Armed with satellite images of the Musi River in Hyderabad over a period of five years between 2014 and 2019, a social activist wrote to the Chief Justice of Telangana Raghavendra Singh Rathore seeking his intervention to save the river from encroachment. Satellite images show how over the course of a few years the dumping […]
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Hyderabad Ranji Cricket Suffers Historic Setback For Bad Politics And Poor Execution
The Ranji Trophy cricket matches for Hyderabad team is disgraceful and shameful show. This is how one can describe Hyderabad’s disastrous performance in this season. All happened due to bad politics, mal-administration, poor planning, execution and low team spirit. The Arjun Yadav-coached Hyderabad team succumbed to their fifth humiliating defeat from six matches in Group […]
The ‘Bare Truths’ And ‘False Claims’ Behind ‘CAA’s Link With NRC-NPR’
There are ten great claims, which can easily be proved baseless. By the time the reader verifies the claim, the untruth travels long and their IT or social media managers, print and electronic media agents and PR teams will make it viral. Some claims made by Constitutional office holders and the verified truths that prove […]
How Rohith Vemula’s Mother Radhika Transformed Her Grief Into Resistance In Telangana?
Four years after her son’s death, as students across the country rise up once more, Radhika Vemula has become a symbol of inspiration and resistance. On 23 January 2016, Radhika Vemula was at Velivada, a bustling protest spot in University of Hyderabad. A week ago, her son Rohith Vemula had died by suicide after he […]
How ‘Practicing Religion’ On ‘Public Places’ Can Violate The Law?
In India, both the freedom to practice religion and the right against noise pollution are protected by the Constitution, and no Indian citizen are allowed to violate this law. While traveling to my hometown in July, I got stuck in a massive traffic jam caused by kanwariya — the devotees of the god Shiva. Not […]
Hyderabad’s ‘Salafi-Barelwi’ Tussle Needs To Be Contained Before It Turns Into Conflict
The rift between two Muslim groups in the city – the Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadith (AH) and the Ahl-e-Sunnat ul Jamaat (ASJ) – has come out in the open. A series of incidents in a little over two years has ensured this. The latest was the tussle between adherents the AH, popularly known as Salafis, described as hardline […]
Hyderabad’s ‘Rohingya Refugees’ Are Fearful Of Speaking Out As CAA Protests Roils
Described as the world’s most persecuted minority, India’s ‘Rohingya refugees’ are fearful of speaking out against India’s controversial new citizenship law which specifically excludes them. Mohammed Zubair pointed at a blue tin gate guarding a plot of land on which construction was busily afoot. A year ago, in 2018, the vacant plot served as a […]
Many Govt Hospitals Face Acute Medicine And Funds Crunch In Hyderabad
In Telangana, the unprecedented rise in dengue and viral fevers this year in the State resulted in drying up of medicine stock and funds in the government hospitals across the State. In over 200 hospitals, budget on medicines is completely over. In three months period (August to October) alone this monsoon, the Health department had […]
How An ‘Expansion Spree’ Put TISS On The Brink Of Collapse?
A walled but a neglected 100-acre stretch in Telangana’s Mamidipalli village is a telling sign of the fall of its ‘owner’—Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). The expansion spree and mismanagement caused the closure of this organization, resulted to push several students future in dark across India. The land in the Kothur block of Mahbubnagar […]
Are Telangana ‘Police Academies’ Becoming ‘Dumping Yards’?
A shocking comment by VK Singh, Director of Telangana State Police Academy rattles and surprised everyone on the hopeless and deteriorating standards at the police training academies. This makes a clear picture of entire police management in the state. When a chief of training academies reveal the facts, then it makes the clear counter of […]