Hyderabad: After remaining out of sight for at least 48 hours after it was last seen on Katedan underbridge, the leopard was once again been spotted near Himayat Sagar by few persons on Saturday.
With this information, forest and police officials became alert and began operation to catch the big cat. The report also created panic among the residents of areas surrounding Himayat Sagar.
According to assistant commissioner of police Rajendranagar Ashok Chakravarty, the leopard was spotted drinking water at the bank of Himayat Sagar. Police has asked the people to be vigilant. After it was spotted at national highway 7 at Katedan on May 14, the leopard had disappeared into a nearby farm house. Forest officials tried to catch the wild animal with the help of surveillance cameras, drones and baits but in vain.
According to sources police is mulling over roping in well-known shooter of India Nawab Shafat Ali Khan to catch the big cat.
Hyderabad: Pugmarks triggered scare of leopard among the residents of Himayat Sagar. However, the forest officials who have visited the spot said that it is footprints of stray dogs.
Meanwhile, the officials are visiting the villages of Himayat Sagar to track the movement of wild cat. They asked locals to alert them in case they notice any activity of the leopard.
Leopard spotted at Himayat Sagar
It may be mentioned that a fisherman and truck drivers saw leopard on Friday at Himayat Sagar.
Earlier, it was spotted resting on the road near Katedan underbridge at Mylardevpalli.
Rescue team searching leopard
The rescue team from the forest department is continuing their efforts to trace the animal and tranquilize it. However, as the team’s efforts have not yielded any result yet, panic gripped the people.
Hyderabad: On Monday, the GMR led Hyderabad International Airport handled a Departures Repatriation Flight for Oman Nationals stranded in Hyderabad City.
“A relief charter flight of Star Air – OG 9111, which operated purely as a domestic flight, departed on 18th May at 07.12 AM (Morning) with 28 passengers to Mumbai. As per the flight itinerary, from Mumbai, these passengers were to be airlifted by an Air India Express flight to Oman,” informed Airport Spokerperson.
Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, Hyderabad International Airport is seamlessly handling evacuation flights both arrivals and departures with all safety protocols in place. So far the airport has handled 14 departures evacuations flights facilitating over 1000 foreign nationals stranded in Hyderabad City, Telangana to various countries.
The airport has also handled 09 Arrivals Evacuations flights under the first phase of the Govt. of India’s Vande Bharat Mission facilitating close to 1500 Indian Citizens from various foreign destinations. The second phase of Vande Bharat Mission has commenced with the first flight from Muscat to Hyderabad is expected on 18th May in the evening.
Later in the day of 18th May 2020, as part of the Second Phase of Vande Bharat Evacuation Mission Air India Express IX 818 from Muscat (Oman) is expected to land with Indian citizens at Hyderabad International Airport at around 5.35 PM (Evening).
Departures Repatriation Flight for Oman Nationals
All departing passengers were serviced through the fully sanitized Interim International Departures Terminal (IIDT) of GMR Hyderabad International Airport as per all safety protocol in place.
Special screening and safety measures were in place during the flight’s handling to protect against the COVID-19 threat including thermal screening prior to terminal entry, mandatory social distancing enforced through special queuing arrangements at all passenger processing points.
To meet these emergency requirements, apart from the State/Central Govt. representatives, State Police, CISF (Central Industrial Security Force), Immigration, Customs, a select group of personnel from GHIAL Terminal Operations, Airside Operations, AOCC (Airport Operations & Control Center), ATC (Air Traffic Control), IT Team, Landside Security, Airline Ground Handlers, ARFF (Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting) services, RAXA security, Trolley Operators, Housekeeping Staff, among others were available to ensure safe and seamless arrivals of the passengers.
Hyderabad: Telangana State BJP party today urged Chief Election Commissioner to reject nomination papers of K Kavitha, ex-MP, and daughter of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for suppressing of facts in her affidavit filed for MLC post in Nizamabad district.
BJP has asked chief elections commissioner to reject the nomination of TRS candidate K Kavitha for suppressing of facts in her affidavit filed for MLC post in Nizamabad district, BJP floor leader in Telangana Legislative Council Ramchander Rao told media persons in a video conference.
He said Nizamabad district BJP president has written a letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) recently detailing about the false information furnished by TRS candidate who under value her assets in her affidavit. TRS candidate Kavitha should be disqualify for furnishing false information to the elections commissioner, senior BJP leader said.
The BJP MLC ,who is also Greater Hyderabad City President, alleged that ruling party members are indulging in intimidating and luring members of electoral college for MLC elections. After the postponement of local body elections for MLC post in view of Covid-19, TRS leaders have indulged in luring BJP corporators and intimidating voters who are members of electorate college for MLC elections, Ramchander Rao said.
He reminded that TRS party has usurp mayor post of Nizamabad corporation with the help of ex-officio members and support of MIM where BJP stood single largest party with winning of 28 corporator posts. But now ruling party is indulged in luring BJP corporators and ZPTC members who are members of electorate college for MLC elections.
Reacting on three BJP corporators joining in TRS party recently, Rao accused TRS of adopting the unholy practice to increase its tally just before the MLC elections as K Kavitha ex-MP and daughter of chief minister K Chandrasekher Rao has filed nomination for MLC post. The BJP MLC quoting three corporators, who changed their loyalties to the TRS party, told him that they took the decision as they were threatened by TRS leaders.
BJP strongly condemned the “political conspiracy” of TRS party and demanded the government to provide security to BJP members of electoral college for MLC elections, Rao said and alleged that the ruling party is indulging in such illegal tactics out of fear of defeat in Nizamabad where BJP has won MP seat defeating Kavitha.
On the issue of paper valuation of Intermediate exams, BJP MLC urged the government to provide facilities to lecturers as per the norms of covid-19 who are being transported to paper valuation centres from different places in RTC buses without following social distancing.
He urged the government to run more RTC buses to transport lecturers to paper valuation centres and they should be covered under group insurance in wake of coronavirus pandemic as lecturers have to come from far away places like Vikarabad for paper valuations as there were over 50 lakh papers has to be checked by them.
BJP MLC also urged the state government to extend financial help to teachers of private schools and colleges who have been facing problems following lockdown as they have not been paid their salaries for the last two months. The government should direct the management of private schools and colleges to make arrangements for payment of pending salaries to their employees, he said.
Hyderabad: 22-year-old, Syed Nemat Hussaini is one of the drivers of the Corona Special ambulances stationed outside Care Hospital, Banjara Hills. The city-based ambulance service provider StanPlus has launched the service to meet the medical emergencies after the lockdown.
Nemat works on alternate days, over a 24-hour stretch. Brushing aside the arguments of friends and fellow drivers about it being a risky job, Nemat says “Call him God or by any other name, it is he who protects and decides what happens to each of us.”
Donning the PPE suit, Nemat is always ready to move the COVID-19-positive patient or suspect to the dedicated facilities.
India Today quoted him as saying, “All the 12 confirmed positive patients I moved to Gandhi Hospital looked more worried than any other sick people I have taken. There is a deep fear that the coronavirus will lead to an early death.”
Hussaini makes sure that the van is sanitised daily and fumigated once a week.
Nemat grew up as an orphan. He has never seen his father, and he lost his mother while he was in Class eight. A friend’s family took care of him until he passed out of school. Hussaini studied 10th class from the St Aristotle High School at Hafiz Baba Nagar. For some years he did odd jobs as a refrigerator mechanic and electrician. For a while he worked as an Ola driver, before becoming an ambulance driver. This job is satisfying for him as he says “this work helps me earn and be of service to others. It makes me truly rich.”
Hyderabad Zakat & Charitable Trust presented Rs 2.48 Cr worth scholarships to orphan students
Hyderabad: Orphan student’s dream come true to pursue their education as the city-based NGO Hyderabad Zakat & Charitable Trust (HZCT) offered Rs. 2.48 Cr ladies wing have presented to orphan students 2019-2020 benefitting more than 10,663 orphan girls and boys.
This scholarship programme for orphan was started over 8 years ago by the ladies wing of HZCT under the guidance of Mr. Ghiasuddin Babukhan the Scholarship is awarded to orphans schooling to degree courses in various schools and colleges across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The Scholarship awarded ranges between 2,000 To Rs.5,000.
Ten Districts of Telengana (6,961 beneficiaries), 8 district of Coastal Andhra (1,887 beneficiaries), 4 Districts of Rayalseeema (1815 beneficiaries).
Inspectors of HZCT scrutinize the applicants and help mothers open joint accounts in respective join names and amounts are transferred to these accounts after due verification and personal interviews of the applicants with their mother.
Mr. Ghiasuddin Babukhan Chairman HZCT said, “The purpose of this programme is to help and assist the orphans that Allah SWT has very specifically mentioned in the Quran. Welfare and taking care of the Orphans is a very big SAWAB and given the responsibility to the Ummah to take care of these young boys and girls left behind by their father/mother an early age. If we take care of their education and make them self reliant, besides getting sawab we will be doing a great service to these young students for their life. He thanked all the donors and contributors of this programme,” He added.
This ‘Orphan’ programme is taken up round the year and monitored by Mrs. NusrathZiauddin, Mrs. Ashgari Ahmed, Mrs.DurdanaMahmood, Mrs. Sameena Nemath, Mrs. Aliya Vicar Shaik Imam, and Mrs. Nafis Khan of ICNA Canada.
Hyderabad: Prominent city folk from Hyderabad issued a statement against the charges leveled upon Zafar-ul-Islam Khan, Delhi Minority Commission, under section 124 A and 153 (promoting enmity between different group on of religion, race, place of birth). The police even raided his house prior to Iftar on May 7.
After taking to social media speak out against the ruling dispensation’s selective targeting of Muslims before and during the pandemic, the mainstream media slandered him with labels like “anti-national.”
The statement reads: “How can such a patriot like him who has contributed to resolving many issues of the Indian religious minorities under his able chairmanship of the Delhi Minorities Commission be charged for sedition. Dr. Zafarul Islam has always upheld the constitutional democratic values of India. He has defended India many times in the Arab World on crucial issues. Such a person’s integrity is questioned now just on the complaint of a person who could not even understand what his tweet meant?”
Among many of Hyderabad’s known activists who signed the are Achyutha Suneetha, SQ Masood and Khalida Parveen.
Khan is the son of the renowned Islamic scholar and translator Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. A renowned author, journalist, renowned and religious scholar, he founded the Indo-Muslim centric English news outlet, Milli Gazette. His work is not solely revered by Indians but by the international community as well.
Born in Azamgarh UP in 1948, after gaining his early education at Madrasa-tul-Islah in Azamgarh, he then went onto study Dar-ul-Uloom Nadwatul Alama in Lucknow. Later he studied at the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo from 1966-1973. He also had a stint as a translator and editor for the Libyan Foreign Ministry. Adding to these credentials is his PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Manchester.
His has authored books in Urdu, Arabic, and English such as the Hijrah In Islam and Palestine Documents.As a frequent commentator on Islamic and South Asian issues on outlets like Al-Jazeera, he further cemented his status as a thought leader of Muslim issues.
He was then appointed as the Chairman of the Delhi Minorities Commission in July 2017. Besides this body, Islam was the President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, an umbrella body of Muslim organisations in the country.
The Minorities Commission says that that he has been a lightning rod for the BJP’s IT cell.
The statement expressing solidarity to Islam also demanded that all the charges against Khan be dropped and action be taken against those defaming him. Although as per Khan’s lawyer, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the police not to take any coercive measure against the Delhi Minorities Commission till June 22.
Hyderabad: The lockdown has put India’s animals in extreme distress. South India’s Cow Shelter, Satyam Shivam Sundaram Gau Nivas (SSSG), that shelters 5500 cows, located at Gaganpahad, on the way to Shamshabad Airport needs help to feed the cows. And cows at SSSG are no exception. Many cows are going hungry.
The livestock (Cows) sheltered is not getting adequate feed because of the lockdown. No governments have time for hungry cows.
SSSG founder Dharam Raj Ranks informed that due to Lockdown and it’s impact, the voluntary contributions based on which shelter is being run for the past 25 years is drained out resources.
The 77 years old Dharam Raj Ranka, a Jeweller turned one-man army and dedicated his life for cows and wants people to come forward contribute towards maintenance. SSSG appeals for generous contributions.
These beasts are fed three times a day which comprises of Green Grass cut into small pieces mixed with Kutti and other ingredients. Five feeding sheds are arranged for their Feeding. A Green Grass Cutting Machine is put in place, said Dharam Raj.
What Lockdown is doing to cows is disturbing. Under this continued lockdown, it has become beyond the means for Satyam Shivam Sundaram Gau Nivas to maintain, Raj added.
Punjagutta mutton shop request GHMC to consider an increase in meat price
Hyderabad: Mutton which is widely preferred in Hyderabad especially during Ramadan, in the recent days there has been increased and decreased in prices of mutton, due to which the Animal Husbandry wing of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) have made it mandatory to all the mutton selling shops of the city not to increase mutton prices limiting the prices only to Rs. 600 to 700.
The Punjagutta Mutton Shop one of the leading mutton merchant in the city have not agreed to the decision made by the GHMC.
Md. Younus, Md. Irfan and Md. Imran addressing the media on increase prices of mutton.
The Proprietor of Punjagutta Mutton Shop Md. Younus said “We are one of the oldest mutton shop brand in Hyderabad, we request GHMC to consider the pricing for high quality mutton, (Potla Sheep) is priced around Rs. 675 to Rs.700 per kg in wholesale market and extra charges like transportation, maintenance, rent, bills, electricity, workers pay, water, sanitation charges, increases the price of high quality mutton.
Mr. Younus further told that since the Jiyaguda Market is closed the sheep is being procured from Kachiguda area, the cost of for a sheep transporting, stamp charges, water weight loss, are further adding up, because of this we are incurring huge losses.
Mr. Younus requested the GHMC to look into the matter at the earliest and suggested the civic body to implement a better structure of pricing.
Hyderabad: Terming its Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package as a “blatant fraud”, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday slammed the Centre for treating states as its subordinates and beggars.
Alleging that the Centre is behaving horribly with the states, he told a news conference here on Monday night that as a state government, he was feeling very pained.
Describing the package as “hollow” and “100 per cent bogus”, he wondered if this can be called a package.
Can this be treated as package?: KCR
“As a state government I feel very painful. I really feel sorry. This should not have happened. Can this be treated as a package?” he asked.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief said the package was totally against the spirit of federalism. “It is atrocious and totally feudal. We did not ask for this package,” he said.
KCR, as Rao is popularly known, alleged that the Centre is trying to dominate the states. “The Prime Minister talks of cooperative federalism. With this package this has proved hollow and bogus.”
He said the state governments were also constitutional governments and not subordinates. “All said and done we also run governments, constitutional governments. They are not subordinates. The states have more responsibilities directly to the people than the Centre,” he said.
Citing the opinions of international journals of Singapore and Japan, KCR said they were asking if the package was aimed at reviving GDP or was it just a jugglery of figures. He pointed out that the Centre has not given even Rs 1 lakh crore.
He said when coronavirus completely destroyed the world economy, the states were seeking some cash in hands so that the same can be passed on to people in different ways.
FRBM limits
KCR found fault with the Centre laying down conditions to raise FRBM limits for the states from 3 per cent to 5 per cent and reminded that even the loans have to be repaid by the states and the Centre would not give even a penny.
“It is very unfortunate that the Centre is pushing for reforms holding a knife at the state governments’ throats,” he said.
He said if the conditions laid down by the Centre for reforms in various sectors were implemented. it would impose a burden on people. “It is pathetic that the Centre should insist on states implementing the reforms in four sectors to qualify for increased borrowing in these times of pandemic. Is the Centre giving some charity?” he asked.
Hyderabad: Amid the global pandemic Covid-19, Govt. of India has undertaken the biggest ever off-shore evacuation drive to airlift the stranded Indian Citizens under its Vande Bharat Mission. Under the second phase of Vande Bharat Mission, on Monday (18th May), GMR led Hyderabad International Airport handled an Arrivals Evacuation Flight of Air India Express Airline IX 0818 from Muscat (Oman), which landed at Hyderabad International Airport today at 08:12 PM (Night) with 166 Indian Citizens bound for Hyderabad.
All arriving passengers were serviced through the fully sanitized International Arrivals of the Main Passenger Terminal of GMR Hyderabad International Airport.
To facilitate the arriving passengers and aircraft crew, the Hyderabad International Airport has kept the international arrivals and the entire stretch right from the aerobridge to the arrivals ramp fully sanitized and fumigated, this included – sanitization of every nook & corner of building and public areas including washrooms, chairs, counters, trolleys, railings, doors, lifts, escalator’s etc.
The airport also enforced the social distancing among passengers right from the aerobridge to across the terminal.
Hyderabad: MA&UD Minister KTR along with Health Minister Eatala Rajender held a review meeting on containing seasonal diseases in Hyderabad given the oncoming monsoon season.
In the meeting, the Minister KTR asked the officials to increase fogging and intensify spraying of sodium hypochlorite to fight seasonal diseases. He instructed the officials to ensure intensive sanitation and spraying of anti lava in high-risk areas.
Minister KTR asked the officials to use floating trash collector machines to clean water hyacinth in the lakes. He also asked the officials to set up an instant repair team to fix potholes on city roads.
Minister asked the officials to hold convergence meetings with concerned departments at circle levels. Minister also instructed to provide financial powers to deputy commissioners to act swiftly on emergency works.
A total of 2,412 members from the entomology team of GHMC are indulging in anti lava fogging by using 2,200 machines
Minister instructed the Zonal Commissioners to take stock of the situation in their respective divisions by involving public representatives and corporators and arrange for additional fogging machines to take up anti lava spraying once in every five days and five phases a month.
The Minister instructed the Deputy Commissioners to conduct awareness programs on taking measures to fight seasonal diseases such as dengue, malaria, and Chikungunya with colony and apartment associations from May 19th onwards. He emphasized on following physical distancing in these meetings.
Minister asked the officials to use special equipment for desilting 54 nalas and also barricade nalas where necessary. He also asked the officials to set up signboards near manholes to avoid any accidents.
Minister asked the officials to make proper arrangements to shift building debris to the plants set up in Jeedimetla and Fathullaguda areas.
Minister also informed that 44 new basthi dawakhanas will be soon inaugurated in addition to the already functioning 123 basthi dawakhanas.
Minister instructed the officials to take up cleanliness drives in the open plots and asked them to charge the owners of the plots for the cleaning work.
During the meeting, Health Minister Eatala Rajender appreciated the Municipal department officials and staff for their relentless work along with health department officials in the past two months. He also appreciated Minister KTR for proactively preparing the officials to handle works in the upcoming monsoon season.
Mayor Bonthu Rammohan, Deputy Mayor Baba Fasiuddin, MA&UD Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar, HMWSSB MD Dana Kishore & GHMC Commissioner Lokesh Kumar were present.
Air India Express IX 0818 landed from Muscat (Oman) at 8.12 p.m. with 166 passengers, airport sources said.
HYDERABAD: An Air India Express evacuation flight with 166 evacuees from Oman landed at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Monday night.
Air India Express IX 0818 landed from Muscat (Oman) at 8.12 p.m. with 166 passengers, airport sources said.
This was the first flight to land in Hyderabad under the second phase of Vande Bharat Mission, the biggest ever evacuation exercise of India aimed to bring back Indian nationals stranded in various countries due to COVID-19 lockdown.
After completing all formalities, the passengers were transported to designated locations in the city for mandatory 14-day quarantine period as per the guidelines of Ministry of Home Affairs.
All passengers were facilitated with safety protocol through a fully sanitised airport terminal. To facilitate the arriving passengers and aircraft crew, the airport has kept the international arrivals and the entire stretch right from the aerobridge to the arrivals ramp fully sanitized and fumigated.
All arriving passengers and aircraft crew were brought out from the aircraft in a batch of 20-25 persons each. Each passenger/crew was screened by the thermal cameras positioned at the aerobridge exit under supervision of the Airport Health officials (APHO) as per the directives of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare prior to immigration formalities.
After the health screening of passengers, CISF personnel in their protective gear escorted the group of passengers to immigration clearance.
Glass shields were provided at each manned immigration counter to avoid any personal contact between the passengers and immigration officers.
Hyderabad: Forty-one more COVID-19 cases were reported in Telangana on Monday, taking the state’s tally to 1,592.
Active cases in TS
“The cases include 1002 cured/discharged, 556 active cases and 34 deaths,” the State Health Department said in a release.
A total of 96,169 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in India while 36,824 persons have recovered or migrated, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday.
Active cases in India
There are 56,316 active cases of COVID-19 in the country at present. As many as 3,029 people have lost their lives due to the coronavirus in the country.
Government of Telangana issued GO of new restrictions for lockdown 4 in the state and MA&UD Department – COVID-19 – Permissible activities during the Lockdown period, Clarification issued. Referring to the press conference of the Chief Minister following the Cabinet Meeting on Monday
Lockdown 4.0 Guidelines Hyderabad Latest Updates: The Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department (MA&UD) of Telangana on Tuesday morning issued a fresh guidelines for lockdown 4.0 in Telangana. As the Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao informed during his press meet on Monday that the civic body would decide which shops to be open in Hyderabad.
After the Central government on Sunday released the guidelines for the fourth phase of lockdown guidelines in India, Telangana Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao yesterday gave green signal to open all businesses except in containment zones.
Government of Telangana issued GO of new restrictions for lockdown 4 in the state and MA&UD Department – COVID-19 – Permissible activities during the Lockdown period, Clarification issued. Referring to the press conference of the Chief Minister following the Cabinet Meeting on Monday.
The Principal Secretary of MA&UD, Arvind Kumar stated in the letter issued by the MA&UD Department of Telangana, Its been decided in today’s cabinet that Shops will be permitted to open with effect from tomorrow on odd-even pattern on corresponding alternate days i.e. odd numbered shops will open on odd days ( with Monday as day 1, Tuesday as day 2 and so on) and even numbered shops will open on even numbered days of the week.
This however isn’t applicable to Malls, Restaurants, pubs, bars, cinema halls which will continue to be closed. Take-aways from the restaurants is however permitted. Further, shops in containment zones will continue to be closed as was the case till now.
The MA&UD Department directed the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) authorities to depute all relevant staff such as Bill collectors, revenue staff of GHMC, town planning and AMOH staff and ensure that alternate shop opening is adhered from Tuesday strictly and without giving any scope for any ambiguity.
The issue regarding opening of alternate shops can easily be worked out in due consultation wherever there’s any confusion with the shop numbering. One can start with the corner most shop (or the first shop in the street as no. 1 and so on).
The department asked GHMC to assign DC as incharge of his/her circle and let each ZC personally monitor to ensure that this is sorted out by 10 am tomorrow and shops adhere to this arrangement without any glitches.
Other instructions issued by HM&FW Dept from time to time shall be followed. The precautions prescribed in the circular are reiterated as below:
Compulsory wearing of Masks for both those working in the shop and for all customers.
A policy of “No mask – No goods / No service” must be followed. Any violation will be penalized with fine of Rs. 1000/-
Foot Markings for Social / Physical Distancing with 4 feet.
Provision of Hand sanitizer facility at all the Entry and Exits
Color indication in Red for common touch points like elevator buttons, door handles etc
Wherever possible, provision of automatic doors.
MA&UD directed GHMC to ensure compliance by making immediate necessary arrangements and close monitoring with all DCs & ZCs.
Department asked GHMC to instruct the field staff that in case of any problem or dispute between the two adjacent shops or cluster of shops regarding opening on a particular day, the administration will close down all the shops till the lockdown period.
Hyderabad: Former state minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Monday appealed Muslims to celebrate Eid with simplicity. Reacting to the relaxation of lockdown by the state government, M A Shabbir said it is necessary for Muslims to take precaution and avoid coming out of their houses without necessity. He added that even after coming out of our houses we need to strictly follow social distancing.
Former minister said, we need to avoid coming out of houses unless for essential needs and avoid making crowds in the markets. We should not give others a chance to raise fingers on us he said.
Despite easing of restrictions by the government, we should celebrate Eid with simplicity and focus on helping the needy, said Shabbir.
Hyderabad: An employee of one of the branches of State Bank of India (SBI) succumbed to COVID-19, following which around 1,000 employees of its various facilities located in the sprawling Local Head Office campus of its Hyderabad Circle, in Kothi area were evacuated on Monday.
An employee of the Commercial Branch on the campus and died earlier in the day at Gandhi Hospital. He had last reported for work on May 12 and since he was not looking well, others told him to go home and seek medical help.
According to The Hindu, 55-year-old man got admitted to the Chest Hospital with suspected pneumonia, later he was shifted to Gandhi Hospital, where he died. SBI Hyderabad Circle Chief General O.P.Mishra confirmed that the employee had died of COVID. He also informed that around 1,000 employees of the various facilities on the campus were evacuated and the campus was sanitised. Around 70 employees of the Commercial Branch had been asked to undergo home quarantine for 14 days.
Earlier a customer who subsequently tested positive for COVID-had visited SBI branch in Puranapul. Later the branch was shut and all employees of the branch home-quarantined. However, all the employees had tested negative for COVID-19, according to Mishra.
Hyderabad: Traders and workers of the Malakpet Mahboob Gunj protested against the closure of the market on Monday and demanded to open it immediately. Traders raised slogans at the main gate of the area.
Appealing to the GHMC and police to open the Malakpet Mahboob Gunj immediately, Mohammed Altaf a trader promised that they will follow all norms for social distancing and sanitization.
Mahboob Gunj market at Malakpet was closed after three positive cases of Covid-19 were reported from two traders and a helper. Sealing the area, the GHMC on May 1 erected barricades at the entrance of the market. A police picket was also posted.
The traders alleged that authorities have not allowed them to open shops even after the completion of mandatory 14-day quarantine period.
On the other hand, authorities have to say that they are taking precautions since cases in the area are surging.
Times of India quoted a senior GHMC official as saying, “As the Malakpet market falls under the Malakpet zone which has been reporting an increasing number of Covid-19 cases, we are reviewing the situation. We will take a final call on reopening it the market soon.”
Hyderabad: A 42-year-old US national was found dead on a hillock near here after he accidentally fell down while cycling, police said on Monday.
A cross-terrain cycling enthusiast, he was staying in Hyderabad with his wife for over a year.
He used to go on cycling trips daily in Gandipet area along with his friend, but on Sunday his friend did not accompany him, police said.
While he was cycling, he fell and sustained head injuries and died, they added.
His wife complained after he was not answering her phone calls and police tracked cell phone tower signals to reach the spot and locate the body, a senior police official said.
“It’s an accidental death and a case was registered,” the official said.
