A most heart-breaking situation cropped up in Telangana where many qualified, talented lecturers, professors in private professional colleges become unemployed due to pandemic slowdown and for their livelihood they are now on streets to do the small works like selling vegetables, selling tea on tea stall, working as ward-boy in hospitals on contract basis and […]
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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 […]
Harassed, Threatened And Unpaid ‘ASHA Workers’ Go On Nationwide Strike
Protesting inadequate government assistance in the fight against COVID-19, around 600,000 of the one million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in the country are going on a nationwide strike for two days, starting today. According to ten central trade unions including INTUC, AITUC, and CITU, ASHA, Anganwadi, and National Health Mission (NHM) workers, affiliated with […]
Tourism Industry ‘Needs Attention’ To Restore Crisis
While Covid-19 pandemic resulted in most sectors facing sizeable and immediate revenue loss, a few sectors including aviation, tourism and hospitality were badly affected by the pandemic. Though the Centre has announced some relief to the MSMEs, tourism and hospitality sector has virtually been kept aside though they happen to be one of the high […]
How Poor People Drag Into Murky ‘Covid Drug Trials’ In Telangana?
The test subjects are usually poor men, and touts teach them how to ‘score well’ to get into clinical trials. Karthik’s voice quivers as he describes what he is going through. “I was vomiting constantly for days. My insides hurt and sometimes I can’t even pick a glass up. My hands shake a lot,” he […]
Amidst Pandemic, An Abandoned Muslim Hyderabadi Woman Seek Help In Dubai
Unwanted or abandoned Wife is about a woman who married a man because she loved him, only to discover later her married her for gain. Women being divorced unilaterally, suddenly and then being left to their devices has been an issue in the Muslim community. A 26-year-old, Noorain was ‘divorced’ by her husband Aadil, who […]
Acute Shortage Of ‘Ward Boys’ Delays In Clearing Dead Bodies At Covid Gandhi Hospital In Hyderabad
In a shocking situation, the Telangana’s Covid-designated state-run Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad is witnessing a ‘acute crisis’ due to the shortage of ward boys. Inadequate staff at the 60-bed casualty ward of the hospital is resulting in delays in clearing COVID-victim dead bodie in the past few days, proving to be a nightmare for patients availing […]
Mass Cremation Of ‘Covid Dead Bodies’ Exposed The ‘Dark-Side Of GHMC Conspiracy’ In Hyderabad
A few videos purportedly shot at a cremation ground in Hyderabad are raising concerns over how the COVID-19 deaths are being reported in Telangana. The visuals show several dead bodies being burnt while some people stand by and others are engaged in burning them. As these videos surfaced on social media, the opposition parties and […]
How One ‘State Health Bulletin’ Can Answer To ‘Covid Criticism’ In Telangana?
After discrepancies were found and highlighted several times in the medical bulletins put out by the District Medical Health Officers (DMHO) and the state health department, Telangana has finally found a solution to this never-ending controversy: they have now instructed all DMHOs to stop issuing medical bulletins altogether! Most districts have already stopped issuing medical […]