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Chittoor: Former Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party national president N. Chandrababu Naidu was seen fretting and fuming at local people in his home constituency of Kuppam in the district during his visit on Thursday. Upset by the defeat during the recent MPTC and municipal elections in Kuppam, he accused them of getting sold away […]
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Hyderabad: Chairman, AIG Hospitals, Dr. D Nageshwar Reddy has received the Honorary Doctorate from Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences (NTRUHS), Andhra Pradesh during its 22nd and 23rd annual convocation ceremony, a press release said. The Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Biswabusan Harichandan being the Chancellor of the University did the felicitation. Recognizing Dr. Reddy’s immense […]
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Visakhapatnam: BJP Rajya Sabha member GVL Narasimha Rao has urged the Andhra Pradesh government to immediately address the issue of payment of compensation to chilli farmers as an emergency measure. Talking to media persons here on Thursday, he said he had already written a letter to Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy on the issue on […]
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Naidu asked whether the CM had asked for Special Status, Polavaram funds, Visakhapatnam railway zone and protection of Vizag Steel Plant.
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The state reported one death and 95 recoveries on Tuesday. The total number of active cases in the state on Tuesday stood at 1,516.
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Hyderabad: In order to clear the extra rush of passengers, South Central Railway will run Sankranti special trains between Hyderabad and Tirupati. Train number 07460 (from Tirupati to Secunderabad) will leave the originating station at 8:15 pm on January 10, to reach Secunderabad at 8:30 am the following day. The returning train, number 82720 (from […]
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New Delhi: Delhi Police have arrested a man for cheating over 100 people at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital for the last 4-5 years, an official said here on Monday. The accused, identified as Modela Venkata Dinesh Kumar, a resident of Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, was arrested under the relevant sections of […]
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Guntur: Efforts are on to make Amaravati area as a municipal corporation. As many as 19 villages in the region will form Amaravati Capital City Corporation and the district administration has issued a notification to this effect. It was also decided to conduct Gram Sabhas in 16 villages of Tullur mandal and three villages in […]
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New Delhi: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at latter’s residence and discussed several key issues related to the state. During the interaction, the Chief Minister requested the Prime Minister to approve the revised cost estimates of Rs. 55,657 crores at 2017-18 price level, which includes drinking water component […]
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Tirupati: A 23-km-stretch of the third ghat road and also a third stairway leading to the Tirumala Hills, the ancient abode of Lord Venkateswara, would be built at the earliest, said a top functionary of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) that governs the shrine. TTD Board Chairman YV Subba Reddy on Sunday directed the engineering section […]
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Visakhapatnam: Five persons drowned in the Bay of Bengal in Rama Krishna Beach here on Sunday afternoon. Four youths and a woman, all tourists from the neighbouring Odisha state, entered the sea for a dip but a huge wave drew them into the deep sea. Within half an hour, the bodies of the woman and […]
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Rajahmundry: State BJP president Somu Veerraju who wanted the name of Jinnah Tower Centre in Guntur city changed, has now come with fresh demands. Talking to media persons here on Friday, he said that apart from Sir Arthur Cotton, it is pertinent to remember local engineer Veeranna who played a key role in construction of […]
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Acting on a tip-off, Odisha Police and Border Security Force (BSF) personnel launched an intensive combing operation in Swabhiman Anchal in Jodambo police station area.
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Guntur: Several BJP leaders have demanded renaming the Jinnah Tower Centre in Guntur city. BJP state president Somu Veerraju on Thursday felt that the names of traitors should be removed all over the country while BJP national secretary Satya Kumar wondered how the name of Jinnah who was responsible for partition of India, could be […]
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Machilipatnam: Minister for Information and Public Relations Perni Nani on Thursday assured cinema hall owners that they could reopen their theatres after providing for all amenities. Speaking with film actor and producer R. Narayana Murthy and several cinema theatre owners who met him here in the morning, he also gave one month’s time for the […]
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Visakhapatnam: Andhra University has embarked on a massive program of digitization of the entire collection of palm leaf books available in the varsity library. The decision of digitization was taken to pass on the stories, poems, sciences and myths to future generations. “Andhra University began digitization of palm-leaf manuscripts at its VS Krishna Library. We […]
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Vijayawada: With ten more Omicron cases coming into light on Wednesday, the number of COVID variant patients in Andhra Pradesh increased to 16. It is said that some travellers who had arrived in the state from abroad had tested positive for Omicron. Three in East Godavari district, two each in Anantapur and Kurnool and one […]
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Hyderabad: “Wah… What a scheme! What a shame!” — is how TRS working president K.T. Rama Rao reacted to Andhra Pradesh BJP chief Somu Veerraju’s promise of cheap liquor at Rs 75 if BJP is voted to power in the state. Addressing a public meeting at Vijayawada on Tuesday, Veerraju had also said that if […]
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Visakhapatnam: East Coast Railway will introduce festival special trains to clear passenger rush during Sankranti. Accordingly, train no. 08579 Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad weekly special train will leave Visakhapatnam on Wednesdays at 7 pm from January 5 to February 23 to reach Secunderabad on the next day at 7 am. In the return direction, train no. 08580 Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam […]
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Vijayawada: BJP state president Somu Veerraju on Tuesday said that both the previous Telugu Desam Party and the present YSR Congress Party governments had failed to develop the Andhra Pradesh state. Addressing the ‘Prajagraha’ meeting here, he launched a broadside against the state government and said the state could achieve some development only with Central […]
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Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government has set up a committee to look into the aspect of movie ticket rates in the state. Orders were issued to this effect on Tuesday. Principal Secretary Home Viswajit will be chairman of the committee which has asits members the Principal Secretaries of Revenue, Finance, and Municipal Administration,m Information Commissioner, […]
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Hyderabad: Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam has decided to keep Vaikunta dwara darshanam open for ten days this time. TTD Additional EO, AV Dharma Reddy told mediapersons that tickets were already released for January 1, 2022 and also Vaikunta Ekadasi on January 13. Devotees will have to bring along Covid certificate for darshan, he said while appealing […]
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Hyderabad: The Tirumula Tirupathi Devasthanam (TTD) has released Sarva Dharshan (free) tickets on Monday for January quota. The TTD has allotted 10,000 tickets for each day, but from Jan 13 to Jan 22, 2022, allotted only 5,000 tickets to devotees due to the ‘Vikunta Ekadhshi’. The tickets were booked within 15 minutes after the TTD […]
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh on Sunday reported two more cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, taking the tally to six, official sources said. The two new cases were reported from Anantapuram and Prakasam districts, and both persons arrived from foreign countries, the Director of Public Health said in a statement. A 48 year-old male who […]
