Commissioner orders removal of encroachments blocking drainage in Guntur

Commissioner orders removal of encroachments blocking drainage in Guntur

GMC workers ensuring free flow of storm water at Rail Under Bridge at Mudu Vantenalu (Three Bridges) Arundalpet on late Monday, during a heavy rain. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Guntur Municipal Commissioner Puli Srinivasulu has directed immediate removal of road and drain encroachments across the city that are obstructing the free flow of rain … Read more

Guntur doctors cure drug-resistant bone infection with phage therapy

Guntur doctors cure drug-resistant bone infection with phage therapy

Dr. K. Kalyan Chakravarthy | Photo Credit: T VIJAY KUMAR Doctors at SHRI Hospital, Guntur, have successfully treated a 72-year-old woman from Bapatla suffering from a chronic, multidrug-resistant bone and joint infection. The patient had battled Acinetobacter baumannii for six months — resistant to all available antibiotics — before being admitted in critical condition in … Read more

VSAT–2025 phase I results announced, counselling begins on April 16

VSAT–2025 phase I results announced, counselling begins on April 16

Vignan’s Scholastic Aptitude Test (VSAT–2025) phase I results were announced on Saturday (April 12) by Vignan’s University vice-chancellor Col. P. Nagabhushan. The university reported an overwhelming response from students across India for admissions into B.Tech, B. Pharm, B.Sc. Agriculture and Pharma D courses at its Vadlamudi campus in Guntur and Deshmukhi campus near Hyderabad. This … Read more

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