Telangana must bite the bullet and end the complete lockdown, instead of focusing on areas where the COVID-19’s prevalence is high. It opted for an extension of the lockdown and the Centre went along with it. Put differently, the Centre extended it and complied. In Telangana, the 30 districts, 12 have below five cases, nine […]
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Poor Hyderabad Residents ‘Without Ration Cards’ Fear ‘Hungry Days’ Ahead
Many people in Hyderabad are started starving due to non-availability of ration and food in remote areas. Several families, residing as migrant workers or poor without ration cards and a section of lower middle class people applied for ration card and not yet received since years are facing hunger during this lockdown period. As a […]
An Ordeal Of ‘Hungry’, Stranded Migrant ‘Construction Workers’ In Hyderabad
Over 2,000 migrants from Srikakulam district work as daily wage labourers in the booming construction industry of Hyderabad narrates the ordeal of sorrow and hunger. No government or public representatives reached yet to feed them properly. “Our bags had already been packed by evening of April 13 in the hope of catching the earliest bus […]
Millers Cheated Farmers Over Depreciation In Crop Weighing In Telangana
Paddy farmers in Telangana are up in arms against rice millers who are allegedly cheating them by depreciating the weight of their crop. Farmers are urging authorities to intervene in order to prevent rice millers from allegedly trying to tamper with paddy weights in various parts of the state. On Thursday, several farmers in Thangalapalli […]
Why Migrant Workers Starve In Lockdown As States Sit On Huge Relief Funds Collected?
The extension of India’s national lockdown till May 4 has revived concerns that the country’s migrant workers, many of whom work in the unorganised construction sector, are being pushed to the brink of destitution. A recent survey of more than 3,000 migrant construction workers conducted by Jan Sahas, an NGO, found the lockdown had robbed […]
Should Hyderabadis Say ‘Good-Bye’ To ‘Zoo’ In This Pandemic Situation?
Perhaps now, we might be able to think about those poor animals whom we cage in those modern prisons call “zoo” for our recreation and education. Perhaps, the lockdown is a signal to humanity to finally let go of the outdated concept. For most of us, the lockdown imposed by the government in the wake […]
Neglected Frontline #Covid Health Workers Need Safety Gear In Telangana
In Telangana, the worst-affected state, nurses, sanitation workers and community health workers say they do not have adequate protection from virus exposure. Fifty-one year old Daisy Rani works as a nurse at Niloufer Hospital, one of the main quarantine hospitals in Hyderabad for admitting and treating Covid-19 patients. Five doctors working here were sent into […]
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 Nurses Boycott Duties In Hyderabad’s Gandhi Hospital Demanding Salary And Regularisation
About 200 outsourced nurses working at Gandhi Hospital are boycotting duties demanding regularisation for nurses who have been working with the hospital for more than 15 years. The nurses say that though this is not the right time to boycott duties, they were left with no choice because representations to the hospital authorities did not […]
Why Lathi-Wielding RSS Men ‘Checking Vehicles’ In Telangana?
The big question during lockdown arises why RSS men interfering the government duties. And why the government is become speechless on this act. Several questions boggling the minds and no proper clarification came out yet. Many photographs of lathi-wielding activists belonging to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) manning a check post in Telangana sparked outrage […]