Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Hyderabad/Bangalore: The unprecedented cold wave sweeping across southern India has claimed seven lives so far in Andhra Pradesh and broken century-old temperature records at several places in neighbouring Karnataka. Chilly winds blew across coastal and north Telangana districts, claiming the lives of four elderly persons at Gudipudi village near Sattenapalle …
The Andhra Pradesh Government has declared 44 more mandals as drought-affected today located in Guntur, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts taking the number of rain deficit mandals to be declared hit to 709. On Wednesday, the Government had added 13 more mandals located in Visakhapatnam, Medak and Karimnagar factoring adverse …
At least one person was killed and scores of villages inundated in the torrential rains that lashed the state since Monday night. All three regions of the state received heavy rains with Nalgonda district being the worst hit. Several tanks breached and rivulets overflowed leaving the main and artillery roads …
Hyderabad Good food, old Telugu movies and handsome money is what 25 women at Pidiguralla town in the coastal district of Guntur were promised in return for vials of their blood. But what they had not bargained for was severe body ache and hospitalisation. The women, most of whom are …
The energy consumed in irrigation pumping constitutes a major share of the total energy utilised for agriculture. As the increasing demand of energy has aroused viz. in electrical, oil and gas, hence there is a strong need to explore the possibility of using the alternate and renewable energy sources like …
Dec. 9: The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, has said the state government held talks with the union agriculture minister, Mr Sharad Pawar on purchase of damaged paddy in the state through the Food Corporation of India and asked the rain-affected farmers not get demoralised with the crop …
Guntur district is aiming at all-round, inclusive growth with a slew of projects and programmes. GUNTUR district, spread over an area of nearly 11,390 square kilometres, is bounded by Prakasam district in the south, Mahabubnagar in the west and Krishna and Nalgonda districts in the north. The district has a …
Guntur, Aug. 8: The officials of the labour department decided to extend accidental insurance cover to 12,000 workers who worked 100 days in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) works.These workers will get accidental insurance cover up to Rs 2 lakh. They are eligible for pension scheme also implemented …
Hyderabad, July 7: The state housing department has built just 219 houses of the one lakh that the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, had promised would be constructed for victims of the floods in Kurnool, Mahbubnagar, Prakasam and Guntur districts last year. A GO was issued on October 19 last …
June 13: The minister for major industries, Mr Kanna Lakshminarayana, on Sunday directed the officials to allot land for Apache footwear unit in Pottur village in Guntur rural mandal, tyres factory and textile park in Mangalagiri and food- processing industry in Rajupalem mandal. The minister instructed the district collector, Mr …
Guntur, May 30: The Varikipudisila lift irrigation scheme work is not moving forward due to the negligence of the government. The government directed the Andhra Pradesh State Irrigation Development Corporation (APSIDC) to take up the lift irrigation scheme at a cost of Rs100 crore to irrigate 5,000 acres of land …
Throws Road & Rail Traffic Out Of Gear, Causes Outages Along Coast Hyderabad: Even after Cyclone Laila weakened ahead of landfall, about 30km from Bapatla in Guntur district, on Thursday afternoon, it left 16 people dead, flooding thousands of homes, snapping power in many areas and throwing rail and road …
Cyclonic storm Laila remained stationary near south coastal Andhra Pradesh as heavy rains and gales continued to batter the region for the third consecutive day on Friday, killing 27 people and inundating towns and villages. The transport system was paralysed and electricity and communication disrupted. Heavy downpour continued in the …
Vijayawada, May 19: The district administration is on high alert with the cyclone Laila likely to cross the Krishna district coast tonight or Thursday morning triggering gales up to 120 km per hour and heavy rains. Arrangements have been made to evacuate 30,000 people to safer places, mostly to the …
A. K. Shiva Kumar The glitter of growth has added little sparkle to the lives of many peasants and rural workers. Deprivation, discrimination, and disadvantage dominate the everyday lives of large sections in rural Andhra Pradesh, an important new study*finds. Village studies highlight features of society that are often overlooked …
Guntur, May 17: The Praja Rajyam (PR) president, Mr K. Chiranjeevi, demanded that the state government send an all-party committee to Delhi to mount pressure on the Central government to accord national project status for Polarvaram Project. As part of Praja Ankitha Bus Yatra, he visited Tenali town on Monday. …
HYDERABAD: With the Andhra Pradesh government declaring a strong intent to promote nuclear power, two nuclear energy parks at Kovvada (Srikakulam district) and Nizampatnam (Guntur) are to be established with a whopping investment of over Rs. 1,50,000 crore. Disclosing this to reporters here on Thursday, Nuclear Power Corporation of India …
