Oct 2019

TELANGANA Telangana Police ‘Hawk-Eye’ integrated with cab apps The Telangana Police have made it compulsory to link its “Hawk-Eye” app containing an “emergency button” to every company or individual offering Internet-based cab service. When a commuter in distress presses the button, the message will be transmitted to Telangana police’s Hawk-Eye app through a back-end operational … Read more

  Peddapalli best Swachh district in country   Peddapalli district has emerged as the “Overall Best District” in the country during the annual survey conducted in the country as part of Swachh Survekshan 2019 by the Union Ministry of Jal Shakthi.   Out of the survey conducted in 690 districts and 17,400 villages in the … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana stays out of liquor biz, booze gets costly   Liquor consumers will have to pay extra to buy their favourite brands with the new excise policy for 2019-21, which was unveiled on Thursday, effecting big changes in the slab and tax payment structure for traders and shop owners. The new policy has retained the … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana govt adopts new framework to use drones for last-mile delivery In a bid to increase access to health care for communities across the state, the Telangana government has adopted a new framework to use drones for last-mile delivery.   Co-designed with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Apollo Hospitals Group company Healthnet Global … Read more

TELANGANA Harvard University to study Telangana’s residential schools model   The Harvard Graduate School of Education will soon take up a case study on ‘how Telangana Social Welfare Residential Schools are disrupting the status quo in education sector in India’ to analyse the policies of the state government in providing free education to students belonging … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana hospitals emerge top clinical trial hubs   Government-run hospitals are the biggest clinical trial labs in Telangana and Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) tops the charts with 21 clinical trials in 2019 out of 200 in the state.   Out of 571 clinical trials in Telangana region (from 2007 to 2014) and … Read more