Metro rail passengers are going to get Free internet access. On Thursday, Sugar Box Networks connectivity brought up this facility and Hyderabad Metro Rail trains along with the metro stations. HyperLocus Edge has partnered with cloud-based technology designer SugarBox Networks and L&amp;T Metro Rail to enhance digital connectivity.To this end, Hyderabad Metro Rail has become the first public transport system in the country to offer its passengers the opportunity to download and stream content for free without any internet connection. With this, you can find content in the fields of entertainment, education, e-commerce, and fintech."This new facility will make the travel more comfortable," Rohit Paranjpe, Co-Founder, and CEO, Sugar Box Networks said. "The facility is available only in Hyderabad Metro. The availability of such services will become a testimony for the Smart City of Hyderabad," L&amp;T MRHL MD and CEO, KVB Reddy said.

Free Internet on Metro Trains

A family has committed suicide at BHEL near Hyderabad due to financial difficulties. The wife committed suicide along with her children after learning that her husband had committed suicide. A man named Chandrakath committed suicide in BHEL Tellapur Vidyut Nagar. When the wife found out about her husband's suicide, she jumped into a nearby lake with her children and committed suicide.Chandrakanth works as a software engineer in TCS. His finances have gone bad due to COVID-19. Chandrakanth has been in debt in recent times. There have been conflicts between the wife and husband in recent times over debts. They even had a spat on Thursday. Lavanya took the children and left the house after the altercation. Chandrakant immediately committed suicide by hanging himself in his house. Lavanya also committed suicide after learning about this.Chandrakanth started the construction of a house in Vamby Colony near Vidyut Nagar. Chandrakant's wife Lavnya's parents paid Rs. 40 lakhs. Chandrakanth is struggling to manage the remaining expenses with her salary. With this, Chandrakant asked his parents for money to build a house. However, his parents refused to give him the money. There was a commotion in the house over this matter.After this issue, Lavanya took her children and left home. Chandrakant committed suicide due to grief. However, Lavanya, who had left home, called the neighbors shortly after. However, Chandrakantj had already died. Neighbors informed Lavanya about the same. Lavanya committed suicide along with her two children in a lake in Andhole. Lavanya is a resident of Kamareddy District while Chandrakanth is from Zaheerabad district.

Financial Issues: TCS Employee And Family Commits Suicide

There are around 1,200 software companies in Hyderabad which have around six Lakh employees working in them. All these employees have been working from home for more than a year thanks to the COVID-19. Due to the pressure from the government to revive the economy, companies have slowly started calling employees to the offices.While a few offices are already calling the employees to offices in batches, most of them were expected to work from offices by January 2022. But then, the Omicron variant scare may have changed the plan. Employees are reluctant to come to the offices due to the prevailing uncertainty. Companies do not have any objection to employees working from home.In fact, WFH has proved to be beneficial for the companies as the productivity increased and the maintenance costs have come down. They have started calling employees only upon the pressure of the Government. With another wave threat, they see no reason to take the risk and so, the offices' re-opening is further delayed. The offices which have already opened are also going easy on the employees and not considering the attendance.

IT Companies Back To Work From Home!

The Hyderabad is bound to crash by March 2022, says Dr. Y Kiron, the chief executive officer of SuchirIndia Group. After the much-hyped stories about Hyderabad’s realty being on top in terms of sales during the pandemic, now appears to be the time for downslide. The realtors are warning prospective buyers of the loopholes of the newly developed ULS (undivided land share) scheme by some realtors.Today, Hyderabad is sitting on an inventory of 58,535 units, which is the largest in the country. The figure is in sync with the data released by Anarock Property Consultants as of September 30. During this time, the market was able to sell about 6735 units leading to an oversupply in the market.According to Prashant Thakur, director of Anarock Property Consultants, Hyderabad happens to be the only city in India with the highest available inventory, and new supply over the past few quarters has increased the city’s available inventory by 113 percent as compared to the same period in the previous year.Another development that is bound to hit the realty market hard is the ULS concept, through which a realtor will sell the undivided land share to prospective buyers, mostly locals flush with cash and NRIs. Without realizing the repercussions and legal outcome, the buyers of such land invest in it, only to realize that if the realtor does not build on the property, then they are legally liable to buyers of flats already sold on paper. While such developments lead to the correction of the market, C Sekhar Reddy, past national president of CREDAI, has his own reservations on the issue. He says while the past records show correction once in 10 years, in Hyderabad, nothing has happened since 2008.Many established realtors warn investors in ULS that they would be in neck-deep trouble if, for any reason, the builder fails to construct the project completely. They give the example of Noida, where ULS was used to the hilt, and many suffered even when leading builders left projects uncompleted.However, there are others like Vishal Srivastav of Mahavir Constructions who are optimistic about the prospects of the city’s realty market. However, they warn that investors must do their homework about the builder before putting their money in a flat or villa.

Will Hyderabad Realty Market Crash by March 2022?

Once again, it is that time of the year when the pandemic is making people turn to online shopping portals to purchase and send gifts to their near and dear ones. And this is also that time, which online crooks have been waiting so that they can trick festival shoppers into clicking on shady links and stealing their cash or data.<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/nbn-engine/uploads/afe46714e7803e4ce085691e5c30a09d16a3e277.jpg" alt=""> Since many people depend on online shopping due to the pandemic, the situation has been getting worse. As a result, most cybercrime agencies across the globe have been issuing repeated warnings for shoppers. While similar warnings were issued ahead of the Cyber Monday and Black Friday shopping events, the warnings now are aimed at the Christmas and New Year shopping festivals.The agencies state that one common tactic used by these fraudsters was fake websites of popular portals. The fake ones imitate the real websites very closely and advertise products at cheap prices to attract victims. The victim never receives the item they paid for, in most cases. One of the most crucial things agencies stressed was asking people to research before online shopping. Looking for online reviews of the website or person you are buying from and checking the seller’s feedback history were utmost important precautionary measures.

Festival Shoppers Beware of Cyber Fraudsters

It’s raining start-ups in Hyderabad, and the best part is most of them are being successful in raising seed funding from angel investors and other investing sources. Now, an educational start-up (edtech) company that helps youngsters to gain access to technology skills has managed to raise $2.8 million or approximately Rs 20 crore in funding. <a href="https://www.ccbp.in/">Nxtwave</a>, the ed start-up, was started during the pandemic in September 2020 and has been self-funding so far.Founded by IIT Mumbai, IIT Kharagpur, and IIT Hyderabad alumni – Sashank Reddy Gujjula, Anupam Pedarla, and Rahul Attuluri, respectively, NxtWave offers online cohort-based programs and courses in the industry 4.0 tech careers. The start-up aims to produce 1 million new-age developers every year, as per the company media release.As for the newly acquired funds, the company intends to use them for expanding its team, accelerating product development, and penetrating further in the existing markets to scale the revenue within one year.In the past six months, over 250 companies hired NxtWave graduates and these included industry giants like Google, Jio, etc. The start-up has a student community of 2,00,000+ students from over 3000 colleges and presently has customers from 250+ districts, with more than 85 percent of them coming from non-metros and rural areas.The top three founding members believe that digital pedagogy must be radically different for small-town India to create transformative learning experiences. They say their graduates are in successful high-paying tech jobs, despite having started from non-engineering background hailing from non-metros, and without any programming skills in the past.

City-based Edtech Start-up Raises Rs 20 Cr Funding

CommLab India happens to be a Hyderabad-based e-learning solutions company that has hit a new milestone in its journey. Since its inception in 2000, the company, run by Dr. Ayesha Habeeb Omar, COO and co-founder, and DR RK Prasad, has been into providing free food to the underprivileged. This year marks 21 years of their company, and they plan to distribute food to 21,000 people. Hyderabadi biryani and Double ka Meetha will be cooked, packed, and distributed by its employees.On December 2, 2021, the process began at 3 am when 150-200 of CommLab employees came together and started cooking for the landmark event in the journey of the company. The employees will be cooking 5000 to 6000 kg of chicken and 4200 kg of rice. They will make 23 cycles of biryani, and each cycle will cater to 900 people. The entire event is spread across December 2 and December 3 and will involve 24 hours of non-stop cooking with 20 stoves. The cooking will take place at Banjara Function Hall in Masab Tank.Ayesha Habeeb Omar shares that since their inception, they have been involved in providing food to the needy. When they first started, they started by giving out 25 packets. Slowly as their operations spread out, they started giving out 500 to 1000 to 2000 packets, and last year they provided food to 7500 under-privileged people in the city.And this year, CommLabs has already identified 3000 orphanages in twin cities and some 3500 roadside people, and 1500 people through madrasas. It will give food to 10,500 people in slums. The company has been planning for the event since November 19, and it will feed 10,000 people on December 2 and 11,000 people on December 3, 2021. They have also sought the help of a few NGOs and orphanages to help them in the process.

CommLab Celebrates 21 years of Free Food Distribution With a Mega Event

Probably in a rather unique concept for Hyderabad, here is a restaurant that has been set up by women for women. Barring the watchman, everyone at the place is a woman, right from the women who run the place to those working at the place. Situated in Tolichowki, the owners of <a href="https://twitter.com/pearlssquare">Pearls Square</a> intend to provide a happy space where women can be themselves and talk and laugh freely.Pearls Square is the brainchild of Abida Fatima, who started the place with two other friends. While Abida and another partner are single mothers, the others at Pearls Square have supportive families that assist them to strike a balance between work and home.The ground floor has a cafe and catering service, while the first floor has a gym and workstation. The terrace happens to be an open space for get-togethers and parties. In short, the place, as the owners say, is a ‘fulcrum for women by women.’40-year-old Abida, who happens to be the resident of Khader Bagh, says women seldom get space in the house to sit down and laugh with friends or other women in the family. The situation is worse in apartments where the space for movement is less. So, Pearls Square provides them the much-needed space to chill and relax.Also, in keeping with today’s requirements, there are workstations that women can book to suit work from home option. In fact, having started during the pandemic, the going was not smooth for women entrepreneurs. But things turned better when they got a catering order for a quarantine home for which they had to give breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner.So, the women had to learn on their feet, and this helped them tide the tough times. Now, they are cheerful owners of a space where women and girls come and chill.

By Women for Women – Chill at Pearls Square in Tolichowki

DGP M Mahender Reddy launched DOPAMS in the city that has been developed by the state’s counterintelligence (CI) cell for profiling, monitoring, and analysis of cases booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Act, 1985. It is known that many in the city are worried about the increasing drug menace in the city and how easily some prohibited drugs are available in the city.In fact, Telangana CM KCR also held a high-level meeting and announced an out-and-out war against the drug menace on October 20. As a part of their crackdown on peddling and consumption of drugs in the city, Telangana police have introduced DOPAMS or Drug Offenders Profiling, Analysis and Monitoring System. DOPAMS happens to be software dedicated to up the war against drug trafficking.The software has been built on the data available on Crime and Criminal Tracking Network &amp; Systems (CCTNS). Already police have been cracking down on marijuana abuse and other drugs in a big way. Hundreds of FIRs have been filed, and many offenders are now behind bars. Despite all this, keeping track of offenders and their networks has turned out to be a major challenge to investigators.The DGP during the launch made it clear that the new software enables investigating officers to build, update and search profiles of known drug offenders. The software will help the investigating officer with all data regarding a person or a gang, their modus operandi, hot spots of drug peddling, cultivation, and supply. The software also keeps updating new information to keep the database up to date.Meanwhile, Telangana police have been under high pressure from activists that poor people are being harassed by police in the name of checks. However, Hyderabad police have denied all charges.

State Police Launches DOPAMS to Aid in its War Against Drugs

The administration is gearing up to fight Omicron - the new variant of Coronavirus if the need arises. Hyderabad Airport is put on alert. Those coming from the at-risk countries on the list announced by the central government will be tested for RT-PCR at airports and will move to TIMS if positive.It was decided to provide treatment there for all patients until the variant is determined. <a href="https://pages.razorpay.com/mapmygenome-covid">Mapmygenome</a> India Limited is providing the testing facility in the airport. But the passengers are complaining about fleecing in the name of COVID tests. RT-PCR is being charged 999 Rupees at the airport but the Report time is Six hours.So, that is useless for the passengers unless they are ready to wait for so long. If the report is needed in two hours, an additional amount of 3501 Rupees should be paid which makes the total 4,500 Rupees. The website for Pre-booking the COVID test says the reports may be slightly delayed even after that due to a surge in testing. People are demanding that the Government should immediately intervene and control the prices.

Fleecing In The Name Of COVID Tests In Hyderabad Airport

The Telangana police, which has a strong focus on cannabis smuggling, is witnessing eye-popping facts. Police until now believed marijuana is only coming from across the border. But in the heart of Hyderabad, they are shocked to learn that cannabis plants are grown in flower pots and sold too.A gang is growing cannabis plants at a house in April in Secunderabad. The man is cultivating cannabis by setting up seven large flower pots at home. From time to time, the leaves from these plants are collected, processed, and sold in Hyderabad.It has been going on for more than a year and was recently raided by the police. The flower pots were destroyed and all the members of the gang were arrested. All the arrested members are employees. On the one hand, they are doing small jobs and on the other hand, are growing cannabis plants at home like this as a side business.Another similar incident took place in Shamshabad two days ago. A laborer from Uttar Pradesh is arrested by the Police. He has got addicted to marijuana for some years. With this, he grew a cannabis plant at home for his own. For four months, he cuts the leaves from the plant, processed them, and started using them on his own. The police department is shocked by back-to-back incidents and is now focusing on this home-grown Cannabis cultivation. The focus is on farmhouses on the outskirts.