Hyderabad: Telangana Government has issued an order transferring senior IPS Vinoy Kumar Singh, Director of Telangana State Police Academy and appointed VV. Srinivasa Rao, IPS, Chairman, TSLPRB Hyderabad with the additional charge of the post of Director, Telangana State Police Academy, Hyderabad.
The order copy did not mention where Singh has been posted.
Singh had recently submitted his resignation seeking permission from the Government for premature retirement. He had sent his resignation letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently.
On May 21, Singh wrote to Telangana Chief Secretary regarding his promotion. A copy of the letter has also been sent to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. In his letter, he appealed to the government to promote him as a DGP as he fulfilled all qualifications.
In the letter, he told the government that as per rules he was eligible for the post of DGP as a senior IPS officer who had served for 33 years.
Chicago: Najma Khan, a South Asian woman who became one of the first female physicians and part of the first wave of immigrants from Asia to the US in 1967 passed away on June 15.
Khan, an ethical humanitarian who served thousands and influenced even more was the second of eleven children born in Hyderabad, India, in 1931.
Education
Since her childhood, she had a strong sense of purpose and was inspired to do great things against all the odds. Initially, she was unable to attend school due to cultural norms for girls at that time, but she was able to convince her father but had to start her first grade at the age of 9. She quickly picked up English, worked hard, and skipped multiple classes each year. Eventually, she graduated high school early at the age of 15.
She then had aspirations to do something unheard of among Indian women of her era. At 19, she enrolled in Medical School at the prestigious Osmania University. She completed a specialized residency and received the school’s first OB-GYN diploma, one of the few awarded in all of India in 1957.
Humanitarian efforts
In the late 1950s, three of her dynamic brothers pursued graduation in US, UK, and Canada. A humanitarian at heart, Khan and another doctor friend and a pharmacist, set up a free medical clinic to serve humanity.
Her son, Sayeed Khan, recalled stories they heard while growing up. “Our relatives would tell us about ‘lines around the block’ of India’s miserable waiting to see her for medical care. For her, being a doctor was primarily a way to serve humanity.”
Immigrated to US in 1967
Najma Khan married in 1961. A few years later, America embarked upon a fundamental change in foreign policy when the landmark “US Immigration Act of 1965” was passed to address a shortage of doctors and engineers. Najma and her husband, a chemical engineer, were part of the first wave of the “Asian Brain Drain” when immigrating to the US in 1967. .
While her husband pursued his Ph.D., she studied for her medical board exams in a university campus on the East Coast. She simultaneously raised three very young children.
Khan, received an offer for a medical residency in Chicago in 1970, and soon, the young family made the windy city their new home.
As a physician, she worked for the city and had a private practice. She served the most underserved neighborhoods in Chicago and her growing Muslim community of Chicago over four decades. Najma and her husband were pillars of the community, and her family was an integral part of Chicago’s Muslim Community Center(MCC) during its early years, as reported by Muslim Observer.
Diagnosed with breast cancer
Life was challenging for new immigrants with virtually no family, community, or support system. It got tougher when Najma was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1972. She underwent successful surgery and treatment, but the diagnosis lasted for five years. Turning those five years into 50, Khan lived every day to the fullest while helping establish many relatives in both India and America.
Her eldest son, Hassan, a highly respected physician who ran a medical center, passed away before his mother in June 2019. An year later, Dr. Najma Khan died peacefully in her home on June 15. She was 88.
Dr. Najma Khan’s wisdom, kindness, unquestionable ethics, good intention and her humanitarian efforts made her the one everyone trusted. She was and will remain an inspiration for many.
Hyderabad: Telangana government is preparing to re-impose lockdown in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits. Chief Minister KCR convened a high-level meeting at Pragathi Bhavan on Sunday and took stock of rising coronavirus cases in Hyderabad.
It was decided in the meeting that strict measures are needed to curb the spread of coronavirus in Hyderabad which include compulsory imposition of lockdown. Chief Minister directed the officials to propose measures regarding re-imposition of lockdown. An emergency meeting will be called within three days to decide about the duration of lockdown and restrictions to be imposed.
Department of health and experts have proposed to be impose 15-day lockdown to control the situation in Greater Hyderabad. According to the press note issued by Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), final decision regarding the lockdown will be taken in the cabinet meeting.
Telangana is mulling to impose complete curfew and two hour relaxation is likely to be given to purchase essentials. Air and railway services are likely to be shut.
According to sources chief minister expressed concern over the spread of virus in greater Hyderabad. Experts have predicted that the country will see a peak in coronavirus cases during the month of July.
However, Chief Minister has asked the people not be scared of coronavirus because Government has made all possible arrangements to provide medical facility to the affected persons. Health minister E Rajender told that coronavirus is fast spreading in the country and cases are on the rise in Telangana as well. However, he said that the fatality rate in Telangana is less compared to national average so people need not worry. Health minister informed there are thousands of beds available in government and private hospitals to take care of coronavirus patients. Highly affected patients are being treated at the hospitals while those having mild symptoms are asked to quarantine themselves at their homes.
Special chief secretary Shanta Kumari presenting a report said the number of persons dying of coronavirus in the state is very less. The percentage of fatality on national level is 3.04 % while in Telangana the percentage is 1.52. Chief Minister told that Hyderabad is a metropolitan city and its population is nearly 1 crore.
Hyderabad: Greater Hyderabad Medical Shops Association has decided to shut down medical shops by 7:00 p.m. till July 15.
Amid rising cases of coronavirus in Greater Hyderabad limits, several medical shop owners and workers have contracted coronavirus. Medical shops association convened an emergency meeting to review the situation on Sunday. In the meeting, it was decided to close down the shops by 7:00 p.m. till July 15 as precautionary measure.
Association sources told that heavy crowd was witnessed to get the medicines on medical shops during the past one week. As preventive measures are not being followed, some medical shop owners and workers were also infected with the virus. In the light of this situation the association decided to shut the shops by 7 pm.
Hyderabad: Amid spurt in coronavirus cases in Greater Hyderabad limits, the government has left people on their own responsibility with regard to taking precautionary measures. But the surge in positive COVID cases has led many traders to opt for self-imposed lockdown in many areas of the city.
Following a spike in coronavirus cases during the past 3 days, less footfalls have been witnessed in markets especially in the new city and city outskirts. People have kept themselves away from business activities. People are scared of visiting local markets due to coronavirus in Malkajgiri and its surrounding areas. They feel that social distancing is difficult to be maintained in vegetable and grain markets which is the main cause of spread of virus.
Associations of colonies located in Malkajgiri and surrounding areas have advised people to take strict preventive measures while visiting weekly vegetable markets in their areas. Representatives of various associations called on Malkajgiri municipal commissioner and suggested to close the weekly vegetable markets until the situation gets better.
Residents of Malikarjun Nagar, Jyoti Nagar, Gopal Nagar, Gautam Nagar, Dayanand Nagar and Uttam Nagar have started avoiding weekly vegetable markets. Besides people are taking extraordinary precautions in purchasing fruits and grains. According to sources, nearly 150 vegetable and fruits vendors roam about the city and set up markets in various areas of the city. However, following rise in coronavirus cases the residents are avoiding visiting these markets.
Hyderabad: The number of corona virus cases has hit 180 persons, including 100 trainee Sub-Inspectors of Police, undergoing training at the Telangana State Police Academy (TSPA), after they tested positive for Covid-19 during the random testing.
The affected are undergoing treatment at Gandhi hospital and in other hospitals too, while a majority of them were under quarantine at the Academy premises.
According to the official sources, of the 180 people, 100 were trainee Sub-Inspectors who were undergoing training at the Academy after passing out in the exam conducted by the Telangana State Police Recruitment Board, while the remaining staff is working in the Academy.
Though efforts are on to provide treatment to the affected staff, while to control the spread of the virus, the scheduled training sessions were said to be postponed indefinitely.
Hyderabad: Indira Park, located at lower tank bund has been developed with a walking track and ‘Panchatatva Park’ in it by the Urban Bio-diversity wing of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
GHMC Mayor Bonthu Rammohan informed that the walking track is ready for inauguration. Soon Panchatatva parks will be developed in all zones of GHMC and also in other corporations and municipalities.
Panchatatva Park with an Accupressure Concept Based walkway is developed based on the five elements of the nature (Panchabhutas) which are Earth or Prithvi; Water or Jal ; Fire or Agni; Air or Vayu and then Ether or Akasha.
Each of these five elements has its own character and celestial elements.
The Panchatatva walk is a circular track developed using eight components to walk over this track. The eight components include a 20mm stone, 10mm stone, six mm chips, river stone, rough sand, tree bark, black soil (tank silt) and water.
The walking will be done from a very hard paining surface to smooth and relaxing component by which the blood circulation in the body improves curing several ailments of the body. This also helps the senior citizens and the persons who have knee joint pains and cannot walk for longer distances.
Photo By: Mohammed Hussain
Photo By: Mohammed Hussain
Photo By: Mohammed Hussain
Photo By: Mohammed Hussain
Photo By: Mohammed Hussain
There is a proposal to designed with an inner circle of radius at least five metres or more with a walking track around the circle with width 1.5 metres or more. The walkway is constructed with nine-inch high bricks and the curbing on both sides of the track as shown in the picture enclosed. The track is divided into eight equal parts and is filled with the components as mentioned above. The inner circle (encircled by walking track) is divided in to nine segments and the plants corresponding to Navagrahas are planted along with varieties of herbal plants in the boxes. People will feel and believe as they are doing Parikramas around the Navagrahas. The walking should be done on barefoot only. Further around the track, the plants related to Zodiac signs and Nakshatras are also placed as per the availability of the space.
In addition, a sculpture of Gouthama Budha will be will placed in the centre and a water cascade to create pleasant sounds and a peaceful environment in the area. Around the area, seating is also provided.
This Panchatatva track can be done in any area, open space, tree park or existing park. The rest of the area can be planted either with trees, shrubs or herbal plants can be converted into a park or tree park if done in an open space.
Apart from this, Infinity 8 shaped tracks with fixed measurements and direction are also developed which are known to be helpful in minimizing the diabetics. In this area varieties of medicinal and herbal plants which are in regular use at homestead are planted for educating the people.
The Panchatatatva parks are completed in Indira park, Krishna Kant park and Kakatiya Nagar Park are ready for inauguration. Similar parks are in progress in all zones and will be completed by July.
Hyderabad: A coalition of over 100 healthcare specialists have come together to launch Swasth, a nationwide tele-medicine platform for Corona care, which digitally connects Indians to the best doctors and wellness providers. Swasth is a swift response initiative promoted by the country’s health and technology leaders to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to leverage tele-medicine as a national priority in the current distress-afflicted times. The mobile app-based service leverages India’s technology prowess to deliver equal and affordable healthcare to 1.3 billion people, cutting across geographical and income divides.
This indigenous digital healthcare system is being launched at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged traditional service providers.
Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan,a p of the Swasth Governing Council, said, “Swasth has brought together the best of resources in the country to provide free healthcare to bring quick relief during the crisis. Swasth will work to further public health goals and work in coordination with the Medical Council, public health organizations, and the private sector to expand quality healthcare access to the masses. I firmly believe that this crisis is a great opportunity to re-invent healthcare delivery in India.”
Swasth facilitates seamless, remote interaction between registered medical practitioners and patients through multiple modes of video and telephony. Swasth deploys AI based triaging to determine the care required, culminating in a digitally signed prescription and treatment advice.
Along with the free consultations, Swasth will also provide services like home quarantine assistance, diagnostics, pharmacies, hospital bed discovery and booking assistance at a subsidized cost.
All doctors on the Swasth platform are duly verified and undergo specially designed training programs on tele-consultation and COVID-19 clinical protocols. Swasth is in full compliance with the industry-accepted cybersecurity norms for healthcare platforms. It uses a defense-in-depth approach to ensure that data is securely transmitted, stored, managed and accessed. Currently, the app supports consultation in Hindi, English and Gujarati and will be expanded to 25 Indian languages.
Swasth is the country’s first big push towards mass adoption of digital healthcare as a citizen empowering platform.
Dr Nachiket Mor, a member of the Governing Council, added, “Swasth is a unique non-profit coalition of members from multiple sections of the Indian healthcare ecosystem, including individual doctors, small and large hospitals, diagnostic labs, pharmacies, tele-medicine platforms, insurance companies, and healthcare-technology companies, who have joined hands with the goal of creating affordable healthcare for all Indians in every nook and corner of the country, so that they can immediately get the care that they need for this crisis, as well as for all their other healthcare needs. Swasth will do this by making it easy for patients to smoothly access the services they need from its members, and will also enable each of its members to provide a wide range of high quality services to their patients, by giving them access to protocols, technologies, and platforms that are best in class, completely interoperable, and fully compliant with the latest guidelines.”
Dr NK Jairam, a key member of the project team, said, “As we move on with the current Corona pandemic and with social distancing being one of the key remedies to eradicate it, tele-medicine is going to be an integral part of the healthcare system. Tele- consultation has been offered by doctors since the early 2000s, however, it has gained rapid momentum because of the current situation. With Swasth, tele-medicine will gain a boost which will empower patients to make quick decisions and also teach them self-care.”
Abheek Singhi, Senior Partner at BCG, and member of the project team for this initiative, said, “Swasth is a consortium of 70+ organizations and 200+ volunteers with a common goal of building a comprehensive COVID care platform in the short term and of leveraging technology to transform primary healthcare delivery in the medium term. This is the first time such a coalition like this has come together. BCG is privileged to be partnering with this alliance”
Swasth is created by a not-for-profit consortium of different players across healthcare providers, tele-health platforms, entrepreneurs, technology experts and doctors. Swasth received a grant of INR 10 crore ($1.3 million) from the ACT Grants, an umbrella platform of entrepreneurs and investors backing start-ups fighting the pandemic.
Hyderabad: Fake social media messages on mass burial triggered panic among residents of the Old City of Hyderabad. These messages make false claims that dozens of persons died due to COVID-19.
These claims are being circulated on WhatsApp and Facebook.
Fake audio message
In one of the audio messages, a claim was made that 10 persons died of COVID-19 in Barkas locality. Later, Advocate Abdullah Bahamed, a resident of the locality dismissed the rumours and said that the claim is false.
The advocate said that although, 10 persons died in the locality but none of them were COVID-19 positive.
Another fake claim
In another instance, a video message claim that in one day, 25 dead bodies buried at a graveyard at Dabeerpura. It is also claimed that all of them died of COVID-19.
Later, the claim was turned out to be a fake one.
Meanwhile, police have issued warning against spreading fake information on social media.
COVID-19 cases in Telangana
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 cases in Telangana surpassed 14,000 mark with 983 people testing positive.
The fresh cases pushed the state’s tally to 14,419. While 9,000 of them are undergoing treatment, 5,172 have been discharged including 244 on Sunday.
Hyderabad: In a gruesome incident a man allegedly killed two of his family members while critically injuring another in Salala Barkas under Chandrayangutta police station limits on Monday evening.
According to the sources the accused Ahmed Ba-Ismail who was earlier involved in killing of his wife Fatima Sadi in 2019, on Monday suddenly attacked four of his family members including three women folk resulting in the instantaneous death of two persons.
On the pretext of hosting a party the accused called three of his sisters Razia Begum,Zakira Begum and Noora Begum to his residence at Salala Barkas. \when two of them turned up he allegedly killed Razia and Zakira with Sharp edged weapons and fled from the scene.
That’s not all after killing them he went to another sister Noora’s home located at Nabeel colony under Balapur police station limits, where he attacked Noora Begum and her husband Omer Ba Hasan and severely injured them.
On coming to know about the incident Additional Commissioner of police Anil Kumar along with the ACP Falaknuma MA Majid visited the crime scene. Clues team and dog squad was also pressed into service. Initial investigation reportedly revealed that property dispute and other personal issued are behind the crime.
In 2019 he murdered his wife Fatima Sadi and he was arrested by the police later he came out on bail and the case is under trial.
Hyderabad: The government of Telangana may re-impose lockdown in Hyderabad due to a massive surge in coronavirus cases in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits.
Health Minister on lockdown in Hyderabad
On Monday, Health Minister Etela Rajender said that the decision will be taken by the Chief Minister of Telangana State, KCR after consultations.
He said that KCR is keeping an eye on the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the State and in the country.
Cabinet meeting will be held before taking any decision over the issue, the Minister added.
Experts’ views on lockdown in Hyderabad
After analyzing the prevailing situation due to COVID-19, medical experts are suggesting another 15-day lockdown in the GHMC limits.
CM’s statement
Earlier, the Chief Minister had said that there is no need to panic or entertain fear over the increase in the number of positive cases in the city as the government had made all arrangements to offer proper treatment to all the needy.
He had also said that people started moving around after the lockdown is lifted and this has led to the spread of the virus. In Chennai, the lockdown was re-imposed to contain the spread and other cities in the country are also thinking on these lines, the Chief Minister added.
Hyderabad: India has joined the ‘hot race’ to develop a potential COVID-19 vaccine with a significant announcement that a consortia has got regulatory approval to carry out human trials for COVAXIN, starting in July.
Bharat Biotech, the Hyderabad-based vaccine maker is leading the consortia consisting of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Pune-based, National Institute of Virology (NIV).
Inactivated vaccine
The SARS-CoV-2 strain was isolated in NIV, Pune and transferred to Bharat Biotech. The indigenous, inactivated vaccine has been developed and manufactured in Bharat Biotech’s BSL-3 (Bio-Safety Level 3) High Containment facility located in Genome Valley, Hyderabad.
In a statement, the consortia said, the Drug Controller General of India – CDSCO, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has granted permission to initiate Phase I & II Human clinical trials after the company submitted results generated from preclinical studies, demonstrating safety and immune response.
Human trials
The crucial human trials are scheduled to start across India in July 2020.
The Chairman and Managing Director of the Bharat Biotech, Dr Krishna Ella said with strong support from the consortia partners and Government, the entire development process was accelerated through national regulatory protocols.
The company deployed its full strengths in R&D, manufacturing and completed the comprehensive pre-clinical studies. The results are promising, show exhaustive safety and effective immune responses in laboratory studies, he added.
Bharat Biotech
Interestingly, Bharat Biotech is in collaboration with a University of Wisconsin in the development of another Vaccine too. It has extensive manufacturing facilities and is geared to produce millions of doses.
The company also came up with a vaccine for H1N1 or Swine Flu epidemic several years ago. It has also established one of the few BSL-3 containment facilities, which is a pre-requisite for the manufacture and testing of advanced vaccines.
In the bouquet of 16 Vaccines it has developed and markets, with necessary global regulatory approvals and WHO-pre-qualifications are the Polio, Rabies, Rotavirus, Japanese Encephalitis, Chikungunya and Zika.
There are more than a dozen Indian initiatives with Corporates and Research Institutes and at various stages of development.
Somasekhar Mulugu, former Associate Editor & Chief of Bureau of The Hindu BusinessLine, is a well-known political, business and science writer and analyst based in Hyderabad.
Hyderabad: Hamna Mariyam, a young woman diplomat of 2017 Indian Foreign Service (IFS) batch, joined the Indian Consulate General, Jeddah on Dec. 10, 2019 as the new consul of community welfare.
Family background
Daughter of a well-known doctor couple from Calicut in Malabar region of Kerala, Hamna chose a career other than medicine, and studied English language and literature from Ramjas College and obtained her master’s degree in the same discipline from Delhi University. While serving as asst. professor at Farook College, Calicut, she bagged the 28th rank in the Civil Services examination.
Hamna’s father is a renowned pediatrician Dr. T.P. Ashraf, former superintend of Calicut Medical College and former executive director of Kerala government’s Social Security Mission while her mother Dr. P.V. Jowhara is a physiologist at Calicut Medical College.
Mariyam married Abdul Muzammil Khan, an IAS officer of Telangana cadre of the same batch. Muzammil Khan is the youngest son of A.K. Khan, retired IPS officer and former Police Comissioner of Hyderabad.
First woman officer at CG Jeddah
Hamna assumed position in Consulate General, Jeddah after her tenure at the Indian Embassy in Paris where she had completed her French language training before leaving Europe in October this year.
Indian Consul General Mohammed Noor Rahman Sheikh had said Saudi Gazette that that he was very happy to have the first woman IFS officer joining the consulate team at a time when the centuries-old historic economic and socio-cultural ties between India and Saudi Arabia have touched new heights of strategic partnership.
Saudi Arabia is India’s 4th largest trade partner with a major source of energy.
Expressing her happiness to get an opportunity to serve the one-million strong Indian community in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia, Hamna said: “I see the community welfare as a major area where I can do a lot in serving the vibrant community in this part of the world.”
Hyderabadis and Malayalis constitute a lion’s share of Indian community in Saudi Arabia.
“Hamna is a very good combination of Malayali who married to someone from Hyderabad, as the Keralite and Telangana communities are the major communities in this part of the world. Hamna’s appointment would help in the consulate’s outreach programs and interaction with these communities at a time when the consulate is very actively reaching out to all segments of the Indian community,” Sheikh added.
Hyderabad: The novel Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on traditional Indian spring weddings, leaving legions of both Hindu and Muslim couples and especially the wedding organisers that includes caterers, function hall owners, convention centres owners, band masters, dishwashers, servers, vendors and wedding horse owners. Celebrations and their seasonal business orders of weddings are postponed or cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown.
Perhaps this year, the season of wedding business have been worse affected. Due to the pandemic, several businesses that made their money during the wedding season, which starts from March till December, are in dire straits.
Besides biryani and Irani Chai, Hyderabad is also known for its lavish weddings. As for people from various communities like Muslim, Hindu, Marvadi, Sikh, Jain, Yadav, and Agarwals, they spend lakhs of rupees on everything from matchmaking to makeup.
This lavish weddings supports thousands of labourers and working poor. This includes cooks, servers, band masters, wedding buggi, horse, and other lightings used for grand baraats. Many make their annual income usually during the wedding season. The cancellation of many big weddings during lockdown is an indication on how the pain is being felt by everyone.
Their wedding cancellation did not bode well for wedding horse owner Mohammed Aslam and the 15 or so wedding horse owners, band masters, laborers who hold stick light and petromax light in the baraat.
Aslam had received pre-bookings and he was planning to hire with a big hole. He also bought new beautiful horses for wedding season before the lockdown so that he could earn more money. But now Aslam and others who run several of these shops at Hoontwadi in Chudi Bazar are not even left with enough money to feed their horses and camels which they use for business purposes. They receive orders for weddings, festivals like Bonalu, Ram Navami juloos, Milad rallies, Alam rallies, and gyarwi rallies.
Aslam, owns a shop on the banks of Musi river, the area which was allotted by the wife of Nizam Umda Begum. This particular area was named as Hoontwadi as this area was a dedicated market for horses and camels. Speaking to siasat.com, Mohammed Aslam who is also a professional horse trainer said, “This year the season is a lost business opportunity of over five lakh rupees for us.”
Another wedding horse vendor, Mohammed Azam was planning to make his wedding horses ready for the baraat adorned with beautiful silver jewellery for his female white horse Jamna who his eight feet. He also prepared his staff of 10 laborers and 10 band masters with all new tunes to be played in weddings.
He has now has to slash the salaries of his staff and remove some his workers due to no bookings. Some how he had received food help for his 40 horses from Dr. Virendra Khwaja and Mrs. Rebica from Hyderabad Race Club.
The would-be groom Atif Khan and his fiance, Syeda Ayesha, were planning five full days of celebrations and ceremonies for more than 2,000 guests. The latter had a dream that his groom will come with big band baja baraat on a ghodi (female horse) and she will go in doli for the wedding.
“There is no business right now even after the relaxation several other local businesses have been reopened. But when will our business take off? Even we are sanitising our horses, buggies, dolis and making our band masters wear face masks mainataing social distancing showing to the customers but we are not receiving any orders for baraats,” he said.
“So we at Hoontwadi share the burden,” added Azam.
Yusuf Khan, a caretaker of 15 white horses, would have sent his horses for a big baraat had is keeping his horses in the shop as this and other bookings go by the wayside.
“This work is the only sole of my income”, said Mohammed Aslam who had been running a shop at Hoontwadi since three decades earlier his great grand father Jaani Bhai use to run this shop during the Nizams’ time. The pain rippled to these caretakers, their horses and the occasional elephant who makes appearances at Hyderabad traditional nuptials.
Nearly all wedding celebrations have been canceled this year or at least postponed.
“The scale and size of grand weddings will decrease and these are challenging times for the caretakers of horses at Hoontwadi,” said Mohammed Aslam.
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janta Party spokesperson and Grandson of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao today lashed out at AIMIM for terming him as BJP Prime Minister
Mr.Subhash said that calling PV Narasimha Rao as ‘BJP prime minister’ shows AIMIM’s narrow mindedness. When the whole country is paying homage to the departed legendary & versatile leader, the party (AIMIM) which taken birth in the soil of Telangana and its leaders are enjoying the fruits of PV’s economic reforms along with 1.3-crore Indian population, making such comments is ridiculous.
At least, it should pay respects to PV who was the loving son of the soil. The party should come out from the trance of religious zealotry he added.
Mr.Subhash said that the former Prime Minister Late P V Narasimha Rao had contributed for the development of the country through his economic policies as well as to his Congress Party. The Congress party which has century old history, and P.V. Narasimha Rao from his younger days contributed to the Party its leadership not only neglected him but did not even pay due respect to this great leader but Indian citizens irrespective of their political background and religion, always remembered him as a great visionary who had brought the country’s economy back to life from Intensive Care Unit he said.
The Entire country and world knew about the efficiency of the P V Narasimha Rao when he was Prime Minister. First of all he is an Indian citizen. He cannot be held responsible for demolition of Babri masjid, No matter if a section of community criticizes him. The issue of Babri Masjid is amicably settled by Supreme Court and where is the question of raking up the issue now he wondered?
Just because PV Narasimha Rao opposed the Nizam’s & Razakars rule in Hyderabad State & just because all parties including PM Modi started praising him for his contributions to the country Mr Owaisi wanted to criticise him for his own benefit & publicity.
HYDERABAD: The surge in COVID-19 cases in Telangana continued with 975 people testing positive on Monday, pushing the state’s toll to 15,394.
Health officials said the state also reported six deaths during the day, taking the toll to 253.
For the second day in a row, the number of cases came down marginally. On Sunday, 983 people had tested positive.
However, the positivity rate remained high. The number of tests on Monday was 2,648 against 3,227 on Sunday.
According to the director of public health and family welfare, the cumulative number of tests rose to 85,106.
As many as 410 people recovered during the day, taking the total number of recoveries to 5,582.
A total of 9,559 people are currently under treatment either at hospitals or at their homes.
Greater Hyderabad remained the worst-affected region accounting for 861 of the fresh cases. Rangareddy and Medchal districts bordering Hyderabad reported 60 cases. The remaining cases were reported from 13 districts.
The day saw Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali testing positive. He was admitted to a corporate hospital in Hyderabad. His condition is stated to be stable.
Deputy Speaker of Telangana Assembly T. Padma Rao also reported to have tested positive along with two children in his family. They were kept under home isolation.
Padma Rao is the fourth MLA from ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to test positive.
Also on Monday, a central team led by Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Health, Medical and Family Welfare, Luv Agarwal, visited COVID-19 designated hospitals in Hyderabad and interacted with top officials.
The central team suggested to the state to focus on containment measures, increasing testing capacity, tracing and clinical management in the state. An action plan for the next two months should be formulated keeping in view the likely increase in the cases.
The team visited Gandhi Hospital and the newly created Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS) in Gachibowli.
The panel also visited the containment area of Dhobigalli in Domalaguda and took stock of the ground level situation.
Later the team met the Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and other senior officers and held a detailed discussion on the steps to be taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The health department made a detailed presentation on the steps taken for COVID-19 management in the state. The team was briefed on the surveillance and containment measures, hospital preparedness, procurement of protection equipment and preventive measures.
The team was told that the state has a capacity of 17,081 beds. The government has recruited 4,489 additional staff to strengthen treatment. An amount of Rs 475.74 crores has been sanctioned towards strengthening medical infrastructure.
The central team shared their field visit experience of other states and expressed satisfaction particularly appreciated the hospital management in the state.
Hyderabad: Telangana Home Minister Mr Mohammed Mahmood Ali who tested positive for coronavirus has been shifted to a corporate hospital in Hyderabad.
According to sources, a team of doctors inspected Mr Mahmood Ali as he was not feeling well. Finding symptoms of COVID-19 they advised him to shift to the hospital.
Family members also test positive
Besides Mahmood Ali, his grandson Mohammed Furqan Ahmed has also tested positive for coronavirus. Both have been shifted to Apollo hospital where they are undergoing treatment under the supervision of expert doctors. Doctors informed that condition of both is stable and they will recover soon.
Home minister’s son Mohammed Azam Ali Khurram had been home quarantined after he developed corona symptoms. He was also shifted to Apollo Hospital yesterday night.
Gunmen tested positive
It must be recalled that five gunmen of home minister’s security staff were found corona positive last week. Despite that Mahmood Ali attended Haritha Haram programme. Staff of home minister has been home quarantined.
TRS MLAs contract coronavirus
It must also be noted that recently three TRS MLAs have also contracted coronavirus.
Leap in number of COVID-19 cases
There has been a quantum leap in the number of Covid-19 cases for the past one week or so. 975 people tested positive on Monday, pushing the state’s toll to 15,394.
Hyderabad: Efforts are on to change the name of yet another district of Telangana. Telangana government is likely to name Warangal Rural after the name of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.
Steps have begun to change the name of Warangal district which has historical significance and holds key position in Telangana state. The proposal came in the backdrop of the ongoing year-long centenary celebrations of PV Narasimha Rao which began on Sunday.
Birthplace of PVR
Amidst centenary celebrations, KCR government has decided to name the district after PVR. It is likely that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will announce this in a day or two. The birthplace of PV Narasimha Rao is Laknepalli Village which comes under present Warangal Rural district. Naming the district after PV Narasimha Rao is seen as an effort to honour the former prime minister.
During the process of reorganisation of districts in Telangana, old Warangal district had been divided into 6 districts including, Warangal (Urban), Warangal (Rural), Mahbubabad, Jaishankar Bhupalpalli, Jangaon and Mulug districts.
KCR also suggests naming HCU after PVR
Earlier K. Chandrasekhar Rao also urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to name Hyderabad Central University after former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.
Hyderabad: Supermarkets in Hyderabad see sales surge due to speculation over lockdown in the city. A large number of residents were also seen at ATMs, salons and wine stores.
People reported that they were left with no option but to stand in long queues at the supermarkets in Hyderabad. At some stores, people struggle to even find parking for their vehicles.
They were seen buying rice, wheat, oil, bread and other essential items from the stores.
People rush to supermarket in Hyderabad to buy items
It seems that people want to avoid last minute rush to buy items in case lockdown is imposed.
Meanwhile, the Health Minister of Telangana, E. Rajender made it clear that lockdown in Hyderabad will be imposed only after consultation. The decision over it will be made after a cabinet meeting, he added.
Experts’ views on lockdown in Hyderabad
Earlier, experts suggested that lockdown of 15 days must be imposed in GHMC limits due to rise surge in coronavirus cases.
On Monday, 975 people tested positive for coronavirus in Telangana State. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the state reached 15394.
The state also reported six deaths during the day, taking the toll to 253.
Greater Hyderabad remained the worst-affected region accounting for 861 of the total fresh cases. Rangareddy and Medchal districts reported 60 cases. The remaining cases were reported from 13 districts.
Hyderabad: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) issued notices to 695 beef and meat shops in Hyderabad. In the notice, the corporation instructed vendors to procure stamped beef and meat from the slaughterhouse of the corporation.
The beef and meat shops that received notices are located in six different zones of Hyderabad.
GHMC Chief Veterinary Officier, Abdul Wakil said that the aim of the corporation is to ensure that vendors purchase only stamped beef and meet from GHMC’s slaughterhouses.
He also said that action would be taken against the violators of rules and regulations.
