Hyderabad: Forgotten crops have to be readdressed and cultivated to tackle the problem of climate change, speakers at the 21st Mobile Biodiversity Festival of Deccan Development Society (DDS) said at the closing event on Monday at Machnoor in Jharasangam mandal on Sangareddy district. Co-director of DDS Jayasri Cherukuri said the festival of the women farmers was being celebrated for the last 20 years. Three women farmers were honoured for their contribution towards ecological agriculture and climate. Maisannagari Ratnamma, Moligeri Chandramma and Begari Sangamma have been cultivating millets for several years.
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HYDERABAD: National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) analysis has revealed Koyna region of Maharashtra in the eco-sensitive Western Ghats has witnessed a significant warming of 0.6 to 1 degree Centigrade over the past 100 years.
NGRI scientists and IIT Indore researchers have quantified the possible climate warming or cooling in the past 100 years in the Western Ghats using temperature-depth profiles of five boreholes at a depth of 140 to 198 metres in the Koyna region.
A research paper titled ‘Assessment of Climate Warming in the Western Ghats of India in the Past Century Using Geothermal Records’ was recently published in ‘Theoretical and Applied Climatology’.
Hyderabad: Khammam Task force police raided a shop at Cheruvu Bazar in Khammam town and seized banned gutkha worth Rs 6.3 lakh from the shop. Later, the Khammam task force police identified that the 14 sacks of gutkha seized during the raid in the shop belonged to the accused, D Vasudeva Rao. The accused has been arrested. The accused Rao is a grocery store owner, according to the police. They said this was the first time he had been arrested. tnn
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HYDERABAD: After finding nearly Rs 1 crore in an account which actually belongs to a daily wage worker from Delhi, Telangana police probing the instant loan app cases are now looking into the profiles of various individual accounts linked to the scam.
While analysing the inward and outward money flow into various accounts belonging to companies and individuals linked with loan app transactions, a team of Telangana police which went to Delhi also verified the details of account holders. To their shock, they found one of the accounts belonged to a Delhi-based daily wage worker. He was not in possession of the banking kit, including the net banking details or an ATM card.