Hyderabad: Camera trap images of tigress T1’s two cubs have come as a shot in the arm for the Maharashtra Forest Department which has put in place a team of wildlife veterinarians to capture the two young tigers at the earliest..

Mahbubnagar: For the last two few days, the Sadaram centre in Mahbubnagar district has been witnessing huge influx of physically handicapped candidates seeking new certificates from healthcare authorities in the district. With the State government decided to enhance the Aasara pension to the physically handicapped persons from the current Rs 1,500 per every month to Rs 3,016 from the beginning of April this year, the Sadaram centres in the district are flooded with large number of physically handicapped candidates to renew the old ones and apply for the new certificates. .

Adilabad: District Congress Committee (DCC) president Aleti Maheshwar Reddy exuded confidence on Saturday that the party would be able to win nine out of 10 seats in erstwhile Adilabad district in the coming elections. In an interview to Santosh Padala, he spoke about the party’s prospects and response to his campaign in Nirmal. Excerpts: Congress fielded nine candidates in the district, except for Bellampalli, which was earmarked for ally CPI. How many seats can your party win in the ensuing polls? The Congress will win all the nine seats and the seat that the CPI is contesting as well. Today, no section of the society is happy with the TRS rule and electors believe that they will lead a happy life only if Congress forms the government..

Coinciding with the first anniversary of the launch of the Hyderabad Metro’s operations, trial runs on the Ameerpet – Hi-Tec City stretch of Metro Corridor-III began here on Thursday. A team of technical experts and engineers led by HMRL MD NVS Reddy and L&T MRHL MD KVB Reddy travelled by a Metro train on the stretch and observed various critical parameters and performance of the train during the trial run. .

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Friday presented a Rs 1,82,017 crore vote-on-account budget for 2019-20 financial year. Presenting the budget in the State Legislative Assembly, Chandrashekhar Rao said of the total budget, the government proposes to spend Rs 32,815 crore on capital expenditure pegging the revenue expenditure at Rs 1,31,629 crore. While the revenue surplus is estimated at Rs 6,564 crore, the fiscal deficit is expected to be Rs 27,749 crore which works out to 2.81 per cent of the Gross State Domestic Produce (GSDP)..

London: Micro-targeted advertising on Facebook was very effective in persuading undecided voters to support Donald Trump during the 2016 US presidential elections, a study has found. According to the researchers from the Charles III University of Madrid in Spain, Trump’s team spent 44 million dollars on Facebook, with 175,000 different adverts during the 2016 election campaign, compared to a spend of 28 million dollars by Democrat candidate Hilary Clinton. In order to carry out these campaigns, the messages are sent out to Facebook users based on various factors, such as their gender, location or political allegiance..