Visakhapatnam, In these days of ostentatious marriages with even the middle-class families spending lakhs of rupees, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Andhra is setting an example for others. Patnala Basanth Kumar, Commissioner, Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) will be spending just Rs 36,000 on the marriage of[Read More…]
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Rainy Monday for Kolkata as cyclone hits Andhra
Kolkata, Kolkata and several other districts of Gangetic West Bengal woke up to a rainy morning on Monday as cyclone ‘Phethai’ made landfall in Andhra Pradesh. The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) of Kolkata said that ‘Phethai’, which intensified into a severe cyclonic storm, gradually weakened into a cyclonic storm on[Read More…]
TDP MLA, ex-legislator shot dead by Maoists in Andhra
A ruling TDP MLA and a former legislator of his party were shot dead on Sunday by Maoists in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district, police said. In what is said to be first major attack by the Maoists on public representatives in nearly a decade, K. Sarveswara Rao, 45, Telugu Desam[Read More…]