If the reports coming from the power corridors of Tadepalli are to be believed, the Jagan government is most likely to take a call on Wednesday on the date of shifting of administrative capital from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam.
In a sudden decision, former minister and Kapu strongman from East Godavari district Mudgada Padmanabham on Monday announced withdrawal of his agitation for reservations to Kapu community under Backward Classes quota.
A fight over face mask claimed the life of a 19-year-old girl in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district, police said.
Andhra Pradesh reported yet another all-time high of 1,813 new coronavirus cases in a 24-hour cycle ending 9 am on Saturday, the fourth time this week that a record high has been breached. On the positive side, the day also witnessed a high of 1,168 patients cured of Covid-19 and discharged.
On Friday, the state had recorded 1,608 positive cases, 1,555 on Thursday and 1,322 on Monday.
The new cases include 38 returnees from outside Andhra Pradesh, health officials said.
Andhra Pradesh's total corona cases crossed the 27K-mark to touch 27,235 cases on Saturday.
The new cases were reported from all 13 districts in the state. Anantapur district topped with 311 cases, followed by Chittoor with 300, Kurnool with 229, Srikakulam with 204, East Godavari with 143, and Krishna with 123 cases.
Andhra Pradesh conducted 20,590 more tests, as against 21,020 samples tested in the 24-hour cycle ending Friday morning.
As many as 1,168 more persons were discharged from hospitals and Covid treatment centres in the state. The cured patients now total 14,393.
As of Saturday, 12,533 coronavirus patients are admitted in hospitals and designated Covid treatment centres in the state.
A total of 17 deaths were reported from the state -- Kurnool four, Guntur and Vizianagaram three each, Krishna and Nellore two each, and Kadapa, Anantapur and Visakhapatnam one death each. The total corona death toll in Andhra Pradesh was 309 on Saturday morning.
The number of coronavirus cases among returnees from other states rose by two. Returnees from Telangana continue to dominate this category, with 22 of the 34 cases returnees from the neighbouring Telugu state. There were also four positive cases from among Odisha returnees. Similarly, three returnees each from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, and one each from Delhi and Karnataka are among corona positive patients.
As of Saturday, 2,385 state returnees have so far tested positive while there are 690 active cases in this category. As many as 1,695 persons have recovered till date.
On Saturday morning, four new cases were reported from among foreign returnees -- two returnees from Kuwait, one from Saudi Arabia and one from the USA.
The total tally in this category is 428, with 299 patients cured and discharged. As of Saturday, 129 patients in this category are under treatment in hospitals.
Putting to rest all the rumours that have been floated in the social media and part of the mainstream media, TRS president and CM KCR returned to his official bungalow Pragati Bhavan in Hyderabad on Saturday evening.
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Facing a series of criminal cases filed against him by the YSRCP MLAs in various police stations, rebel YSRC MP from Narsapuram parliamentary constituency Raghurama Krishnam Raju on Friday moved the high court seeking to quash the cases.
The Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) authorities, who busted a major multi-crore racket in the Employees State Insurance (ESI) in the state and arrested former minister and TDP deputy floor leader in the assembly Kinjarapu Atchen Naidu, are now closing in on another former minister Pithani Satyanarayana.
For the last few weeks, the Andhra Pradesh police have been targeting the TDP sympathisers and social media activists for posting any negative comments against the YSRCP government or leaders on the social media.
As the YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh led by CM Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy requires huge financial resources to fund its various welfare and developmental programmes in a big way, it is looking up to the Centre to release pending funds from the Centre.
It is not yet clear whether or not YSRCP MP from Narasapuram Kanumuru Raghurama Krishnam Raju will be disqualified from his Lok Sabha membership, but it looks certain that he is going to face criminal prosecution by the police in his own state.
Andhra Pradesh state assembly speaker Tammineni Sitaram, who kicked up a major controversy with his aggressive attack on the courts for delivering judgements against the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in the state, continues to make such controversial statements.
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At a time when the YSRC party leaders across Andhra Pradesh have welcomed the proposal of party president and CM Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy to increase the number of districts in the state from 13 to 25 in tune with the number of parliamentary constituencies, former minister and senior YSRC legislator Dharmana Prasada Rao has raised an objection.
After submitting a petition to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla seeking disqualification of Narasapuram MP Kanumuru Raghurama Krishnam Raju from his Lok Sabha membership for his anti-party activities, the YSR Congress party
