Overview

• Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to address President Trump’s move to raise the H‑1B fee to $100,000, calling for a resolution on a war footing.
• Posting on X late Saturday, he said the executive orders were unacceptable and warned of “unimaginable” hardship for Telugu IT professionals.
• At PAFI’s annual forum in New Delhi a day earlier, he argued the 50% U.S. tariff on Indian goods would hurt the American economy and criticized what he called arbitrary decision‑making.
• He said he has spoken to Harvard and Stanford about possible initiatives in India and claimed the London School of Economics wants to come to Telangana if visas and admissions for Indians are curtailed.
• He promoted Telangana’s development push, highlighting a 30,000‑acre Bharat Future City with specialized zones and broader plans set out in a Vision 2047 document, as a GTRI report noted India’s August exports to the U.S. fell 16.3% to $6.7 billion after the duty hike.