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The operators say the user charge was recently doubled by the AP Tourism Development Corporation. The operation has become so uncertain even during the peak festive season due to floods in the river and safety issues. The boats charge about Rs 1,000 per head. (DC)

Tourism boat operators in Andhra seek exemption from user charges

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Vijayawada: Private tour boat operators have appealed to the state government to waive the user charges of Rs 100 per ...

The two stampedes at opposition Telugu Desam meetings had left 11 persons dead and several others injured. (File Photo: By arrangement)

Andhra issues order to check stampede incidents at meetings and rallies

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Vijayawada: In view of the recent stampede incidents in Kandukur and Guntur, the AP government has imposed a ban on ...

Guntur District SP Arif Hafeez and others inspecting the place where stampede occured at Vikas Nagar in Guntur District. (Photo by arrangement)

Andhra Pradesh government prohibits meetings, rallies on roads

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Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government has prohibited public meetings and rallies from being held on roads, including national highways, citing ...

Thota Chandrasekhar will be appointed as the party’s head for Andhra Pradesh. Kishore Babu won the Prathipadu seat in the 2014 elections and worked as a minister in the TD government, but quit the party in 2019 and joined Jana Sena, and then the BJP. (File Photo: Twitter/DC)

Setback for Jana Sena, key Andhra leaders set to join BRS

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Hyderabad/ Vijayawada: The Jana Sena suffered a major setback as two of its key leaders, former IAS officer Thota Chandrasekhar ...

The total number of pension cards as on December 1 was 62,31,365. The distribution of 2,31,989 new pension cards was done on Sunday, taking the total number of pensioners to 64,06,240 in 26 districts of AP. (PTI file photo)

Nearly 60% beneficiaries received hiked pension in Andhra

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Vijayawada: The distribution of the YSR Pension Kanuka, the amount of which was increased by the state government as a New ...

Air Force officials conducting aircraft trial run on the16th National Highway Pichikala Gudipadu-Nangavaram villages of Korishapadu Mandal near Addanki of Bapatla District on Thursday. (Photo: By arrangement)

Sukhois, Tejas trial emergency landing on Andhra highway a success

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Vijayawada: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday successfully completed trial runs of a 4.1-kilometre-long and 33-metre-wide emergency landing airstrip ...

Drugs control administration authorities in the state are keeping an eye on the availability of Covid essential drugs in medical stores across Andhra Pradesh to avoid any short supply.. (AP/PTI Photo)

Andhra officials keep check on 38 essential Covid drugs

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Vijayawada: Following directives of the Union health ministry on AP’s preparedness in facing Covid-19, drugs control administration authorities (DCA) in ...

The two were sleeping on one blanket all these three years. According to Mani’s husband Suribabu, the two used to go out of their home very rarely during the Covid phase.  — Representational Image/By Arrangement

Mother, daughter isolate for 3 years in Andhra Pradesh

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KAKINADA: An extreme case of phobia or mental imbalance has been reported from Kuyyeru village in Kajuluru mandal of Kakinada ...

Now, the state government has received necessary approvals from the ministry of environment, forests and climate change and director general of foreign trade for auctioning and exporting the seized logs. — Representational Image/DC

Andhra Pradesh eyes ₹3K crore from e-auction of seized red sanders

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TIRUPATI: State government is preparing to e-auction 5,700 tonnes of seized logs of red sanders logs and mobilise around ₹3,000 ...

SCERT developed Class Vl and Class VIl textbooks in two-semester system from the academic year 2021–22 and 2022–23 respectively. Officials disclosed that the government will provide textbooks to students for the semesters at the starting of the academic year free of cost.—  Representational Image/DC

Andhra Pradesh schools to adopt two-semester system from next academic year

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VIJAYAWADA: Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy government is introducing the semester system of education in government schools from classes I to ...