@TelanganaCMO Birthday Greetings to India’s New Hope KCR garu. May your intentions for Mera Desh may be more aggressive and fruitful. Wishing you a healthy birthday
The shifting of the state capital is being expedited, with the govt asking employees of the Secretariat to move to Visakhapatnam in the month of May.
The announcement comes despite several petitions challenging the #YSRCP govt’s move to set up three capitals.
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The #AndhraPradesh government appointed former Chairman and Managing Director of Air India, Ashwani Lohani as Chairman of Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation.
He has been assigned the rank of a Cabinet minister.
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The government of #AndhraPradesh filed a plea in the Supreme Court challenging the State Election Commission order postponing elections to rural and urban local bodies for six weeks. The postponement was necessitated due to the #CoronaVirus pandemic.
In view of the #CoronavirusOutbreak the #AndhraPradesh local body elections have been postponed by six weeks. However, the Model Code of Conduction (MCC) for elections will be in place during the six week period.
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The #AndhraPradesh State Election Commissioner has barred Tadipatri MLA of YSRCP Kethireddy Peddareddy from campaigning for the #APLocalBodyElections for one day, due to violation of the election code of conduct. He was found distributing sarees and clothes.
After searching actor Vijay's properties for over a month, the IT department has stated that he has not evaded any taxes.
In 2017, the BJP had asked for some scenes from Mersal to be removed as they were critical of the GST and the Digital India initiative.
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One person is confirmed dead due to the deadly corona virus in #Karnataka where the government has cancelled all leaves of health staff including medical superintendents, doctors, and contract workers at all hospitals under the Karnataka Department of Health and Family Welfare.
The #AndhraPradesh High Court pulled up the DGP Gautam Sawang over the detention of Chandrababu Naidu at Visakhapatnam airport on February 27. The DGP was made to read out Section 151 of the CrPC & asked why he did not take disciplinary action against his subordinate officers.
Former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu staged a sit-in protest in front of the #AndhraPradesh Police headquarters after the DGP refused to meet him. He went to meet the DGP to complain against the attack on TDP MLC B Venkanna and former MLA B U Rao at Macherla.
As fresh coronavirus cases are being reported in India, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) issued an advisory asking foreigners, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and others not to visit the temple for 28 days after they land in the country.
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The #AndhraPradesh High Court directed the state government to remove the YSRCP party colours from all the government buildings within 10 days. The court's direction comes ahead of the Local Body elections for which the Model Code of Conduct will be in place soon.
The ministry of I&B backed down and withdrew the 48 hour ban on Malayalam TV channels #Asianet and #MediaOne for covering the #DelhiRiots
While #AsianetNews resumed transmition around 1.30 am on Saturday, MediaOne resumed at 9.40 am.
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The #AndhraPradesh government decided to permit the #GMR Group to go ahead with the development of the #Bhogapuram International Airport near #Visakhapatnam. The greenfield airport was initially supposed to be on 2703 acres, but it will now be on 2200 acres.
Several hundred employees of the electricity department in the undivided #AndhraPradesh are left in the lurch as #Telangana relieved them and Andhra Pradesh refuses to absorb them citing inability to create appropriate vacancies and salaries.
Veerappan's daughter, Vidya Rani, joined the BJP, saying that she's inspired by Narendra Modi's development schemes. Rani, a lawyer claims that her father's intentions were noble, although she admits that he took a wrong path.
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