New Delhi: Around seven students are said to be missing after a passenger boat capsized in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district today. The boat had 40 passengers in total out of which 30 have been rescued. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force and the State Disaster Response Force are at[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs will visit areas in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh bordering China next month to look at the situation amid concerns that China had ramped up its military infrastructure in the Doklam region. Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who is a member of the[Read More…]
Hyderabad: In a setback to the Telangana government, the Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday revoked the disqualification of two legislators of opposition Congress from the state Assembly. Justice B. Siva Sankara Rao set aside the expulsion of Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and S.A. Sampath Kumar and directed that their membership be restored.[Read More…]
Vijayawada: In a shocking incident, a physically challenged Dalit woman was gang raped in Vijayanagaram district of Andhra Pradesh, police said on Monday. An auto-rickshaw driver and his two accomplices allegedly raped the 21-year-old, in Phool Bagh area of Vijayanagaram town late on Sunday night. According to police, the woman was[Read More…]
New Delhi: The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) on Monday said their members of Parliament (MPs) would resign from the Lok Sabha on April 6 if Andhra Pradesh is not accorded special status by April 5. “If special category status is not given to Andhra Pradesh by April 5, YSRCP MPs will[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the entre was sympathetically working on all issues concerning Andhra Pradesh and a decision on a special package would be finalised over next few days. Jaitley, who was replying to the debate on the general budget for 2017-18 in the[Read More…]
Hyderabad: A prostitution racket was busted here with the arrest of four persons, including two actresses from Mumbai, police said on Sunday. The arrests were made during raids on two five-star hotels in posh Banjara Hills area late on Saturday night, police said. Those arrested include an actress from Bollywood[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a teacher in a private school in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district broke the arm of an upper KG student for not doing her homework, officials said on Wednesday. According to reports, a woman teacher at National Talent School at Vaddadi in Bucchaiahpet ‘mandal’ (block) mercilessly beat[Read More…]
In an attempt to foster the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, the Andhra Pradesh government has proposed to allot five extra marks to students of class 9 and above who participate in the initiative. To achieve the status of Open Defacation by March 2019, the state government has to construct 21 lakh[Read More…]
Andhra Pradesh CM, N Chandrababu Naidu, has announced a new way of offering prayers to water bodies and to make people aware of water preservation. The project called ‘Jala Siriki Haarati’, is aimed at praying at all the rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, irrigation projects, water reservoirs, check dams and all[Read More…]
A trainee software engineer had to jump from a running train in an attempt to escape three men who had been sexually assaulting her in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. The techie, who works as a trainee engineer at Redington Gulf, sustained head injuries. The 21-year-old was travelling in the[Read More…]
A two-year-old boy was rescued in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district was rescued from a well after an 11-hour long operation. Chandrasekhar, who fell in the abandoned borewell around 5 p.m. on Tuesday was brought out alive by the rescue workers around 3 a.m. on Wednesday. The boy was struck at[Read More…]
Around 1,200 Dalits at Garagaparru village in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh will initiate an indefinite fast from Tuesday. They will protest against social boycott by the upper caste in their village. About 360 families from Mala community, a predominant Scheduled Caste group in Andhra, have been facing social[Read More…]
The Andhra Pradesh government officials on Saturday said that at least 46 cows died of “pneumonia and starvation” in an overcrowded cattle protection centre in the last few days. According to the Godavari district officials, police registered a case against the management of the centre for alleged negligence that caused[Read More…]
Remark of Andhra Pradesh Excise Minister Kothapalli Samuel Jawahar that beer is a “health drink” has triggered controversy with the main opposition party, YSR Congress, creating chaos over it. The Minister, in an interview to a vernacular TV channel, had said the State government was planning to endorse beer as[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, as many as 15 people of a tribal village in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, have lost their lives in the past two weeks. The cause of death is suspected to be food poisoning. Another 24 people from the same village, Chavaraee in Y Ramavaram[Read More…]
The Wall of Kindness has finally made its appearance in Hyderabad, aiming to help the poor. It is a charity initiative which started in Iran and is now visible in the city, restoring a faith in humanity. Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) joined hands with the residents of Rajendranagar to[Read More…]
Hard work finally paid off! A samosa seller’s son from Kukatpally Housing Board area in Hyderabad secured 64th rank in this year’s Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced. The results were announced on Sunday. V Mohan Abhyas, 17, not only secured a good rank in JEE advanced but also bagged all-India sixth[Read More…]
In a novel initiative, the Andhra Pradesh government has implemented the ‘People First’ grievance redressal system in the state to ensure that citizens who have had to pay bribes for government services get their money back. The Chandrababu Naidu government has recently launched a toll-free number 1100 for registering complaints[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a 32-year old man was murdered by two armed men in the middle of a busy street in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa on Thursday. While the murder took place in broad daylight, the onlookers watched from a safe distance. Some even chose to film the crime on[Read More…]
According to media reports, around 60 members of the Rajya Sabha have made a fresh plea to initiate the impeachment of Justice Nagarjuna Reddy of the high court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. He is accused of interfering in the judicial proceedings and making caste slurs, including death threats, against[Read More…]
In a distressing video, a 13-year old girl is seen begging her father to save her life as she is suffering from cancer in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. The video has now gone viral after she lost her life to the serious disease. She was suffering from bone marrow cancer. The[Read More…]
Nine people have been booked by the Visakhapatnam police for allegedly laundering Rs 570 crore by floating shell companies and making fraudulent remittances through hawala transactions. After a complaint by the joint director of income tax (investigations) M V N Seshu Bhavannarayana, the MVP Colony police in the town have[Read More…]
In order to discuss ways to deal with the Naxal violence, Home minister Rajnath Singh, on Monday, hosted a meeting with the Chief Ministers and representative of 10 Maoist-affected states namely– Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. The meeting comes soon[Read More…]
A 39-year-old woman was found hanging at her house in Hyderabad, less than a month since her family returned to the city from the US. Rashmi Sharma’s husband Sanjay and their two sons had gone out to get a laptop repaired. Reportedly, they found her dead when they returned to[Read More…]