Sumit Jha
Sumit Jha is currently a multimedia journalist with NewsMeter. An alumnus of the University of Hyderabad and Amity University. He is specialised in Video Production. He was also a contributor at PARI network. Hailing from rural Bihar has spent his childhood shifting from places and people. Growing up he felt the need to document the lives and dreams of rural India. A lover of visual storytelling goes around the cities to search for Stories. He primarily reports on civic, consumer, health, human interest and data stories. You can follow Sumit on Twitter @sumitjha__
Hyd hospitals decline bed to Jawahar Nagar woman, dies in transit
Hyderabad: With the number of Covid-19 positive cases increasing exponentially, hospitals in Hyderabad are refusing to admit even non-COVID patients...
By Sumit Jha Published on 20 July 2020 12:05 PM GMT
No cheering crowds, no glittering lights: COVID scare dampens Bonalu celebrations
Smeared with vermilion and turmeric, Pothuraju was looking fearsome. But unlike last year, no people were lining up on the streets to cheer for him. A...
By Sumit Jha Published on 20 July 2020 7:05 AM GMT
Inadequate oxygen ports, overcrowded wards: Patients shifted to Quli Qutub Shah block send SOS to Osmania
Days after Osmania General Hospital was inundated, the administration has shifted patients to a newly constructed Quli Qutub Shah block, a few hundred...
By Sumit Jha Published on 20 July 2020 6:16 AM GMT
Tata AIA Insurance asked to pay compensation of Rs 60,000 to customer for causing mental agony
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Consumer Dispute Forum directed Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Limited to pay Rs 60,000 to a customer for causing mental...
By Sumit Jha Published on 19 July 2020 8:10 AM GMT
NPPA directs CP Hyd, Drug Controller to submit action report on COVID bills
Hyderabad: Many people in the city are complaining about the hospitals not providing the breakup of bills and charging extra for the services.A...
By Sumit Jha Published on 18 July 2020 9:04 AM GMT
COVID-19 hits Hyderabad real estate market; sale of properties down by 43%
Hyderabad: The real estate sector in Hyderabad seems to have taken a hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The sale of housing units decreased by 43 per...
By Sumit Jha Published on 17 July 2020 5:22 PM GMT
Operation Muskaan unites son with mother after 4 years in AP
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh police under 'Operation Muskaan Covid-19' facilitated the reunion of a mother-son after almost 4 years. Srinivas will...
By Sumit Jha Published on 17 July 2020 11:39 AM GMT
Oxygen cylinders become scarce in Hyderabad even as cops crackdown on black marketeers
Hyderabad: Even as the Telangana police continue to crack down on oxygen cylinders illegally held back by black marketers, COVID patients especially...
By Sumit Jha Published on 16 July 2020 12:48 PM GMT
Lockdown effect: Hyderabad sees decrease in road fatalities by 23%
Hyderabad: Road accident deaths decreased by 23 per cent in Hyderabad during the first six months of 2020 when compared to the corresponding period...
By Sumit Jha Published on 14 July 2020 12:54 PM GMT
Plaint in Telangana HC for permission to celebrate Bonalu festival in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Two separate Public Interest Litigation (PiLs) have been filed in the Telangana High Court seeking permission for celebrating the Bonalu...
By Sumit Jha Published on 14 July 2020 3:56 AM GMT
South Central Railway gets advanced signalling system at Gooty station
Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR), on 13 July, commissioned its largest electronic interlocking signalling system along with major yard...
By Sumit Jha Published on 13 July 2020 1:14 PM GMT
TPCC secretary Narendra Yadav succumbs to COVID-19
Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee secretary leader G. Narendra Yadav succumbed to Covid-19 on Monday morning. He was undergoing...
By Sumit Jha Published on 13 July 2020 7:46 AM GMT
