COVID-19: How ‘Confarm’ is leading the way in Telangana

A unique initiative titled Consumer-Farmer Compact in the state is ensuring food availability and access in COVID-19 times   

‘They stole my womb’: Doctors mislead thousands of women to get their uterus removed

DTE found most women who have undergone hysterectomy to be under 30, not needing the surgery

Opinion: PM-KISAN is a sop to farmers in an election year

 Centre's money transfer scheme worth Rs 6,000 a year has left out landless agricultural labourers

Telangana’s revised District Mineral Foundation Rules to increase political interference

The amendment to the Rules has taken away the right of people to participate in making decisions on a fund meant for them

When wasteland bears fruits

Chikapalli Anasuyamma has transformed over two dozen wastelands into forests in Telangana

Maharashtra, Telangana sign pact on Godavari irrigation projects amid protests

Building barrages upstream of the Godavari River might prove disastrous for the farmers in Andhra Pradesh

2015’s global milk crisis threatens small farmers in India

As the Indian government tries to aggressively integrate the dairy sector into the global market, the lives and livelihoods of small …

'Development in Telangana should be participatory'

Eminent economist and former Planning Commission member, C H Hanumantha Rao, speaks to M Suchitra on the aspirations of people of Telangana. Rao …

Centre dilly dallies on Telangana

Hyderabad crippled as stir intensifies

दक्षिण भारत में तेजी से बंजर हो रही है उपजाऊ भूमि

2011 से 2013 के बीच आंध्र प्रदेश, कर्नाटक और तेलंगाना में इन राज्यों के कुल भौगोलिक क्षेत्र का क्रमशः 14.35, 36.24 और 31.40 प्रतिशत ...

Indian states’ implementation of plastic ban a mixed bag

Tamil Nadu is the latest entrant to the band of Indian states that have banned single-use plastics; here’s a status update on all of them

Northeast Monsoon has a slow start

Most regions, including coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Kerala, southern Karnataka and Tamil Nadu recorded rainfall deficit from …

Stimulus that can spoil the milk sector

Karnataka government's financial stimulus to its dairy cooperative is benefitting 2.5 million farmers, but can destabilise the national market

Millets make a comeback in rural areas

Pilot projects in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha are aimed at initiation of millets in the dietary consumption pattern

Telangana Bill: MPs disrupt Parliament proceedings, 17 suspended

One MP took out a knife in the Lok Sabha and another used pepper spray, say media reports

Suicide by pesticide

After the failure of the cotton crop, a large numbers of farmers in Andhra Pradesh are committing suicide by consuming the very pesticide that is …

Telangana pushing for organic farming, but focus is now on giving respite to farmers

Telangana's Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister, Jupally Krishna Rao, says his government is offering loan waiver and subsidies to farmers

Now, Hyderabad joins list of places suffering from severe water crisis

There is a gap of 47 per cent between demand and supply of water in the city

Are smaller states better off?

Government data shows Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand, which were carved out of larger states, have not performed as well as their parent …

Centre flouts norms to allow Polavaram construction to resume

Mandatory public hearings are still pending in Odisha and Chhattisgarh

Killer heat wave engulfs Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

Local media reports say that, in all, more than 300 people have died due to the weather in both states

Bird flu: About 300,000 chicken culled in Telangana

Government issues alert and sends advisory to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh

The Pellipadugu Declaration on Food Sovereignty

Adivasi, dalit, pastoralist and peasant communities declare food security can only be met through Food Sovereignty

Deadly promise

Poll promise to waive crop loan led farmers to default and incur debt in the nascent Telangana state. About 100 of them commit suicide

Telangana CM woos industrialists, eyes global investments for growth

Promises best policies, land and tax exemptions; Sania Mirza appointed state's brand ambassador