Major Fire Mishap At Srisailam Power Project, 10 Trapped Inside Since 18 Hours

Fourteen hours after a major fire was reported at the Telangana State power generation corporation’s hydel power station at Srisailam, nine people who went missing are yet to be traced. The accident is reported to have taken place at around 10:30 pm on Thursday at the underground power plant in Telangana. In videos that surfaced, […]

Official Callousness Led To Vijayawada Quarantine Blaze In AP

It’s a matter of shame, official apathy and sheer negligence of this ghastly incident in Andhra Pradesh. It is time the State administration learnt a lesson from the ghastly fire accident that took place at Hotel Swarna Palace in Vijayawada which claimed ten lives. Since the country is passing through testing times and is battling […]

Why Telangana Struggling To ‘Combat Covid Spread’ While AP Testing Everybody To ‘Way Out Corona Crisis’?

The Telangana government is struggling to combat the ‘Covid Spread’ and the Andhra Pradesh government has ramped up its health infrastructure to test and trace aggressively and provide timely treatment. At Hyderabad’s Gandhi Hospital, a woman in her 40s could be seen being carried on a stretcher by two healthcare workers in PPE kits from […]

A Birthday, A Wedding And Two Funerals In AP Village Violated Lockdown Rules

A birthday party, a cricket match, a wedding, an engagement party, and a near-complete disdain for social distancing. Gollala Mamidada, a village of 19,000 residents in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district, paid a heavy price for its continued violation of the Covid-19 lockdown, with two families losing loved ones to the disease. Of the over […]

‘Corporate School’ Teachers Strugglling To Do ‘Anything’ To ‘Save The Job’ In Andhra Pradesh

Vexed with the attitude of private school managements through the COVID-19 lockdown, private school teachers have sought help from the government to save and secure thier jobs in Andhra Pradesh. Private school chains in Andhra Pradesh, often colloquially called “corporate schools”, have allegedly failed to pay full salaries to their teaching and non-teaching staff during […]

The ‘Dirty Politics’ Behind ‘Auction Of Properties’ Donated To ‘Tirupati Temple’ In Andhra Pradesh

The fracas around the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam’s (TTD) auction lays bare the contradictions between the ritual renunciation of wealth by shrine’s devotees and the staggering wealth and hardball political intrigue behind one of India’s most famous temple trusts. As the topic gets more Focussed with the stance of a devotee. One day in December in […]

Acute Shortage Of ‘Sanitary Pads’ For Rural Women In Telugu States

The rural women in Telugu States becomes helpless to cater their essential need ‘sanitary pads’ for their daily use. No work, no money makes women in distress to ask a help with health volunteers. #KhabarLive delves to get the exact picture during lockdown period in these areas. Padma Lakshmi, a volunteer based in Telangana district, […]

Is #CoronaVirus ‘Community Transmission’ Started In Telugu States?

Despite the state governments evaluations and statements on deadly #CoronaVirus community transmission, the attack is already kicked off in Telugu States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. While Union health secretary Luv Agarwal has been saying every day that there was no community transmission of Covid-19 in the country, Telangana government’s bulletin too has bene saying […]

#Covid Doctors Working Inside Isolation Wards Reveals ‘Exhaustion’ In Hyderabad

A peek into the long shifts pulled by doctors living inside the isolation facility reveals the exhaustion, fears and heroism of healthcare workers across the country as they struggle to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. If the world had not been in the throes of a pandemic, Dr. S Nagarjuna would have been married to his […]

Shuttered Markets, Missing Labour – Chilli Farmers Brace For A Bitter Harvest In Andhra Pradesh

Crops are still standing in the fields, labour is scarce, and prices have crashed in a dire start to 2020. This time last year M Venkateswara Reddy was a busy man, procuring hundreds of thousands of bags of Guntur’s famous red chillies to export to markets across Asia. In good years, nearly half the red […]