Hyderabad: Nearly 12 lakh people, enough to rank as the state’s 10th largest community, identified themselves as ‘No Caste’ in the Telangana Socio-Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey released on Wednesday night.It shows that this group of 11,96,482 people or 3.4% of the population project themselves as caste neutral, but nearly half of…
Tirupati: Eight persons were killed and 13 others injured after their vehicle collided head-on with a fly-ash truck in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of Thursday. Police suspect the driver of the mini pick-up in which the victims were travelling may have dozed off.The victims were part of 21 pilgrims from…
Hyderabad: A political slugfest broke out during the Lok Sabha debate on the delimitation bill on Thursday after remarks by Karnataka BJP MP Tejasvi Surya triggered a strong backlash from Telangana leaders, reigniting sensitivities associated with bifurcation of united Andhra Pradesh.During the discussion, Surya criticised the former UPA govt’s legacy, claiming the bifurcation of united…
Hyderabad: With the Telangana govt finally making the fine print of its caste survey public, the data has revealed that 29% of the state’s welfare benefits go to relatively better-off castes. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes remain the most deprived social groups in the state, but high-budget, land-linked schemes such as Rythu Bharosa are not…
Hyderabad: In Telangana’s evolving education landscape, language has quietly become one of the sharpest lines of inequality. The SEEEPC Survey-2024 and Independent Experts Working Group report shows that access to English medium education — now closely tied to jobs and upward mobility — rises with caste advantage and drops steeply among the most marginalised communities.At…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Thursday stayed the implementation of a Lok Adalat award concerning a 90-acre land dispute in Medchal Malkajgiri district and directed private parties claiming ownership to file their counters.The land at Kapra, now valued at hundreds of crores, was notified as displaced persons’ land in 1966. However, private individuals later approached…
Hyderabad: BJP floor leader Alleti Maheshwar Reddy on Wednesday alleged that chief minister A Revanth Reddy is opposing delimitation to get into the good books of the Gandhis and secure the post of national Congress president. He claimed that the delimitation exercise would increase the representation of southern states.“The Congress is acting with a colonial…
Hyderabad: BJP Yuva Morcha organised a scooty rally in the city on Wednesday in support of the Women’s Reservation Bill. The rally, which began at Narayanguda and proceeded to the assembly, saw the participation of hundreds of women, including members of the BJP Telangana Mahila Morcha and youth activists. BJP state president N Ramchander Rao…
Done: arunHyderabad: Despite the claims of development, stark gaps in basic living conditions across communities in Telangana have come into sharp focus. An analysis by the Independent Experts Working Group (IEWG) of the state’s Socio-Economic, Educational, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) Survey-2024 paints a troubling picture of deprivation, particularly among Scheduled Tribes (STs), with significant…
Hyderabad: At least 35 to 40 undergraduate students of Gandhi Medical College (GMC) fell sick at the boys’ hostel, allegedly due to contaminated drinking water.The students experienced symptoms such as diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting for over a week, but the issue came to light only on Wednesday. Most of the affected students were treated at…
