The miserable report card of the Standing Committee may derail many civic works. Hyderabad: Mayor Mohd Majid Hussain and Congress Standing Committee members continue to play hide and seek with result that the committee skipped its meeting for the second consecutive day on Thursday. Hussain ducks questions on why the committee meeting, scheduled to be the [...]
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 [...]
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!”
It is said once you are wet it doesn’t matter what dress you are in. Likewise, once you are a convict and served a prison term, you lose fear of law. Similar is the case with corruption. If you want to research on this, go to the GHMC’s town planning department where the first qualification [...]
Corporation has retooled the ‘best colony’ award inserting a pivotal place for eco-friendly measures to fulfill its promises given to the world at biodiversity meet last year to make Hyderabad the biodiversity capital of India. HYDERABAD: Taking a welcome step on world biodiversity day, the GHMC on Wednesday announced that henceforth the best colony award [...]
While officials swear de-silting is in progress and monsoon preparedness in full swing, opposition TDP termed it a cock and bull story. A report.
The GHMC is discouraged from going too strong against the violators who deface the City walls as local politicians patronise many of these ‘stick-bill-anywhere’ army.
India’s first Leachate plant goes operational on its first trial and is considered a huge leap in the field of solid waste management. HYDERABAD: With the first leachate treatment trial plant with an assured power supply of 200 KVA going operational a week ago, the City has notched up a first in civic sanitation. Processing 150 [...]
Hyderabad: “If demolishing is the only answer to illegal buildings, most parts of the City would be denuded,” remarked the GHMC Commissioner, MT Krishna Babu, while responding to media query after weekly Prajavani. His desperation highlights the extent to which this scourge of illegal structures has grown over the years in this metro. It also [...]
The properties of 70 business families are being taken away to save two places of worship.
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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