Plans have been drawn to set up a Sports City and Sports University on 220 acres of land in the capital city of Amaravati. Vijayawada MP Kesineni Shivanath, in a press release, said that the Andhra Pradesh government has already allocated 142 acres for Amaravati Sports University, and an international cricket stadium at the Amaravati … Read more
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu speaking to MA&UD P. Narayana and other officials at the APCRDA meeting at the Secretariat on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA) meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday approved the construction of the Legislative Assembly … Read more
Experts from IIT-Madras and IIT-Hyderabad will visit Amaravati on August 2 (Friday) and 3 (Saturday) to assess the conditions of the government buildings, whose construction works were stopped midway. The State government has asked the IIT-Madras and IIT-Hyderabad teams to study the technical issues relating buildings in Amaravati. While works on some buildings were stopped … Read more
Police arresting J. Sravan Kumar at Thullur in Amaravati on Wednesday. Tension prevailed in Amaravati capital region on Wednesday as police foiled a 48-hour hunger strike called by High Court advocate and JaiBheem Bharat Party chief J. Sravan Kumar in support of local farmers who were staging an agitation against the State government. Along with … Read more
The TDP president had declared that Lingamaneni Ramesh gave the house to the government under the land pooling scheme, but the reality is that the land in question was never handed over to the government, says YSRCP leader Perni Venkataramaiah (Nani). | Photo Credit: File photo The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) has demanded TDP national president … Read more
A spat between the TDP and YSR Congress Party functionaries over the alleged sand mining issue sparked tension at Amaravati town in Pedakurapadu constituency on April 9. The TDP former MLA Kommalapati Sridhar and ruling party MLA Nambur Shankar Rao engaged in a war of words over the alleged illegal sand mining. They challenged each … Read more
APCC president Gidugu Rudra Raju waving a green flag to the Amaravati farmers who are heading to New Delhi, at Vijayawada railway station on Thursday. | Photo Credit: HANDOUT Expressing solidarity with the Amaravati farmers who are heading to New Dehli to take their protest against the three-capital move by the State government to the … Read more
When Andhra Pradesh was divided into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in 2014, Hyderabad was made capital of the newly formed Telangana. The then Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu wanted to make Amaravati AP’s capital. His vision was to build a world-class capital city. But in December 2019, the current CM, Jagan Mohan Reddy proposed that Andhra … Read more
With the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Maharashtra government issued an order on Monday directing cinema halls/hotels/restaurants to follow COVID-related rules, and if found violating will remain closed for a period until the COVID-19 pandemic stays notified as a disaster by Central government. Mumbai on Monday reported 1,712 new cases and 4 deaths. WIth 1,063 … Read more