Andhra Pradesh

Visakhapatnam: A major fire accident took place at Paramount Agro Industries unit in the APIIC Industrial Park near Gajuwaka on Wednesday midnight. However, there were no casualties but the loss of property is estimated at a couple of crore of rupees. The unit is engaged in packaging of edible oil for nearly two decades and […]

There was a need to improve security standards in the wake of recent attacks on temples, DGP said and noted that temples formed the basis for rich culture and traditions.

Giving further details, DSP said Purushottam and Padmaja were extremely superstitious and appeared to have practised some occult rituals.

Visakhapatnam: When the domestic demand subdued, the RINL-Visakhapatnam steel plant stepped up exports by 141% to a level of Rs.3109 crores during the year up to December 2020, RINL chairman and managing director PK Rath disclosed here on Tuesday. Addressing the 72nd Republic Day celebrations at Ukkunagaram, he said that RINL crossed an export volume […]

Visakhapatnam: Despite challenges thrown by difficult circumstances, the Waltair Division of East Coast Railway showed good performance in the last quarter of 2020-21 financial year and could load 4194 million tonne freight by December last to achieve a gross earnings of Rs.5035.75 crore, Divisional Railway Manager of Waltair Division Chetan Kumar Shrivatsava said here on […]

The KRMB member Harikesh Meena wrote a letter to the Andhra Pradesh government on Monday following a complaint lodged by the Telangana Irrigation department Engineer-in-Chief C Muralidhar in this regard.

According to the notification issued on Saturday, nominations for the first phase of the four phase elections should have begun on Monday.

"As long as TDP government was in power, you did not think of elections, you did not bother about elections. When all the employees are in coronavirus fear psychosis, you are pressuring for conducting elections," said employees'

Police sources said the couple had actually planned to kill themselves as well to prove that they would come back alive but the timely entry of police personnel averted the possible suicide.

Nellore: Minister for Water Resources Anil Kumar Yadav has disclosed that another new bridge would be constructed on the Penna river here. Talking to reporters after reviewing the Penna barrage works on Sunday, he said that the proposal for the four-lane new bridge which would cost Rs.150 crore was sent to the Centre. On the […]

The 44-year old ASHA worker complained of severe headache and fever on January 22, three days after she took a shot of the coronavirus vaccine.

Amaravati: Several leaders of Andhra Pradesh State Government employees’ associations have urged the government and also the State Election Commission to postpone the panchayat elections in the state till their frontline personnel were administered the two doses of COVID vaccine. Their Joint Action Committee president Bopparaju and general secretary YV Rao said it was not […]

Visakhapatnam: The Vizagapatam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) urged the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy to continue with the rental value system for determination of property tax and defer the decision to increase property tax from April this year. Addressing a media conference here on Saturday, VCCI president G Veera Mohan and […]

State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar was referring to Venkatrami Reddy, a representative of government employees who has been allegedly vehemently opposing holding panchayat polls

Cops' body said Covid situation was grave in the State and urged SEC to rethink about conducting the polls

"Lepakshi is a fine example of architectural grandeur. It belongs to the 16th century temple of stone in Vijayanagara style," said an official.

Warn SEC of facing difficulties if it does pay heed to their appeal for cancellation of notification

A resident of Anjaninagar, Vemulawada town, Devaiah along with his family members went to Thirupati to have a darshan of Lord Venkateshwara Swamy a week ago.

In exercise of the powers conferred under Article 243 - K of the Constitution of India, the State Election Commission, AP, hereby, calls upon the registered voters in gram panchayats located in the revenue divisions indicated to elect their respective ward members

The government decision comes in the wake of interruption to the probe due to COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed

Jana Sena chief, Pavan Kalyan is under tremendous pressure from party workers for getting the seat allotted for JSP since the BJP had little public support in the constituency

"We are thinking if there is a conspiracy. We have this suspicion, going by what the people here said.So, we can't rule that out.But we can't confirm that as well," Srinivas told a Telugu television news channel.

In its petition on Thursday, the government said that it amounts to risking employees' lives amid the coronavirus pandemic to go to elections at a time

The four families who had migrated to Suryapet long ago in search of livelihood, were among the 192 families allotted houses