The 3-day National Women’s Parliament kicked-off on Friday in the state capital region Amaravati. The session is being organized by Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly with the theme of ‘Empowering Women – Strengthening Democracy.’ Along with Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama, the inaugural event at Pavitra Sangamam was attended by Union[Read More…]
In another inhuman act, a woman was publically lambasted by village Sarpanch and his mate in Andhra Pradesh’s Kuderu village. The terrible episode took place on January 29. However, it came into the light when a video showing the ‘village head’ thrashing the woman went viral online on Thursday. Reportedly,[Read More…]
At least 39 passengers were killed and over 54 were injured after 9 coaches of Train No. 18448 Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express derailed in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district near a level crossing at Kuneru village at 11.15 pm on late Saturday night. The incident took place when the train was going[Read More…]
At least 32 people were killed and 54 injured after Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Express derailed in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district on Saturday, officials said. The incident took place around 11.30 pm when the train was going from Jagdalpur (Chhattisgarh) to Odisha capital Bhubaneswar. Thirteen of the train’s 22 coaches were unaffected in[Read More…]
An American citizen in Hyderabad has been arrested by the Police for downloading and uploading child pornography. 42-year-old James Kirk Jones, who was working with a MNC law firm in Hyderabad, was arrested after the cybercrime wing of Telangana’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) received a tip-off about an IP address[Read More…]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday filed a charge sheet in a special court at Nampally in Hyderabad against eight persons suspected to be ISIS members. They have been charged with conspiring to carry out Paris and Brussels-type attack in the city. According to NIA, the eight were the[Read More…]
The city is restoring itself back as flights have been resumed and power has been restored in Chennai on Tuesday after Cyclone Vardah battered the Tamil Nadu coast on Monday. The natural disaster has killed around 10 people so far and forced thousands to flee their homes. Although the cyclone[Read More…]
Tamil Nadu government issued an advisory asking people to stay indoors on Monday, with extremely heavy rainfall (20cm and above) being anticipated by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) during the day. The very severe cyclonic storm Vardah makes landfall around afternoon on Sunday. As the natural calamity is expected, the[Read More…]
A female student of a medical college in Andhra Pradesh committed suicide by jumping from the college building in the early hours of Thursday, police said. Shubhashri, 21, a fourth year student of MBBS, jumped down from the fourth floor of the college hostel building. She was admitted to the[Read More…]
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has planned a move that he claims would help in this time of demonetisation chaos. The Andhra Pradesh government is planning to distribute free mobile phones to enable economically-backward people to undertake cashless transactions in the wake of the ongoing currency crisis. “Everybody[Read More…]
In a list prepared by the World Bank with the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) on the ease of doing business, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana jointly topped the rankings for 2015-16. Last year’s topper, Gujarat, slipped to third position. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released the report[Read More…]
The one-man judicial commission set up by the HRD ministry has finished its inquiry into the suicide of Rohith Vemula. Constituted on January 28, 11 days after Vemula killed himself in his hostel room, the commission submitted its 41-page report where the report has claimed that Rohith’s mother “branded” herself[Read More…]
In a shocking incident from Nellore, a woman attempted to set her pregnant daughter-in-law on fire, because an astrologer predicted that she would give birth to another girl child. The in-laws poured kerosene on the victim Girija and fled the house after she raised an alarm. She was rescued by[Read More…]
The Centre has refused to transfer University of Hyderabad (UoH) vice-chancellor Appa Rao Podile, even though he has been accused of playing a role in Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide. The ministry of human resources development (MHRD) said there is “no provision” for the VC’s transfer to another varsity under[Read More…]
