VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh govt suspended Sunday three senior IPS officers on charges of framing, arresting and harassing a Mumbai-based actress earlier this year in an alleged attempt to coerce her withdraw a sexual assault complaint in her home city. This is possibly the first time so many senior IPS officers have been suspended in the…
NEW DELHI: Faced with a huge financial burden caused by the ruling of a nine-judge bench of Supreme Court enabling states to collect royalty on extracted minerals and to levy tax on mineral-bearing land, Centre has sought a review, pointing out several “errors apparent in the judgment”.Interestingly, the Centre has roped in Madhya Pradesh as…
TIRUPATI: The TDP on Thursday suspended Satyavedu legislator Koneti Adimoolam from the party after a sexual harassment charge surfaced against him.A woman TDP leader from Satyavedu, who is a mother of two, shot off a complaint to party supremo and AP chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, accusing the Satyavedu MLA of subjecting her to sexual…
NEW DELHI: Severe flooding has struck Andhra Pradesh on Thursday due to heavy rainfall, submerging roads and houses. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported that a land-based cyclone caused intense precipitation within a 24-hour period. The extreme weather was driven by moisture from the Arabian Sea and heat from the eastern regions of the country.Relief…
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…
