Oct 2019

TELANGANA 3% children below five in Telangana suffer from stunting: Survey   A recently released Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) report on the nutritional status of children and adolescents in the country by the ministry of health and family welfare, in collaboration with Unicef, has found that Telangana performed poorly as there was a large number of stunted children in … Read more 31.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs

TELANGANA IIIT Hyderabad researchers create first-ever Indian Brain atlas   Researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad said that the first-ever Indian Brain Atlas (IBA) has been created.   They stated that the next step is to prepare atlases for different age groups to study age-related effects on brain anatomy.   The average … Read more 30.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs

TELANGANA ·       Telangana: App to aid women in distress reach out to cops ð Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC), in collaboration with the police, will soon launch ‘She Safe App’ to help women in distress reach out to nearby police stations via the SOS button embedded in the application. ð The users of this app can … Read more 29.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs

TELANGANA State is now power surplus Against a generally critical power situation in the months of September and October due to rains ceding and agricultural demand on the high, Telangana had become power surplus during the period on account of persistent and rigorous monsoon. As much as 2,716 million units of power was generated at … Read more 27-28.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs

TELANGANA ● No law in place, Telangana tops chart for trespass cases Repealing the Land Grabbing (prohibition) Act may not have been a good move on the part of government as the state has seen the highest number of criminal trespass cases recorded. The recently released National Crime Records Busreau (NCRB) 2017 shows that Telangana … Read more 26.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs

TELANGANA Telangana, Hyderabad lead India when it comes to food adulteration Telangana tops the charts in the country in the number of civilians accidentally killed in police operations, cases of sexual harassment at workplaces, adulteration of food and drugs, human trafficking and criminal trespass cases, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data for 2017. … Read more 24.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs

TELANGANA Telangana second in stalking, third in voyeurism   Telangana stands second in stalking and third in voyeurism-related cases in the country. The state is also second in terms of number of cases booked for outraging the modesty of a woman. As per the NCRB data of 2017, Telangana police have registered 1,160 cases under section … Read more 23.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs

TELANGANA Telangana : 3,500 schools may be shut, claims Telangana Teachers Federation   Alleging that the state is planning to merge upper primary schools (UPS) in Telangana with nearby high schools, members of Telangana Teachers Federation (TTF) said the government wants to close about 3,500 schools in the name of rationalisation and added that the merger of UPS is an … Read more 22.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs

TELANGANA Four private players keen to set up universities in Telangana Four institutions Amity University, Tech Mahindra, Woxsen and Pinakini have evinced interest in setting up a private university in the state. Following the government’s clearance of the Private Universities Act, 2018, the Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) had issued guidelines for setting up of private varsities … Read more 20-21.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs

TELANGANA Telangana: School board sitting on uploading students’ data   Though the state government has made it mandatory to upload details of all students studying under the Telangana State Board of Secondary Education on the Department of School Education website, details of 1,53,172 students are yet to be uploaded by officials. Though students are enrolled in schools, they might … Read more 19.10.19 Telangana (TSPSC) Daily Current Affairs