Even as the coronavirus has set off a major global health emergency, another virus is threatening cattle in India. Six cows have been reported as having lumpy skin disease and all six are dead. Two cows and one calf in Chaitanyapuri and several cows from Konaseema have died. Cattle owners Laxmama and Balasubbaya from Chaitanyapuri, […]
Tag: Telangana
Why Telangana ‘Labour Minister’s’ Colleges ‘Not Paying Teacher’s Salaries’ For Months In Pandemic?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
World Famous ‘Ramoji Film City’ Rented To Hotstar-Disney In Hyderabad
Has Telugu media moghul and Eenadu group chairman Ch Ramoji Rao also fallen victim to the financial crisis arising out of the lockdown enforced to contain the Coronavirus? We have been hearing about how Hyderabad’s media baron Ramoji Rao had resorted to cost-cutting exercises in Eenadu, one of the largest circulated dailies in the country […]
Quli Qutub Shahi Yore ‘Kos Minar’ Tottering At Kulsumpura In Hyderabad
The ‘Kos’ minar in Kulsumpura changes the geographical concept of the city. This historic Kos Minar at Kulsumpura in Old City of Hyderabad may soon disappear if no conservation measures are taken at the earliest. It is one of the only two surviving Kos Minars of Qutub Shahi era. Encroachments around the Kos Minar have […]
All Covid-Designated Hospitals Booked At ‘Full Capacity’ In Hyderabad, What Next?
As theTelangana government allowed private hospitals to go ahead with treatment of COVID-19 patients, most of them seem to have already reached the maximum capacity that they can afford, with the cap on prices. Interestingly, all the Covid-19 designated government hospitals also shown the full capacity and the new patients are virtually trying their fate […]
Desperate Jobless ‘Private School Teachers’ Struggling To Survive With ‘Menial Jobs’ In Telangana
Teachers are treated on par with our parents and those teachers are now struggling to survive without jobs and money. They are doing menial jobs in the society as the schools are closed and their jobs too. This scenario is more worst in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana state. A few months ago, P […]