In Telugu speaking states the politician who suffered the biggest losses in 2019 elections was Andhra Pradesh’s three time Chief Minister, N Chandrababu Naidu. A series of political miscalculations led to the decimation of Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party in Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Andhra Pradesh. To begin with, TDP left the National Democratic […]
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Hyderabad’s ‘Water Mafia’ Exposed In 100 Crore Thriving Racket!
Without any meaningful supervision and control from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) or the state government, Hyderabad’s water tanker mafia has been running an unhindered annual business of estimated Rs 100 crore plus. Unmetered supply by the GHMC to water tankers, daily theft of thousands of litres of filtered drinking water from the municipal […]
‘Gig Economy’ Craze Dominates Hyderabadi Youth, Many Making Extra Income With Ease
A student who cleans toilets to make ends meet, a dog trainer who built a business and a techie saving money to take his girlfriend out, Hyderabad’s gig economy is growing. For G Shivshankar, the term ‘gig’ is a western term, he prefers to call it a part-time job. An MSc student studying in one of […]
Women ‘Migrants’ and ‘Social Remittances’ – The Case of ‘Barkas’ in Hyderabad
An ethnographic study of the women migrants in Barkas, an old Arabian neighbourhood in Hyderabad, shows that women migrants over the years have moved from being the so-called dependant migrants to noteworthy contributors to the development of links between the sending and the receiving nations. Making a departure from the earlier studies of diasporas, this […]
Why TRS Supremo KCR Keen To ‘Merge’ The Congress Party?
The ruling TRS is on a hectic plan to lure as many as Congress MLAs to its fold so that the grand old party loses its existence in the state legislature. In 2018 Assembly elections, the Congress won 19 seats. Among whom 12 have already shifted their loyalties to the ruling party. In its first […]
‘Bizarre Foods’ In Palate – Try These Delicacies Once In Lifetime
Experiment with your palate, set it for an adventurous food trail. Try sweet puddings with hints of garlic, pungent fish coated in distilled ash or a sauce made of red ants. Flip the menu card towards the darker section.There are a lot of strange things that go on around the country. But these foods surely […]
‘Shama Talkies’ – A 37-Year Old Hyderabad’s Single Screen Theatre In Old City Shuts Down
Come May 3, an era in movie watching in the old city in Hyderabad will come to an end! The single-screen theatre at Jahanuma area, which ran successfully for nearly 37 years, will be shut permanently. “We have decided to build a modern function hall. Our family also wants to wind up the business,” says […]
‘Nothing Changed Since 2001, Telangana Junior Colleges Remained As Concentration Camps’, Prof Neerada Talks To #KhabarLive
Telangana is witnessing a grim scenario with close to 20 students having killed themselves over the last two weeks, allegedly dejected due to the poor marks they scored in their Intermediate exams, the state board equivalent of Class 11 and Class 12, overseen by the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE). The ongoing fiasco has also […]
When The Telangana State Online RTI Portal Has To Become A Reality?
The Right to Information Act is a powerful tool in the hands of Indian citizens, but if one needed to ask a state government agency for information, one still has to resort to snail mail, as online applications are only available for central government agencies. This is what prompted social activist Robin Zaccheus to write […]
Controversy Cropped On Suspicious Movement Of EVMs At Jagtial In Telangaa, EC Clarifies Training Staff, Politicians Crying Foul
Recently, days after elections were conducted in Telangana, a few journalists got a tip off that some EVMs were being transported from the Jagtial Tahsildar’s office to a warehouse in an autorickshaw. The journalists managed to capture photos and videos of the incident, and when this was widely shared, it created a big controversy, with […]