The birth of Hyderabad and how Charminar survived the might of Aurangzeb
On October 9 this year, Hyderabad would complete a milestone. It will be 425 years old. It was on this day in 1591 that the Charminar was built, the first building to come up in the new city of...
View ArticleHyd techie dies allegedly due to pothole, experts blame poor road maintenance
As another accident in the prominent Banjara Hills area has claimed a life, the focus turns once more on the state of the roads in Hyderabad and Telangana.On Tuesday, 31-year-old software engineer D...
View ArticleGHMC demolition drive: MP Malla Reddy's school spared by authorities?
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Thursday continued its demolition drive and removed as many as 194 illegal structures in the city.The Times of India reported:According to the...
View ArticleHyd Uni polls: Left Coalition wins big, bags President and Gen Secy posts
The United Front for Social Justice (UFSJ) on Thursday won the student elections at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) after the polls which were held on September 28. The UFSJ consists of the SFI, the...
View ArticleHyderabad man stabbed to death, family alleges honour killing
A 28-year-old man was reportedly murdered by his wife's family members in Hyderabad's Vanasthalipuram area in the wee hours of Thursday in an alleged case of honour killing.The Times of India...
View ArticleKTR seeks Rs 1,189 crore from Centre to compensate damages from rains in...
After the massive damage of life and property due to the heavy rains in Telangana, municipal administration and urban development minister K T Rama Rao on Thursday requested Rs 1,189 crore from the...
View ArticleBus-truck collision in Hyderabad leaves driver dead, 15 injured
A speeding RTC bus hit a parked truck near Peddambarpet of Hayatnagar close to the Outer Ring Road on Friday. The driver of the bus was killed in the accident and over 15 persons suffered serious...
View ArticleServe advance notice: High Court stalls GHMC demolition drive in Hyderabad
Putting a brake on the demolition of unauthorised constructions in Hyderabad, the Hyderabad High Court on Friday directed the municipal authorities to issue notices to the occupiers before razing such...
View ArticleRace to declare assets: Rs 13,000 cr worth black money declared from...
With the deadline for Indians to disclose their hidden black money under the Income Declaration Scheme (IDS) 2016 finished on Friday, reports suggested that the total amount declared was over Rs 65,000...
View ArticleAccident or suicide? Death of Hyderabad prof after FB posts on ISIS triggers...
The death of a junior lecturer working in a college in Hyderabad, hours after he posted serious allegations on his Facebook account, has triggered off mass speculation on social media.K Praveen Kumar,...
View ArticleUoH student who was expelled with Vemula, refuses to accept doctorate from VC...
One of the four students from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) who was expelled for a few months along with Rohith Vemula, refused to take his PhD from varsity Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao in a mark of...
View ArticleCar with woman, children washed away in Telangana
A woman and five children were drowned when a car was washed away in a stream in Telangana's Nizamabad district on Saturday, police said.The driver and another occupant of the car were rescued by...
View ArticleRains to continue in Telangana for another week, says MeT department
Even as Telangana recovered from heavy rains that lashed the state recently, a fresh spell has begun as the MeT department on Saturday predicted activity for the next one week over.The Times of India...
View ArticleDrunk Hyderabad man who jumped into lion enclosure in zoo gets four months...
A metro rail worker who had jumped into the African lion's enclosure at Hyderabad's Nehru Zoological Park in May this year, was sentenced to four-month imprisonment by a local court on Saturday.He was...
View ArticleNo lessons learnt? Hyderabad demolitions ignore bigger problem of lake bed...
The heavy rains that lashed Hyderabad in September are still fresh in the memories of many residents, who saw their neighbourhoods flooded and roads inundated.Predictably, the Telangana government...
View ArticleHow Telangana MP Kavitha is taking 'Bathukamma' to a global stage
Nizamabad MP and Telangana Jagruthi founder Kalvakuntla Kavitha is spreading the word across countries on the state's own 'Bathukamma' festival, which is considered a symbol of the state's cultural...
View ArticleAlleged anesthesia overdose lands 5-yr-old undergoing thumb surgery in a coma
In the second such incident in the city within a week, an alleged overdose of anesthetic has left a five-year-old undergoing a thumb corrective surgery, in a coma.S Sumathri was undergoing the surgery...
View ArticleHyderabad man pulls out gun in public after scuffle, triggers panic
In an incident that triggered chaos outside a food court in Hyderabad's Himayatnagar area on Sunday, a man pulled out a gun in public after a heated confrontation with two people.It is reported that...
View ArticleFive-year-old brain dead, mother critical after drunk driver rams them in Hyd
Months after drunk driving resulted in the death of a family in Hyderabad, another similar incident in the city's Amberpet area has left a five-year-old girl brain dead and her mother in a critical...
View ArticleOsmania students protest over unhygienic food and water in hostel mess
Two hundred women students of Osmania Univeristy protested on Sunday over the poor quality of food in the hostel mess until the management was forced to replace the old stock of food ingredients and...
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