#Covid Scare Rescinded Offered Jobs, Professionals Fear Unemployed Future Ahead

Professional networking platform LinkedIn is flooded with soon-to-be graduates seeking internships and job opportunities. While this is common around the month of April, just before students and graduates finish a school year, this year, nearly all these posts have one common theme – an initial internship or job offer that has now been rescinded. “I […]

Dialysis Patients In Telangana Hit Hard During #Corona Lockdown

Pressure on dialysis centres at public hospitals has increasing rapidly. Getting dialysis care is proving to be a big challenge for patients during the coronavirus lockdown. Around 40 Aarogyasri centres across Telangana are running at full capacity, creating fears amongst hospital staff that there might be an overload on dialysis machines. The facility is being […]

Why ‘Nurses’ In Hyderabad Given ‘Lowest Priority’ In #COVID Hospitals?

In Telangana government-run Gandhi Hospital, nurses who were asked to quarantine themselves for two weeks after treating Covid-19 patients have been provided accommodation in the same building that houses both infected patients as well as those displaying symptoms. Noting that the pandemic is seeing a “persisting and ever escalating spread” the United Nurses Association pointed […]

Govt Banned ‘Social Help’ Activity To Streamline ‘Social Distancing’ In Hyderabad

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has said it has opened a ”special wing” for collection of food and other items from donors to distribute them in a proper manner as it was observed social distancing was not maintained in events conducted by organisations to give things away during the lockdown. GHMC Mayor Bonthu Rammohan […]

Why ‘Contact Tracing’ Tableeghi Jamaat Members In Telugu States Becoming A Big Challenge?

It has been a tumultuous month for Mirza (Name changed). A native of Tangellamudi at the outskirts of Eluru in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, he and three others had set off for Delhi on March 6. “We stayed there for a few days and made arrangements for others from the state who were […]

Tableeghi Jamaat Attendees ‘Fear Ostracisation’ As Thousands Quarantined Across South India

Over two days on March 30 and 31st, state police, intelligence officers and the health departments of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu raced to trace and quarantine thousands of people who attended a religious meeting in Delhi’s Nizamuddin neighbourhood, after a number of cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, […]

Why Hyderabadis’ Are Struggling To Perform ‘Last Rites’ To ‘Corona Dead’?

In a sad and shocking case, health workers in Hyderabad performed the funeral of a 74-year-old Khaja Hameeduddin, who became the first person in Telangana to die of the deadly coronavirus. Soon after his death, blood samples were collected. He was tested positive with COVID-19 and his grieving family has been under quarantine at their […]

Tipplers Go ‘Mad’ As ‘Toddy And Wine Shops’ Are Closed In Telangana

The abrupt closure of liquor shops across the country following nation-wide lockdown to prevent spread of Coronavirus has led to psychological disorders in alcohol addicts, who have gone mad and are attempting suicides. According to Erragadda mental hospital doctors, there has been a spurt in the number of cases of liquor addicts coming to hospitals […]

#CoronaVirus Spells Doom For Poultry Farmers In Telangana

Imagine a farmer setting foot in his poultry farm and thousands of chicks swarming up to him in the hope that he will feed them. They have been hungry for days. But he has no feed, and with the little he can find, there is a stampede the moment he throws it to them and […]

Exodus Of Migrant Workers During Lockdown Stuck In Hyderabad

The #CoronaVirus lockdown witnesses major setbacks in normal life. A complete shut down, no work, no food, no shelter makes life horrible to migrant workers in Hyderabad. Past weeks, migrant workers have been facing a lot of trouble because of the lockdown. Thousands of them tried to return home to their families in their respective […]