Many parts of Telangana saw heavy rains HYDERABAD: A father-daughter duo, a mother-daughter duo, and a couple among nine people died in rain-related accidents over a 24-hour period until Sunday in Telangana battered by torrential downpours.Andhra Pradesh capital region, meanwhile, has been transformed into a virtual lake following an unprecedented 37 cm rainfall in a…
VIJAYAWADA: Students of a private engineering college near Gudlavalleru, in Gudivada mandal of Andhra Pradesh‘s Krishna district, staged a midnight protest late on Thursday after allegedly discovering hidden cameras in the washrooms of the girls’ hostel.The protest was triggered by allegations that a final year BTech student had been selling videos captured by the hidden…
NEW DELHI: At least 4 people were killed and another 17 were injured after a fire broke out at a pharmaceutical unit in Andhra Pradesh‘s Anakapalle district. Anakapalli district collector Vijaya Krishnan said the accident occurred around 2pm at Escientia pharma plant, which is located in the Achutapuram Special Economic Zone .“We lost four employees.The…
VIJAYAWADA: At least 18 workers suffered injuries in a blast at a chemical factory in the Special Economic Zone in Rambilli mandal of Anakapalli district on Wednesday. The blast was reported during the lunch hours from a reactor at the Escientia chemical factory premises. The injured were shifted to the NTR hospital and a private…
The chain of a crust gate of the Tungabhadra dam broke, leading to the release of huge amount of water, on Sunday BENGALURU: The failure of the 19th crest gate of the 71-year-old dam across the Tungabhadra river on Sunday afternoon has put lakhs of people in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh on high alert for…
MUNIRABAD (KOPPAL): Lakhs of people in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh braced for potential flooding after the 19th crest gate of the 71-year-old dam across the Tungabhadra river failed Sunday afternoon. The dam, about 350km from Bengaluru, saw water gushing out after the gate gave way, putting downstream districts in north Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool…
NEW DELHI: Isro will use its newly-developed small satellite launch vehicle, SSLV-D3, to launch Earth Observation Satellite-8 (EOS-8) on Aug 15.“SSLV’s third and final flight will launch EOS-08 microsatellite on Aug 15, 2024, at 09:17 IST from Sriharikota. It completes the SSLV development project and enables operational missions by Indian industry and NSIL,” Isro posted…
Magical realism is defined as what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe. There was a reason magical realism was born in Colombia. It’s fitting that the Netflix show Narcos – which focused on the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar – starts by describing a literary phenomenon…
Dressed in an off-white Mangalagiri sari with a purple-golden border, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday presented her seventh consecutive Union Budget, reading from a tablet PC that was wrapped in the red-coloured ‘bahi-khata’ style pouch she has used for all her Budget speeches in place of the leather briefcase — called ‘budget’ from the…
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the 2024-25 budget on Tuesday announced Rs 15,000 crore for the development of Andhra Pradesh‘s Amaravati capital city project.The project was back on track after the return of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) an NDA ally in the Telugu state.The TDP and the JD(U) in Bihar, had…
