Major Fire Mishap At Srisailam Power Project, 10 Trapped Inside Since 18 Hours

Fourteen hours after a major fire was reported at the Telangana State power generation corporation’s hydel power station at Srisailam, nine people who went missing are yet to be traced. The accident is reported to have taken place at around 10:30 pm on Thursday at the underground power plant in Telangana. In videos that surfaced, […]

‘Structural Health’ Of Osmania General Hospital Falls Prey To ‘Bad Political Governance’

Structural health of the heritage structure remains questionable for decades now. An existential dilemma has been plaguing the Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad for long, with the structural health of the heritage structure, constructed in the early 1900s, remaining questionable for decades now. The condition of the hospital is once again the subject of a debate on […]

Why KCR Govt Adopted Covid ‘Manipulative Politics’ In Telangana?

Telangana is already among the worst COVID-hit states in the country but it now appears that it could be in a far more precarious position. There is a visible discrepancy in the number of positive cases that two arms of the state government have been putting out, raising suspicions that the state government may be […]

New State, Old Politics: How Far Can ‘Welfare Populism’ Take KCR In Telangana?

The TRS needs to present a new vision and long-term solutions to agrarian distress, unemployment and Hyderabad-centric development. Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao’s (KCR) sweeping victory in Telangana shows that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief has defeated the Congress at its own game of welfare populism. The declaration of the results of the state elections saw […]

Hyderabad On The Brink Of A Severe Sewage Management Crisis

Like many other critical environmental issues, the KCR government has also failed to tackle the enormous problem of sewage treatment in the state, exposing the urban and rural populations to grave health risks. The measures taken by the state government have proved to be grossly inadequate and huge volumes of untreated industrial and municipal waste […]