Perth pitch to have good pace, bounce: Curator warns India ahead of first Test

Perth pitch to have good pace, bounce: Curator warns India ahead of first Test

India’s highly anticipated tour of Australia kicks off with the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Optus Stadium in Perth, where the tourists are expected to face a challenging surface offering pace and bounce, just like the iconic WACA grounds. Optus Stadium’s head curator, Isaac McDonald, revealed that his team has prepared the pitch … Read more

Investigation into workers’ fund fraud in Odisha’s Rayagada district progressing at sluggish pace

Investigation into workers’ fund fraud in Odisha’s Rayagada district progressing at sluggish pace

The investigation into the massive fraud, where deceased individuals were falsely registered as workers under the Odisha Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board (OBOCWWB) and death benefits were fraudulently claimed, seems to be progressing at a sluggish pace. Replying to a query on fraud detected in the Divisional Labour Commissioner (DLC), Rayagada in the … Read more

Telangana continues to register slow pace of growth in revenue receipts at the end of January  

Telangana continues to register slow pace of growth in revenue receipts at the end of January  

A logo of RBI. Telangana State continues to depend on the financial accommodation instruments provided by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for meeting its immediate financial commitments like the ongoing and recently launched spree of welfare schemes. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Telangana State continues to depend on the financial accommodation instruments provided … Read more

Telangana continues slow pace of growth in revenue receipts for July 

Telangana continues slow pace of growth in revenue receipts for July 

The slow pace of growth of revenue receipts continued for the fourth month in a row in the current financial year with Telangana’s total revenue receipts standing at ₹46,845.54 crore at the end of July. This is 21.63% of the ₹2.16 lakh crore revenue receipts projected in the budget estimates for the current fiscal. Of … Read more

Ambedkar Park works in Vijayawada yet to pick up pace

Ambedkar Park works in Vijayawada yet to pick up pace

Labourers working at Ambedkar Smriti Vanam at PWD Grounds in Vijayawada. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao The works of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Memorial Park coming up at Swarjya Maidan in Vijayawada are progressing at a snail’s pace. The project cost has also escalated again. Though the work picked up pace in April, sweltering weather in the summer … Read more

100 days to go: Ambedkar Smriti Vanam works under way at brisk pace

100 days to go: Ambedkar Smriti Vanam works under way at brisk pace

The Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Smriti Vanam (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Park), with a 125-foot-tall statue of the leader as a special attraction, being built in Swarajya Maidan of the city is one of the major projects awaited in 2023. The government announced that it intends to the inaugurate the memorial on the coming Ambedkar Jayanthi … Read more

Gold-plating of Sri Govindaraja temple in Tirupati to gain pace

Gold-plating of Sri Govindaraja temple in Tirupati to gain pace

TTD Joint Executive Officer V. Veerabrahmam interacting with goldsmiths engaged in the gold-plating work of Sri Govindaraja Swamy temple in Tirupati on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. The gold plating work taken up by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) at Sri Govindaraja Swamy temple’s ‘Alaya Vimana Gopuram’, the canopy over the sanctum sanctorum, is set to … Read more

Pandemic Has Slowed Pace of Cancer Research

Pandemic Has Slowed Pace of Cancer Research

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) — To the ever-growing list of COVID-19’s collateral damage, add one more casualty: cancer research. A new study indicates that during the first wave of the pandemic last spring, the number of newly launched cancer treatment studies cratered by 60%. “In short, the first wave of … Read more