Category: Current Affairs

  • Solar Policy of Bangaru Telangana

    Telangana has a vast solar potential with average solar insolation of nearly 5.5 kWh/m2 for more 300 sunshine days. The government of Telangana (GoTS), intends to make use of the positive environment in the solar market and push given by GoI for substantially harnessing the solar potential in the state of Telangana. This policy of…

  • Telangana girl, boy win National Bravery awards

    Telangana girl, boy win National Bravery awards

    Shivampet Ruchita from Telangana will be the recipient of the prestigious Geeta Chopra Award for the year 2015 for bravery.  Ruchita was eight-years-old when she pushed two children out of a bus she was travelling in when it was hit by a train at a level crossing in Maisaipet in Medak district on July 24,…

  • Telangana becomes first State to make gender education compulsory

    Telangana has become the first State to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level; without repeating gender stereotypes in its bilingual textbook titled, ‘Towards a World of Equals.’ The book introduced on a pilot basis in engineering colleges affiliated to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU-Hyderabad) discusses gender in its composite form without limiting…

  • 45,000 doctors to re-register with the newly-created Telangana State Medical Council

     Call it bifurcation blues, but 45,000 doctors practising in private and government hospitals across Telangana will have to re-register their names with the newly-created interim Telangana State Medical Council. Experts said such a step is inevitable after the state health department not only adopted the Andhra Pradesh Medical Practitioners Registration Act, 1968, but also constituted…

  • International kidney racket busted in Telangana

    A kidney racket has been busted in Nalgonda district of Telangana. The kingpin is a 22-year-old hotel management student. He initially sold his own kidney for Rs 5 lakh in December 2014. The transplant took place in Colombo. Realising this is a lucrative business, this student turned organ trafficking agent himself. He used social media…

  • Nitin Gadkari announces Rs 41,000-cr road projects for Telangana

    Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on January 4 announced road projects worth Rs 41,000 crore for Telangana, including two Express Highways from the state capital Hyderabad to Bengaluru in Karnataka and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. “The total package for Telangana is Rs 41,000 crore. This is not the final figure. It is still open for discussion.…