Is Telangana CM KCR Redrawing New State's District Boundaries To Fix His Political Opponents?

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE
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There’s criticism that the state's 14 new districts are being decided on the Telangana chief minister’s whims instead of on a scientific study.

Two years after being carved out of united Andhra Pradesh, Telangana is feeling division pangs once again.

On Friday, a highway blockade that was started by people agitating for a separate district in Telangana got out of hand when the protestors, realising that their demands may not be met, damaged two buses and set one on fire.

'Climate Change Warming Asian Waters, Altering Monsoon'

By LIKHAVEER | INNLIVE

Each year as temperatures rise across India, farmers look to the sky and pray for rain. The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 per cent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds and harvest their crops.

But getting the forecast right remains a challenge, thanks to the complex — and still poorly understood — ways in which South Asia's monsoon rains are influenced by everything from atmospheric and ocean temperatures to air quality and global climate trends. Even the amount of ice in Antarctica is suspected to have an impact.

Hyderabad MP & AIMIM Supremo Asad Owaisi Promised 'Legal Aid To Terror Suspects', Why To Single Him Out?

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE

It seems a certain section of the media has forgotten that the concept of 'innocent until proven guilty' is enshrined in our legal system.

Asaduddin Owaisi, of the AIMIM, declared on Friday that he will provide legal aid to the five men arrested for by NIA in Hyderabad for allegedly being

Special Report: How Tourism Is Putting The World’s Poorest Places On The Map?

By NIKHIL ARORA | INNLIVE

Slum tourism is broadly rejected as morally dubious and voyeuristic. But we should take a second look.

Back in Victorian times, wealthier citizens could sometimes be found wandering among London’s poorer, informal neighbourhoods, distributing charity to the needy. “Slumming” – as it was called – was later dismissed as a morally dubious and voyeuristic pastime. Today, it’s making a comeback; wealthy Westerners are once more making forays into slums – and this time, they’re venturing right across the developing world.

Success Story: This Indian E-Commerce Startup Has Reached Over A Million Indian Villagers

By LIKHAVEER | INNLIVE

While logistics is turning out to be one of the biggest challenges for e-commerce companies across the country, a Bengaluru-based e-commerce startup is trying hard to tap into the rural customer base.

Meet StoreKing. Founded by Sridhar Gundaiah in 2012, the company has harnessed the power of vernacular languages to introduce e-commerce to over a million villagers in the last three years.

Gujarat's Ageing Villages: How Distress Migration In Drought-Hit Gujarat Is Leaving The Old Behind?

By AREFA JOHARI | INNLIVE

With no jobs and deep in debt, those who haven’t migrated are selling their land, gold to repay loans and buy seeds and fertilisers for the new sowing season.

Jiviben and Deviben are wrinkled, stooping and hard of hearing. They both say they are around 80 years old. They are neighbours and live in similar decrepit huts on the margins of Vijarkhi village in Gujarat’s drought-hit Jamnagar district.

Telugu Desam Party Supremo & AP CM Chandrababu Naidu, Still Loyal To NDA For Now Even As Discontentment With Narendra Modi Grows

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

TDP Supremo Chandrababu Naidu was rarely seen without a laptop in the last years of his previous term as the Andhra Pradesh chief minister. Once, when I called him 'Laptop' Naidu, he took it as a compliment. He constantly monitored sundry schemes on a laptop and exuded supreme confidence that he would sweep the 2004 elections. He lost. And it took him 10 years to return as the CM.

Naidu is a changed man now. It's not because, instead of a laptop, he now has an iPad as a constant companion and he talks of 'iCloud' and 'file-sharing' to review his government's work.

Crime: Has Chennai Become Murder Capital Of India?

By SRIVANI SHETTY | INNLIVE

A rash of murders has Chennai residents on the edge. 

Divided they fought the May 16 assembly election and united they suffered a humiliating defeat. Now the entire opposition parties in Tamil Nadu agree on one issue. There is a total breakdown in the law and order scene in Tamil Nadu. Murders and mayhem has become the order of the day. All reached a flashpoint last Friday when Chennai woke up to a bloody morning with the news of a gruesome murder of 24-year-old Swathi, a software engineer, who was waiting for a suburban train at the crowded Nungambakkam Railway Station. Six days after the murder which shocked the entire nation, the Tamil Nadu police is groping in the dark for any clues.