Category: Andhra Pradesh

In a major step to promote farm mechanisation and improve farming community’s access to the latest machinery and implements, the State government would be introducing more than 1,000 Custom Hiring Centres (CHCs), said Special Chief Secretary (Agriculture) and Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) Vice-Chancellor B. Rajasekhar. Interacting with the media at the ‘Agricultural Technology Exhibition’, organised as part of […]

The YSR Congress party received yet another boost in West Godavari district with the announcement of Kotagiri Sridhar, son of former Telugu Desam Party minister Kotagiri Vidyadhar Rao, deciding to join the camp of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. Sridhar met Jagan on Sunday and expressed willingness to join the YSRC. He held talks with other senior leaders of the party […]

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said on Thursday that Andhra Pradesh was set to emerge as an aviation hub with the Vijayawada (Gannavaram) airport registering an impressive growth in passenger traffic, pegged by Secretary (Ministry of Civil Aviation) R.N. Choubey at 73 per cent last year. The other two major airports at Visakhapatnam and Tirupati were also making rapid strides, […]

About 25 girl students of the Sri Seshachala College in Puttur, pursuing their B.Ed course, were taken ill on Thursday and were rushed to a private hospital. The students alleged that they were served stale food the previous night. Owing to its bad smell, some students avoided the food and got their dinner from outside. Those who consumed the food […]

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today announced a reward of Rs 100 crore to anybody who becomes a Nobel Prize winner from the state. Naidu was speaking at the National Children’s Science Congress at Sri Padmavathi Women’s University in Tirupati. He advised children to enjoy the work they do and work hard to accomplish it. “Small innovations will […]

India’s space agency ISRO will launch a record 103 satellites all but three of them foreign at one go on a single rocket in the first week of February in what will be a major feat not attempted by any country. As India looks to grab a larger slice of the lucrative commercial space market, 100 of the 103 satellites […]