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Hyderabad: Ahead of the festive season, prices of edible oil are coming down. Edible oils had seen prices touch new highs in the last few months. The prices are now heading down as the imports, which were impacted by the Russia-Ukraine war, are back on track. For instance, sunflower oil, which was selling at around […]
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A study conducted by Frank Schroeder of the Boyce Thompson Institute and findings were published in Nature Chemical Biology.
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Hyderabad: The SSC Public Examinations 2023 will have only six papers for this academic year too. A decision to reduce the number of papers from 11 to six in the SSC Public Exams during the academic year 2022-23 has been taken by the State government. During the last two academic years, the government reduced the […]
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Hyderabad: Sports and games, which had taken a backseat in schools and colleges due to the Covid-19 pandemic, are slowly finding their way back into the lives of the youth, with the State government developing playgrounds in rural and urban areas. Keeping an eye on the mental well-being of the young, the government is promoting […]
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Negative gender norms and stereotypes often held by teachers, parents, and peers regarding girls' innate inability to understand mathematics are contributing to the disparity.
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Hyderabad: When is the right time? This is one aspect that most property seekers ponder upon for long, spread the query around and spend lot of time trying to arrive at the right time to acquire a nest for themselves. But then, as it is often said, the right time doesn’t exist. The right time […]
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By Thomas E Doyle, II Every five years, the nearly 200 member states of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons meet to review their progress – or lack thereof. After being postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the month-long conference is now meeting in New York and opened with a stark warning. The […]
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Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Vijay Bhasker Reddy on Thursday opined that the State government must provide compensation for the sewage workers especially the contract and casual workers across Telangana. The panel was dealing with a PIL filed by S Jeevan Kumar. The petitioner […]
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Without reliable data, no welfare programme can be effective, however lofty its objectives may be. While the aim of any affirmative action programme is to reduce the socio-economic inequalities and lift the disadvantaged sections out of poverty, the key ingredient in this task is the data that is accurate, reliable and reflective of the ground […]
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With the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring monkeypox as a global health emergency, the healthcare administration must gear up to meet the new challenge without spreading panic. India has learnt some hard lessons from the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, scaled up its healthcare infrastructure and response systems and, therefore, is now in a better position to […]
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Hyderabad: The Covid-19 pandemic did a lot of things to a lot of people across the globe. For BV Rama Prasad Rao, it catapulted him from explaining the nuances of physics to students to making biryani. Quickly getting popular is the ‘Teacher’s Biryani’ near Lakdi-ka-pul Metro Station, which Rao set up to make ends meet […]
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By Huw Thomas In what has been called the “biggest moment for workers’ rights in a quarter of a century”, the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a safe and healthy work environment as one of its five fundamental principles and rights at work for all at its June 2022 international conference. This is the first […]
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United Nations: The UN has celebrated the International Day of Yoga with leaders recognising its potential for helping heal the psychological scars of the Covid-19 pandemic and for taking the world towards environmental sustainability. General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid said on Monday: “Today could not have come at a more opportune time as the Covid-19 […]
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Hyderabad: Key stakeholders of the Indian tourism and hospitality industry have expressed their views on the Covid-19 pandemic shaping the future of travel and tourism at a webinar organised by the Centre for Marketing in Emerging Economies (CMEE). When looking at the big picture, experiential tourism is on the rise, and it’s a chance to […]
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Gurugram: The country has shown exemplary resilience in recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Anantha Nageswaran said on Saturday. Nageswaran was addressing an event on “Indian Economy: Prospects, Challenges and Action Points” at Haryana Institute of Public Administration (HIPA) here. “India has shown an exemplary resilience in recovering from a crisis […]
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By Dr Vanishree Joseph, Dr NV Madhuri Anaemia is one of the major dietary deficiencies in India, with preschool children and teenage girls, as well as pregnant and lactating mothers, being the most vulnerable groups. The primary cause of anaemia is the inadequate intake of iron-rich food. Household size, education level and other infectious diseases […]
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Hyderabad: The Covid-19 pandemic changed our lives – for better or worse. And the startups especially tech-led startups were also not left behind. A study conducted by IIIT-H’s deep tech incubator CIE reveals the impact of technology on its startups during the pandemic and says that startups had to constantly reinvent themselves in order to […]
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San Francisco: US-built supercomputer titled ‘Frontier’ on Monday dethroned Japan’s ‘Fugaku’ (developed by the Riken Institute and Fujitsu), as the world’s fastest machine with 1.1 exaflops of performance on the 59th TOP500 list published by an international conference of computer experts. The Frontier supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is […]
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Kids, parents and professionals are delighted that GHMC's swimming pools have opened up after a two-year gap due to the pandemic
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Beijing: The Asian Para Games, which were scheduled to take place from October 9 to 15 in Hangzhou, China have been postponed due to concerns over the Covid-19 pandemic, the organisers officially announced on Tuesday. “The Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games organising committee (HAPGOC) and the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) today announced the postponement of […]
