Naidu’s First Year: Bold Promises, Mixed Outcomes- Can He Sustain the Momentum

The push for larger families to counter declining fertility rates has sparked debate, with questions about its feasibility and alignment with modern demographic trends.

While Naidu’s tech-driven reforms and clean energy initiatives align with global trends, the opposition accuses him of unfulfilled poll promises and over-reliance on central support.

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World Environment Day Marked by rallies, Public Meetings in Hyderabad

Former MP and CPI Secretary Syed Azeez Pasha, also President of All India Tanzeem Insaf, addressed the crowd, noting India’s alarming deforestation rate, ranking second globally after Brazil. He cited the loss of 5.8 million trees between 2019 and 2022, with an 11% reduction in fully grown trees. Telangana, he added, lost 11,422 hectares of forest land from 2014 to 2024, the highest in South India.

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‘Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project never came up for cabinet approval’

Tummala clarified that the cabinet sub-committee, in which he participated during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) regime, was not specifically tasked with the Medigadda Barrage or the Kaleshwaram project. Instead, its mandate was to address pending irrigation projects across the state, including Pranahita, Devadula, Kanthalapalli, and Tupakulagudem. “The sub-committee was formed after the sanction of Kaleshwaram and had no role in approving or submitting any report on the Kaleshwaram barrages,” the minister stated, dismissing Eatala’s claims as baseless.

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Gulzar Houz fire: Safety Gaps in over 400-year old city exposed

he devastating fire at Gulzar Houz near the iconic Charminar claimed 17 lives, including eight children, on May 18, laying bare critical safety issues in the over 400-year-old Old City. The blaze, suspected to have been triggered by an electrical short circuit, engulfed a three-story building housing Srikrishna Pearls on the ground floor and residential units above, trapping occupants in a narrow, smoke-filled structure.

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