Category: Andhra Pradesh

The Centre on Monday released ₹1,981.54 crore, through the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (Nabard), for Andhra Pradesh’s ambitious ₹16,000-crore Polavaram irrigation project along the Godavari river. Releasing the amount, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said this should quell any sense of distrust that the people of the State had developed towards the Centre over funding for the project. […]

Income tax (I-T) sleuths have discovered that Rs 7 crore cash was deposited in a bank account of an Uber cab driver from Hyderabad. During scrutiny of huge cash deposits in bank accounts after demonetisation of high-value currency, the I-T (investigation) wing sleuths of Hyderabad had zeroed in on the account of the Uber cab driver from Hyderabad, where Rs […]

The state government plans to equip the Rythu Bazaars in all 13 districts of AP with Wi-Fi facilities soon in a bid to encourage cashless transactions among the customers and traders. According to official sources, the state has nearly 80 Rythu Bazaars including 13 in the Port City and 17 in Vijayawada. The government had initially introduced the project in […]

A CBI court on Wednesday remanded J Sekhar Reddy and his associate K Srinivasulu, from whose premises Income Tax department seized 127kg gold and over Rs 170 crore in cash, in judicial custody till January 3, 2017. They were remanded in custody by special judge for CBI cases Vijayalakshmi.