A most heart-breaking situation cropped up in Telangana where many qualified, talented lecturers, professors in private professional colleges become unemployed due to pandemic slowdown and for their livelihood they are now on streets to do the small works like selling vegetables, selling tea on tea stall, working as ward-boy in hospitals on contract basis and […]
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Tourism Industry ‘Needs Attention’ To Restore Crisis
While Covid-19 pandemic resulted in most sectors facing sizeable and immediate revenue loss, a few sectors including aviation, tourism and hospitality were badly affected by the pandemic. Though the Centre has announced some relief to the MSMEs, tourism and hospitality sector has virtually been kept aside though they happen to be one of the high […]
Activists Furore On KCR Govt’s ‘Demolition Spree’ Of ‘Heritage Buildings’ In Hyderabad
The Royal Nizam-built Osmania General Hospital was in the news headlines after it was inundated in the recent rains that lashed the city of Hyderabad. Doctors too have been citing lack of safety. But heritage lovers and activists say there are other ways of preserving it. The 155-year-old Osmania General Hospital, a heritage building dating […]
How Poor People Drag Into Murky ‘Covid Drug Trials’ In Telangana?
The test subjects are usually poor men, and touts teach them how to ‘score well’ to get into clinical trials. Karthik’s voice quivers as he describes what he is going through. “I was vomiting constantly for days. My insides hurt and sometimes I can’t even pick a glass up. My hands shake a lot,” he […]
Amidst Pandemic, An Abandoned Muslim Hyderabadi Woman Seek Help In Dubai
Unwanted or abandoned Wife is about a woman who married a man because she loved him, only to discover later her married her for gain. Women being divorced unilaterally, suddenly and then being left to their devices has been an issue in the Muslim community. A 26-year-old, Noorain was ‘divorced’ by her husband Aadil, who […]
Acute Shortage Of ‘Ward Boys’ Delays In Clearing Dead Bodies At Covid Gandhi Hospital In Hyderabad
In a shocking situation, the Telangana’s Covid-designated state-run Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad is witnessing a ‘acute crisis’ due to the shortage of ward boys. Inadequate staff at the 60-bed casualty ward of the hospital is resulting in delays in clearing COVID-victim dead bodie in the past few days, proving to be a nightmare for patients availing […]
Mass Cremation Of ‘Covid Dead Bodies’ Exposed The ‘Dark-Side Of GHMC Conspiracy’ In Hyderabad
A few videos purportedly shot at a cremation ground in Hyderabad are raising concerns over how the COVID-19 deaths are being reported in Telangana. The visuals show several dead bodies being burnt while some people stand by and others are engaged in burning them. As these videos surfaced on social media, the opposition parties and […]
All Set For ‘Old Building Demolition’ Of Osmania General Hospital In Hyderabad
After overcoming all legal hurdles in the Supreme Court and the state high court on the demolition of state secretariat buildings, the Telangana government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has set his eyes on the demolition of the century-old Osmania General Hospital. KCR government ordered the closure of the Osmania General Hospital, taking […]
Why Covid Pandemic Leads To More Child Marriages In India?
The pandemic has caused a lot of unexpected damage to various aspects of human life. According to a UN report published in April, the Covid-19 pandemic could lead to an extra 13 million child marriages over the next decade. Other estimates suggest that four million girls are at risk of child marriage in the next […]
How One ‘State Health Bulletin’ Can Answer To ‘Covid Criticism’ In Telangana?
After discrepancies were found and highlighted several times in the medical bulletins put out by the District Medical Health Officers (DMHO) and the state health department, Telangana has finally found a solution to this never-ending controversy: they have now instructed all DMHOs to stop issuing medical bulletins altogether! Most districts have already stopped issuing medical […]