It looks like the issue of renaming Hyderabad remains on the top agenda as far as BJP is concerned. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Hyderabad Bhagyanagar while addressing media from across the country in the city. He said that it was in Bhagyanagar that Sardar Vallabhai Patel had spoken about the concept of 'Ek Bharat.'PM Modi said that Hyderabad is Bhagyanagar, which is of significance for all of us. Sardar Patel kept the foundation of a unified India, and now it's BJP's responsibility to carry it further, said BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad in Hyderabad, quoting Prime Minister Modi.The RSS, BJP's ideological fountainhead, and several BJP leaders have been on a campaign to change the name of Hyderabad to Bhagyanagar. Asked if Hyderabad's name will be changed to Bhagyanagar, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that the issue will be discussed when BJP comes to power in the state. He added that the then chief minister would decide this along with other cabinet colleagues.However, the MA&amp;UD minister and CM's son KTR tweeted, "Why don't you change Ahmedabad's name to Adanibad first?" He further tweeted, "Who is this Jhumla Jeevi, by the way?"Meanwhile, BJP's decision to pick Hyderabad for the meeting is being seen as a direct signal from the party that the state is a top priority in its agenda for expansion in territories where it remains relatively weak. Post-2014, it is the fourth time the party is holding its key national meet outside of Delhi. Earlier, it held meets in Odisha in 2017, Kerala in 2016, and Bengaluru in 2015.

PM Calls Hyderabad 'Bhagyanagar,' Creates a Buzz

Hyderabadi Biryani:&nbsp;When it comes to food, Hyderabad is synonymous with biryani as the city is one place for a wide variety of biryani flavors. Especially the Hyderabadi dum biryani is definitely a must-try for its unique taste and masala flavor. When in Hyderabad, don't miss a chance to try Hyderabad dum biryani, which will be in your memory for a long time for sure.Qubani Ka MeethaThis recipe is a mix of dried apricot and is decorated with almonds. This is one of the must-try desserts when in Hyderabad, especially for sweet lovers.&nbsp;Usually, Qurbani Ka Meetha is served with ice cream or a side of thick malai in most of the food outlets in Hyderabad.Hyderabadi Chicken 65Yes, for non-vegetarians, chicken 65 is definitely a favorite craving dish. But the Hyderabadi-made Chicken 65 will impress the food lovers to the next level. In Hyderabad restaurants, the appetizer is usually paired with biryani. It is one of the must-try dishes in starters, and its combination with biryani is no doubt a heavenly taste.Nihari or NahariIn general, Nahari is named after Eid festival special dish and is widely available during the Ramadan season.This dish is cooked with lamb stew which is slow cooked with bone marrow and even lamb brain. Usually, this dish will be cooked during the night times so that the recipe will be well mixed with the ingredients.Double Ka MeethaDouble Ka Meetha is a&nbsp; bread pudding dessert that is a must-dessert at any Muslim wedding in and around Hyderabad. The making of this dessert includes soaking bread slices in saffron-infused milk. In the baking process, Double Ka Meetha swells up to twice its normal size.Hyderabadi HaleemHaleem is also termed an Eid special dish. It was introduced during Nizam rule in Hyderabad, says history. The preparation of Haleem is usually a very lengthy process, but the taste makes everyone crave it. After the Ramadan fasting hours, this dish will be taken by the Muslims as a nutritional food.

Must Taste Dishes when in Hyderabad

Sunday evening was a nightmare of sorts for those who were driving during the weekend as they faced severe inconvenience in view of the traffic restrictions imposed ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting at Parade Grounds.In order to facilitate the gathering, the traffic police imposed restrictions between 2 pm and 10 pm. Restrictions were in place on several roads right from HICC in Madhapur to Secunderabad Parade Grounds and surroundings, with several VVIPs taking the route to reach the meeting venue. Barring those who were going for the meet, the general public was not allowed to use the route.The road between Tivoli Crossroads and Plaza Crossroads was closed to the public, and motorists were advised to avoid roads within a three-kilometer radius of Parade Grounds. MG Road, RP Road, and SD Road in Secunderabad were totally blocked for regular traffic in the afternoon. However, it was residents staying around Parade Grounds that suffered the most. People in Prashanthnagar, Prakashnagar, Begumpet, Rasoolpura, Sindhi Colony, and other areas faced problems.Traffic slowdowns were witnessed near Secunderabad railway station, Jubilee Bus Station, Tank Bund, Khairatabad, Greenlands, and other alternative routes. Many complained that it meant spending a lot of extra money and about two hours on the commute. TSRTC buses were also diverted. Around 1000 traffic and law &amp; order policemen were deployed to streamline traffic.

Traffic Goes Haywire Due to Modi’s Visit to Hyderabad

Ashwini Sarabhai is now known in culinary circles, especially in cakes. Once upon a time, she was an IT professional with Infosys and used to go to the US for job-related work. During her trips, she took baking classes during free time and even won awards.When she returned to India, Ashwini had decided her calling was baking and quit her cushy IT job. Today, she is full-time making beautiful, elegantly crafted cakes. She also teaches and takes cake-making classes and has trained about 10,000 students.Dream Cakes' venture started in 2006 and expanded into India’s first online cake academy in 2012. She is quite popular for her realistic-looking sugar flowers and cake decorations. Ashwini has been a finalist in the Cake Masters Magazine Awards 2018 and 2019, which are akin to Cake Oscars in the category of sugar flowers.Born and brought up in Mumbai, the 42-yr-old moved to Hyderabad some ten years back. She has been awarded India’s Top 10 Cake Artists by Cake Masters Magazine, the UK, for two consecutive years, 2017 and 2018. She also launched Sugar Magazine, India’s first cake art magazine, to encourage Indian talent. She says she believes in making elegant cakes rather than quirky ones. Apart from taking orders for weddings and special occasions, Ashwini makes realistic sugar flowers to adorn people’s dessert tables. Each flower takes 15 minutes to six hours, and she charges Rs 3000 per kg and above for a designer cake.And now, her kids, Aditya and Aarya, run a baking channel on YouTube called Princess Bakes. The Dream Cakes takes prior orders, and one can reach them at https://www.instagram.com/thedreamcakes.

IT Professional Dreams Big With Dream Cakes

It’s not just the real estate boom; the city of Hyderabad is now ranked top amongst the cities that have a conducive environment for various start-ups. While the government is providing the necessary support in terms of policies, corporates, too, are doing their bit by providing angel funding and intellectual support to the start-ups.Hyderabad is today leading a revolution of sorts regarding the start-up ecosystem. It is ranked among the top 5 cities in the country and is only behind Bengaluru and Delhi. Mumbai and Ahmedabad come next to Hyderabad. If one were to look at the money put into the start-ups, Rs 6697 crore or 900 million dollars have been invested. The state government has also started T-Hub to provide a robust atmosphere for start-ups in Hyderabad and across Telangana. According to Global Start-up Ecosystem Report, Hyderabad stands at 30th place internationally.It has to be noted that apart from software start-ups, start-ups in various verticals and start-ups supporting a social cause have also been started in the past few years. Students and alumni of prestigious and varied universities are provided the right ecosystem to set up their start-ups in the city, giving life to some awesome ideas. Pharma, bio, medical, agriculture, IT, and socially relevant start-ups have been the norm since the state government took up the drive in 2016.Also, to ease the process, the state has around 20 incubators to speed up start-ups' growth process. Another interesting point is that the developed start-ups here have also reached the unicorn stage and are recognized internationally. This attracts people from other countries to come and set up their base here.

Hyderabad Emerges Start-up Incubation Hub of India

The BJP appears to have changed its strategy to keep up with the current mood of the country. It is known that the saffron party has held its national executive meeting in Telangana as a direct hit at TRS chief minister KCR who is now eyeing PM’s post.The BJP has been belligerently taking over state after state, and TRS had become a pain point to the party that now sees itself in a comfortable position without strong opposition both at the center and in most Indian states.Coming back to Hyderabad, not just the top brass of BJP has come into the city; even the Prime Minister himself is addressing a rally at Parade Grounds, despite Telangana CM KCR snubbing him by missing the protocol of receiving the Prime Minister in person in not just one, but three occasions.To counter KCR on his own turf, BJP is trying to make inroads into the cosmopolitan population of Hyderabad by meeting up with prominent personalities belonging to various communities. The idea is to consolidate its presence by catering to or addressing the needs, fears, and apprehensions of various communities living in the city.So, as a part of a carefully chalked-out plan, Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai met Kannada community leaders, while former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje interacted with Rajasthani community people on Saturday.It is being said that the leaders discussed various issues and also shared the welfare and development initiatives being taken up by the BJP government. The BJP has been repeating the pattern in almost all the states by starting a pre-planned agenda-based campaign in states with ruling parties other than BJP.Also, apart from meetings, BJP representatives have been assigned the task of visiting all the 119 assembly constituencies and interacting with local leaders and people. They will eventually submit a report which will help in the expansion plans of the party in Telangana.

BJP’s Latest Strategy For Upcoming Telangana Polls

In a major fillip to those owning EVs, the Telangana government has decided to set up 14 public EV charging centers in greater Hyderabad. Also, there will be 230 charging points within GHMC limits and another 100 under HMDA limits.The city has been developing fast in terms of infrastructure, and the roads have been developed on a massive scale, and they have been made signal free. However, as a downside, the number of vehicles has increased multi-fold, and this has led to lots of pollution in Hyderabad. In order to address this problem, the state government is taking various measures to increase the usage of electronic vehicles.Already, the fuel prices have hit an all-time high, and people are vexed with using fuel vehicles. Added to that, there is a definite change in climate, due to which many people are now considering electric vehicles, though they are costlier than normal fuel vehicles. And then, there are special provisions for EVs, which is inspiring many to go for these vehicles.India is aiming to become pollution free and have fuel-free vehicles by the year 2030, both in public and private usage. Telangana state government is also striving towards this goal and is working with various departments and electric vehicle manufacturing companies and formulating policies to this effect. IT department’s electronic wing, road transport department, TS REDCO, TSSPDCL/ TS NPDCL, MAUD, and TS RTC are the main players that would work towards deciding on policies, operational guidelines, subsidies, public charging facilities, electronic tariff, ceiling cost, setting up public charging points, setting charging points for RTC are among the core issues the departments will deal with.The initial charging points will provide charging for vehicles needing 15 KW and 120-150 KW. The points will be installed at Indira Park, KBR Park gate 1, KBR Park gate 3, KBR Park gate 6, Tank Bund, Basheer Bagh road, Gunfoundry, Municipal Parking Abids, Mahaveera Harinasthali National Park, Nanakramguda, Silparama 2 Nagole Bridge, Owaisi Hospital, Taj Tristar Hospital.

14 Public EV Charging Centres Coming Up in Greater Hyderabad

Telangana CM KCR has directly hit out once again at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government. Even as BJP held its national executive in the state capital Hyderabad, KCR was busy receiving Yashwant Sinha, who is the opposition candidate for the president’s post.Later, KCR lashed out at Prime Minister Modi and his party despite the presence of the entire BJP top brass in the city. He explicitly told the media that they had fought for Telangana for 60 years and they would put up a strong fight against Modi and his government in the coming days.KCR also took the opportunity to pose nine questions to the saffron party and its members. He totally derided BJP in the context of farm laws and said Modi was totally anti-farmers which was the reason for bringing in farm laws. Of course, Modi had to give in and repeal the laws later, he said. He also pointed out that BJP and their associates labeled agitating farmers as terrorists and those seeking Khalistan.He further added that it was his government that brought justice to the farmers and distributed Rs 3 lakh to them. He ridiculed the Prime Minister for his attitude towards farmers and their plight across the country.KCR said in his speech that political change was imminent in the country and that Modi should not dream of remaining the PM forever. Already, the political atmosphere in the state was heated, with contrasting events taking place at the same time.Not stopping there, KCR also said that the PM must learn from neighboring China about financial matters, given the lackluster performance of the Indian economy. KCR also hit out at Modi for not bringing back black money from foreign accounts.Not surprisingly, the Telangana CM gave a challenge to oust the pink party from power in the state, as BJP had done in Punjab and Maharashtra. He also took the opportunity to appeal to all MPs to vote for Yashwant Sinha as per their conscious on the voting day.

Modi Thinks He is Brahma – Telangana CM KCR

In the post-pandemic world, WFH almost appeared to be the next work model. However, with the pandemic receding, offices across the world are calling back their employees. However, like elsewhere in the world, employees in Hyderabad, now used to work from home facility, are reluctant to get back to full-time office work. To address the issue, the Hyderabad Metro Rail has brought a new concept of leasing co-working spaces in 49 metro stations across the city.The offices are termed ‘Office Bubbles’; the concept is one-of-its-kind in the history of Indian Metro Rail. Metro rail aims to fulfill the surging demand for co-working spaces and locational flexibility of office spaces in Hyderabad with the Office Bubbles under its Transit-oriented Development (ToD).Currently, ToD has around 18.5 million sq ft of space for work, shopping, leisure, entertainment, and healthcare, along with a parking and circulation area. According to Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited, the metro rail will be focusing on IT companies and would be using high-quality transit-oriented spaces in the un-paid (pre-ticketing) areas on the concourse level of its stations.Close to 0.4 million sq ft will be dedicated to Office Bubbles, and about two units of 1750 sq ft will be given out across 49 metro stations. Along with this, 5000 to 30,000 sq ft of spaces will be given out at eight non-typical metro stations.The office spaces will be offered in bare shell, warm shell, and plug &amp; play formats depending on their clients’ requirements. The concept will offer flexible, lower operational costs and secured spaces in 57 stations across the city with CCTV and Access Control.Of course, Office Bubbles would mean a huge cut down in costs and ease of travel.

Hyderabad Metro Comes Up With The Idea of ‘Office Bubbles’ at Stations

Industry body Retailers Association of India (RAI) recently held the Hyderabad Retail Summit's first edition. RAI works closely with the government and stakeholders to support employment growth in the retail sector. It presently has 5 lakh members across the country, and 10% are in Telangana.According to its chief executive officer Rajagopalan, Hyderabad is rated the best in terms of ease of doing business as its cosmopolitan and attracts many people from outside to do business here. In addition, he says that the consumption in the city is growing and that the per capita income is rising, which augurs well for the sector.RAI's members in Telangana include quick-service restaurants, consumer durables, footwear, jewelry, and many more segments. While all sectors got impacted, food and medicare did well, and the Telangana government made sure that there were no major closures of businesses. Rajagopalan feels marriages and events will be major growth drivers in days to come.Also, work from home has augured well for businesses as they have upped their bar and are focusing on efficient supply chains and speedy service. In addition, while consumers spend quality time shopping, businesses are catering to online and physical customers with a digital frontend, cashless and contactless transactions.Another important observation was that almost everyone indulged in cheer shopping instead of revenge shopping. Well, in revenge shopping, people mostly tend to buy luxury products, but in Hyderabad, it was seen that people spent on things that gave them holistic happiness.Meanwhile, the government is working to bring an Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform in a few months. This will enable small retailers to be part of the e-commerce revolution. ONDC is expected to do what UPI did to the digital payment domain.

Retailer Association Declares Hyderabad To Be Best For Ease of Business

On February 8, the foundation stone for the new IT twin towers at Kompally will be laid. This initiative is a part of the state's aim to reduce congestion in the city's western region. According to reports, the government intends to disperse growth across the city, according to its Growth In Dispersion policy 2020, and the foundation stone for the IT towers will be laid on the coming Tuesday.19 acres of land have been acquired by the government as a part of this project, of which 10 acres have been allotted for the twin towers' construction, which is expected to accommodate over 300 companies.The IT companies in Kompally reportedly have about 3000-4000 employees and are mostly medium and small scale enterprises. CEO-Lasya IT solutions and president of Kompally IT entrepreneurs association, Oruganti Venkat, says that once the twin IT towers become operational, it would help new companies to set up businesses at much lower costs as the western corridor has become too costly. This project will also provide more employment to people.Venkat also added that standalone companies would also be able to accommodate co-working for smaller organizations.The Twin IT towers are the first of the state's many plans to implement the GRID, including the proposed Uppal-Nagole-LB Nagar area, in the east.&nbsp;Venkat said that the state has also identified close to 500 acres in Kompally and Medchal, for which the acquisition process has been initiated.In the last five to six years, Kompally has seen immense growth in terms of residential property, hospitals, schools, entertainment zones, and restaurants.