Taiwanese contract manufacturerFoxconn has bagged an order from Appleto make AirPods.It is likely to invest $200 million.
The latest development comes less than a fortnight after Foxconn chairmanYoung Liuinked a memorandum of understanding with the government for setting up an electronics manufacturing facility in Hyderabad.
Fulfilling its promises made to Munugode assembly constituency voters during by-poll held last month, the government announced Rs 1,540 crore bonanza for the Nalgonda district.
Around Rs 400 crore worth of works would be taken up in the Munugode assembly constituency from the sanctioned amount. The rest of the amount would be spent on roads, Infrastructure improvement, civic works, construction of a hospital and other works.
The government also announced to set up a toy park in Dandumalkapur industrial park which would provide EMPLOYMENT to about 10,000 youths.
Football will be the likely focus as thegovernment looks to finalise a new Sports policy.
That they want to go the way Odisha government adopted hockey is clear but whether Telangana will succeed in reaping the rewards of promoting football is a moot point. To begin with, Odisha has a large pool of hockey players at the grassroots level.
Though former players here are gung-ho about the proposal, the same cant be said of football in Telangana except for some pockets in the city. Hyderabad was once the feeder line for Indian football. But it has been reduced to a pale shadow due to rampant politics.
A policy similar to Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) is also being considered. It will help identify talent early so that athletes can be groomed.
The in one of its biggest moves in recent months issued a new schedule of raising Bonds worth Rs 4,000 crore.
The Money will most likely be used to implement theRythu Bandhu schemefor the upcoming season, high-ranking government sources said.
In July, the state borrowed for the scheme’s execution and transferred Rs 7,360 crore into the accounts of more than 60 lakh eligible farmers.
The earlier raised Rs 2,000 crore was used to meet rising costs for the implementation of several initiatives, but funds for the Dalit Bandhu scheme are still required. While in the first seven months of the fiscal year, the state borrowed more than Rs 30,000 crore. In the last two months, the state has barely raised Rs 2,000 crore in bonds as revenue increased. Faced with the need for finances to pay salaries under the new PRC, the state postponed making a decision on the new Asara pension scheme.
Given state’s limited Resources, the state administration has asked the Centre to increase the borrowing limit under the Finance Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act from 4% to 5%.
Thecaseloadof patients per doctor foroutpatientconsultation in the government hospitals and primary Health centres inTelanganais one of the highest in the country.
As per official figures, each doctor in the state-run facilities saw 16,283 patients, on an Average, each year (53 patients per day) in PHCs during the year 2021-22. This has increased from 14,935 patients in the previous year. This is the fifth highest in the country after Nadu (27,170), Puducherry (20,157), Kerala (17,483) and Delhi (17,169), according to the latest report of the Health Management Information System, released by the Centre.
The averageOPDat PHC level across the country was 9,973 in 2021-22.
At the community health centre (CHC) level, each doctor saw 9,103 patients per year (accounting for 28 patients per day), while each doctor at the district hospitals saw 4,037 patients during 2021-22.
Unlike usual ATMs that dispense , the Goldsikka ATM dispenses Gold coins. In what is India’s first gold ATM, people can insert their debit or credit cards into the Goldsikka and buy gold coins.
The ATM has a capacity of storing 5kgs of gold. There are 8 available Options for the quantity of gold starting from 0.5 grams to 100 grams.
Goldsikka Pvt Ltd launched its first Gold ATM with Technology support from M/s OpenCube Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Hyderabad-based startup company on December 3. This is India’s first and the world’s first real-time Gold ATM.
AlthoughTelanganasees 23.5% of Women get married before the age of 18, with most child marriages taking place in parts of Hyderabad and districts, experts say that there is a need to spread awareness on reproductive Health among the youth and adolescents.
The initiative was launched by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Through this four-year project, India-Yash will focus on family planning and reproductive health for those in the age group of 10 to 29 years and leave behind scalable and sustainable models for young people to take charge of their sexual and reproductive well-being.
To include the youngsters in the dialogue, an innovation challenge will be held to invite ideas, hand-hold them and provide incubation support to help them turn into scalable models.
Though India is one of the top three countries in terms of green buildings with a total footprint of 8.3 billion square feet,Telanganalags behind with a footprint of only 356 million sq ft,Indian Green Building Council(IGBC) Hyderabad chapter chairmanC ShekarReddy said.
He said the sops being provided by these states range from additional floor area ratio free of charge for projects above a certain rating, subsidies, reimbursements, reduction in permit fees and impact fees.
, on the other hand, offers only a 10% rebate on property tax which is not enough, he said. The GBC is to be held on the theme ‘Advancing Net Zero Buildings & Built-Environment‘ and will comprise a conference and an expo.
A day after a team of officials from theKrishna River Management Board(KRMB) visited the disputed Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme (RLIS) site, asked theKRMBto restrainAndhra Pradeshfrom divertingwaterfrom foreshore of Srisailam reservoir.
Telangana alleged that AP was diverting water through three projects which it termed them as illegal. It said water was diverted through Muchumarri, a link canal connecting Handri Neeva Sujala Sravanthi Lift Irrigation Scheme at Malyala, with KC Canal and an escape channel from Banakacherla cross regulator to feed the KC Canal ayacut.
A new study by researchers from severalIndian Institutes of Technology(IITs), including Hyderabad, and other organisations has revealed energy consumption discrepancies in the Indian brick . They have analysed energy conservation in brick production.Telanganaproduces 3% andAndhra Pradesh4% of Indias bricks. The study, Reconciliation of Energy Use Disparities in Brick Production in India, has been published in Nature.
Highlighting the significance of energy conservation in achieving carbon neutrality in the building sector, the study shows that current energy consumption estimates in the brick industry were vastly underestimated, comparable to that of steel and cement industries. Researchers, including Azharuddin Hashmi and Asif Qureshi from IIT-H, had modelled Indian brick production and regional energy consumption by combining a nationwide questionnaire survey and remote sensing data on kiln enumeration.
States in the west and east are responsible for 10% and 8% production (of bricks). The contributions from the north and North-East are meagre. This implies that the operational practices in the Indo-Gangetic plain and the peninsula have the largest influence on national energy consumption, the researchers revealed.