Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday decided to rename Konaseema district as Dr B R Ambedkar Konaseema district, a month after the district was rocked by violence protesting against the proposal. The state Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy approved the gazette notification issued on May 18 to rename […]
Visakhapatnam: State BJP president Somu Veerraju has blamed the YSR Congress Party government in the state for the riot and arson in Amalapuram on Tuesday. Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, he felt that the attitude of Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy was responsible for a `war-like’ situation there. Referring to the murder of the […]
Amalapuram: The police in Amalapuram town of Andhra Pradesh have arrested 46 people in connection with Tuesday’s large-scale violence in which houses of a minister and MLA were set afire, a senior official said on Wednesday. Police tightened the security with the deployment of additional forces called from various districts to prevent further flare-up amid reports […]
Karimnagar: NABARD Chairman Govinda Rajulu Chinthala said the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) has completely transformed the parched fields of Telangana into lush green fields similar to Godavari districts (Konaseema) in Andhra Pradesh. “When I was working in Hyderabad some years ago, parched lands used to appear on either side of the road on any […]