Archive for December 19th, 2007
Expressway On The Fast Track
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Photo Courtesy: Business LineÂ
Work is progressing on a massive expressway to the greenfield airport at Shamshabad near Hyderabad. A view of the Attapur section of the ring road in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Infosys Needs To Reboot City Plans
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007In an anticlimax of sorts, IT bellwether Infosys appears to have developed cold feet about its second campus in Hyderabad. All this after being allotted 435 acres in Pocharam — close to the Singapore township — at a subsidised rate of Rs 12 lakh for an acre.
BITS City Campus Opens Its Gates
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007The Hyderabad campus of Birla Institute of Technological Sciences (BITS), Pilani will open its gates from the academic year 2008-09 and an additional stream of Electronics and Communication Engineering would be offered exclusively in Hyderabad apart from other regular streams of engineering education being offered at Pilani and Goa centres.
Wider roads to hit 10,000 firms
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Nearly 10,000 commercial establishments will be affected by road widening at various places in the city. Traders including tenants and owners of these establishments want the state government to announce a five-year tax holiday among other benefits for parting with commercial land.
Lakdikapul, The Hub Of Traffic Congestion
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Â Photo Courtesy: The Hindu
Long rows of buses, smothering fumes and blaring horns have become a routine for the regular commuters waiting at the Lakdikapul bus bay during peak hours.
AP order on tax sops to SEZs soon
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007The Andhra Pradesh Government will issue orders providing for a wide range of tax exemptions being sought by the developers of special economic zones soon. “The Andhra Pradesh Special Economic Zones Bill has been sent to the Centre.
50 more FOBs mooted
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007The Traffic Police and the civic authorities have mooted a proposal to erect 50 more Foot Over Bridges (FOBs) in the city. Of these, 32 would be built in the city and the remaining in areas falling under the jurisdiction of Cyberabad Police Commissionerate, the Additional Commissioner (Traffic) V.S.K. Kaumudu told a press conference on […]
Rs 6600 crore for schools
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy said the State Government would spend around Rs 6600 crore to improve 651 residential schools in the State.
In an interview to a private news channel here on Monday, he said CBSE syllabus would be introduced in these schools, which would be beneficial to around 4.20 lakh students.