How Historic Musi River ‘Being Encroached’ In Hyderabad?

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 […]

When ‘Parents Dies’ At Court Premises Over Shock Of Sons ‘Arrest’ In Bhainsa Town Of Telangana

In a shocking incident, an old parents died of shock over the arrest and remand of their two sons during the recent riots in Telangana’s Bhanisa town. Unable to overcome the shock after seeing his sons handcuffed, 73-year-old Abdul Ahad Banarsi died. A couple of hours later, his wife Ahmedi Begum (65) suffered cardiac arrest […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bhainsa Town Grips In Uneasy Calm After High-Voltage Communal Clash In Telangana

An uneasy calm prevails around Bhainsa town in Telangana as the streets remain largely empty, barring the presence of police and other security personnel. Locals have grouped at the corners of streets or by ‘chabutras’ and speak in hushed tones. It has been less than 24 hours, since clashes broke out in the town over […]

Why Police Trying To Collect ‘Citizens Data’ While ‘Cordon Search Operations’ In Hyderabad?

The police have cordoned off certain Muslim areas close to Charminar in Hyderabad and have begun the operations to go to every house and demand to see documents including Aadhaar cards and vehicle registration documents. They were asking details about children, their schools and whether they owned the houses they were staying in or they […]

Why Telangana Govt Keeps Mum Over MHA’s ‘Detention Centre’ Orders?

It is evident that BJP government is quite keen to construct a detention centre in Hyderabad and in Telangana state as a part of infiltration and illegal immigrants flow is high since last decade. As the time flows, the pressure from the Centre grows on state government. At last, when a letter from the ministry […]

‘Custodial Killings’ Are An Alibi For Failure Of Governance In Telangana

The early morning execution of four rape suspects in Hyderabad on the 6th of December this year was actually a custodial killing, and it was bad enough; what was worse, however, was the jubilatory response to it. When the President of a constitutional democracy publicly asserts that child sex offenders should not be allowed a […]

Why All ‘Rape Victims’ Demanding ‘Prompt Justice’ After #Disha Rape Case Killing In Telangana?

The controversial ‘encounter’ killing of the four accused in the ‘Disha’ rape and murder case in Hyderabad has brought to the fore the divisions in Telangana along caste and class lines. Days after the young Hyderabad vet’s alleged rapist-killers were shot dead by the Cyberabad police when they tried to ‘flee’, families of other such […]

Why ‘Distressed Women’ Aren’t Aware Of ‘Sakhi Centres’ In Hyderabad?

The Sakhi centres in the state were established around 2015 to provide round-the-clock help to women in distress. A search for the Sakhi centre situated in Secunderabad, which promises 24X7 help to women in distress, will prove challenging for women in Hyderabad. Neither does the place show up on Google maps nor is it easy […]