Media is a bridge between government and people, says Guntur MLA

Media is a bridge between government and people, says Guntur MLA

MLA Mohammed Naseer Ahmed addressing a workshop organised by the PIB in Guntur on Thursday. | Photo Credit: T. VIJAY KUMAR Guntur East MLA Mohammed Naseer Ahmed emphasised the crucial role of the media in bridging the gap between the government and the people by effectively communicating about welfare programmes and government schemes. Speaking at … Read more

Union Minister Pemmasani reviews road infra projects around Guntur

Union Minister Pemmasani reviews road infra projects around Guntur

Union Minister for Rural Development and Communications Pemmasani Chandrasekhar | Photo Credit: File Photo Union Minister for Rural Development and Communications Pemmasani Chandrasekhar has assured that infrastructure projects in Guntur and surrounding areas will be completed without delay. During the review of works on two national highways in Guntur district, Dr. Chandrasekhar that the Eastern … Read more

Union Minister Pemmasani stresses need for modernisation of drainage system in Guntur

Union Minister Pemmasani stresses need for modernisation of drainage system in Guntur

Union Minister Pemmasani Chandrasekhar at a review meeting with Collector S. Nagalakshmi and other officials in Guntur on Saturday. | Photo Credit: T. Vijay Kumar In an effort to address the persistent flooding problems faced by farmers due to poor maintenance of drainage systems, Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Communications Pemmasani Chandrasekhar … Read more

Six booked for kidnapping, torturing an engineering student

Six booked for kidnapping, torturing an engineering student

In an act of revenge, six persons including five engineering students allegedly kidnapped and tortured their classmate at Kanchikacherla village in NTR Commissionerate. The accused, who completed engineering in a private college on Vijayawada outskirts, kidnapped the victim took him to Guntur, thrashed and let him off, allegedly over friendship with a girl in the … Read more

Yuva Galam padayatra rejuvenates Telugu Desam Party cadre in Guntur district

Yuva Galam padayatra rejuvenates Telugu Desam Party cadre in Guntur district

TDP national general secretary N. Lokesh, suspended YSRCP MLA Undavalli Sridevi, and former MLA Tenali Sravan Kumar during a meeting with the Amaravati farmers, at Tadikonda in Guntur district recently. | Photo Credit: File photo The Yuva Galam padayatra of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national general secretary N. Lokesh concluded in the undivided Guntur district … Read more

Unfinished road-widening works put AT Agraharam residents to trouble in Guntur city

Unfinished road-widening works put AT Agraharam residents to trouble in Guntur city

Pedestrian and vehicular movement is affected due to incomplete road works at AT Agraharam in Guntur. | Photo Credit: T. Vijaya Kumar The residents of AT Agraharam in Guntur city are suffering due to the delay in completion of the road-widening works undertaken by the municipal corporation. The existing road is being widened to 80 … Read more

Archaeologist reports Mesolithic-era rock paintings in Guntur

Archaeologist reports Mesolithic-era rock paintings in Guntur

The painting of a man tilling land during Mesolithic era, found at Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A Mesolithic period rock painting depicting a person tilling a piece of land has been found by D. Kanna Babu, former Superintending Archaeologist of the Temple Survey Project (Southern Region) of the Archaeological Survey … Read more

Plastic waste reducing depth of Uppalapadu lake in Andhra Pradesh, harming migratory birds, say experts

Plastic waste reducing depth of Uppalapadu lake in Andhra Pradesh, harming migratory birds, say experts

Plastic waste left behind by visitors is drastically reducing the depth of the Uppalapadu Bird Sanctuary in Guntur district and harming migratory birds, say experts from Acharya Nagarjuna University. According to sources, water level in the lake has fallen considerably from what it was in 1996-97, the year it was taken over by the Andhra … Read more

Chilli market yard located in the heart of Guntur will be shifted to a bigger location, says G.V.L. Narasimha Rao

Chilli market yard located in the heart of  Guntur will be shifted to a bigger location, says G.V.L. Narasimha Rao

BJP Rajya Sabha member G.V.L. Narasimha Rao addressing the media at the new office of the Chillies Exporters Association India, in Guntur on Saturday. The Guntur Agriculture Market Committee (AMC), which is known internationally as the Guntur chilli market yard, will be shifted from the city to another location, says BJP Rajya Sabha member G.V.L. … Read more

Britain evinces keen interest in innovations in farm sector in A.P.

Britain evinces keen interest in innovations in farm sector in A.P.

Dy. High Commissioner holds talks with Agriculture Minister Govardhan Reddy; U.K. team to study practices in State Dy. High Commissioner holds talks with Agriculture Minister Govardhan Reddy; U.K. team to study practices in State Great Britain has evinced a keen interest in the innovative reforms in the agricultural and horticultural sector and intended to study … Read more