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Vijayawada: The case of two girls students of ninth class of Kankipadu zilla parishad high school missing in Krishna district has created a stir in the state and as many as 20 police teams are on the job to trace them. Police suspect the hand of Gundi Jojibabu, a neighbour of one of the missing […]
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Vijayawada: Seven persons were arrested in connection with the suicide of an engineering student Harishita Varshini last week due to harassment by recovery agents. Deputy Commissioner of Police Mary Prashanti told media persons here on Monday that three managers and four recovery agents who had set up a call centre in Vijayawada and harassing customers, […]
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Amaravati: The Centre has invited former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to a meeting of the national committee formed to commemorate 75 years of independence. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president will be leaving for New Delhi on August 6 to attend the meeting. To be presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, […]
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Vijayawada: A wife smashed her husband’s head with a grinding stone and killed him for suspecting her fidelity. The incident occurred in Amudarlanka village of Krishna district. According to police, K. Venkata Subbarao and his wife Veerakumari were at loggerheads since long as the former always suspected her fidelity. Vexed with this, Veerakumari left him […]
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Visakhapatnam: The Indian Navy on Saturday recovered two bodies of the engineering students who went missing at the beach in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalli district. The Navy and Coast Guard were carrying out the search operation with two helicopters and four boats at Pudimadaka beach off Bay of Bengal. Bodies of P. Ganesh and K. Jagadeesh were […]
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Anakapalle: Seven students were feared drowned in the sea when they went for a dip in the Bay of Bengal at Pudimadaka beach in Atchutapuram mandal of the district on Friday afternoon. While the body of Pawan, 19, was fished out, the local fishermen managed to rescue Surisetti Teja whose condition is said to be […]
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Kakinada: The YSR Congress Party government in Andhra Pradesh is working for the welfare of all communities in the state, including the YSR Kapu Nestham scheme for Kapus, although it was not part of the election manifesto, Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy stated here on Friday. Addressing a meeting at Gollaprolu near here after pressing […]
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Kothagudem: Claiming credit for the construction of Godavari karakatta at Bhadrachalam TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu wanted construction of river bund in merged villages in AP. He visited Bhadrachalam on Friday and performed pujas at Bhadradri Rama Temple. He was welcomed by priests in a traditional manner. Later he visted Godavari river bund (karakatta) and […]
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Vijayawada: A troop of caged monkeys have been rescued and set free by the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department. The monkeys were being kept in a cage on the premises of the office of the local Directorate of Medical Education (DME) office, apparently for weeks without food and water. Following a complaint from a concerned citizen, […]
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Visakhapatnam: In a dramatic twist, a married woman who was feared drowned at Visakhapatnam beach two days ago was reportedly found in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore on Wednesday, officials said. Authorities had conducted a large-scale search by deploying even a helicopter of the Indian Navy after the 21-year-old woman went missing on RK Beach where she […]
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Kothagudem: TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu is scheduled to visit the flood affected areas in Sivakasipuram and Kukkunur in Velerupadu and Kukkunur mandals of AP on Thursday. He would visit flood-affected areas in Burgampad in Kothagudem district and would stay at Bhadrachalam in the night. On Friday he would visit Thotapalli, Kothulagutta, Kunavaram and Rekhapalli […]
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Hyderabad: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has carried raids at the houses of alleged casino organizers Chikkoti Praveen Kumar in Saifabad and Madhava Reddy in Bowenpally in Secunderabad. These raids were carried out against Kumar and Reddy for allegedly violating FEMA rules. The ED has conducted raids at Kumar’s another house in Andhra Pradesh. They were […]
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Visakhapatnam: Travelling Ticket Examiners (TTEs) in Waltair Railway Division will no longer be required to carry reservation charts, as they are to be equipped with handheld terminal (HHT) devices to provide reservation status to passengers in a running train. The HHT system was formally inaugurated by Divisional Railway Manager Anup Satpathy here recently with 78 […]
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Amaravati: Education minister Botsa Satyanarayana has said that the teachers have no right to question the policy decision on education. Talking to media persons here on Monday, he asked the teachers who said there was no need for pre-primary education, to tell him where exactly their children studied. “Are all teachers getting their children study […]
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Visakhapatnam: Former Secretary to the Central Government EAS Sarma has demanded that the Andhra Pradesh government drop the decision to permit the Adani Group to set up pumped storage hydroelectric projects in Parvathipuram-Manyam District in violation of the PESA and Forest Rights act (FRA). In a letter addressed to the Chief Secretary Sameer Sharma here […]
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Amaravati: A leopard killed a calf in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district on Monday, local officials said. The incident occurred early in the morning in Vitlampalli village of Kalyandurg ‘mandal’ (block). The calf belonging to a farmer was attacked by a leopard around 3 a.m. The locals alerted the forest department. This incident came a day […]
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Anantapur: Police on Sunday arrested Sunkara Prasad Naidu, a notorious criminal under the ‘most-wanted’ category from Guntakallu village in the district, in connection with a kidnapping case. Prasad Naidu alias Allagadda Prasad along with 13 members of his gang were arrested by the police who seized one pistol, 16 bullets, two four-wheelers, a Bullet bike […]
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Amaravati: Three Karnataka police officers were killed and three others injured in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district on Sunday. The accident occurred along the Tirupati-Chittoor highway when the car in which they were travelling overturned and fell off the road after hitting a road divider. The accident took place near Choutapalli village […]
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Nandyal: In view of heavy rainfall, the irrigation department officials of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday opened three gates of the Srisailam Dam up and released water downstream. State Irrigation Minister Ambati Rambabu, Nandyal MP Pocha Brahmananda Reddy, Srisailam MLA Shilpa Chakrapani Reddy and Nandyal District Collector Manazir Jeelani lifted the three gates of the Srisailam […]
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Visakhapatnam: A wine dealer was murdered when he demanded a customer to clear his dues of Rs.500. The incident occurred at the MVP Colony fish market on Friday night. D. Appala Reddy sold liquor at the fish market where he lived with his family. A customer Sai wanted liquor and Appala Reddy asked him to […]
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Hyderabad: The irrigation department officials opened three gates of Srisailam dam up to 10 feet high and released water downstream. Before opening the two gates, Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Minister Ambati Rambabu performed puja to Goddess Gangamma. As much as 1.39 lakh cusecs of water released from Srisailam dam would reach Nagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP) in […]
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Amaravati: Union Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday stated that the Center had received a proposal from the Andhra Pradesh government to shift the State High Court from Amaravati to Kurnool. This was in response to a query raised by YSR Congress Party MPs Kotagiri Sridhar and Chinta Anuradha to the Centre on […]
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Visakhapatnam: A woman in the city got her husband allegedly murdered in order to continue her extra-marital relationship and then filed a complaint with the police that her husband went missing. According to Pothina Mallayyapalem police, B, Mrudula, 29, of Madhurawada Rickshaw Colony, lodged a complaint with them on July 17 that her husband, Murali, […]
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Amaravati: Dr NTR University of Health Sciences has given permission for the conduct of academic activities from the next academic year 2023-24 in five new medical colleges at Eluru, Vizianagaram, Rajamahendravaram, Nandyal and Machilipatnam districts in Andhra Pradesh. With this, academic activities will begin with 150 MBBS seats in each college. Principals and superintendents have […]
