Dec 2019

TELANGANA   Telangana Govt Raises Retirement age of TSRTC Employees to 60 Years Telangana government increased the retirement age from 58 to 60 for state-run transport corporation employees. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao signed on the file pertaining to the increase in the retirement age for the employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC). … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana gets medical app with alert system for senior citizens Bringing healthcare to the confines of one’s own home, a smart medical alert system offering emergency and non- emergency medical assistance has been developed for senior citizens. Conceptualized by the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Bombay alumni, the smart app named Arvi has been launched in Telangana and AP. According … Read more

TELANGANA   Telangana: 11,500 industrial units got approval in 5 years, says KT Rama Rao Claiming that the Telangana government’s industrial policy ha-s played a big part in attracting investors from across the world, industries minister KT Rama Rao said TS-iPASS has granted approvals to 11,569 industries in the past five years. He said 80% of these firms have already … Read more

TELANGANA Kamareddy won Unicef-2019 Award for Swachh Bharat implementation Kamareddy district of Telangana secured the United Nations International Children’s and Education Fund (Unicef)-2019 Award. The district won the award for the effective implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission in water sanitation. Kamareddy district on top in the country among other districts in construction of individual sanitary lavatories, … Read more

TELANGANA For Telangana, 2020 will be year of artificial intelligence The Telangana government has decided to observe 2020 as the Year of AI. The government will promote enterprises working on artificial intelligence solutions and taking leadership in this emerging technology space. Telangana IT Minister KT Rama Rao will formally make the announcement on January 2 … Read more

TELANGANA Follow process to implement loan waiver scheme: Telangana govt tells banks   The Telangana government has asked banks to come up with a process to be followed for implementation of the loan waiver scheme for farmers.   The government did not specify when the modalities will be finalised and given to the banks, no date has been mentioned … Read more

TELANGANA   Telangana pips coastal states in fish production growth rate Telangana, which doesn’t have a coastline, has raced ahead of coastal states in fish production growth rate. The national figures for 2018-19 show that Telangana has the highest growth rate along with Kerala. From 1.9 lakh tonnes of fish in 2017, the production has almost doubled to 3.2 lakh … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana saw 153% increase in corruption cases in 2018 As per the National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) latest data, corruption cases in Telangana increased by 153% between 2017 and 2018. As per the NCRCB data, the number of cases booked under the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act and related sections of the IPC in Telangana in 2017 … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana Teen Malavath Poorna Scales Antarctica’s Highest Peak 18, Malavath Poorna, who has won laurels for scaling Mount Everest thereby becoming the youngest girl in the world to achieve the feat, has added another feather to her cap by conquering Mt. Vinson Massif, the Antarctica continent’s highest mountain peak (4,987m). She is now gearing … Read more