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Hyderabad BLOGS
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What slips through: As Hyderabad copes with a deluge, poll-bound Telangana’s politics is fully focused on intrigue
September 7, 2023, 8:46 AM IST
One casualty of the seven-hour deluge that hit Hyderabad on Tuesday was a four-year-old boy, who slipped into a drain and was washed away. His remains were discovered in a lake 2km away. He fell…
September 7, 2023, 8:46 AM IST
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Welfare mantra is fine, but focus must be on jobs & education
March 9, 2022, 12:45 PM IST
In the state budget presented on Monday, it was highlighted that Telangana’s GSDP grew by 11. 2%at constant prices in 2021-22, compared to 8. 9% for the national economy. While the massive fund-raising programme for…
March 9, 2022, 12:45 PM IST
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The dangerous Telangana ostrich syndrome
July 2, 2020, 3:10 PM IST
When increase in testing is followed by increase in Covid confirmed cases, do you blame the increased testing? If yes, you are in bad company, US President Donald Trump included. He says, “It’s pretty simple.”…
July 2, 2020, 3:10 PM IST
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Plight of migrant labourers and its impact on economic activities
May 2, 2020, 10:50 PM IST
The current rush of migrant labours due to sudden lockdown of the country in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic has become the most glaring issue of the day and an eye-opener…
May 2, 2020, 10:50 PM IST
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A dream project turned into a contractors’ project
October 23, 2018, 10:05 PM IST
The Polavaram project, also known as the Indira Sagar Project, is a long-cherished dream of the people of Andhra Pradesh. However, thanks to the TDP government, it has turned into a dream project of the…
October 23, 2018, 10:05 PM IST
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Oh Telangana – politics by busing and tippling
September 3, 2018, 4:43 PM IST
Even as suspense remains about whether or not Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao will call for early assembly elections, he has definitely gone into election mode with the ‘mega rally’ on the outskirts of…
September 3, 2018, 4:43 PM IST
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Hyderabad metro: It promises to transform life in the City of Nizams
November 28, 2017, 6:19 PM IST
It would have been a much more photogenic launch had Ivanka Trump joined Narendra Modi and K Chandrasekhar Rao in flagging off the much-awaited metro rail in Hyderabad, but this was an inaugural ride for…
November 28, 2017, 6:19 PM IST
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City, interrupted: Rains disable Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai …
October 7, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
As a parting shot from the monsoon, many Indian cities have been brought to a halt by heavy rains that completely overwhelmed urban infrastructure and caught residents off-guard. On Thursday, Bengaluru was battered by the…
October 7, 2017, 2:00 AM IST
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Has Nagpur emerged as BJP’s favourite commercial destination ahead of Bengaluru and Hyderabad?
September 16, 2017, 5:00 PM IST
The debate rages endlessly over the financial viability of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project recently inked between Japan and India. As per an IIM Ahmedabad study, bullet train will need over 100 trips and carry…
September 16, 2017, 5:00 PM IST
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Managing institutions: The death of Rohith Vemula raises questions about the state’s role in India’s academia
January 21, 2016, 5:01 AM IST
By Anirban Bandyopadhyay Objects in the mirror are (never) closer than they appear,” Rohith Vemula wrote on Facebook on December 8, possibly his last post. Now that his untimely death has thrust an unprecedented urgency…
January 21, 2016, 5:01 AM IST
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Intolerance claims yet another victim, this time at Hyderabad University
January 21, 2016, 4:53 AM IST
The unfortunate series of incidents that finally resulted in a Dalit scholar of Hyderabad University committing suicide reflects multiple malaises in society, of which the involvement of BJP ministers at the Centre is a part….
January 21, 2016, 4:53 AM IST
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Zaiqa, Hyderabadi Ramzan ka!
July 17, 2015, 4:18 PM IST
What happens when a motley group of individuals are thrown together one evening and invited to walk down the pages of history on what is for, the most part, the untrodden paths? And the paths…
July 17, 2015, 4:18 PM IST
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Hyderabad Bruise: Time for Centre to play peacemaker in tiff of two CMs
June 14, 2015, 12:03 AM IST
Before the 1999 Andhra Pradesh elections, there were doubts in political circles if the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) would return to power. But Chandrababu Naidu ultimately won the election and the victory was attributed…
June 14, 2015, 12:03 AM IST
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All the world’s a stage
November 24, 2014, 12:21 PM IST
Waah-waah, what a dramatic November it has been for us in Hyderabad! Lest one start thinking that this blog relates to the workings of the Indian polity, let me quickly set the record straight; the…
November 24, 2014, 12:21 PM IST
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Alleged burning to death of a boy inside army garrison is barbaric
October 9, 2014, 11:25 AM IST
Hundreds of serving Indian soldiers, including officers, have been accused of involvement in widespread human rights abuses in Kashmir and the north-east. But the death of an 11-year-old boy, after he was set on fire…
October 9, 2014, 11:25 AM IST
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When Sichuan met Talisker
September 23, 2014, 7:31 PM IST
Sichuan cuisine, or Szechwan as it was formerly known, is quite popular on the menus of Indian Chinese restaurants, with dishes like Kung Pao chicken and Szechwan Noodles\Rice being legion, albeit with a few concessions…
September 23, 2014, 7:31 PM IST
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An afternoon in Tuscany
September 18, 2014, 5:39 PM IST
Michelin star chef Adriano Baldassarre is still getting used to his Indian guests wanting their pastas ‘extra spicy’, in his five-month-old stint as expat Italian chef at Vetro, the contemporary Italian fine-dining restaurant at The…
September 18, 2014, 5:39 PM IST
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KCR goes the way of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un
September 10, 2014, 11:43 AM IST
Three months after assuming charge of India’s 29th state, Telangana, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has begun to show behavioural characteristics similar to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un who does not tolerate dissent of any…
September 10, 2014, 11:43 AM IST
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Of autumn afternoons and mooncakes
September 8, 2014, 4:07 PM IST
Autumn makes for a pretty much agreeable time of the year in Hyderabad. The weather is pleasant, thanks to the late monsoon rains winding up operations, leaving behind both a lush green foliage and an…
September 8, 2014, 4:07 PM IST
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Telangana’s dubious survey should not be the basis of the politics of exclusion
August 15, 2014, 3:18 PM IST
By ordering an “intensive household survey”, ostensibly to weed out bogus beneficiaries of government welfare schemes, the Telangana Rahstriya Samiti administration of K Chandrasekhar Rao has sowed fear into the minds of Andhraites and non-Telugu-speaking…
August 15, 2014, 3:18 PM IST
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