus shelter. What’s most attractive in the Grade 1 Bus Shelter opposite Oracle in HITEC city area is an exclusive “baby bfeeding room” for mothers of infants who may have to feed their kids on the go. This facility is not restricted only to the passengers who throng the bus shelter for boarding a bus. This is meant for moms who pass by the area also.   Another feature of this...

Case registered on website displaying fake job notification It has been brought to the notice of the ITE&C Department that some fraudsters have created a website and posted a recruitment notification purportedly issued by Telangana Agro Development Corporation thereby misleading job aspirants and unemployed youth.  Upon verification, the recruitment notification on the website http://telangana.gred.co.in/ is found to be fake and mala fide. TS Agros also issued a clarification that it did not issue any such job notification.  In this regard, a formal complaint was lodged with Telangana Police to book the culprits under the relevant provisions of the law. The Cyber Security Wing has registered a case and is investigating the matter.  The job aspirants and unemployed youth are hence requested not to fill the application forms and pay money on the website http://telangana.gred.co.in/ that is displaying fake job notifications.

Celebration of International Day for Biodiversity in Hyderabad on 22 nd May 2018 The International Day for Biodiversity 2018 was celebrated all over the country by different States and various organisations on 22 May 2018. The national level celebrations of the Day were held at the Auditorium, Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) in Hyderabad with enthusiastic participation of all stakeholders.   Organised by the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Government of India in coordination with the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), and with the cooperation of the Telangana State Biodiversity Board , the event had the Hon’ble Governor of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana , Shri E.S.L. Narasimhan as the Chief Guest and Shri Jogu Ramanna, Minister of Environment, Forests, Science & Technology, Government of Telangana as the Guest of Honour for the same.   The event was organised in the gracious presence of...

​​  Travel start-up RailYatri raises Series B funding ·         Travel marketplace logs 1000+% growth with improving margins in 2017. Aims Hyderabad–27th April, 2018 -India’s fastest growing travel start-up, RailYatri has raised an undisclosed amount in Series B funding led by Omidyar Network. With the addition of bus & one-way cab bookings, this Noida-based start-up has rapidly increased its footprint in the long distance travel space and quickly emerged as a top travel destination with over 12 million monthly users. This round led by Omidyar Network, saw participation from all other existing investors including Mr Nandan Nilekani, Blume Ventures and Helion Venture Partners. ·         Mr Manish Rathi, Co-founder and CEO RailYatri said, “We are overwhelmed by the travellers response to our platform, and at current growth rates we expect to be India’s largest traveller destination this year. Our marketplace has exce...

CHANGING ASTHMA WITH EVERY BREATH CHANGING ASTHMA WITH EVERY BREATH Winds of change  Hyderabad, April 27 : 60 years ago a therapeutic revolution, enabled millions to breathe freely. In these 60 years asthma has come a long way from stirring negative thoughts in the mind of patients and society; to a disease thatcan be easily managed and controlled. Since the beginning of recorded history, difficulty in breathing has been known to all. Diagnoses was also a major concern as ever cough and symptoms of breathlessness were very often ascribed to TB, this was up to the 70s. Limited knowledge and understanding of the disease further complicated the diagnosis. In the first half of the twentieth century, medicines used in the form of tablets, syrups and injections were used. However, little did they help as living and sometimes nearly dying with asthma: these were the memories of desperate measures, terrified patients and nervous doctors.It was then in 1950s, cortisone, a nat...