Coronavirus News Updates: Hyderabad, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh News Today 20 March 2021

The daughter of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao and TRS candidate Surabhi Vanadevi has won from the graduating MLC constituency Mahbubnagar-Ranga Reddy-Hyderabad. She has currently defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ramchander Rao.

SEB cops seize 1102 NDPL bottles, 17 kilograms of ganja - arrests 39 persons

Kurnool: In a joint operation, the police personnel of the Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB), Civil and Excise departments have seized illegally transported liquor, sand, ganja and ghutka packets in large quantities on Saturday. Read Full Story

3 drown in Godavari river in Bhadrachalam

Three people were drowned in Godavari river at intake well in Bhadrachalam on Friday. The deceased were identified as Charan (10), Varalakshmi (35) and Surekha (16). Read Full Story

Govt. to create 3 lakh jobs in electronics manufacturing: KTR

The Telangana government will provide job opportunities to three lakh people in the electronic sector in the next four years, said IT and Industries minister KT Rama Rao in the fifth day of assembly session in a response to the question to encourage the electronic sector. Read Full Story

Coronavirus in India: India reports 40,953 new COVID 19 cases, 23,653 recoveries and 188 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union Health Ministry

Total cases: 1,15,55,284

Total recoveries: 1,11,07,332

Active cases: 2,88,394

Death toll: 1,59,558

Total vaccination: 4,20,63,392

A total of 23,24,31,517 samples tested for  COVID 19 up to 19th March 2021. Of these, a total of 10,60,971 samples were tested yesterday: Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

Delhi records minimum temperature of 16.8 deg C

Delhi woke up to a clear sky on Saturday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 16.8 degrees Celsius, a Met official said.

The maximum temperature is likely to be around 34 degrees Celsius, without any possibility of rain, he said.

Strong surface winds with speed up to 20-30 km/h are expected on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the air quality in the national capital was recorded in the "poor" category. The air quality index (AQI) was 293 as per the Ministry of Earth Sciences' SAFAR app.

An AQI between 201 and 300 is considered poor, 301-400 very poor and 401-500 severe, while an AQI above 500 falls in the severe plus category. (PTI)

Telangana govt. may shut down schools amid rising corona cases

The Telangana government is likely to shut down schools across the state in the view of rising coronavirus positive cases. A decision will be taken soon after the Chief Minister reviewing the coronavirus situation in the state in the next few days. Read Full Story

Corona update: 364 fresh positive cases, 2 deaths in Telangana

Telangana recorded 364 fresh coronavirus positive cases and two deaths until 8 pm on Friday pushing the total number of confirmed cases to 3,02,724 and the total fatalities to 1,666. Meanwhile, the total number of recovery cases went up to 2,98,451 with the recovery of 189 persons in a single day. At present, there are 2,607 active cases out of which 980 are in home or institutional isolation. Read Full Story

Gold rates today on 20 March 2021: The gold rates have fall down in all major cities across the country on Saturday. On MCX, the gold rate is at Rs. 45,930 with a slash of Rs. 110. The yellow metal prices differ depending on the cities, let's have a look at the time for the day. Read Full Story