Amaravati, April 1 (IANS) Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSRCP President, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Wednesday termed Amaravati as the ‘capital of corruption’ and accused Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu of engineering unprecedented and impractical policies to enrich him and his coterie.On a day when the Lok Sabha passed a Bill to give statutory recognition to Amaravati as the sole capital of Andhra Pradesh, Jagan Mohan Reddy addressed a press conference here to lash out at Chandrababu N…
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Amaravati, March 26 (IANS) The ghastly bus fire, which claimed 14 lives and left 22 others injured in Andhra Pradesh’s Markapuram district on Thursday, is the latest in a series of deadly accidents involving buses in the Telugu states.Both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have witnessed at least four major bus tragedies in the last six months.Nineteen people were burnt to death when a private bus caught fire after running over a motorbike lying on the road following an accident near Kurnool town o…
Amaravati, March 12 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday announced that the government is considering the proposal to establish an Electronics City near Hindupur.CM Naidu also announced that a Creative City will be established in Amaravati to encourage content creators, AI, film and creative industries, aiming to boost the creative economy in the state.Addressing the district Collectors’ conference on the second day, he stated that the government is developing …
Amaravati, March 9 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said on Monday that the coalition government is correcting the mistakes made by the previous government.He accused the YSR Congress Party of disrupting the revenue department during its rule.He was speaking at a public meeting after distributing ‘pattadar’ passbooks among farmers at Kotha Buruju village in Nandyal district.He alleged that the leaders under the previous government tried to snatch the land of farmers and …
Srinagar, Feb 27 (IANS) The J&K Students Association (JKSA) said on Friday that it has sought Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s intervention in the alleged harassment of Kashmiri students at a Kurnool nursing college.”The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association (JKSA) on Friday wrote to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, seeking urgent intervention over reported incidents of harassment, verbal abuse, denial of Ramzan (Sehri & Iftar) arrangements, hijab …
Amaravati, Feb 15 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh minister for education and information technology Nara Lokesh has come out in support of a Muslim vendor who faced harassment by some YouTubers during the recent Medaram Jatara in Telangana.Lokesh reacted to the media reports about the harassment of Shaik Shaiksha Vali, the vendor from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.Shaik Shaiksha Vali was selling ‘Khoya bun’, a famous food from his region, during the tribal fair in Telangana’s Mulugu district.A group of Yo…
Amaravati, Feb 13 (IANS) Two days before the announcement of $29 million (around Rs 262 crore) compensation deal was announced by the city of Seattle for the family of Jaahnavi Kandula, who died after being hit by a speeding police vehicle, the family suffered another tragedy.Jaahnavi’s father, Kandula Srikanth, a police head constable in Andhra Pradesh, died of cardiac arrest on February 10.Srikanth died in Guntakal in Anantapur district, where he was posted. His last rites were performed in …
Amaravati, Jan 22 (IANS) Andhra Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said that his visit to Davos has been useful to promote branding of Andhra Pradesh on a global platform. Winding up his visit on Thursday, he said that the World Economic Forum platform helps understand the changing trends in the global industrial sector and the perspectives of industrial giants worldwide.The Chief Minister explained that through various meetings in the last three days, the state’s achievements in key sect…
Amaravati, Jan 22 (IANS) Three people were killed when a private bus caught fire after colliding with a container lorry in Andhra Pradesh’s Nandyal district in the early hours of Thursday.The bus lost control after suffering a tyre burst, and after jumping the road divider, collided with a lorry coming from the opposite direction.The bus, which was en route to Hyderabad from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, and the container truck carrying motorcycles, caught fire as a result of the collision.The acci…
Nandyal (Andhra Pradesh), Jan 22 (IANS) At least three people were killed and several others injured after a private bus lost control, collided head-on with a container truck and caught fire in Andhra Pradesh’s Nandyal district in the early hours of Thursday, police said.The accident occurred between 1 and 2 a.m. near Shirivellametta village in Shirivella mandal of the district.Both the drivers of the vehicles and the cleaner of the container truck were charred to death beyond recognition, accor…