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Visakhapatnam: City police on Thursday refused permission to former Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party national president N. Chandrababu Naidu for visiting the Haritha Resorts in Rushikonda in the city where a tourism project work was going on. The vehicles of his team were stopped on the national highway near Yendada junction which drew strong […]
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Tirupati: Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy has observed that the incidents of tenth class question paper leakage was resorted to only to tarnish the image of his popular government and the leakage was done from Narayana and Sri Chaitanya colleges. Addressing a function during which he released ‘Jagananna Vidyadeevena’ funds here on Thursday, he said […]
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Home Minister T Vanitha has come under severe attack from the opposition for her statement that “certain incidents happen rather unwittingly” regarding a recent rape case even as Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday claimed that those involved in such sexual assault cases belonged only to the Telugu Desam […]
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Amaravati: In another shocking incident in Andhra Pradesh, the body of an eight-year-old boy was carried on a motorcycle by his relatives after an ambulance driver refused to carry the same. The incident occurred in Nellore district on Wednesday and came to light on Thursday after a video went viral on social media. A person […]
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Visakhapatnam: Industries minister Gudivada Amarnath has alleged that the previous Telugu Desam Party government had resorted to a Rs.120 crore scam in the AP State Fibernet Ltd. Inaugurating a new branch of the APSFL near Andhra University here on Wednesday, he said that he was sure former Chandrababu Naidu had a hand in the scam […]
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Visakhapatnam: City police busted an international human trafficking case with the arrest of two persons and rescued a woman belonging to Bangladesh. Deputy Commissioner of Police Sumit Sunil said here on Wednesday that a woman, Beesetti Dhanalakshmi, 37, was running a brothel house in the water tank area near Pendurthi for some time. She has […]
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Vijayawada: A man allegedly committed suicide in a police station in Andhra Pradesh’s Eluru district on Wednesday. Appa Rao (38), who was arrested in a theft case three days ago, was found hanging in the washroom of Bhimadu police station. Relatives of the man alleged that he was tortured by police resulting in his death. […]
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Vizianagaram: One person was arrested for alleged rape of a woman in the city on Monday night. Hailing from the Parvatipuram district in Andhra Pradesh, the woman lives with her two children in the city, working in a tea shop to eke out a livelihood. On Monday night two persons knocked her door and forced […]
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Visakhapatnam: Thousands of devotees from north Andhra and the neighbouring Odisha state thronged the Simhachalam temple for a glimpse of the `Nijaroopa Darshan’ of Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy, an annual feature held on the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya, on Tuesday. Elaborate arrangements were made for the convenience of devotees who queued up from […]
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Hyderabad/ Amaravati: Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated with traditional piety in the two Telugu-speaking states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on Tuesday. With Covid restrictions no longer in place, the devout freely made their way to mosques to offer prayers with friends and family. The happiness was palpable on people’s faces as they streamed out after Eid […]
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Visakhapatnam: The Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Dr. Ambedkar Foundation (DAF) of the union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. The Director, IIM Visakhapatnam Prof. M Chandrasekhar signed the MoU with Vikas Trivedi, Director, DAF at an impressive function held on April 22 at the prestigious […]
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Visakhapatnam: Efforts are on to provide darshan for ordinary devotees during Chandana Yatra of Sri Varaha Lakshmi Nrusimha Swamy at the Simhachalam hill temple here on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya on Tuesday. Informing this to reporters here on Sunday, executive officer of the temple M.V. Suryakala and Regional Joint Commissioner D. Bhramaramba appealed to […]
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Amaravati: Government employees in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district on Sunday staged a novel protest by tonsuring their heads and beating themselves with ‘chappals’ to press their demand for scrapping Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). Andhra Pradesh Contributory Pension Scheme Employees Association (APCPSEA) staged the novel protest near Vizianagaram collectorate. The protestors called a barber at the […]
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Amaravati: A 25-year-old woman was gang raped by three men after thrashing her husband at the Repalle Railway Station in Andhra Pradesh’s Bapatla district on Sunday. A migrant labourer, who was asleep at the railway station along with her husband, was sexually assaulted by three unidentified men. The couple who arrived at the station was […]
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Kadapa: Former minister D.L. Ravindra Reddy has said that Telangana minister K. Taraka Rama Rao had mentioned only the facts that reflected the grim situation in Andhra Pradesh. Talking to reporters who met him here on Saturday, he noted that the YSR Congress Party had ruined the state. DL also said that his daughters were […]
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Amaravati: Tension prevailed at a village in Andhra Praesh’s Eluru district on Saturday when an MLA of YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) was attacked by a rival group within the ruling party following murder of a local sarpanch. The incident occurred in G. Kothapalli village of Dwaraka Tirumala mandal. The infighting in the ruling party came […]
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Mumbai: Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday handed over a letter of allotment of land to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) to construct a Lord Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Navi Mumbai, the first in western India, an official said. Thackeray visited and took ‘darshan’ at the famed temple, placed the allotment letter before the idol […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana Industries and Information Technology Minister K. T. Rama Rao has clarified that his remarks about Andhra Pradesh were not meant to hurt anyone. It appears that an innocuous comment that I had made at a meeting earlier today may have caused some unintentional pain to my friends in AP I enjoy a great brotherly […]
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Guntur: A woman of Tummapudi village in Duggirala mandal of the district was murdered on Tuesday, but was not gang-raped, according to Superintendent of Police Arif Hafeez. Talking to reporters here on Thursday, he said that the woman, Tirupatamma, had an affair with Venkata Sai Satish of the same village. Satish used to visit her […]
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Anakapalle: Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy has expressed happiness that the housing for the homeless in Andhra Pradesh could go on, notwithstanding the obstacles created by his detractors. Addressing a public meeting at Pydiwada Agraharam Layout in Sabbavaram mandal after giving away house-site pattas to the beneficiaries here on Thursday, he noted that houses on […]
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Guntur: Members of Telugu Mahila, the women’s wing of the Telugu Desam Party on Wednesday stormed the office of the Andhra Pradesh Women’s Commission in Mangalagiri near here, protesting against the growing atrocities on women in the State. Telugu Mahila state president and former MLA Vangalapudi Anita led the slogan shouting demonstrators who were stopped […]
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Suryapet: Tragedy struck an NRI’s family with the death of a couple, which was on its way to their native place in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh after return from Australia in the early hours of Wednesday. The car in which they were travelling hit a retaining wall of a culvert leading to death of the […]
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Visakhapatnam: If the ambulance mafia forced a father to carry home the body of his son on motorcycle at Ruia government hospital in Tirupati on Tuesday, an almost similar scene was witnessed in the government King George Hospital here around the same time, exposing the corrupt practices of staff in government hospitals. A woman Jhansi […]
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Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government has expressed its willingness to the High Court to hand over to the CBI the investigation of the theft in Nellore court, during the hearing on a PIL filed in pursuance to the HC taking suo motu notice of the crime, here on Tuesday. Consequently, a Division Bench of the […]
