HBS-TOI cultural extravaganza this weekend

Edit The Times of India 31 Jul 2016
Hyderabad ... The event, organised by the Hyderabad Bangalee Samity (HBS) in association with The Times of India, will see Bharatnatyam danseuse Anita Mullick and her troupe from Kolkata, Saraswat Sanskriti Kendra, perform on Saturday ... The Hyderabad Bangalee Samity, the oldest organisation established by the Bengali community of Hyderabad, is in its platinum jubilee year....

Syrian activists: Hospital bombed in Daraa province

Edit Austin American Statesman 31 Jul 2016
Syrian activists say a hospital in the southern province of Daraa has been damaged in an airstrike and put out of service....

Kanhaiya may hold all India convention for 'Rohit Vemula Act'

Edit The Times of India 31 Jul 2016
Hyderabad, Jul 31 () JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been leading a movement demanding justice for Dalit research scholar Rohit Vemula, today said they may organise an all India convention on 'Rohit Vemula Act' in Delhi or Hyderabad ... We will also plan an all India convention on Rohit Vemula Act either in Delhi or Hyderabad," said Kumar, who is in the city to participate in a seminar....

The tale of Turram Khan

Edit The Hindu 31 Jul 2016
While “Quli” has already seen several productions across the world, “Turrebaz Khan” will be premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, before travelling to London and then returning to Hyderabad ... There is a slang in Hyderabad folklore, a positive one — “Turram Khan” ... After a year, he escaped, and then was caught in the forest of an area called Toopran, near Hyderabad....

Seminar in Hyderabad to educate youth about perils of ISIS

Edit The Times of India 31 Jul 2016
Hyderabad, Jul 31 () As security agencies grapple with rising trend of youth coming under influence of Islamic State, a seminar-cum-interactive session is being organised here next week to discuss ways to wean away people from the violent and ultra conservative ideology of the terror group ... In June-end, NIA busted a module in Hyderabad whose members allegedly owed allegiance to ISIS....

Advocates JAC leaders taken into custody

Edit The Hindu 31 Jul 2016
A vehicle passing from Karimangar to Hyderabad rammed the agitating advocates, resulting in injury to Prasad, a senior advocate of High Court ... “If at all the government is interested in constructing the reservoir, why don’t they come and hold discussions with us in our village instead of getting villagers shifted to other places like Gajwel, Siddipet or Hyderabad....

Brother-in-law of IS leader al-Baghdadi said killed in Iraq

Edit Topix 31 Jul 2016
Some 13 senior Islamic State figures, including the brother-in-law of the terror group's leader, were killed in an airstrike in Iraq, the Iraqi joint operations command reported on Saturday. The airstrike on Friday in the Iraqi town of al-Qaim in Anbar province, near the border with Syria and some 400 km northwest of the capital Baghdad, killed ......

Hyderabad: Husbands sudden death saddeded wife, children end life

Edit Deccan Chronicle 31 Jul 2016
Hyderabad ... Satyanarayana, 53, who was working as in-charge divisional engineer in the housing department in Adilabad district, his wife Meerabai, 50, and children Swathi, 33, Neelima, 28, and Sivaramakrishna, 22, were going to Hyderabad in their car ... “In shock they drove towards Hyderabad, left the body in the car and jumped before a train,” GRP inspector A....

Kanhaiya Kumar may hold all India convention for 'Rohit Vemula Act'

Edit DNA India 31 Jul 2016
JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been leading a movement demanding justice for Dalit research scholar Rohit Vemula, on Saturday said they may organise an all India convention on 'Rohit Vemula Act' in Delhi or Hyderabad ... We will also plan an all India convention on Rohit Vemula Act either in Delhi or Hyderabad," said Kumar, who is in the city to participate in a seminar....

Protesting ABVP activists caned in Karimnagar

Edit The Hindu 31 Jul 2016
The decision of the government to cancel EAMCET – 2 and the leakage of question paper invited protests from student bodies on Saturday ... Protests in Hyderabad. Hyderabad Special Correspondent writes. Meanwhile in Hyderabad, Telugu Nadu Students’ Federation (TNSF) and All India Students’ Federation (AISF) staged separate protests demanding removal of Mr. Laxma Reddy and Mr ... Madhusudhan Reddy requested Governor E.S.L ... ....

Engineer dies; wife, 3 children commit suicide

Edit The Times of India 31 Jul 2016
HYDERABAD ... He went near the vehicle and found a man inside it. The gangman knocked on the car door, but their was no response ... He passed away even as his family, in a last minute effort, was bringing him to Hyderabad from Hanamkonda, where they lived, to get him treated ... The family, after a few hours, left in their car along with Satyanarayana's body and, instead of returning to Hanamkonda, drove towards Hyderabad ... RELATED....

Works that stand out

Edit Deccan Chronicle 31 Jul 2016
An art piece by Sumanto that is on display ... Stunning ... “On closer inspection you will find that the insides of the auto has paintings of the landscape of Hyderabad. I love the sights and sounds of Hyderabad and that is what I have translated into my work,” he explains ... From the cows that are decorated during Sankranti to a simple every day chores, you will find glimpses of Hyderabad in each and every work of mine.”. ....

HMR trashes reports of cracks on Metro pillars

Edit The Times of India 31 Jul 2016
Hyderabad. With the circulation of news and photographs in the social media about cracks on metro rail pillars at Kukatpally, the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) managing director NVS Reddy has clarified that the news is totally false and those with vested interests are circulating this ......
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