All arrangements have been made to allow a total of 74.67 lakhs of voters in 150 divisions to exercise their right to vote in 9,101 polling stations to elect their representatives to the civic body. Distribution, Reception and Counting Centers (DRCs) across the city were filled with frenzied activity on …
Read More »Voting in the high-stakes Hyderabad civic body elections
2020 GHMC Elections: Voting began at 7am. Hyderabad: More than 74 lakh eligible voters are eligible to vote today in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation or GHMC election. Voting began at 7 am. The election comes after more than a week of intense and scathing campaigning. The election of the …
Read More »Why the BJP has turned a municipal election into a communal battle
In Hyderabad, municipal elections have suddenly turned into polarized identities. The Bharatiya Janata Party sent its main activists to identify all the concerns of the Hindu right: Pakistan, Kashmir, surgical strikes, Mughal refugees, Biryani, Ayodhya, Rohingya. The Union Interior Minister Amit Shah promised to erase the “Nizami culture” from the …
Read More »Bhagyalakshmi Temple and Renaming from Hyderabad to Bhagyanagar
Written by Sreenivas Janyala | Hyderabad | Updated: December 1, 2020 7:58:27 am Interior Minister Amit Shah receives a souvenir during his visit to the Bhagyalakshmi Ammavari Temple in Hyderabad. (PTI photo) On Saturday, Union Interior Minister Amit Shah visited the Bhagyalakshmi temple during a trip to Hyderabad to campaign …
Read More »Hyderabad wants development, but gets community rhetoric instead
Hyderabad’s municipal elections are the new testing ground for communal rhetoric in a secular city, overshadowing voter concerns and development debates. National affairs, Article 370, Ayodhya and Pulwama have overshadowed the people’s demands for better roads, sanitation and health. More than 40% of Hyderabad voters, in a recent study, said …
Read More »PM did not want CM KCR to welcome him in Hyd: KTR to TNM
According to sources, the prime minister’s office omitted CM KCR’s name from the list of those who were to receive Narendra Modi at Hyderabad airport. One day after Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Hyderabad, a controversy is brewing that CM KCR has not been invited to receive the Prime Minister. …
Read More »BJP wants to free Hyderabad from Nizam culture: Amit Shah
“From corruption to transparency” Shah also, according to IANS, said that the BJP wanted to lead Hyderabad from corruption to transparency and from appeasement to equal opportunities. He also said that it was thanks to Sardar Patel that Telangana, Marathwada and Hyderabad became part of India. He also alleged that …
Read More »Protest never qualified as politically motivated, says Amit Shah as farmers reject the center’s offer to talk
A day after Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar hinted at the ‘Khalistani element’ in the farmers’ protest, Union Interior Minister Amit Shah said the uproar was “not politically motivated”. The clarification came even as thousands of farmers turned down the Center’s offer for immediate talks if they ended the blockade …
Read More »Hyderabad under the new Nizam, time to end it, says CM Yogi Adityanath
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday that the Bharatiya Janata Party was the only one with the ability to transform Hyderabad into a “Bhagya Nagar (a wealthy city).” Addressing the meeting during a road show in Kukatpally as part of the BJP’s campaign in the Greater Hyderabad …
Read More »Learn more about indigenous DNA-based Covid-19 vaccine, PM Modi tweets praise for Zydus Cadila after visit
On a whirlwind tour of three cities, PM Modi is on a visit to three Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers today: Zydus Cadila in Ahmedabad, where ZyCoV-D is being developed, the Serum Institute of India facility in Pune, where it will be manufactured. the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine and Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad, where …
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