A special court for Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) cases in Vijayawada on Thursday refused to extend the police custody of senior Telugu Desam Party leader and former MLA Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar who has been facing charges of irregularities in the Sangam Diary in Guntur district.
The AP High Court on Thursday gave some relief to Guntur TDP MP Galla Jayadev family’s company, Amaraja Batteries.
With curfew in place from 12 noon onwards, the streets of Andhra Pradesh wore a deserted look on Wednesday. In view of the spiralling Covid numbers the state government, headed by Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy, has imposed a two-week partial curfew from Wednesday.
While grappling with the crisis of growing number of Coronavirus cases and deaths in Andhra Pradesh, chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy continues to focus on his flagship welfare schemes to consolidate the vote bank for his YSR Congress party.
Even as the entire country has been facing a major crisis due to second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Narendra Modi government has been silently going ahead with the move to privatise the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited in Visakhapatnam, better known as Viskhapatnam Steel Plant.
Andhra Pradesh state legislature secretary P Balakrishnamacharyulu who stood by the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government during the crucial period of passage of three capitals bill last year, has been rewarded for his loyalty.
Stalemate continues over the announcement of results of the elections held for Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTCs) and Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies (MPTCs) in Andhra Pradesh even after a month.
TDP senior leader and former legislator, Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar got some relief from the high court on Wednesday.
The Andhra Pradesh government had dropped the national call to vaccinate all citizen above the age of 18 years.
The TDP youth have all praise for the young leader Nara Lokesh, who had won the battle against the state government on SSC and Intermediate public examinations.
With Andhra Pradesh reeling severely under the Covid-19 crisis, health officials suspect that the N440K variant, discovered by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), might be the reason behind the rapid deterioration of the health conditions of Covid patients in the last few days, in Visakhapatnam as well as other parts of the state.
In a major decision that goes a long way in the higher education sector, the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh has decided to do away with the aided-private colleges in the state with effect from coming academic year.
The state has about 2.6 lakh village volunteers working on salary basis to make the government schemes reach the people without any hassle.
Senior journalist Ulchala Hariprasada Reddy was on Tuesday appointed as the new Right to Information Commissioner in the Andhra Pradesh State Right to Information Commission.
The loss of Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal with a huge margin, its inability to make a mark in Southern states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the fall in its victory margin in Assam has indicated that the BJP is not invincible and the people are by and large unhappy over the Narendra Modi government.
