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Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet which met here on Friday, approved spending Rs.7,880 crore for construction of 16 new medical colleges in the State. The meeting also sanctioned Rs.3,820 crore for developing 11 existing medical colleges. The other Cabinet decisions include providing jobs on compassionate grounds to families of employees who died of COVID, setting […]
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Thursday asked the Infrastructure and Investments (I and I) Department to plan and build at least seven new airports in the State under the ‘One District – One Airport” concept. The “One District – One Airport is a good concept,” the Chief Minister said and […]
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Visakhapatnam: Hundreds of teachers stormed the district collectorates on Thursday in protest against the new pay revision commission wages. The protests, in response to a call of the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Teachers’ Organisations (FAPTO), led to tension with the police stopping their surge and taking into custody the leaders apprehending law and order problem. […]
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Amaravati: COVID cases continue to rise alarmingly in Andhra Pradesh, with 12,615 new infections detected after testing 47,420 samples during the last 24 hours in the state. According to a bulletin of the Medical and Health department here on Thursday, three persons in Visakhapatnam, and one each in Chittoor and Nellore districts died due to […]
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Khammam: The two town police have on Monday arrested a youth from Andhra Pradesh and recovered two cars and other valuables he had stolen here. The two-town Inspector of Police (CI) Sridhar in a statement informed that the 25-year-old accused, Dendukuri Ganesh of Poranki village in Penamaluru mandal, Krishna district in AP came to Khammam […]
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Hyderabad: All students who qualified in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG 2021 have to gear up for the online counselling which will commence from January 19. The counselling will be done for admissions to MBBS, BDS, BSc Nursing (Only for central institutes of nursing) for NEET 15 per cent all India quota, […]
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The temple officials welcomed and arranged a darshan on her visit.
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Amaravati: The steady increase in COVID cases in Andhra Pradesh is a cause for concern. For the second consecutive day, over 4,000 new cases were recorded during the past 24 hours. According to a bulletin of the Medical and Health department here on Friday, of the 39,816 samples examined during the period, 4,528 had tested […]
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A fatal road accident took place at Thadepalligudem in the early hours of the morning, in which at least four died, three injured and seven more rescued.
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Hyderabad: Following a complaint by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India that despite a ban on cockfighting in the country, hundreds of arenas have been built for cockfighting in Andhra Pradesh, the central government statutory body Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has fired off a letter to the state’s director general […]
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Amaravati: A leader of Andhra Pradesh’s opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was hacked to death by unidentified persons in Guntur district on Thursday. Thota Chandraiah (38) was murdered in the Gundlapadu village in Veldurthi mandal when he was going on a two-wheeler. A group of assailants waylaid and attacked him with knives and sticks. The […]
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Hyderabad: The Rashtriya Kisan Progressive Association (RKPA) has asked the chilli growers of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to unite and jointly fight regulators that are blocking quality agri-input and advocate the usage of modern agri-tech practices to tackle invasive pests like ‘Thripsparvispinus’. The RKPA has also appealed to the Chief Ministers, and administrators of the […]
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Amaravati: There is a spurt in coronavirus disease cases in Andhra Pradesh, with 3,205 testing positive for COVID out of the 41,954 samples tested during the past 24 hours, according to an official release here on Wednesday. However, there were no deaths recorded during the period. With this, the total number of COVID cases recorded […]
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Amaravati: The implementation of night curfew in Andhra Pradesh has been deferred in view of Sankranti festival. The Andhra Pradesh government has now decided to impose night curfew from January 18 night. According to Health minister Alla Nani, the night curfew was put off till festival since people were going to villages from cities in […]
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Vijayawada: In a tragic incident, five school students drowned in a rivulet in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district. Rescue workers on Tuesday recovered bodies of all the five students, aged between 11 and 14 years. They were missing since Monday afternoon when they were trying to learn swimming in the Munneru rivulet near Eturu. The deceased […]
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Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government has issued orders imposing night curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. in the state. The Medical and Health department will issue guidelines shortly. The government has directed the cinema theatres in the state to run with only 50 per cent occupancy, making wearing of mask cumpulsory for viewers. Reviewing […]
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Telangana: Union Minister of State, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated India’s first unique ‘Rock Museum’ in Hyderabad. The Open Rock Museum, set up with the aim to educate and enlighten the masses about several lesser-known facts, displays around 35 different types of rocks from different parts of India with ages ranging from 3.3 billion years to […]
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Visakhapatnam: A committee to resolve the ring net row which led to clashes among fishermen has been set up with leaders of fishermen’s associations after YSR Congress Party Rajya Sabha member Vijay Sai Reddy, and Ministers Kurasala Kannababu, Avanti Srinivasa Rao and Seediri Appalaraju held talks with fishermen representatives here on Sunday. Minister Appalaraju said […]
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Amaravati: The COVID cases are on the rise in Andhra Pradesh day by day and out of the 38,479 samples tested during the last 24 hours, 1,257 have tested positive for coronavirus disease, according the the Medical and Health department. With this, the number of active cases in the state increased to 4,774 on Sunday. […]
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Hyderabad: Railway and bus stations in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad on Saturday saw huge rush of passengers heading home in the Telugu States for Sankranti festival. Secunderabad, Kacheguda and Nampally stations witnessed big festive rush. Large number of families were seen on platforms waiting to board next available trains to their destinations in […]
