Saganti Lakshmi came all the way from Khammam, to Hyderabad seven years ago to take up the job of road sweeper, outsourced to private agencies on contract basis. She earns about Rs.5,000 per month but has to shell out Rs.2,000 out of it as rent for a dwelling in a slum at Road No. 12, [...]
With the Budget Session fast approaching and the Jagan-supporting MLAs not responding to the speaker’s summons to answer his queries on their resignation, pressure is mounting on the political bosses to show them the door, it is learnt. In this context, Speaker N Manohar’s recent remark is indicative of the official mood. Asked why MLAs [...]
Somewhere in Malaysia, a family weeps with relief. In Haditha in Iraq, citizens cry out for justice. In the hallways of power in Ankara and Paris bureaucrats haggle over what constitutes genocide. The one common strain that ties the above three scenes is the fact that all the victims were innocent. They were not soldiers [...]
Women should not cry at work, could have well been one of the Ten Commandments. It’s almost like telling a man ‘pink is not his colour’. The moment your well-kept guard drops at work and the moment the tear gates open, there you are — you can kiss your career advancement goodbye. These rules go [...]
“We used to consume water directly from this lake about 10 years ago. In fact, whenever people ran out of water, they used to fill a bucket from the lake and use it. Now the lake is so polluted that the water can’t be used for anything,” said Sideshwar Goud, member, Save Our Urban Lake [...]
Indian artists have managed to make a mark in the international art market in the past. The rapidly growing Indian art market is giving these creative minds an impetus as is seen in the Indian art fair that kickstarted on January 25 in New Delhi. This is the fourth time India is hosting artists of [...]
It is election time in the US of A. The ‘state of the union’ speech of Barrack Obama had its dose of antipathy to American companies outsourcing jobs. India Inc. asserted that they were creating jobs and not usurping them – refer the observations of Vineet Nayar of HCL, Azim Premji of Wipro at World [...]
“Asthma is a form of allergy in which a person’s immune system recognises non-infectious parts like dust, pollen as allergens and causes the airway to narrow down. While there are no specific studies, nearly 10 in 10,000 people are affected by asthma,” says Dr Y Gopi Krishna, consultant pulmonologist at Mythri Hospital. Since factors like [...]
India’s biggest corporate cycling event was organised by the Atlanta Foundation in Hyderabad at Gachibowli Stadium on Thursday. More than 3,000 bicyclists from well over 50 MNC companies participated in The Republic Ride 2012.
KOCHI: Petronet LNG Ltd (PLL) will set up a Rs 4,500-crore terminal at Gangavaram in Andhra Pradesh with a capacity of five million tonnes, a top official said on Friday. After preliminary studies, the PLL board that met here today gave the go-ahead for carrying out a detailed feasibility study of the proposed terminal, Petroleum [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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