May 13: In all, 56 fresh cases of diarrhoea and vomiting were reported at the government hospitals in the city on Wednesday.
Among them, only four patients at Gandhi Hospital and one at Osmania Hospital are from Bholakpur, said the health officials.
The new patients came from places like Moula Ali, Naryanguda and other parts of the city.

May 13: Unknown persons pumped kerosene into a drinking water pipeline at Venkatadri Colony in Kurnool town on Wednesday, causing panic.
It was at 11 am that the municipal authorities supplied water to Venkatadri Colony residents. But those who consumed the water found that it smelt and tasted like kerosene.

May 13: The Chief Minister, many ministers and IAS officers in the Secretariat do not trust the water supplied by the Water Board. Instead, Rs 20 lakh is spent every month to buy them bottled water.

May 13: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been sitting over two dozen other Bholakpurs in the city. As many as 25 slums at various places in the city are highly vulnerable to diarrhoea and gastro enteritis (GE) cases.

May 12: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has been sitting on dirty reservoirs for years now.
There are 80 service reservoirs in the city where water is brought from the source and stored before being supplied to the citizens.

May 12: At least 40 more people were hospitalised at the Wardhannapet government hospital in Warangal. This is in addition to the 100 others who had been hospitalised after consuming contaminated drinking water.
People from different localities are now getting admitted to the government hospital after complaining of vomiting, loose motions and stomach ache.

May 12: The disease outbreak in Bholakpur seem-ed out of control with one more person succumbing and 53 fresh cases of diarrhoea and vomiting being reported on Tuesday. The toll in eight days of cholera in Bholakpur in the city now stands at 13.

May 12: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board denied the reports that the employees of its quality wing had fudged water quality reports pertaining to the Bholakpur incident.
In a clarification given on Tuesday, the PRO of the water board said that there was no fudging of reports.

May 12: The water supply to an estimated 50 per cent of people in Hyderabad, is contaminated.
Across the state, 51 per cent of the rural population do not have access to individual latrines in their homes.

May 12: Diseases supposedly on the verge of eradication have reared their deadly head in the state. A cholera epidemic in Bholakpur, an anthrax outbreak in Visakhapatnam and the recurrence of polio cases, are the recent reminders that yesterday