Sumit Kumar Jha
Writer at South First
Writes about health, and politics @TheSouthfirst Views are personal
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1 week ago |
thesouthfirst.com | Sumit Kumar Jha
Synopsis: To curb biometric attendance fraud, the National Medical Commission (NMC) will mandate face-based Aadhaar authentication for faculty attendance in medical colleges starting 1 May 2025. This shift replaces fingerprint systems vulnerable to manipulation, such as fake fingerprints and proxy attendance. Colleges must geofence attendance zones, appoint nodal officers, and ensure faculty install the face-authentication app by 20 April.
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1 week ago |
thesouthfirst.com | Sumit Kumar Jha
Synopsis: Telangana has declared heatwaves and sunstrokes as “State-Specific Disasters” amid alarming 2024 data: 28 of 33 districts faced over 15 heatwave days, with Nalgonda and Mancherial crossing 30. Urban regions now battle a double threat—intensified ‘Urban Heat Island’ effect and the deadlier ‘Wet Bulb Impact,’ a lethal combination of soaring temperatures and high humidity levels Everyone knows what a bulb is—from curious school kids to busy adults.
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1 week ago |
thesouthfirst.com | Sumit Kumar Jha
Synopsis: The Telangana Police served a notice to Smita Sabharwal IAS for reposting an AI-generated image on social media regarding the bulldozing of the 400-acre land in Kancha Gachibowli. An officer declined to disclose the contents of the notice.
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1 week ago |
thesouthfirst.com | Sumit Kumar Jha
Synopsis: Women in South India spend nearly seven hours a day on unpaid domestic and caregiving work, over four hours more than men, according to the 2024 Time Use Survey. Despite improvements in education and economic indicators, the gender gap in unpaid labour remains stark across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, with women also shouldering a “double shift” of paid and unpaid responsibilities.
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1 week ago |
thesouthfirst.com | Sumit Kumar Jha
Synopsis: Telangana has officially declared heatwaves and sunstroke as state-specific disasters, becoming one of the first Indian states to independently recognise heat-related conditions under its disaster response framework. This move empowers the state to offer ₹4 lakh ex-gratia relief to families of victims, using provisions under the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) despite the Union government’s continued exclusion of heatwaves from the national list of recognised disasters.
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