The Telangana government, according to media reports, has decided to invite tenders to identify the service provider for operation and maintenance of 108 Emergency Responsive Services in the State. A committee has been constituted for preparation of RFP, floating tenders, finalisation of service provider and transition of services, among others. When the then united Andhra […]
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Will An Expensive Vaastu-Compliant ‘Secretariat And Assembly’ Strengthen KCR’s Regime?
Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao laid the foundation stone for a new Assembly-secretariat complex in accordance with Vaastu. Good luck to KCR even as his state faces huge difficulties. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao laid the foundation stone for a new secretariat to be built — reportedly at a cost of Rs 400 crore […]
Why The ‘Blame Game’ On ‘Traffic Woes’ And ‘Waterlogged Roads’ During Every ‘Monsoon’ In Hyderabad?
Every year, as the monsoon sets over Hyderabad, the same situation plays out – waterlogging and complete inundation of roads followed by long traffic jams, some which may even result in commuters taking three hours to travel 3 km. The civic authorities play blame game during hue and cry and then keep quite. This year […]
Water Scarcity Worst-Hit In ‘Slums’, Still Unable To Get Sufficient ‘Drinking Water’ In Hyderabad
Summer season came and gone but the water scarcity still dominates Hyderabad. The worst-case are slum-dwellers. The KCR government promised safe drinking water, Mission Bhageeratha but till time nothing happened, everything remained in promises only. It’s 3 am at BS Maqtha, a densely populated slum in the heart of Hyderabad, just a stone’s throw away […]
Why Andhra Pradesh Rejected Chandrababu Naidu And Telugu Desam Party?
In Telugu speaking states the politician who suffered the biggest losses in 2019 elections was Andhra Pradesh’s three time Chief Minister, N Chandrababu Naidu. A series of political miscalculations led to the decimation of Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party in Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Andhra Pradesh. To begin with, TDP left the National Democratic […]
The Plight Of Lawyers And Advocates At ‘Amaravati High Court’ In Andhra Pradesh
It was an out-of-the-blue Presidential order that announced the formation of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on January 1, 2019. This gave High Court lawyers from both the Telugu states very little time to prepare and set their affairs in order before the court was shifted out of Hyderabad to Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh. Close […]
Hyderabad’s ‘Water Mafia’ Exposed In 100 Crore Thriving Racket!
Without any meaningful supervision and control from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) or the state government, Hyderabad’s water tanker mafia has been running an unhindered annual business of estimated Rs 100 crore plus. Unmetered supply by the GHMC to water tankers, daily theft of thousands of litres of filtered drinking water from the municipal […]
The ‘Fading Glory’ Of Congress Party In ‘Telugu States’
The series of elections in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have not helped the respective State Congress parties to revive their fortunes. While in Andhra Pradesh the party made no efforts in the last five years to bounce back, in Telangana the fortunes of TPCC continues to plummet. It is slipping towards a rather highly embarrassing […]
The World Cheapest ‘Pocket Microscope’ @ Rs 365 Is On Sale In India!
The super-cheap Foldscope carries on a centuries-long tradition of simple, curiosity-enabling microscopes – Satish Reddy, an entomologist working with Rainforest Expeditions, had been doing fieldwork in the remote Tambopata Research Centre, nestled within the Peruvian Amazon. At first, he had examined his minute specimens with the center’s fancy optical microscope. But thanks to the sweltering […]
Confusion Over Telangana Waqf Board Chairman’s Tenure
Deep confusion has cropped up on Telangana State Waqf Board (TSWB) as former Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLC Mohammed Saleem continues to occupy the seat of chairman of the Muslim endowments body. While activists and a section of the staff and board members opine that Saleem’s term as chairman is co-terminus with his membership of the […]