Google Campus Set to Change IT Face of Hyderabad

NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD:Adding another feather to its cap, the pearl city can soon boast of housing the only own campus of  IT giant Google in entire Asia. This will also be the biggest facility of Google, outside the United States of America (USA). With the Google CEO, Sundar Pichai’s official announcement of setting up Google’s new campus in Hyderabad on Wednesday, the Telangana government’s aggressive industrial policy has made one of its biggest achievements so far.

Following Pichai’s announcement in New Delhi, K T Rama Rao, IT Minister of Telangana, thanked him for choosing Hyderabad for the company’s expansion plans in India. “Thanks Sunder Pichai for reiterating commitment to Hyderabad,” the Minister tweeted. 

During the visit of the IT minister to Silicon Valley in USA, a few months ago, the State government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Google, according to which 7.2 acres of land in Gachibowli has been allotted for its new campus.

Google agreed to invest Rs 1,000 crore in the project in four years. As per the agreement, the new facility of Google will be developed in a sprawling 2 million square feet campus in the middle of the IT Corridor of Hyderabad. Google is expecting the facility to be operational by 2019.

The new campus in Hyderabad, is also going to double its employee count. Sunder Pichai, who was in New Delhi on Wednesday, announced that Hyderabad is one of the cities where Google is planning to recruit more employees. Bengaluru is another Indian city that will see recruitment by the company. Google had already announced that it would launch India’s first ‘Street View’ project in Hyderabad.  Reacting to the announcement, IT Secretary of Telangana, Jayesh Ranjan, said, “The ground work has already been done. Once the necessary clearances are obtained, it can be launched.”

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HYDERABAD today - TELANGANA - The Hindu

HYDERABAD today - TELANGANA - The Hindu

Hyderabad most affordable metro for homes

Hyderabad remains the most affordable metro for home buyers, followed by Ahmedabad and Kolkata. 

The 2016 edition of the 'Buy Vs Rent Report' of financial advisory firm ArthaYantra shows that buying a house will be better option than renting in the Telangana capital. 

The study factors in rentals and real estate prices across eight major cities and then examines how affordable a 1,000 sq ft house is for different income levels. 

It also assumes that the buyer will borrow 80% of the price of the property Hyderabad tops the chart with the highest score for prospective buyers earning Rs 8 lakh a year. Property prices have fallen 10.5% in the past four years, while rents are up marginally by 1%. 

In Ahmedabad, ranking second, property prices have dropped 20% in the past four years and rents by 4%. This makes buying a compelling option in the city. 

Source : The Economic Times 

Hyderabad Cyclothon 2015 Event to be Held on 13th December 2015​

Hyderabad Cyclothon 2015 

A Cycling event which is popular in worldwide is now ready to organize our contry as #Hyderabad Cyclothon 2015 on 13th December. Huge numbers of persons are willing to join this race. Actually this is conducting for giving money to charities. This type of event is organizing first time in the country previously races like Marathon has been conducted.

The complete goal of this type of events such as Marathon as well as Cyclothon is to give money Charities. Radhika Talwar and Sarala Talwar which are the organizer of Hyderabad Cyclothon 2015 Event said that when they were in Lundon, previously they saw this type of event. At that time thousands of people have been attended. At that day they got huge amount i.e. 20.4 cross and gave to that money to the charities.

Many competitive and fun races people are giving support to this cycling to keep the road safety and green environment. Hyderabad Cyclothon 2015 Event is including various categories such as 50 KM Race for Men and Women, 25 KM open challenge ride to all cyclists.

The 10KM Ride for family fun for beginners, 2KM race for Kids. As this way all category persons will be participated in this Cycling Race. Large numbers of persons even small kids also eagerly waiting for attending to this event in Hyderabad.

Vista Entertainments which is organizing by Radhika Talwar and Sarala Talwar said that this is fist starts from Gachibowli Stadium by flagged off. If any quires the people will be go through below specified contact details.