Education

Hyderabad: It is a crucial phase for several youngsters in Telangana with notifications for jobs all set to be released by several government departments. Amid the growing tight competition, some job aspirants during their preparations for recruitment tests could feel prone to related anxiety and stress. Overcoming their anxiety and fears and staying focused could […]

Hyderabad: With the State government announcement on filling up vacant posts in the police force, the Rachakonda Police are planning to kickstart the Pre-Recruitment Training (PRT) for youngsters from the Commissionerate soon. Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat has over the years mentored and guided scores of candidates in successfully cracking the civil services. Candidates […]

Hyderabad: Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognised language. Over the two millennia of Swahili’s growth and adaptation, immigrants from inland Africa, traders from Asia, Arab and European occupiers, European and Indian settlers, colonial rulers, and individuals from postcolonial nations – have used […]

Hyderabad: The Registrar General of India’s Sample Registration System (SRS) released the latest special bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India (2017-19). As per the World Health Organisation, maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy […]

Hyderabad: Florida Atlantic University (FAU), USA, has announced scholarships for incoming spring and fall terms to support international students to study at FAU. The scholarships provide a significant reduction in course fees for students who wish to pursue their higher education studies at FAU as the scholarship covers four or eight semesters for a transfer […]

Hyderabad: More women are joining Indian forces, following long-standing calls to boost their presence in international missions like United Nations Peacekeeping mission. For more than a decade, the United Nations (UN) has called for more participation from women in conflict prevention, post-conflict peacebuilding and peacekeeping. Read why is it important to have women peacekeepers in […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions Society (TMREIS) has invited online applications for admissions into its institutions through an entrance test for the academic year 2022-23. Admissions are being offered in Class V in 204 TMR Schools, intermediate first year in TMR Junior Colleges including Centres of Excellence and backlog vacancies in Minorities category in […]

Hyderabad: The Department of Intermediate Education is telecasting important concepts/questions and answers via T-SAT network for the benefit of students appearing for the intermediate public examinations, April 2022. The telecast for second and first year intermediate students of general stream will be from 7 am to 9 am, and 5 pm to 8.30 pm respectively […]

Hyderabad: This week we heard two Australians have died from the mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis virus. The virus has now been detected in four States in that country. Authorities are concerned that more cases would be around the country and have earmarked extra funding to roll out vaccines to those at risk. Who is recommended to […]

Hyderabad: The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC) facility at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops. Earlier, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru installed the supercomputer ‘Param Pravega’. Read more about the supercomputer… Supercomputer PARAM Ganga has been established by the Centre for Development of Advanced […]

By Deepika Reddy Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has announced a massive direct recruitment to 80,039 posts under the State Government out of which 11,626 posts are of the Group – I, II, III and IV services. The break-up of the jobs is as follows: • GROUP I – 503 • GROUP II – 582 […]

Hyderabad: The purported reason behind Russia launching a military invasion of Ukraine was the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The expansionism of NATO threatened at some undefined point in the future to allow Ukraine to join the grouping as a treaty ally and thus bring this transatlantic security coalition within striking […]

The Sun releases a constant stream of particles and magnetic fields called the solar wind. This solar wind slams worlds across the solar system with particles and radiation which can stream all the way to planetary surfaces unless thwarted by an atmosphere, magnetic field, or both. Comet As the comet gets closer to the Sun, […]

Hyderabad: Ukraine has filed a suit with the International Court of Justice in The Hague against Russia. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia must be held accountable for “manipulating the notion of genocide to justify aggression”. Ukraine “emphatically denied” any occurrence of a genocide in the country’s eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. The dispute […]

Hyderabad: Ancient civilizations, like the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Romans, had a large role to play in the way we tell time and in the modern calendar, we use today. Read here how time appropriation evolved over the centuries…. How did we come to divide the hour into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds? […]

Hyderabad: Cultivation of lavender has changed fortunes of farmers in Jammu and Kashmir farmers who quit maize crop cultivation to take up the new crop. More than 800 progressive farmers of Doda adopted aromatic cultivation which is now proved out to be more profitable to them than maize. The farmers, who are growing lavender under […]

Ashoka University Young India Fellowship Ashoka University Young India Fellowship 2022-23 is an initiative for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Eligibility: Open for candidates below 28 years of age who hold a recognised undergraduate or postgraduate degree in any discipline. Candidates must have an above-average academic record combined with extra-curricular engagement with strong written and verbal […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao inaugurated the mammoth Mallanna Sagar reservoir, which was constructed as part of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS), and dedicated it to the nation on Wednesday. He performed a special puja at the reservoir before releasing the Godavari River water into Mallanna Sagar on the Tukkapur Surge Pool. Here […]

Hyderabad: The Union government recently has banned the import of foreign drones. The move comes after the Union Budget 2022 proposed the Drone Shakti scheme to facilitate the application and use of ‘drones as service’ in the country. The import of drone components, however, has not been banned and will not require any approvals. The […]

Hyderabad: In a recent study, an Indian researcher traced the tectonic evolution and the nature of the Greater Maldive Ridge (GMR). It is a very crucial geodynamic feature in the western Indian Ocean whose origin has been the centre of many a scientific debate. The study was conducted by the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai, […]

Hyderabad: The Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed.) and Diploma in Pre School Education (D.P.S.E.) I year Final Lesson Teaching Practice (FLTP) practical examinations for 2020-22 batch will be conducted in two spells i.e., from March 2 to 17. In a press release issued here on Monday, the office of the Director of Government Examinations, Telangana, […]

Hyderabad: With an increasing number of companies coming up and existing ones focusing on good governance, the demand for Company Secretaries, who ensure rules are followed besides advising the Board of Directors and the company, has gone up. However, the field is faced with scarcity of trained professionals. The Institute of Company Secretaries of India […]

Hyderabad: On September 1, 1859, solar astronomer Richard Carrington witnessed sunspots that suddenly and briefly flashed brightly before they disappeared. Just before dawn the next day, auroras erupted over most of the Earth. The event produced not only a visible light show in areas where they do not typically appear, but it also sent telegraph […]

Hyderabad: Recently, India signed an agreement with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for the distribution of 50,000 MT of wheat that it has committed to sending to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian assistance. Earlier, the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan was held. The meeting called for “urgent humanitarian assistance” to the […]