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Visakhapatnam:  The President’s Fleet Review, an awe-inspiring and much-awaited event, conducted at Visakhapatnam on Monday, February 21, 2022, said a press release. President Ram Nath Kovind, who is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, reviewed the Naval Fleet comprising over 60 ships and submarines, and 55 aircraft. This will be the twelfth Fleet […]

Vijayawada: union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has announced that roads and high ways would be developed in Andhra Pradesh at a cost of Rs.3 lakh crore. Addressing a function at the Indira Gandhi stadium here on Thursday where he laid the foundation stone for as many as 30 national highway projects, […]

Hyderabad: Siddhu Jonnalagadda starrer ‘DJ Tillu’ is currently on a record-breaking streak. The lead cast along with director Vimal Krishna are currently touring Andhra Pradesh meeting fans to know the response post the release of the film. The movie released last Saturday and earned the love of the audience. Celebrating the film’s success, DJ Tillu’s […]

Amaravati: Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy has called for measures to make the Visakhapatnam beach corridor–connecting the National Highway no. 16 to Visakhapatnam port via Bheemunipatnam and Bhogapuram, as a world no. 1 project. Participating in the road safety council meeting here on Monday, he directed the officials to take special care on road design […]

Visakhapatnam: In what is believed to be the biggest operation of its kind, Andhra Pradesh police on Saturday destroyed more than two lakh kilograms of ganja (cannabis) valued at Rs 500 crore. The dried ganja was set afire at an event organised on a massive scale by the police in Visakhapatnam district. Director General of […]

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind will attend the President’s Fleet Review of the Indian Navy on 21 February in Visakhapatnam to commemorate 75 years of India’s independence. The President’s Fleet review will witness the participation of more than 60 ships, submarines and more than 50 aircraft. As part of this ceremonial event, all participating […]

Over two lakh kilos of ganja was seized in the last two years at various police stations limits in North Andhra districts including Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, and East Godavari.

Visakhapatnam: Four persons have been arrested in connection with sexual harassment and cheating by a pastor Prema Das of `Prema Swaroop Ministries’ in Payakaraopeta in the district. On a complaint from one of the victims, police sealed the ministries building and sent home eight of the 30 inmates –men and women, by two special buses […]

Hyderabad: The Prohibition and Excise department here on Saturday arrested two persons on charges of smuggling marijuana and hashish oil from Araku in Visakhapatnam and selling the same to persons known to them in the city. The arrested persons have been identified as Harshavardhan (24) and Vijay (25). Hashish oil worth Rs.4 lakh and marijuana […]

The fisherman was attacked by the giant fish with its spear-like snout when he along with four others was fishing in the deep sea 60 nautical miles from the shore.

Visakhapatnam: Special Branch police have arrested three persons including a woman, for drug peddling. Informing this at a media conference here on Monday, Special Branch Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Anand Reddy and ACP-West Sripada Rao said Ganta Malavya, 24, a resident of Shaikpet near Golconda in Hyderabad arrived in the city by a private […]

Visakhapatnam: The Praja Arogya Vedika affiliated to Jan Swasthya Abhiyan has urged the union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman to allocate a minimum of three per cent of the GDP in the budget to health care so that India would become world no. 1 number one in providing quality health care to the citizens. In […]

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh registered 10,310 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Sunday. In 24 hours ending 9 AM on Sunday, 9,692 infected people had recovered while 12 more succumbed in the state, according to the latest bulletin. The state Covid-19 chart now showed a total of 22,70,491 positives, 21,39,854 recoveries and 14,606 deaths till date. The […]

Amravati: As many as 12,561 COVID infections were added in Andhra Pradesh during the past 24 hours. According to a bulletin of Medical and Health department here on Friday, 12 deaths were reported during the period–three in Visakhapatnam, two each in Kurnool and Nellore and one each in Anatapur, Chittoor, Guntur, Vizianagaram and West Godavari […]

Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam, the biggest city in Andhra Pradesh and proposed to become the executive capital of the state, will be part of the smallest district under the same name, thanks to reconstitution of the districts. After the reconstitution of the 13 districts comprising 25 Lok Sabha and 175 Assembly constituencies, 51 Revenue divisions and 670 […]

Amaravati: Active cases increased to 73,143 but there was a slight dip in fresh infections as Andhra Pradesh recorded 12,926 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending 9 am on Saturday, taking the caseload to 21,66,194. The state had reported 13,212 fresh cases on Friday. According to the latest bulletin, there were 3,913 recoveries […]

Visakhapatnam: Sankar Foundation achieved yet another distinction of performing surgery on a one-month-old infant, first of its kind in the state. The child’s mother was delivered of the baby in INS Kalyani Hospital and the doctors recognized the problem of her baby not following torch light in left eye. The parents were shocked and the […]

Visakhapatnam: Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu has called for increasing indigenous production of crude oil through strong research and development efforts to ensure energy security of the country. Delivering the first convocation address of the Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE) here on Friday, he urged for ‘Atma Nirbharta’ in the country’s […]

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. […]

Hyderabad: In order to clear the extra rush of passengers during Sankrati festival, South Central Railway will run one more Suvidha special train from Secunderabad to Visakhapatnam. Train number 82725 will depart from Secunderabad at 9 pm on January 11, to reach Visakhapatnam at 9:50 am the following day. Enroute, this special train will stop […]