- India
GN Saibaba, others acquitted by Bombay HC after five years
After being jailed for over five years under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the Bombay high court on Friday acquitted former Delhi University (DU) professor GN Saibaba for alleged Maoist links…
- Hyderabad
No record, no ration: Telangana govt’s apathy for transgender people
Hyderabad: Madhushalini, a transwoman living in Alwal in the city says that she doesn’t know of any pro-transgender policies introduced by the Telangana government. She says that she has no access to…
- Telangana
Telangana: VRAs despair as meeting with chief secretary falls flat
Hyderabad: After thousands of Village Revenue Assistants (VRA) protested in the city on September 13, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president KT Rama Rao assured that their demands would be solved by…
- Featured News
My Father Baliah author YB Satyanarayana discusses Dalits under Nizams
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in Telangana have been involved in a war of words over a soon-approaching anniversary of Operation Polo, the military offensive…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: 1000s of VRAs protest for pay hike; allege govt negligence
Hyderabad: Thousands of village revenue assistants (VRAs) protested in front of the Legislative Assembly here, demanding the implementation of a new pay scale as listed in the New Revenue Act introduced by…
- Featured News
Review: ‘Borderlands’ documents how fragile the idea of citizenship is
“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.”― Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown “Anything worth doing transcends borders.”― Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand The proof…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: How many laws has MLA Raja Singh broken? Let us count
Hyderabad: T Raja Singh is, morally speaking, a highly limited man. With accusations of offenses ranging from hate-speech to rioting to criminal intimidation, the now suspended BJP MLA’s track record shows that…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Data collected for drunk driving raises privacy concerns
Hyderabad: A sea of men queued up on Tuesday at the new Nampally criminal court near the Exhibition Grounds. All of them waiting to pay-off their challans for drunken driving. Inside the…
- Telangana
914 banyan trees likely to die if Telangana govt remains silent
Hyderabad: In two separate protests on Sunday, residents of the city gathered at National Highway (NH) 163 to protest the cutting down of Chevella’s 914 banyan trees. While this is hardly the…
- Books
Is the ‘will to live’ cultivated? Manoranjan Byapari’s new book answers in affirmative
“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death–ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible…
- Telangana
Telangana: Scores of IIIT Basara students suffer food poisoning
Hyderabad: At around 2:30 in the afternoon, several students of IIIT Basara felt their stomachs churn with discomfort. What followed was a cluster of students dealing with nausea, agonizing over headaches while…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Cancelled ration cards from 2016 to be reverified
Hyderabad: The district civil supplies office in the city will be reverifying around 1 lakh 63 thousand ration cards which they had rejected between 2016 and 2022. Tanuja, the Hyderabad district civil…
- Telangana
Telangana: Widows of manual scavengers await help; govt radio silent
Hyderabad: From June 3 to 9, a group of widows whose husbands died while manual scavenging carried out protests in the city, demanding an end to the social ill which took their…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Police resume Cordon and Search; slums targetted again
Hyderabad: On June 14, around 7 PM, people residing in the narrow lanes of Hasan Nagar’s slums found themselves in a tense situation, as a sea of police officials surrounded the slum…