According to reliable sources, the person who tested positive was working as personal secretary to a senior bureaucrat in the Chief Minister’s Office in Hyderabad. An entire floor has been sealed off and sanitisation measures are underway at the Hyderabad Metro Rail Bhavan in the city’s Rasoolpura area after a staff member working in the […]
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Post Lockdown Worsened The ‘Plight’ Of ‘Brick Kiln Workers’ In Telangana
As one leaves behind the bustling city of Hyderabad in the midst of the lockdown and heads towards Ismailkhanpet in Sangareddy, going past the massive Hanuman statue that oversees the town, one cannot miss the expanse of brick kilns on either side of the road. Barely a tree stands on the route to take cover […]
Why KCR Left ‘Corona Control’ To ‘Gods’?
After nearly two and a half months of fight with Coronavirus pandemic by imposing lockdowns, the Telangana government led by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao seems to have thrown up his hands and left it to the fate of the gods. In the initial days of lockdown, KCR used to say that the situation was […]
Will Telangana Schools Re-Open To Combat With Covid Pandemic?
Questions around the reopening of schools in Telangana are causing concerns among both parents as teachers, even as the state government’s Education Department remains silent on the opening date for schools or how they will manage physical distancing in the classroom amidst the pandemic. #KhabarLive discussed the issue with several teachers, educationists, parents and Education […]
Why ‘Critical Covid Patient’ Unattended By Govt Doctors For Hours At Gandhi Hospital In Hyderabad?
The official apathy towards Covid-19 patients makes the life hell before they get admitted in the hospital the Ordeal began when the Covid positive patient had to first struggle to get an ambulance from a private hospital, and then he was made to wait in the covid designated government hospital. As details shows, Mohammad Zia […]
Muslim Man Buried In Hindu Cemetery After Denial In Muslim Graveyards In Hyderabad
A Muslim man who recently died in Hyderabad was finally laid to rest in a Hindu cemetery after being turned away at several graveyards in the city, on the suspicion that he died of the coronavirus. The man has been identified as 55-year-old Khaja and was finally buried after the intervention of a local leader […]
Many Tolichowki Colonies Are Ready To ‘Protest With Arms’ Against ‘Official Apathy’ In Hyderabad
Residents of the various colonies in Tolichowki and Shaikpet have decided to wage a campaign against the official apathy towards resolving civic issues. According to residents, they have been facing a lot of problems like mosquito menace even during the peak of summer. They cited Balkapur nala as the breeding ground for the mosquitoes. Mahatma […]
Why The ‘Justice Delayed’ In Hyderabad’s ‘Mecca Masjid Blast Case’ Over 13 Years?
Thirteen years after the Mecca Masjid blast and several rounds of probes later, country’s top investigating agencies have failed in bringing the guilty to book. After the verdict of Special NIA court in 2018, the question that glaringly stares at the investigative agencies is who after all was responsible for the Mecca Masjid blast? The […]
Telangana Stares Level-3 #Covid Spread Wave From Return Of Migrants
Initially, it was foreign returnees, then came the second wave with the return of attendees of the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi and now with the arrival of thousands of migrants, Telangana stares at the third wave of Covid-19 infections. With at least 35 migrants testing positive for Covid-19 during the last five days, the […]
Is ‘Tablighi Jamaat’ A Variant Of Islam?
Until the most recent political controversy in India over Tablighi Jamaat, a transnational Islamic revivalist movement, the organisation had existed in obscurity, far from the political imagination of the nation-state. It was in March this year that the spotlight fell on Tabligh after reports on its role in the spread of the novel coronavirus surfaced […]