Top Telangana news developments for today
The Hindu
Key news developments from Telangana on February 5, 2022
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the world a 216-ft statue of Bhakti saint Ramanujacharya at Tridandi Chinna Jeer Swamy ashram on Hyderabad outskirts. The Panchaloha statue, weighing 1,800 kgs, was made in China and named `Statue of Equality’ to symbolise the preaching of equality by the eleventh century saint.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to participate in the opening of the golden jubilee celebration of International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics at Patancheru on Hyderabad outskirts. He will unveil the logo for the celebrations and inaugurate a Climate Change Research Facility on Plant Protection and Rapid Generation Advancement Facility on the campus.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.