Buy gold ornaments, drive to the Metrology department, test for purity and weight, and catch the scruff of the cheat, if you have been cheated.
Is what Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has to say. Yet everybody knows fuel adulteration is common in AP. This ironical situation arises from the BIS’s faulty test standard, thereby giving a long rope to adulterators.
Despite the high cost of attendance and shrinking job opportunities, degrees from foreign universities are worth the price of admission, say students from Hyderabad. Hyderabad: Despite rising tuition fees, shrinking funding options, tougher visa restrictions and rapidly disappearing job opportunities, studying abroad is still the dream for a majority of students here in the City. The [...]
Institute of Mental Health in Erragadda has a serious security lapse — not the making of the faculty but of outside elements — owing to government apathy.
With new reports emerging everyday declaring City’s ground water unfit to drink, demand for packaged drinking water is rising. But how safe is it?
The IRCTC website continues to remain every rail passenger’s worst nightmare realised.
Here’s an inspiring story of a daughter who, at 63, takes care of her bed-ridden mother aged 84. She did the same for her father when he was alive.
With a belief that a teacher’s role extends beyond school, the forum is pushing for ‘non-negotiables’. Policies that were far removed from the practicalities of the classroom lead to the formation of a group that is today known as the Teachers Forum for Child Rights. What started as a handful of like-minded individuals coming together [...]
The campaign has been yielding results with people becoming more and more watchful against child marriages. The modern day Ashwamedha yagnam came to a grand conclusion on Sunday in the Marpally mandal of Ranga Reddy district. If in the Vedic ritual, a chosen horse would be set loose by a king to wander in the [...]
Child Welfare officials explain the challenges of the adoption process in AP
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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