Tag: Vijayawada

Tortoise
Revenue Intelligence seizes 406 star tortoises being smuggled to Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar/Vijayawada: As many as 406 Indian star tortoises were seized by the officials of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Tuesday evening at Vijayawada railway station in Andhra Pradesh while being smuggled to Bangladesh via Bhubaneswar. The DRI sleuths also apprehended two women who were transporting the endangered species in four bags by train. Both […]

  • Saturday, 24 July 2021
boat
14 dead as boat capsizes in Andhra

Vijayawada: At least fourteen tourists, including six women and two children, were killed and nine others missing as a boat capsized in Krishna river near here in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district on Sunday, officials said. The incident occurred at Ibrahimpatnam Ferry Ghat. There were 38 tourists on boat belonging to a private operator and coming […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
Bus accident
11 dead, 30 injured as Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad bus falls off a bridge in AP

Vijayawada/Bhubaneswar: In a tragic incident, 11 passengers including 2 from Odisha were killed and more than 30 injured when Hyderabad bound private bus from Bhubaneswar, met with an accident at Mulapadu under Telugunchi panchayat near Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh on National Highway-16 in the wee hours today. While the bus driver and the helper among […]

  • Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Vijaywada
Fire Mishap At Vijayawada Covid Care Centre, 10 Patients Dead

Vijayawada: At least ten persons were killed on Sunday in a fire that broke out at a hotel turned Covid-19 care centre here, officials said. Fire tenders rushed to the spot managed to bring the blaze under control. The fire broke out in the ground and first floors of the building. Inmates of the Covid-19 […]

  • Wednesday, 14 April 2021
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