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Hyderabad: The latest development for the RTI Act is the inclusion of six Central government departments into its online portal designed to receive RTI pleas. While activists call this a bold development, some feel that this move has been long overdue for RTI queries related to State governmental departments also. The facility for filing RTI [...]
Even as you come to terms with the death of a loved one, you will be fleeced by the corporation. The City’s electric crematoriums are dysfunctional and the ‘smashan vatikas’ charge up to `8,000 for body disposal. Officials remain tight lipped about the funds directed to the GHMC for this purpose.
Why were IPL fans surprised when Sreeshanth was caught in a match fixing scam? Well, here is the stinger. “Why would anybody pay him to play badly? He does it pretty well on his own for free,” says coach JC Reddy. Cricket fans on the internet too agree with this opinion.
Jubilee Bus Station, with a daily a footfall of over 45,000, has pitiable security set up.
The RTA gears up to monitor the ‘school bus’ transport services in the city Hyderabad: Before the schools open up for another academic year, the RTA is gearing up to ensure the lives of children are in safe hands. The RTA has decided to strictly monitor and check for irregularities in school buses, a continuation [...]
Hyderabad: The long awaited Kukatpally Railway Over Bridge (RoB) is finally ready. The HMDA proposes to open it for traffic on Wednesday after Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy declares it open. The 910m-bridge that would provide thousands of commuters, especially techies, relief from gridlock, had witnessed many hiccups and delays. The RoB works was taken [...]
The dropout rate of girls equals boys in the State which ought to be investigated. Heavy dropout rates despite state efforts remain a mystery though poverty is professed as the principal cause.
Govt’s claim of growing literacy rate in the State is not borne out by facts. Despite open schools and a large budget for education, dropout in schools is high. It’s because of the govt’s inability to reduce poverty and tame the private players whose commitment to commercial gain outweighs desire for mass literacy.
It is the absolute lack of conviction or interest with which cases are taken up, even for prosecution, as is evident with the status of 19 cases that are pending for four months.
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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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