Indian Home Ministry directive to screen Rohingyas had more to do with suspected Tablighi Jamaat link than concern over their living conditions. Thousands of Rohingya refugees in Hyderabad are at high risk for contracting Covid-19, as they live in cramped habitations and have limited access to public healthcare, activists say. Three weeks after the Centre […]
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An ‘Eerie Ride’ On Hyderabad’s Empty Roads During Lockdown
Can we speed? Shall we speed? Is this the turn? Should I stop at the signal? Empty roads will have you questioning yourself at every corner. I always make it a point to be at the office during national holidays. To be honest, it is the joy of driving on relatively traffic-free roads that mostly […]
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 […]
Hyderabad Sex Workers ‘Starving’ In Lockdown Without Income
Hyderabad waits with bated breath for May 7 —the day the extended lockdown is supposed to end. The COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent nation-wide lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of the virus, has brought in its wake economic upheaval and financial predicaments. For one of the most marginalized communities, that already lives on the […]
Why Horticulture Department Sacked Outsourced Employees, Despite Strict Govt Instructions In Telangana?
Despite the Telangana government’s strict instructions not to lay off employees, it has sacked over 100 low-grade outsourced employees working in the Horticulture department. Kashamma is in distress. On a regular day, she would wake up at 4 am, cook meals for her three children, leave home by 6 am and reach the residence of […]
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 […]
No ‘Haleem’ During Ramzan Month Due To Covid Pandemic In Hyderabad
Casting a gloom over the festive season of Ramzan, Hyderabadis will have to forgo their yearly ritual of relishing the lip-smacking dish of haleem this year, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Haleem Makers’ Association, an association of haleem making hotels and food joints in Hyderabad, has taken a unanimous decision not to prepare the […]