Oct 2019

TELANGANA Aasara’ call centre launched   Phone numbers to lodge grievances related to Aasara Pension Scheme was launched by Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao at Rangareddy Zilla Parishad Office, Khairatabad. Apart from the filing and following up grievances, people can file new applications for the scheme. They can also get queries … Read more

TELANGANA Telangana makes ’emergency button’ mandatory for cab services   Soon, private cab services across the State will have an ‘emergency button’ installed in a service application to ensure the safety of women commuters.   In case of emergency, the commuter can press the ‘emergency button’ in the related cab service app.   Once a … Read more

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

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

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

TELANGANA Telangana government announces Layout Regularisation Scheme   Open plots in unauthorized and illegal layouts in new municipalities will be regularized under Layout Regularization Scheme (LRS). The Telangana government has announced the scheme, to be implemented in 73 new municipalities and the scheme is applicable to the plots which were registered before March 30, 2018. The municipal administration and … Read more