At least 13 persons drowned in a lake in Guntakal in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district when a round boat made of bamboo–overturned when they were returning after attending a local fair. 15 persons were on board the coracle when they started rowing from one end of the YT lake when[Read More…]
A Hyderabad local court on Friday granted permission to Swami Aseemanand to travel out of Hyderabad till May 17. The court asked Aseemanand to return to Hyderabad by May 17 for the Mecca Masjid blast trial. On April 13, Swami Aseemanand had moved a local court seeking its permission to[Read More…]
More than 5,000 people from three villages in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district will start a hunger strike on Friday against an aqua food park. The villagers claimed that the park will destroy a fragile eco-system and ruin water bodies. The state government has nominated the owner of Godavari Mega[Read More…]
Critical or negative remarks on social media against the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) or the Chandrababu Naidu government in Andhra Pradesh may result in serious action including imprisonment. TDP general secretary and state Information Technology Minister Nara Lokesh, Naidu’s son, has asked his fellow leaders to initiate criminal action against[Read More…]
A roving tribe of India known as Moddivallu is on the verge of extinction. This tribe is well known in rural areas and bear a special identity because of their clothing and rigid attitude. As this semi-nomadic tribe are endangered because their present generation is refusing to adopt their traditional[Read More…]
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N Chandrababu Naidu’s son Nara Lokesh along with four MLAs of the opposition YSRC who switched loyalty to the ruling TDP-BJP coalition, and six others sworn in as incorporated on Sunday to the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet. The oath was administered by Governor ESL Narasimhan along with[Read More…]
In an unfortunate incident, at least 10 people were killed and 30 others were injured after a bus fell into a canal in a village of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday morning. The Hyderabad-bound private bus fell in between two flyovers near Mullupadu village in Krishna district. Notably, there were 38[Read More…]
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Friday said more women leaders would make the world safer as they can ensure promoting deeper human values. “Scientists now say women are more sensitive of others’ suffering. There are 200 nations on this planet and more women leaders would bring more safer world,”[Read More…]
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…]