Tag: Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad: E.S.L. Narasimhan, who is joint Governor for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, on Sunday held a meeting with ministers and officials of the two Telugu states to sort out pending issues arising from bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014. The meeting discussed the issues related to division of employees and handing over of the buildings of […]

Vijayawada: TDP MP Kesineni Nani and MLA Bonda Uma on Sunday apologised to Andhra Pradesh State Transport Commissioner N. Bala Subramanyam for allegedly misbehaving with him. This followed a threat by Transport Department employees to go on pen-down strike from Monday and the subsequent intervention by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MP […]

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s son N. Lokesh appears set to be inducted in the state cabinet as the TDP politburo Sunday recommended his nomination to the state legislative council. Telugu Desam Party (TDP) politburo, at its meeting at Naidu’s residence here, unanimously recommended Lokesh’s candidature for the legislative council polls. The […]

Mumbai: Bollywood celebrities, including Boman Irani and Anupam Kher, are deeply saddened by the Hirakhand Express tragedy, which claimed at least 36 lives and left 50 people injured when the Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express derailed in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district. The incident occurred on Saturday at 11.30 p.m. near Kuneru station, 24 km from Rayagada in […]

New Delhi: Faced with fund crunch, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Monday shot off a letter to Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari, demanding early reimbursement of Rs 3,722 crore for the ongoing Polavaram project on Godavari river. The state is making available funds for the project from its “meager resources” to ensure […]

Amaravati: Cyclone Phethai barrelled through coastal Andhra Pradesh on Monday, triggering heavy rains, uprooting trees and electric poles, and claiming one life, officials said. A boat carrying seven fishermen went missing in the Bay of Bengal off Visakhapatnam, even as Phethai crossed the coast in East Godavari district and moved towards Odisha after weakening gradually, […]

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Tuesday said it would be a real Diwali for the country when the ‘misrule’ of the NDA government ends at the Centre. “The real Diwali for the country is the day when the misrule of the NDA is put an end to,” he said in his Diwali […]

Visakhapatnam: YSR Congress leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was Thursday injured when he was attacked by a man with a sharp-edged object at the airport here, official sources said. Reddy, the leader of the opposition in the Andhra Pradesh assembly, received a minor injury on his shoulder and is doing fine, they said. Initial […]

Amaravati (AP): The Andhra Pradesh government Saturday requested the Centre to release Rs 1,200 crore as interim relief for restoration measures in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts that were battered by cyclone Titli. The severe cyclonic storm hit the two districts early Thursday, with winds gusting up to 165 kilometers per hour. Heavy rainfall, ranging from […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha and Andhra Pradesh Police on Friday decided to conduct joint operations and share information to effectively combat the Left Wing Extremism (LWE) in the border areas of the two states, officials said. This was decided in a meeting attended by Odisha DGP R P Sharma, his Andhra Pradesh counterpart R P Thakur and […]

Kolkata: Around 1,500 security personnel from four neighbouring states like Assam, Odisha, Sikkim and Andhra Pradesh will be arriving to West Bengal for the panchayat elections scheduled on Monday, a senior official said on Friday. While ten companies (each company comprising of 80 personnel) of forces will be arriving from Andhra Pradesh while the North-Eastern […]

Amaravati: Appreciating the rapid strides made by Andhra Pradesh in the energy sector, Union Minister of State for Power R K Singh today asked the state to prepare a comprehensive report that could be showcased to other states for replication of the best practises. State Power Minister K Kala Venkat Rao and Principal Secretary (Energy) […]

Amaravati: Although the Andhra Pradesh government had promised to complete the Polavaram multipurpose project by June 2018, its timeline has now been reset and it is likely to be completed only by mid-2019. Union Water Resources minister Nitin Gadkari, who inspected the Polavaram works last evening, ruled out the possibility of finishing the project by […]

Koraput: Tragedy revisited 40-year-old Jashoda as she lost her two teenaged children in the derailment of Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Express exactly a year after losing her husband. Jashoda was travelling in the train that derailed on January 21 in Vizianagaram district in Andhra Pradesh. Her 16-year-old daughter and 18-year-old son were among the 39 people killed in […]

New Delhi: With Railway suspecting sabotage in derailment of Hirakhand Express in Andhra Pradesh, the Home Ministry may ask the NIA to include the incident in its ongoing probe into possible role of Pakistan spy agency ISI in Indore-Patna Express mishap last year. “The Home Ministry may ask the NIA to see if the derailment […]