4 November 2026
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has said that Sadar Sammelanam, the festival of the Yadav community, has been declared a State festival, and that the government has sanctioned five crore rupees for it. He spoke at the Sadar Sammelan held in Hyderabad. He said the Yadav community's support matters for the Musi Rejuvenation project, Metro Rail Phase-2 and Bharat Future City, and that arrangements are being made for cow protection at a goshala in Yadagirigutta. He listed the community's representation in public office, naming Anil Kumar Yadav as a Rajya Sabha member, Naveen Yadav as a Member of the Legislative Assembly and Eshwaramma Yadav as an appointee to the Yadagirigutta Temple Board. He also said the caste census conducted in Telangana has become a model for the country.
Amount sanctioned:
five crore rupees
Community that celebrates it:
Yadav
New status:
State festival
Why it matters for exams: The community that celebrates Sadar and the grant of State festival status are the durable art and culture facts here.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
Sadar Sammelanam Sadar Sammelanam — The Yadav community's festival held in Hyderabad after Deepavali.
27 October 2026
Telangana will hold the Invest Telangana Global Summit 2026 from 7 to 9 December at Bharat Future City, Hyderabad. The State's summit page lists ten tracks across the three days, among them a Raksha Expo for aerospace and defence, the launch of industrial policies, an industrial exhibition, plenaries, memorandum signings and a startup showcase. Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju told a review meeting at the Secretariat that more than 550 domestic and international companies are being invited, and a curtain-raiser was set for New Delhi on 29 October. The State says the aim is to draw large investments, speed up industrial growth and create jobs for young people. The 2025 edition drew more than 10,000 delegates and over 500 global and national companies, with over 75 strategic memorandums of understanding and 27 sessions across four halls, and representation from more than 44 countries. Investments announced at that edition came to over 69 billion dollars.
Dates:
7 to 9 December 2026
Venue:
Bharat Future City, Hyderabad
Companies being invited:
more than 550
Investments announced at the previous edition:
over 69 billion dollars
Why it matters for exams: The summit's name, its Future City venue and the Chief Secretary's office are the durable facts for State economy questions.
UPSC
In plain words
Bharat Future City Bharat Future City, Hyderabad — The new planned city south of Hyderabad where the summit will be held.
4 November 2026
The storm named Murasu, which the India Meteorological Department had tracked up to the severe cyclonic storm stage, crossed the coast and weakened. Its national bulletin describes the system as a depression that is the remnant of Severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu, lying over Telangana and the adjoining part of Andhra Pradesh. The department said it was likely to weaken further into a low pressure area within about twelve hours. The India Meteorological Department is the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre for the North Indian Ocean, so it names and tracks every storm in this basin and issues the warnings for neighbouring countries as well. Names come from a common list the member countries of the regional panel on tropical cyclones agree on, and a name once used is not repeated. In the department's own scale a depression is a weaker stage than a cyclonic storm.
Name of the storm:
Murasu
Peak stage reached:
Severe Cyclonic Storm
Stage it weakened to:
Depression
Agency issuing the bulletin:
India Meteorological Department
Why it matters for exams: The India Meteorological Department's role as the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre for the North Indian Ocean and the way cyclones are named are standard Geography questions.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
IMD India Meteorological Department — India's national weather service, which names and tracks cyclones in the North Indian Ocean.
RSMC Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre — The centre a basin's countries rely on for cyclone advisories and names.
29 October 2026
The Government of Telangana has opened the Telangana Innovation Startup Challenge, which asks startups, individual innovators and university research teams to solve problems its own departments face. Its tagline is Build for Telangana, Scale to the World. Eighteen challenge statements are on offer, twelve of them in the power sector, covering grid mapping, drone inspection of assets, billing help and storm outage prediction. The rest include solar-powered irrigation, food safety in welfare hostels, satellite watch over lakes and government land, pothole detection, needle-free anaemia screening and a Telugu reading test built on artificial intelligence. Applications close on 20 November, and shortlisted teams pitch at a Demo Day at T-Hub in Hyderabad on 1 December. Those chosen may show their work at the Invest Telangana Global Summit 2026. T-Hub, T-Works, WE Hub, TASK and RICH are the listed partners, and selection by itself assures no contract or order.
Challenge statements:
18
Applications close:
20 November 2026
Demo Day venue:
T-Hub, Hyderabad
Why it matters for exams: T-Hub, T-Works and WE Hub are Telangana's named innovation institutions and are asked as State institutions.
UPSC
In plain words
TISC Telangana Innovation Startup Challenge — The State's open call for startup solutions to departmental problems.
T-Hub Technology Hub, Hyderabad — Telangana's startup incubator at Hyderabad.
5 November 2026
The Central Prison at Hyderabad has set up a separate Gender-Neutral Cell for persons with diverse gender identities and expressions.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India, was told of the step in a compliance report from the prison Superintendent.
It followed a visit on 8 October 2026 by the NHRC's Special Monitor for transgender persons and LGBTQ+ rights.
The Monitor had stressed the advisories of the NHRC and the Union Home Ministry on the welfare of transgender persons in prisons.
Inmates in the cell are also allowed affirmative clothing that matches their gender identity.
The NHRC said the step protects the dignity of people with diverse gender identities in correctional institutions.
Prison:
Central Prison, Hyderabad
Special Monitor's visit:
8 October 2026
Why it matters for exams: The NHRC, a statutory body under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, and transgender rights are frequent Polity questions.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
NHRC National Human Rights Commission — Statutory body set up under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
2 November 2026
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has named MANAGE, the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management in Hyderabad, a Centre of Excellence-Skills (CoE-Skills) for agriculture.
The status runs for three years.
MSDE Secretary Debashree Mukherjee handed over the certificate at Kaushal Bhawan, New Delhi, on 2 November 2026.
MANAGE, set up in 1987, is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
It trains extension workers and runs diploma courses such as PGDAEM and the agri-business management programme.
The tag lets it widen its work into agricultural skilling and entrepreneurship.
Established:
1987
Validity:
three years
Why it matters for exams: MANAGE, Hyderabad (est. 1987, under the Agriculture Ministry) is a standard question on national agricultural institutions.
Kerala PSCUPSCBank
In plain words
MANAGE National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management — Hyderabad institute that trains agricultural extension staff.
MSDE Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship — Union ministry in charge of skilling.
Background
Telangana's Future City Development Authority has filed its reply before the National Green Tribunal, so it is worth knowing what that Tribunal is. The National Green Tribunal was set up on 18 October 2010 under the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010. Its stated purpose is the effective and speedy disposal of cases on environmental protection, the conservation of forests and other natural resources, the enforcement of legal rights relating to the environment, and relief and compensation for damage to persons and property. Its principal bench sits at New Delhi. It has four zonal benches, at Bhopal, Pune, Kolkata and Chennai. The Telangana matter went before the Chennai bench, which covers the southern zone.
Governing Act:
National Green Tribunal Act, 2010
Principal bench:
New Delhi
Zonal benches:
Four, at Bhopal, Pune, Kolkata and Chennai
Why it matters for exams: The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010, the Tribunal's principal bench and its four zonal benches are repeat Environment and Polity questions.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
NGT National Green Tribunal — A statutory tribunal that decides environmental disputes in place of ordinary civil courts.
Background
One of the five Telangana projects the Centre cleared this week under the Urban Challenge Fund restores the Warangal fort moat and strengthens the Warangal fort and Ramappa tourism circuit. That circuit rests on a temple already on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The inscribed property is the Kakatiya Rudreshwara, or Ramappa, Temple, in the village of Palampet in Telangana, about 200 km north-east of Hyderabad. It was built by the Kakatiya dynasty, which ruled from 1123 to 1323 of the Common Era, and work on the sandstone temple began in 1213. UNESCO listed it under criterion one, as a masterpiece of Kakatiyan temple architecture, and criterion three, as exceptional testimony to the Kakatiya dynasty and its cultural traditions.
Inscribed name:
Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple, Telangana
Village:
Palampet
Kakatiya rule:
1123 to 1323 CE
Criteria of inscription:
(i) and (iii)
Why it matters for exams: The World Heritage name of the Ramappa temple, its village and the Kakatiya dynasty are repeat Art and Culture questions.
Kerala PSCUPSC
In plain words
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — The United Nations body that keeps the World Heritage List.
Background
Telangana, whose Chief Minister this week counted 30 lakh pump sets while reviewing drought preparedness, records a population of 350.04 lakh in the 2011 Census on the State portal.
The sex ratio is 988 females per 1,000 males and the density of population is 312 per sq km.
The decadal growth rate for 2001 to 2011 is 13.58.
The literacy rate is 66.54 per cent, with 75.04 per cent for males and 57.99 per cent for females.
Rural population is 213.95 lakh, or 61.12 per cent of the total, and urban population is 136.09 lakh, or 38.88 per cent.
Scheduled Caste population is 54.09 lakh and Scheduled Tribe population is 31.78 lakh.
Sex ratio:
988 females per 1000 males
Literacy rate:
66.54 %
Why it matters for exams: Sex ratio, literacy and density figures for a named State are classic one-mark questions.
UPSCSSC
In plain words
Decadal growth rate Decadal population growth rate — The percentage change in population between two successive censuses ten years apart.
Background
The urban projects cleared for Telangana this week are spread over several of its districts, so the State's basic numbers are worth fixing in mind. Telangana is the newest of the southern States. Its own government profile dates its birth to the second day of June 2014, after Parliament passed the measure that reorganised Andhra Pradesh. The State therefore owes its existence to the splitting of Andhra Pradesh, and Hyderabad, which had been the shared capital, is its capital. The profile counts thirty three districts in the State. It puts the area at 1,12,077 sq km. The High Court the two States had shared at Hyderabad was later divided, leaving a High Court for the State of Telangana there and a separate High Court of Andhra Pradesh.
Capital:
Hyderabad
Districts:
33
Area:
1,12,077 sq km
Came into being:
2 June 2014
Why it matters for exams: Telangana's capital, its thirty three districts and its area are standard State profile questions in every general studies paper.
Kerala PSCUPSC