Recently (on October 22, 2023), five pillars of the Medigadda barrage of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) in Telangana sank into the River Godavari. The incident caused a major setback to the project, which is considered to be a prestigious undertaking of the Telangana government. Authorities have suspended traffic on the bridge connecting Telangana […]
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Why Telangana Gram Panchayat ‘Sarpanchs’ Choked In ‘Debt Trap’?
As the circumstances demands, hundreds of sarpanches in Telangana have submitted their resignations to the governing BRS in protest of the alleged misappropriation of monies intended for gram panchayats as they in acute debt. Every succeeding administration has put up plan after plan to “rescue” the indebted gram panchayats, but none of them appears to […]
Why Secularism ‘Wrongly Defined’ In The Great Indian ‘Hijab’ Story?
Indians honour the one definition of ‘modesty’ is behavior, manner, or appearance intended to avoid impropriety or indecency. This covers the Islamic custom of keeping the girls and women covered from the eyes of men and the public. The Hijab controversy in Karnataka is one of the manifestations of a breakdown of an unwritten contract […]
’Bulli Bai’ Cyber Violence Combined With Islamophobia In Hyderabad
The ‘Bulli Bai’ app controversy, the latest in a series of such attempts over the last few months at shaming and objectifying outspoken Muslim women in the public sphere, has brought to the fore again the need for reform in the legal mechanism to deal with the harassment of women online in India through foreign-based […]
New Year Gift For Indian Muslim Women ‘Bulli Bai’
Bulli Bai is the new year gift to Indian Muslim women. Many Muslim women woke up to January 1 2022 to find their photos uploaded on a social media app called Bulli Bai on an online hosting platform called GitHub. This is the second attempt by unidentified people to auction Muslim women on social media. […]
The Maoist Guerrillas Of Red Corridor- ‘Madvis Hidma
The Madvi Hidma is the youngest member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Maoist). Hidma is responsible for various attacks on the security forces in Chhattisgarh, and the 2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley. A bounty has been placed for his capture. Hidma was born in Purvati village of south Sukma in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. […]
Why Outage In OTP Services Continues In Banking, E-commerce And Aadhaar Sectors?
The sudden disruption of OTP services hampered the banking, E-commerce and Aadhar services, many suffered from transactions, payments, biometric and payment processes. Lakhs of mobile phone users continue to face disruption in receiving one-time-passwords (OTP) after Telecom companies on Monday, 8 March initiated the implementation of Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations (TCCCPR), impacting a […]
Many Dishoused People With Mental Illness Living On The Brink
Beyond this silhouette, however, is an individual surviving in an alternate reality, with a sense of impending doom, largely oblivious to the present, and it to her. A speeding vehicle hits her and rambles on, leaving her injured in the corner, too weak to scream. Limping her way across to a somewhat safe location, she […]
How The Killer ‘Instant Loan App’ Racket Spread In India?
A large percentage of instant loan apps have the same software backend – but different frontend branding. Chinese investors then bring these apps to India with proxy directors. Bhumana Prasad, a resident of Hyderabad, took a loan of Rs 3,500 from ‘My Bank’ – a digital lending app – in November 2019. Within a week, […]
Facebook India Apologised For Sharing Anti-Muslim Posts
As an impact of #KhabarLive report, the Facebook India executive Ankhi Das apologized to Muslim employees in the company for sharing a post on her Facebook page which called Muslims in India a “degenerate community” for whom “nothing except the purity of religion and implementation of Shariah matter”. The post had been written by a […]