TELANGANA

TelanganaIT & industries principal secretary Jayesh Ranjan on Saturday said that the state has emerged as a top destination for startups with around 400 startups currently operational in the state, thanks to a conducive ecosystem and proactive policies of the .
Pointing out that the state government is giving the highest preference to availing the relevant Services being offered by the states startups, Ranjan also urged Telangana Inc to give preference to local startups.

Pointing out that there has been a 16-fold increase in startups formed in last seven years, Subramanya said he is very optimistic about Telangana as it has one of the best startup Ecosystems in the country.

‘s ruling partyTelangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS), now known as Bharat Rashtra Samithi, received almost all of its 193.9 worth of contributions for the year 2021-22 through electoral Bonds and electoral trusts. While it has declared 153 crore as income from electoral bonds in its latest contribution report filed with the Election Commission, another 40 crore landed in its kitty from the Prudent Electoral Trust.

Other Regional Parties that have declared income from electoral bonds in their contribution reports for the year 2021-22 areYSR Congress Party(60 crore or three-fourths of its total contributions of over 80 crore),Shiromani Akali Dal(50 lakh) and Samajwadi Party (3.21 lakh). In 2020-21, YSR Congress Party had declared 96.25 crore as its income via electoral bonds route, while SAD and SP reported nil income from bonds. In 2019-20, which was also the general election year, SP had received 10.8 crore via electoral bonds route and TRS, 98.15 crore.

TheTelanganagovernment said the state delegation headed by IT and industries minister KT Rama Rao held a series of meetings with various CEOs and heads inParis.

The delegation met the Leadership of missile player MBDA, aviation training providerAerocampus Aquitaineas well as officials ofCosmetic Valley, which is a cluster of about 800 companies that employs about 70,000 people with around Euro 11 billion in revenue.

The minister also held a formal meeting with the ambassador of India to theRepublic of France, Jawed Ashraf, and apprised him about the various priority sectors in the state and the state governments effort to draw investments into these sectors.

Government of recently announced Data in Climate Resilient Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture (DiCRA) as a part of Digital Public Goods Alliance, in association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

DiCRA is the latest addition to Digital Public Goods Registry.

This platform is powered by Artificial Intelligence and aims to strengthen food systems and Food Security.

It is important milestone in Governments commitment towards open data policy, anticipatory Governance to tackle global challenge of food security and service delivery to farmers.

DiCRA supply intelligence on climate resilience at farm-level.

Scientists fromCDFDand several forensic labs in the country have conducted a study on Population of five Indian states to find out the forensic relevance of certain genes. The study also reconfirmed earlier findings that the population of is much closer to the populace ofMadhya Pradesh.

The research paper, Assessment of Significance and Forensic Relevance of SE33 (ACTB) Locus in Five Indian Populations was published recently in Gene Reports journal.

The Probability of matching a profile with any other source is always unique and therefore can be used to establish the identity of the person.

SE33 is the potential marker for human identification, especially for solving paternity disputes and analysis of mixed samples.

If the report of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) submitted to the ongoing extended 44th session of theWorld Heritage Committee of Unescois any indication, the experts involved in the preparation of the dossier did not come up with a foolproof plan.

ICOMOS in its report pinpointed the loopholes in the dossier and explained how the state party failed to come up with clinching scientific evidence in support of the claims made for the heritage status.

Neglected and forgotten, Jain Tirthankara sculptures and inscriptions have been discovered on two pillars of a tank sluice in Enikepalli village of Moinabad Mandal of Rangareddy district.

The two pillars, one of granite and the other of black basalt, showcase four Tirthankaras – ‘Adinatha’, ‘Neminatha’, ‘Parshvanatha’ and ‘Vardhamana Mahavira’. They are depicted in a seated meditation posture and adorned with ‘Keerthimukhas’ on the top.

The slabs bear inscriptions in -Kannada script, but their meaning remains elusive as they are firmly integrated into the masonry walls of the village tank’s sluice, said archaeologist Dr E Sivanagireddy who visited the site on Sunday following information provided by heritage activist P Srinath Reddy.

Telanganagovernment maybe battling with the Centre to lift market borrowing curbs to fight debt, but it has displayed a robust economic trend, as per experts extrapolating on the Ecowrap report released.

, which consistently maintained a high per capita income (PCI), has shown a dipping POVERTY graph with income disparity shrinking during the pandemic.

This was established by its lowGinico-efficient – a measure of income inequality (in aggregate and per capita terms) – in the report.
The report has emphatically linked the Gini co-efficient to inequality reduction in states.

PCI and Gini index are interlinked and states with high PCI are better placed to cut down on inequalities than states with lower PCI, saidKrishna ReddyChittedi, assistant professor of economics atHyderabad Central University. As per the Ecowrap report, the other top two states with high PCI are Goa and Sikkim and those with lowest are Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The report also says that higher gross state domestic product (GSDP) is linked to a lower Gini ratio like PCI.

has been placed under zone of ‘caution’ in the first-ever excess heat factor (EHF) index released recently by theIndia Meteorological Department(IMD) in Delhi.EHFis an experimental exercise to estimate the heat Stress over parts of country during summer on the lines of Australia and the US.

Unlike simple prediction of high temperature, EHF provides an estimate of excess heat stress based on high temperature of the previous 30 days and extreme heat in the last three days over a region. If a region in the index is highlighted in red, it means that the maximum temperature recorded is higher than 45 degree Celsius and there is more stress.

IMD’s first EHF showed that major parts of Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra,Uttar Pradesh,Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Gujarat,Himachal Pradeshand Uttarakhand are experiencing an increase in excess heat factor. Some parts of Andhra Pradesh are in the red danger zone with a maximum temperature of more than 45 degree Celsius and the EHF data can serve as a warning to citizens to be on the lookout for any Health effects, officials said.

The EHF index is used in Australia, the US and a few other countries.

One more solar power plant of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) of ten megawatt capacity, this time at Bhupalapalli, was commissioned on Sunday taking the companys total solar power generation capacity to 162.

The solar Plants of the company have generated about 65 million units (MU) of energy saving 34.12 crore to the company on its energy bills so far. The solar plants commissioned so far are part of the 300 MW capacity being developed by the company in the first phase.