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HYDERABAD: Move over English, coding in Telangana’s government schools will now be taught in Telugu, in a new move that could see scores of students queuing up to learn the programming language in their mother tongue.
Authorities said with students who are not well-versed in English and shying away from learning this skill, it has been decided to start courses in Telugu to encourage youngsters.
“As a pilot, we will start the programme in 50 schools in the coming academic year. Soon, it will be extended to all other schools in the district,” said Vijaya Kumari, district education officer (Medchal-Malkajgiri district) where the project will be kick-started.
Researchers from Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad, have found that N440K has a high prevalence of over 33% in Andhra Pradesh.
A 44-year-old public service employee was diagnosed positive for Covid-19 on July 25, 2020. He tested negative on August 2, 2020. However, he tested positive again on September 10, 2020, during routine surveillance. He showed symptoms like fever, cough, and malaise.
The research team comprising Pallavali Roja Rani, Mohammed Imran, Juturu Vijaya Lakshmi, Bani Jolly, Abhinav Jain, Avileli Surekha, Vigneshwar Senthivel, Pulala Chandrasekhar, Mohit Kumar Divakar, Damam Srinivasulu, Rahul C Bhoyar, PR Vanaja, Vinod Scaria, and Sridhar Sivasubbu found 15 and 17 genetic variants in the genomes from the two episodes of infection in the public service employee, respectively. Of them 14 variants were common between the two episodes.
GHMC accounted for the most number of cases with 30. Telangana clocks 178 new coronavirus cases, 1 death | Photo Credit: IANS
Telangana saw 178 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the infection count past 2.98 lakh, while one more death pushed the aggregate to 1,633,the government said on Saturday.
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 30, followed by Medchal Malkajgiri 20 and Rangareddy with 15, a government bulletin said on Saturday providing details as of 8 pm on February 26.
The total number of cases stood at 2,98,631 while with 148p atients being cured, the total recoveries were at 2,95,059.
The state has 1,939 active cases and 40,821 samples were tested on Friday.
The rooster was kept at the Gollapalli police station in Jagtial
HYDERABAD: Catching a criminal may be relatively easy for cops but not for Jagtial police in Telangana. They have a tough task on hand – to protect and keep alive a rooster which was apparently responsible for the death of its owner. The rooster is key to a case which Gollapalli police are investigating.
The case pertains to Tanugalla Satish (45), who died of knife injuries at Lothunur village on February 22. Satish had gone to a local temple premises where some people had gathered for a cockfight. Organising cockfights is illegal, but the group had a secret gathering. Satish also took his rooster with him. As he was releasing it for a fight with another rooster, the three-inch knife (‘kodi kaththi’ in local parlance) tied to one of its legs pierced him in the groin. Satish suffered loss of blood and died while being shifted to a hospital.