Source: newindianexpress.com ONGOLE: As many as 86 village volunteers filed petitions in the High Court, alleging that the authorities did not allow them to attend training classes despite them having been selected for the job. Majority of these petitioners belong to the villages in the Chirala and Vetapalem mandals. Meanwhile, around 17,964 village volunteers were ready
Source: timesnownews.com Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to restore the security of former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu with 97 police personnel. A division bench of the high court bench headed by Justice Durga Prasada Rao pronounced the orders on a petition by Naidu, challenging the scaling down of the
Source: energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday to clarify his governments intention behind certain contentious decisions taken in recent days. The Chief Minister will also meet Union Home Minister Amit Shahahead of the meeting with the Prime Minister. This will be Jagan’s second meeting with
Source: deccanchronicle.com Vijayawada: The Jagan Mohan Reddy government has issued fresh guidelines on the Centre’s sop of providing 10 per cent reservation to the economically weak among the open category castes, reversing the N. Chandrababu Naidu government’s decision splitting the 10 per cent between Kapus and other open category castes. While the fresh decision may irk
Source: livemint.com Mumbai: Public sector oil marketer Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has joined ranks with the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) in turning down the Andhra Pradesh’s request for a tariff revision in wind power supplied to the state. In letter last week to the Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution
Source: newindianexpress.com New Delhi: The Andhra Pradesh government has no right to issue directions to state power distribution companies and the state’s directive to renewableenergy plants to lower tariffs is against the Electricity Act, said law firm J Sagar Associates that represented ReNew Power in high court against the order. The Andhra Pradesh high court on
Source: newindianexpress.com VIJAYAWADA: A two-day workshop organised by the Hyderabad regional centre of International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR) on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods (Arbitration) for R&B engineers began here on Tuesday. At the inaugural session, the chief guest, Acting Chief Justice (ACJ) of AP High Court C Praveen Kumar, highlighted the role
Source: newindianexpress.com IJAYAWADA: The division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court comprising Acting Chief Justice C Praveen Kumar and Justice M Satyanarayana Murthy heard arguments against the grant of VIP break darshan in Tirumala. The petitioner’s counsel Umesh Chandra PVG appealed the court to declare the action of respondents in granting ‘Very Break Darshanam’
Source: thewire.in New Delhi: The murder of 23-year-old Y. Hemavathi – killed by her parents for marrying out of her caste – could have been prevented if police had not ignored previous complaints made by her and her husband, a fact-finding team has said. A three-member team of Human Rights Forum visited the Mandipeta-Kotamuru village
Source: business-standard.com Town Planning wing of Greater Vishakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has issued a notice to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) for illegally carrying out construction works in the party’s local office here. Vidyulatha, Town Planning supervisor of Zone 3, GVMC, said: “TDP has constructed two floors for the party office in Ward No 19
