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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 […]
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Hyderabad: EdIndia Foundation, the strategic CSR arm of Sterlite Power, has announced its partnership with the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (UNESCO MGIEP), to train more than 10,000 teachers in India. This partnership will enable government teachers across India to leverage digital tools and integrate socio-emotional context while teaching. […]
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Hyderabad: After Russia invaded Ukraine, the US imposed sanctions on Russia including a ban on the transfer of technology and on Russian banks. Following this, the Russian space agency Roscosmos held that the State Corporation will not cooperate with Germany on joint experiments in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). Space is […]
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Hyderabad: CMR International School Suraram celebrated Graduation Day for its pre-schoolers recently. The Graduation Day ceremony is a happy and momentous occasion for the little ones as they gather to celebrate the culmination of their preschool years, the school said. The milestone in education is something worth commemorating and enjoying. For a kindergartener’s graduation, their […]
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Hyderabad: DPS Nadergul organised Pi Day to celebrate the famous mathematical constant π on March 14 (3/14), which is meant to represent the 3.14 constant that results when you divide a circle’s circumference by its diameter. The actual number is infinite, but two decimal places work for most of us, the school said. Various activities […]
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Hyderabad: Chandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2), a payload onboard Chandrayaan-2, has made the first-of-its-kind discovery on the distribution of one of the noble gases, Argon-40. India launched Chandrayaan-2, its second lunar exploration mission after Chandrayaan-1, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota in July 2019. Major findings The gas found in the lunar exosphere is believed […]
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Telangana Telangana Legislative Council member Gutha Sukhender Reddy is all set to be elected to the post of chairman for a second term. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader filed nomination for the post. He submitted his papers to Legislature Secretary Narasimha Charyulu. He was accompanied by State ministers Vemula Prashant Reddy, Mohammed Mahmood Ali, […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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Telangana In a first, the government of Telangana launched the pilot of Telangana Health Profile project aimed at preparing a digital data bank of the health ailments of the people. The pilot of the prestigious project will be implemented in Mulugu and Rajanna Sircilla district over the next 40 days. Health Minister T Harish Rao […]
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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 […]
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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? […]
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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 […]
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Hyderabad: The Indian Navy’s multilateral Exercise MILAN 2022 has commenced from Feb 25 in the ‘City of Destiny’, Visakhapatnam. 2020 edition of MILAN was postponed to 2022 due to Covid-19. Read more about the highlights of the event…. Warships and high-level delegations representing navies from 40 countries are taking part in Milan-2022, the Indian Navy’s […]
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Telangana Instead of waiting for the government’s help, some remote villages of Kumram Bheem Asifabad district are literally converting waste into gold by making profits by adopting efficient waste management practices and are able to achieve financial empowerment. The villages are segregating dry waste as part of the novel initiative Palle Pragati programme implemented by the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Hyderabad: The Ministry of Ayush last week reiterated that Giloy/ Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia) is safe and as per available data and does not produce any toxic effect. The clarification came after certain sections of the media have falsely linked Giloy/Guduchi to liver damage. Read more about the shrub that is native to India and is […]
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Hyderabad: The Junior Wing of Delhi Public School, Nacharam hosted a virtual inter-school competition for classes I and II recently titled Junior Wordsmith – Wizard of sounds and syllables. The theme of the event was mastery over words, sounds and syllables as per the foundational literacy and numeracy goals of NEP 2020 and the little […]
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Telangana: Tens of thousands of devotees offered prayers to tribal deities at Medaram in Mulugu district of Telangana on the last day of Medaram Jatara. Tribals from different parts of Telangana and neighbouring States made a beeline to pay obeisance to Sammakka and Saralamma and offer jaggery as per the tradition. The four-day fair, considered […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Hyderabad: The US recently said it will open an embassy in the Solomon Islands, laying out in unusually blunt terms a plan to increase its influence in the South Pacific nation before China becomes strong there. Read more about the Islands and why it is in news these days.. Solomon Islanders cherished their history with […]
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Telangana The Central government has convened its first meeting of a panel constituted to resolve the bilateral issues between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on February 17. The meeting of the dispute resolution sub-committee will be held via video-conference to discuss the pending issues between the two Telugu States. This was announced by the Ministry of Home […]