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Visakhapatnam: The East Coast Railway has decided to run two weekly special trains between Visakhapatnam and Tirupati to clear extra rush of pilgrims towards Tirupati. Train No. 08581 Visakhapatnam- Tirupati weekly summer special train will leave Visakhapatnam at 23.00 hrs on Sundays from April 17 to June 26 to reach Tirupati on the next day […]
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Visakhapatnam: A new detailed project report on Visakhapatnam Metro Rail project has estimated the cost of the project at Rs.14,309 crore to cover 76.9 km length with 54 stops including two depots, according to Andhra Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. Managing Director UJM Rao. Delivering a special talk on the project arranged by the Public […]
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Amaravati: Lawyers at a court in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore town staged a protest on Saturday, demanding probe into the theft at the court. Holding placards with writings ‘Save courts from thieves’, the lawyers staged the protest at Nellore Court Complex. They condemned the incident that occurred at the fourth additional judicial magistrate court on Wednesday […]
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East Godavari: Andhra Pradesh police on Friday arrested 10 people for organizing a ‘nude dance’ at a fair in East Godavari district’s Uppangala village. As per the police, the incident took place on the intervening night of 14 and 15 April around 3 am. According to the police, based on a viral video, 10 people […]
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Visakhapatnam: Former MP Vundavalli Arun Kumar has expressed surprise as to why Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy was not handing over the Polavaram project to the Centre. Talking to media persons here on Friday, he recalled that Jagan, while in the Opposition, had questioned Chandrababu Naidu for taking over the Polavaram project which was the […]
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Vijayawada: The fire accident at a chemical plant in Eluru district that killed six people and injured 12 others late on Wednesday night has raised fresh questions over industrial safety in Andhra Pradesh. The huge fire in the pharmaceutical intermediate manufacturing unit of Porus Laboratories at Akkireddygudem was apparently caused by leakage of some chemical […]
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Vijayawada: Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy has directed the officials to seize the Porus chemical unit in Eluru district, where six persons died in a blast, on Wednesday night. Disclosing this here on Thursday, Home minister Taneti Vanita said that the state government would not encourage any hazardous industry against publoic interests. She visited the […]
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Hyderabad: A one-way special train between Tirupati-Secunderabad will be run by the South Central Railway (SCR) on April 17 to clear the extra rush during holidays. According to a press release, Train No.02763 Tirupati – Secunderabad one way special will depart at 5 pm on April 17 and arrive at 5.45 am the next day. […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed deep grief over the loss of lives due to a mishap at a chemical unit in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. He also prayed for quick recovery of the injured. “Pained by the loss of lives due to a mishap at a chemical unit in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. […]
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Amaravati/Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday condoled the death of six people and announced Rs 25 lakh compensation for the family members of the victims of the gas leak-triggered explosion at a chemicals manufacturing unit at Akkireddygudem. Thirteen people were also injured in the fire accident. The chief minister also […]
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Eluru: Six persons were charred to death and 12 injured in a massive fire accident that took place in a chemical factory called Porus Private Limited in the Musunuru village of Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district on Wednesday. The fire broke out in the factory delivering polymer raw material after a container got leaked and the […]
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Visakhapatnam: That a Stanford University Undergraduate admission stacks up against the odds, would be an understatement, considering that the premier University receives around 50,000 applications every year with an acceptance rate being one of the lowest in the world at around 3.9 per cent. Add to that, a global pandemic and the extreme uncertainty and […]
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Tirupati: Three people were injured in a stampede-like situation at the ticket counters at the Tirumala shrine in Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati, informed TTD PRO Ravi Kumar on Tuesday. Due to uncontrollable rush for Sarvadarshanam tickets at respective counters in Tirupati, TTD had decided to stop break darshan till sunday and allow the pilgrims to Tirumala […]
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Hyderabad: Five train passengers who were on a different track were run over by Konark express near Batuva village in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday early morning. ANDHRA TRAIN ACCIDENT Five people were killed after a train ran over them in the Srikakulam district of #AndhraPradesh. pic.twitter.com/QpJkPsdopj — Mirror Now (@MirrorNow) April 12, […]
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Visakhapatnam: After initially announcing that the entire Cabinet would be changed barring only a few, Jagan’s decision to retain nearly half the team–11 out of 25 –as ministers appears to have stirred a hornet’s nest. At least two former ministers–Mekathoti Sucharita who held the Home portfolio and Balineni Srinivasulu Reddy who handled Environment and Forests […]
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has reconstituted his Cabinet with all 25 ministers taking oath on Monday. Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan administered the oath of office and secrecy to members of the revamped Cabinet at a ceremony held near the State Secretariat and attended by leaders and workers of YSR Congress […]
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Amaravati: Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy has finalised the list of new Cabinet ministers on Sunday, striking a social balance and giving priority to backward classes. The finalised list is –Gudivada Amaranath, Dadisetti Raja, Botsa Satyanarayana, Rajanna Dora, Dharmana Prasada Rao, Seediri Appalaraju, Jogi Ramesh, Ambati Rambabu, Kottu Satyanarayana, Taneti Vanita, Arumuri Nageswara Rao, Meruga […]
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Amaravati: The stage is set for the reorganisation of the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Monday even as the suspense continued on who will be picked as the new ministers and who will retain their ministerial positions. Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan will administer oath to the new ministers at the Secretariat at 11.31 a.m. on Monday. […]
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Amaravati: Homes in darkness, patients suffering in government hospitals and industries coming to a grinding halt in Andhra Pradesh show the severity of the power crisis gripping the state. An incident in which a woman delivered a baby under a cellphone light at a government hospital in Narsipatnam and the visuals of patients having a […]
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Visakhapatnam: RINL-Visakhapatnam steel plant has achieved profit before tax (PBT) of Rs. 835 crore with a scintillating turnaround performance during 2021-22, according to its Chairman and Managing Director Atul Bhatt. He disclosed this while addressing senior officials and representatives of various unions at a function organized at MP Hall of Ukkunagaram club, here on Saturday. […]
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Amaravati: The Tipu Sultan controversy has resurfaced in Proddatur town in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district. Unidentified person wrote ‘Tipu Sultan Centre’ on a divider on Jinnah Road Centre, once again bringing to the fire the controversy over the proposal to install a statue of the former Mysore ruler in the town. On the intervening night […]
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Tirupati(AP): A 65-year-old man was trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants in a village close to the Andhra Pradesh-Tamil Nadu border in the small hours of Saturday. The incident occurred when the victim was asleep under a tiny thatched shelter in his tomato farm, police said. Police and forest officials rushed to […]
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday disbursed Rs 1,024 crores to the mothers of 10,68,150 students across the state under its flagship scheme Jagananna Vasathi Deevena which helps the students with boarding and lodging charges for 2021-22. “By depositing the financial assistance directly into mothers’ accounts, they are now demanding […]
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Visakhapatnam: A woman delivered a baby under the light of phones, torchlights and candles at a government hospital in Narsipatnam of Andhra Pradesh. With NTR Government Hospital plunging into darkness due to power cuts gripping the state and failure of the generator at the hospital premises, the staff asked the attendants of the woman to […]
