City Unani hospital ailing from negligence
The government-owned Unani hospital near Charminar is in a sorry state. Its patients, the majority of them poor, complain that they are being forced to purchase medicines from outside even for simple
Civic body’s clogged gutter claims one life
One person died and four others were injured while desilting a storm water drain on RP Road on Thursday. With the monsoons here, RP Road, Nala Bazaar and General Bazaar often get flooded due to overfl
Road plan to hit families
Hundreds of people living for generations in the Old City would now become homeless under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s plan to carry out its proposed road-widening drive Even though
Road plan to hit families
Hundreds of people living for generations in the Old City would now become homeless under the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s plan to carry out its proposed road-widening drive Even though
Slums spread over 12% of Hyderabad
Twelve per cent of Hyderabad is occupied up by 1,476 slums in which 26 per cent of the city’s population lives, GHMC commissioner M.T. Krishna Babu informed World Bank representatives on Monday. The c
Top advocates to argue for Wakf land
The state Wakf Board has decided to hire eminent advocates to challenge the interim order of the Supreme Court and get a favourable result in the Manikonda land dispute.
The apex court, in a recent
Unani medicine institutes in ICU
The state will lose as many as 36 postgraduate seats in Unani medicine this year too with the government failing to recruit teaching staff. The Central government didn’t allow admission into PG Unani
GHMC shutters down Amberpet crematoria
The GHMC has shut down two modern electric crematoria at Amberpet following protests from local residents. The crematoria, constructed by spending crores of rupees, became operational only in Februar
400-yr-old mosque faces threat from builders
A four century old mosque and tomb behind the Golconda Fort at Neknampur will soon be memory thanks to the sheer greed and insensitivity of contractors. The structure will be torn down for developing
Protected historic tomb in a shambles
It’s a protected monument, supposedly under the State Archeological Department’s care, but Mulla Abul Malik’s Tomb lies in shambles, with weeds and plants sprouting up from it. Ironically, the departm