Andhra Pradesh has secured the top position in the 2016-17 financial year as far as the ease of doing business within a state is concerned. The third edition of the annual rankings, published by the government on Tuesday, showed that Andhra Pradesh amongst 28, is the best state to do[Read More…]
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Five YSR Congress MPs to resign, sit on hunger strike
New Delhi: All the five Lok Sabha Members of YSR Congress on Thursday announced they will resign from Parliament and sit on an indefinite hunger strike at Andhra Bhawan here over their demand for special category status to Andhra Pradesh. The party also said that on one pretext or the another,[Read More…]
YSR Congress MPs to resign if special status not given to AP
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…]
BJP rejects charges as “propaganda”, says centre looks at AP sympathetically
New Delhi, Feb 16: The BJP on Friday rejected what it said was “propaganda” that the Centre has not given Andhra Pradesh the requisite assistance and said it has gone “way beyond” to fulfil all the obligations under Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act and will look at the state “sympathetically”. “The[Read More…]
Special package for Andhra Pradesh to be finalised soon: Jaitley
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…]
Andhra Pradesh: India will launch 31 satellites on January 10
India will launch 31 satellites, including the earth observation spacecraft Cartosat on January 10, from its spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, an official said on Saturday. “We have tentatively scheduled the rocket launch at 9.30 a.m. to carry Cartosat and other satellites, including 28 from the US and five[Read More…]
India has put ‘Dharma’ at centre of governance, says Vice President
“Dharma” is for the stability of society, maintenance of social order and the general well-being and progress of human kind, and India has put Dharma at the centre of governance,” Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday. Addressing the members of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Advocates Associations here, he[Read More…]
Toll in Andhra boat tragedy rises to 19
The death toll in Sunday’s boat capsize in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district rose to 19 as three more bodies were recovered from Krishna river on Monday, police said. The search was on for two missing persons. The overloaded boat of a private operator carrying 42 tourists capsized near Ibrahimpatnam Ferry[Read More…]
Andhra teacher breaks UKG student’s arm for not doing homework
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…]
Andhra Pradesh: CM Naidu announces new ways of offering prayers to water bodies
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…]
Andhra Pradesh: Woman techie jumped off running train to evade sexual harassment
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…]
Andhra Pradesh: Boy rescued from borewell after 11 hours
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…]
Venkaiah Naidu takes oath as 13th Vice President of India
Vice-president-elect M Venkaiah Naidu took oath as the 13th Vice-president on Friday morning. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate defeated the opposition candidate, Gopalkrishna Gandhi with a huge majority. Naidu won the vice-presidential election last week. While the 68-year-old BJP leader from Andhra Pradesh got 516 votes out of the[Read More…]
Andhra Pradesh: 1,200 Dalits to protest against ‘social boycott’ in Andhra village
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…]
Presidential election 2017 Live: Kovind leads by 1 lakh vote after first round of counting
NDA nominee for President, Ram Nath Kovind is leading opposition candidate Meira Kumar by 1 lakh votes. As per the rule of proportional representation, the total votes cast by elected lawmakers across India add up to around 11 lakh. The first round of counting has ended and there are seven[Read More…]
22 states abolish check posts after GST rollout
Just three days after the GST rollout, as many as 22 states have removed check posts. With the implementation of Goods and Services Tax GST, states such as Delhi, West Bengal and Maharashtra have abolished check-posts; while states, including Assam, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and some north-eastern states, are also in[Read More…]
Andhra Pradesh: 15 tribal die in a village after suspected food poisoning
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…]
Former AP Chief Secretary fired for FB post against CM Naidu
Recently, former Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary I Y R Krishna Rao was sacked from his position of Chairman of the Brahmin Welfare Corporation for his Facebook post which recently went viral on social media. In the last week of April, Rao shared some critical posts underscoring ruling TDP government Chief[Read More…]
Spousal violence: Manipur tops the list with 53% cases; Bihar, Andhra Pradesh are no less
Although marriage is said to be a sacred institution, the alarming numbers of spousal violence in India have another story to convey. A statistics of National Family Health Survey, suggests that nearly 29 per cent of married women in the country faced spousal violence in 2015-16. The figure is indeed[Read More…]
Another HC judge speaks up, calls cow, ’substitute to Mother and God’
Days after a Rajasthan HC judge said that cow should be made the national animal, a Hyderabad high court judge on Friday, said that cow is “sacred national wealth” and is a “substitute to Mother and God”. Justice B Siva Sankara Rao of Hyderabad HC quoted from a Supreme Court[Read More…]
BJP neither understands India nor Hindu culture: Rahul Gandhi
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said he is taking huge interest in religious scriptures in an effort to take on saffron party. While addressing party workers, Rahul vowed to expose Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), for their misuse of religion for political goals. “Nowadays I study[Read More…]
Andhra Pradesh launches ‘People First’ helpline against corrupt govt servants
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…]
Andhra Pradesh: Man murdered in broad daylight, crowd film the crime
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…]
Andhra Pradesh: 13 people drown in lake
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…]
