Hyderabad, Dec. 8 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Monday praised Telangana's development trajectory and called for deeper collaboration between Bengaluru and Hyderabad, while speaking at the Telangana Rising Global Summit held at Bharat Future City.

He said the state under Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy had demonstrated remarkable progress within two years and was now positioning itself on the global stage.

Shivakumar said he initially believed Telangana was competing with Bengaluru, but after witnessing the scale and vision of the summit, he realised the state was "cooperating globally, not competing locally."He congratulated the Telangana government for its forward-looking initiatives and said the soon-to-be-release...