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Visakhapatnam: There is a need for an early amendment of the regulation pertaining to `Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement’ to stop the taxation on offshore income of Indian firms providing technical support, according to AP Industries minister Gudivada Amarnath. Addressing a meeting on `Collaboration between the Andhra Pradesh government and Western Australia government here on Saturday, […]
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Vijayawada: With the Godavari river in spate, the flood waters wreaked havoc in six districts in Andhra Pradesh and more than 170 villages are under water while crops in thousands of hectares are damaged. According to officials here on Saturday, the Alluri Sitarama Raju (ASR), Eluru, West Godavari, East Godavari, Konaseema and Kakinada districts are […]
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Hyderabad: International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Nellore, is organising world’s longest and largest cultural festival on the occasion of Sri Krishna Janmashtami. The unique features of the international cultural fest is that anyone from the age of 4 months to 80 plus years can participate and there is no registration charges. All the participants will […]
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Visakhapatnam: Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Friday released Rs.261.51 crore to 2,61,516 benefiries at the rate of Rs 10,000 each under the YSR Vahana Mitra scheme. Addressing a public meeting here on the occasion, he said it was one of the poll promises kept within four months of coming into power. “We implemented this […]
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Amaravati: Hundreds of villages, mainly the lankas (island villages), along the course of Godavari are reeling under one of the worst floods as the swollen river has been discharging 19.05 lakh cusecs of water as on Friday morning. The flood crossed the third danger signal at Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage at Dowaleswaram near Rajamahendravaram in […]
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Amaravati: The flood flow in river Godavari reached 15 lakh cusecs on Wednesday morning even as the second warning signal continued. However, the flood is apparently decreasing, according to State Disaster Management Authority Managing Director B R Ambedkar. “By evening the intensity could lessen but still people in vulnerable areas should remain cautious,” Ambedkar said […]
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Visakhapatnam: Thousands of devotees began Giripradakshina of the Simhachalam hill temple on Tuesday morning, on the eve of Guru Poornima. Their number is expected to swell to nearly four lakh or more by the time they complete the 32 k.m. trek around the hill and queue up for darshan of Lord Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swami, […]
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Visakhapatnam: The Visakhapatnam airport recorded a 30 per cent increase in passenger traffic over the last quarter. According to O. Naresh Kumar of Andhra Pradesh Air Travellers’ Association, the number of passengers in the first quarter of the current fiscal 2022-23 was 5,94,400 compared to 4,56,324 in the last quarter of 2021-22.The aircraft movement also […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana has requested the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to stop Andhra Pradesh from proceeding with any further construction of Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme Right Canal (RDS Right Canal) or its components till Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-II (KWDT-II) delivered its decision. In a letter to the Board Chairman, Telangana Irrigation and Command Area Development (I&CAD) […]
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Amaravati: Two women pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh, who were reported missing in the cloudburst and flash floods near Amarnath cave in South Kashmir, had died, according to officials here on Monday. Both the women were from Rajahmundry and were identified as Kotha Parvathi, and Munishetti Sudha. They were said to have died in the floods […]
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Amaravati: The Telugu Desam Party has decided to support the NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu in the presidential poll. Announcing this here on Monday, TDP national president N Chandrababu Naidu said that his party was always committed to social justice. In this context, he recalled that the TDP had in the past supported K.R. Narayanan and […]
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Tirupati: Two devotees were killed and three others injured in a road accident while they were on their way to Tirumala temple on Sunday. The dead were identified as Sharanya and Mithun of Erode in Tamil Nadu. According to reports, the driver may have dozed off at the wheel. The car they were travelling in […]
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Amaravati: At least six pilgrims, including two women, from Andhra Pradesh were reported missing in the cloudburst and flash floods near the Amarnath cave in Kashmir, according to State government sources here on Sunday. The six pilgrims who remained untraced after the tragedy near the holy cave were identified as Vinod Ashok (Vijayawada), Gunishetty Sudha […]
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Kurnool: Kurnool Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB) station seized 66,000 bottles of liquor (worth about Rs 2 crores) on Saturday in the presence of Kurnool District SP Siddharth Kaushal in 593 cases registered in the year 2021-2022, said the SEB. Liquor bottles were destroyed on the road near the railway bridge on the way from Panchalingala […]
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Guntur: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has been elected the lifetime president of the ruling Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP). An announcement in this regard was made on the second and final day of the party plenary here on Saturday. YSRCP general secretary V. Vijaysai Reddy, who was the returning officer […]
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Visakhapatnam: Two persons were killed and three others injured when the wall of a house collapsed in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district on Saturday. The incident occurred in Kumaram village when five members of a family were asleep. The deceased were identified as Addala Laksmi (47) and Addala Ashok Kumar Raju (5). Locals removed the bodies from […]
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Guntur: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday claimed that in the last three years his government has fulfilled 95 per cent of the promises made by the party in the 2019 election manifesto. Addressing the inaugural session of the two-day plenary of Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP), the Chief Minister […]
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Guntur: Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy has said that his party had proved that power did not mean ego but to shower love on the people and serve them. Delivering the inaugural address at the two-day YSRCP plenary at Mangalagiri here on Friday, he recalled that his struggle had started […]
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Guntur: Honorary president of YSR Congress Party YS Vijayamma announced her resignation from the party at the YSRCP plenary session here on Friday. Striking an emotional note, she said she wanted to extend her support to her daughter YS Sharmila who had launched her political outfit YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) in Telangana where she needed […]
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Tadepalli: The two-day YSR Congress Party plenary to be held opposite the Acharya Nagarjuna University campus in Guntur district is expected to attract about 1.5 lakh delegates on the opening day on Friday and four lakh party activists on the final day on Saturday. Informing this to media persons at the party office here on […]
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Hyderabad: In order to clear extra rush, the South Central Railway (SCR) is operating special trains between Hyderabad – Tirupati – Hyderabad. Train No. 07569 Hyderabad – Tirupati will depart at 6.50 pm on July 8 and arrive the next day at 7 am while Train No. 07570 Tirupati – Hyderabad will depart at 9 […]
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Police booked a case against YSRCP rebel MP from Narsapuram K Raghurama Krishna Raju, his son and staff in connection with the assault of an Andhra Pradesh Intelligence Wing constable, Sheik Farooq Basha, who was allegedly beaten up severely by the security personnel of the MP at Madhapur on Monday. Police said […]
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In a novel protest, a legislator of ruling YSR Congress party in Andhra Pradesh entered into a sewage drain on Tuesday to protest over the delay by civic and railway authorities in constructing a bridge.
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Bhimavaram: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call to the youth to draw inspiration from revolutionary leader Alluri Sitarama Raju for taking the nation in the path of progress. Addressing a public meeting here on Monday after unveiling a 30-foot bronze statue of Alluri Sitrama Raju during the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of the […]
