The stroke unit at the Department of Neurology, Government General Hospital, Guntur, has achieved the rare honour of being included in nationwide Stroke Services Network, an initiative of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Christian Medical College (CMC), Ludhiana. The Stroke Unit at Guntur will be part of the Indian Stroke Trial Network (INSTRUcT) to carry out stroke […]
» Read moreThe Guntur Government General Hospital (GGH) has become the first hospital in the government sector to perform heart transplantation in the Telugu States. It is also the first heart transplantation performed in A.P. after bifurcation. Teams of doctors of the GGH transplanted the heart of a truck driver to a car driver. By some quirk of fate, both the donor […]
» Read moreThe deep depression over the south west Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours. The depression, according to the India Meteorological Department, moved north north-eastwards at a speed of 10 kmph on Wednesday and intensified into a deep depression. It lay centred over west central and adjoining southwest of Bay of […]
» Read moreAndhra Pradesh State Cooperative Bank (APCOB) Chairman and former Minister Pinnamaneni Venkateswara Rao escaped with minor injuries while his wife Satyavani and their driver Das died when the car they were travelling in turned turtle on Outer Ring Road (ORR) near Tukkuguda of Pahadisharieff on city outskirts on Monday past midnight. Mr. Rao was initially treated at a near-by hospital […]
» Read moreSeven construction workers were killed when a huge earthen mound caved in at the site of an under-construction shopping complex near Harihar Cinemas at Lakshmipuram in Guntur on Saturday evening. A man identified as Maria Das miraculously survived. The workers were engaged in building the compound wall when the earthen mound around the pit caved in burying them in mud […]
» Read moreMany MLAs and governments have changed in between, but this has been the routine for the last 15 years. Mohan, incharge of two districts of east and west Godavari districts, has had a great ride by accumulating wealth to the tune of Rs 150 crore. Local media pegs the figure at a staggering Rs 800 crore. His luck ran out […]
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