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The woman was confined indoors for 11 years in her husband’s house at Cantonment locality in this Fort town.

Vizianagaram: A strange incident in which a AP Road Transport Corporation bus was stolen and later found by the police in another village, took place in the district on Tuesday. According to reports, an RTC bus of Palakonda depot on Monday made its night halt in Vangara village where the driver and conductor took rest. […]

Visakhapatnam: Two persons were killed and three others injured when the wall of a house collapsed in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district on Saturday. The incident occurred in Kumaram village when five members of a family were asleep. The deceased were identified as Addala Laksmi (47) and Addala Ashok Kumar Raju (5). Locals removed the bodies from […]

Vizianagaram: One person was arrested for alleged rape of a woman in the city on Monday night. Hailing from the Parvatipuram district in Andhra Pradesh, the woman lives with her two children in the city, working in a tea shop to eke out a livelihood. On Monday night two persons knocked her door and forced […]

Amaravati: Government employees in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district on Sunday staged a novel protest by tonsuring their heads and beating themselves with ‘chappals’ to press their demand for scrapping Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). Andhra Pradesh Contributory Pension Scheme Employees Association (APCPSEA) staged the novel protest near Vizianagaram collectorate. The protestors called a barber at the […]

Vizianagaram: The city police have arrested a notorious criminal and recovered from him 6.18 kg out of 8 kg of gold stolen from a jewellery shop near Clock Tower here early this week. Informing this to media persons here on Saturday, Superintendent of Police Deepika M. Patil said that 8 kg. of gold jewellery was […]

Vizianagaram: BJP state president Somu Veerraju has accused both the YSR Congress Party and the Telugu Desam Party of arrogating to themselves the housing programmes sponsored by the Centre. Talking to media persons here on Sunday, he challenged both the parties to speak on the same platform and he was ready to answer them. “The […]

Hyderabad: In order to clear extra rush during festival season, the South Central Railway (SCR) has announced six festival special trains. Accordingly, TATA – Kacheguda festival special train will leave on Fridays at 5.15 am and arrive on Saturdays at 11 am. The train will be operated on October 15, 22 and 29. Similarly, the […]

Vizianagaram: Minister for Municipal Administration Botsa Satyanarayana on Sunday said that the government could not keep quiet if cinema tickets rates were hiked arbitrarily, burdening the people. Reacting to the allegations of Jana Sena Party supremo and film star Pawan Kalyan in Hyderabad on Saturday, the minister said it was the distributors who had sought […]

Bhavani, who was working as SI at Sakhinetipalli in East Godavari district, came here five days ago for training. The training was over on Saturday afternoon and she was scheduled to leave on Sunday.

Vizianagaram: Ten children studying in fourth class in a municipal primary school in the Bobbili area have tested positive for coronavirus disease. Mandal Education Officer Lakshmana Rao said on Wednesday that there are 160 students and seven teachers in the school. With ten students affected by Covid, it was decided to conduct tests for parents […]

Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy said less than five per cent cases were reported in six districts--Kadapa, Guntur, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Nellore and Kurnool.

The scheme, which was hitherto available only in two Assembly constituencies on an experimental basis, is now extended to the entire district.

Chief Minister conducted a videoconference with Collectors of Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts and reviewed the situation

Visakhapatnam: Three top medical professors from the city- Venugopal, TAV Narayana Raju, and R Varaprasad died of COVID-19 during the last few days leaving the medical fraternity in grief. Venugopal was a former Head of Paediatrics in the King George Hospital while Narayana Raju, a social and preventive medicine expert, was earlier Principal of Maharaja […]

Visakhapatnam: To cater to the needs of mango traders, Waltair division of East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run Time Tabled Kisan Rail Parcel Express Trains from Vizianagaram, the nodal point for transportation of mangoes from this region, to Adarsh Nagar, New Delhi from Saturday. Accordingly, train No. 00851 Vizianagaram-Adarsh Nagar (Delhi) Kisan Rail […]

The First Mango special train of this season left on Wednesday, carrying 200 tons of Mangoes in 11,600 boxes to New Adarshnagar railway station at New Delhi

According to the police the incident happened near Sunkaripeta village at around 7 am, when the two buses travelling in opposite directions collided with each other.

Parvatipuram Police seized cannabis which was hidden in a vehicle recovery van on Sunday.

This was informed in a written reply to YSR Congress Party member Vijay Sai Reddy by Union Minister for Labour Santosh Kumar Gangwar on Wednesday.