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ANDHRA PRADESH OCTOPUS’ inducted into Andhra CM’s security cover In order to enhance the security cover of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, special force ‘OCTOPUS’ has been inducted into his security. Organisation for Counter-Terrorist Operations, also called ‘OCTOPUS’, is a specialised and elite counter-terrorism unit of the state of Andhra … Read more
RAJASTHAN Afforestation in state will help reduce pollution in Delhi Afforestation of agriculturally marginal lands in Rajasthan and Gujarat would help in effectively reducing dust pollution in Delhi, which recently witnessed severe deterioration in air quality due to dust storm in neighbouring states. The drop in air quality brought into light the new … Read more
RAJASTHAN Education dept announces 3,290 ‘Ujiyari Panchayats’ Education department announced 3,290 panchayats in the state as ‘Ujiyari Panchayats’. Government schools in such panchayats had zero dropout rate of students around 50 lakh students will be enrolled in secondary schools under the enrolment campaign in the state. Directions have been given to officers … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH Andhra Pradesh Government Signs Agreements With Alphabet X The government of Andhra Pradesh entered into an agreement with the moonshot factory of Alphabet (earlier Google) X to bring the breakthroughFree Space Optical. Communication (FSOC) technology in order to provide internet through the government Fibergrid project. This association with X labs to implement FSOC in … Read more
RAJASTHAN Rural women to produce goat milk under new govt scheme After camels and cows, Rajasthan government has decided to venture into the production of goat milk and its products. Under this project, goat milk, goat milk powder, cheese, flavoured milk and soap will be produced by rural women and soap will be produced by … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH Tower design for Assembly building approved Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu gave his approval to the design of the Legislative Assembly building from two options at a meeting with the officials of the A.P.-Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) and representatives of the Foster+Partners (F+P), in which film director S.S. Rajamouli had … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH Now, Hyd gears up to play host to Olympics of ICT industry After having successfully wrapped up the prestigious Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 in November end, the IT city of Hyderabad is gearing up to host yet another high profile global summit — the World Congress on InformationTechnology (WCIT) 2018 from … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH Andhra Pradesh government proposes seaport worth Rs 10k cr at Ramayapatnam Andhra Pradesh government proposed to set up a Greenfield seaport at Ramayapatnam in Prakasam district. It is an outlay of Rs 10,000 crore. The meeting held by an Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC)under the Ministry of Environment. RITES Ltd in the field of … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH · Amaravati bonds for Andhra Pradesh’s new capital gets BSE listing ð Amaravati bonds were listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), With this, the State government crossed another milestone in raising funds for the construction of capital city Amaravati. ð Earlier, bonds worth ₹2,000 crore were floated by the A.P. … Read more
RAJASTHAN Gavial count goes up in Chambal sanctuary The Chambal Ghariyal Sanctuary of Kota is witnessing growth in the number of gavials, which were on the verge of extinction some years ago. There has been a gradual rise in the nesting and population of gavials at Gudla over the last five years. … Read more