Hyderabad-based company IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects Ltd has informed that the Buildings & Industrial Structures (B & IS) and Water Divisions of the Company have jointly bagged orders worth Rs 260.46 Crores.

Further, IVRCL quoted in a press release that company’s B&IS Division has picked first order worth Rs 92.51 crore from Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation for the construction of two elevated metro station viz CMH Road and Byappanahalli Station in Reach-I. The project is scheduled to be completed in 22 months.  

Police Commissioner B Prasada Rao said in Hyderabad that the City Police is taking effective steps to tackle any terror situation . It is undertaking various measures like imparting training to its forces similar to that of Greyhounds, an elite anti naxal force, besides other measures

Hyderabad, Dec 30 : President Pratibha Patil today said that food security can be achieved only through rapid agricultural growth and multi-dimensional rural development.

Delivering the Golden Jubilee Lecture at the National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) here, the President emphasized the need for optimum utilization of land and irrigation to ensure food security.

She said that farmers can be made aware and encouraged to adopt improved agricultural practices to enhance productivity. Implements and methodologies should be such so as to reduce the drudgery and hard labour of farming operations.

Hyderabad, Dec 27 : President Pratibha Patil is arriving here on her 15-day southern sojourn.

She will stay in the Rastrapathi Nilayam at Bollaram near Secundrabad from where the president''s office functions till her departure to Delhi on January 11.

During her visit, Patil will attend various programmes organised by the State Government and the Ministry of Defence.

She is scheduled to take part in the golden jubilee celebrations of National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) here on December 30.

Chaitanya Sravanthi-2008 will be organized by TANA (The Telugu Association of North America) in Hyderabad on December 27. This programme comprises of discussions and contests for disabled sportspersons.

Tana secretary Thotakura Prasad said that sports competition in 16 events will be conducted to the physically challenged sportspersons on December 27. He added that on this occasion, The Young Mens' Happy Club, Kakinada will organise `Allasani Peddana,'a mythological drama written by Akella and directed by YSR Murthy at the same venue.

Hyderabad, Dec. 23 : A tailor in Hyderabad is attracting everyone's attention by offering his personal services on demand at clients' houses. People can call him over his cellular phone and within no time he is at the client's doorstep.

With a sewing machine perched on a handcart, Satyanarayan, the tailor, reaches out to his customers, as he believes it saves them all the headache of waiting for days to get even little tailoring work done at tailor shops.

Unlike the stationed tailors of the city, he pulls handcart himself down the roads in search of customers.