1. Paging for unused pages

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    An interesting and a very important initiative by the DM Foundation in Secunderabad. All it asks you to do is not to throw away unused pages from notebooks. Instead, it requests you to donate them to DM Foundation. The intention is to bind them and distribute them to the ones...
  2. Carry on Doctor

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    When you turn 57 and move towards the next day, a system that performed well all these years can begin to send signals. The wild and the adventurous overlook a calendar at their own risk. All machines have a lifetime. Some stand by their warranty, some outlast, some succumb. So...
  3. Hyderabad’s 12000 sky lanterns

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    Hyderabad entered the Guinness Book of World Records when 12000 sky lanterns were released by over 8000 people on Sunday during the Annual Sky Lantern festival. In the process, Hyderabad broke the world record of sky lanterns which was held by Indonesia with 10318 lanterns. These pictures on TSR courtesy...
  4. No vacancy at Chanchalguda

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    Chanchalguda Prison authorities have told the Anti Corruption Bureau that there is no more space for undertrials at the jail in Hyderabad and therefore not to send any more accused there. This is because as opposed to its capacity of 600, already 675 inmates are sharing space. And this includes...
  5. Morning, Necklace Road and Cycling

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    Hyderabad’s 3 km long Necklace Road is to turn a cycling and pedestrian zone between 5 and 7 am, starting March 18. The initiative, jointly promoted by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and Hyderabad Bicycling Club, is called `Bicyclone’. In the run-up to the International Biodiversity Conference to be...
  6. Now, Hyderabad to have a super cop

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    Even as the debate whether to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh or not to continues, there has been a huge decision in the way policing will take place now in Hyderabad and Cyberabad. Changing the present system of a police commissioner for Hyderabad and another for Cyberabad, now a new post of...
  7. Museums – Souls of the city

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    Ever since my shifting to Hyderabad, I have developed a rather dispassionate attitude to look at my new home town in a very non-complicated and matter of fact kind of approach to understand it in its entirety. One is able to compare notes on cities and their development and look...
  8. Hyderabad airport wins National Tourism award

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    GMR Hyderabad International Airport has been awarded the prestigious National Tourism Award (2010-11) under the Best Airport category. The airport has been adjudged as the best airport in India for actively promoting tourism, not only in Andhra Pradesh but also at the pan India level. This is the second successive...

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