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Hyderabad: Commemorating 50 years of 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, the Victory Flame of Swarnim Vijay Varsh celebrations reached the Navy House-Bolarum, Secunderabad, on Saturday. The Indian Navy played a stellar role on both the western and eastern sea fronts during the war that resulted in the birth of a new nation — Bangladesh. As part of […]
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Visakhapatnam: BJP workers in Andhra Pradesh organised State-wide protests against the ban on Ganesh festival in public on Monday. They stormed the Collectorates and Sub-Collectorates in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Guntur, Ongole, Kadapa, Machilipatnam and other places. In Visakhapatnam, BJP leaders carried a Ganesh idol on their head and barged into the Collectorate. They jostled with the […]
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HYDERABAD: The Prohibition and Excise department here on Saturday arrested three persons including a woman from Darjeeling of West Bengal for allegedly smuggling drugs from Visakhapatnam to Goa via Hyderabad. The arrested persons have been identified as Mardi Shiva Shanker Reddy, 26, of Prashant Nagar in Kondapur, Gandham Manikanth, 26, of Jayaprakash Nagar in Balkampet […]
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Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam railway station, of late, has undergone a lot of changes and some new facilities have been provided for the travelling passengers and for those waiting at the station. With the modern facilities, it received accolades such as cleanest railway station, Safaigiri award, best tourist-friendly station in India and many more. Some of the […]
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Visakhapatnam: A human chain will be formed on Sunday over a ten kilometre stretch from Aganampudi to BHEL in the industrial area to protest the decision of the Centre to privatise the Visakhapatnam steel plant. Chairman of the joint action committee for protection of Visakhapatnam steel plant, M. Jaggunaidu, said here on Saturday that the […]
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Visakhapatnam: Former Secretary to the Central Government, EAS Sarma, has called upon the Andhra Pradesh government to revoke its decision to sell away its equity in Gangavaram Port to the Adani Group in public interest. Expressing his serious concerns about the manner in which the state government had chosen to part with its equity share […]
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Visakhapatnam: Even as it was thought there was some relief with the decrease in COVID cases, seasonal fevers, particularly dengue, is causing panic in the Agency where the tribal population is queuing up before the health centres. The death of state BJP general secretary Lokula Gandhi during the weekend due to dengue is an example […]
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Visakhapatnam: RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant was conferred the ‘Ispat Suraksha Purashkar Awards’ for the calendar years 2018 and 2019 (2 years period) and 2019 and 2020 (2 years period) by the Joint Committee on Safety, Health and Environment in the Steel Industry (JCSSI). RINL Director (Operations) AK Saxena gave away the awards to the winning departments […]
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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Cybercrime police arrested a pastor from Andhra Pradesh on charges of derogatory and objectionable comments against a community and deities on social media and hurting sentiments. Police sources said, the pastor, Honey Johnson, from Visakhapatnam, allegedly made derogatory remarks through his YouTube channel recently. Following two complaints, the Cybercrime police booked a […]
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Tirupati: Union Minister for Tourism G Kishan Reddy has observed that there was no development in Andhra Pradesh, barring the Central Government schemes. Talking to reporters after visiting the Tirumala temple here on Thursday, he said there was somedelay in Central scheme works as the state was unable to provide its share of funds. The […]
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Visakhapatnam: Due to safety related modernisation works for insertion of Limited Height Subways in Vizianagaram-Korukonda and Dusi-Ponduru section of Waltair Division, many special trains are cancelled and rescheduled. Special trains cancelled: The train No. 02085 Sambalpur-Nanaded special train leaving Sambalpur on August 23; the Bhubaneswar-Secunderabad special leaving Bhubaneswar on Aug. 23; Guntur-Rayagada special train leaving […]
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The complainant, a doctor working for a private hospital in Banjara Hills had in 2017 hired Mahesh as his driver and helped him monetarily
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Visakhapatnam: The Centre has sanctioned Rs. 55 crore out of the Rs.70 crore proposed by the State government to develop the Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimhaswami temple at Simhachalam under the PRASAD (pilgrimage rejuvenation and spiritual augmentation drive) scheme of the Central government. Disclosing this at a media conference here on Friday, Tourism Minister Avanti Srinivasa […]
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CCTV footage showed that the flagpole, a huge log of wood wrapped in sheets of copper, collapse around 6.30 a.m.
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Hyderabad: A cyber fraudster cheated a woman, who was looking for a suitable alliance on a matrimony site, and left her with debts to the tune of Rs 8 lakh apart from taking away more than 3 tola gold. According to information available, the victim from Choutuppal in the city had posted her profile on […]
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Employees and workers of Steel plant on Monday began a two-day protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar opposing the privatisation of the plant.
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Visakhapatnam: BJP State president Somu Veerraju has advised the Andhra Pradesh government to complete the pending projects in the State. Addressing a round table conference on ‘Resources-challenges in AP’ here on Sunday, he stated that there were many projects pending for the past 30 years in the state. The Centre had given Rs.11,000 crore for […]
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Visakhapatnam: The Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam (IIMV) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Institute of Business Management, Sri Lanka (NIBM) on Monday through the online mode. The purpose of this MOU is to strengthen the courses of NIBM by IIMV through design, development, and delivery of programs of contemporary interest for […]
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Visakhapatnam: The Forum for Development of North Andhra has condemned the attitude of the Centre which was dilly dallying the formation of South Coast Railway Zone sanctioned to Visakhapatnam. General secretary of the Forum A Aja Sarma on Saturday said that he was dismayed at the reply given by the Railway Minister who had stated […]
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Visakhapatnam: The East Coast Railway has decided to induct modern Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coaches to Visakhapatnam-Nanded -Visakhapatnam special express with effect from July 31 to provide more comfortable journey to passengers. ECoR has taken several steps to initiate conversion of conventional coaches of important long distance trains with LHB coaches over its jurisdiction. The […]
