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For almost ten days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the Bhoomi Pujan at Ayodhya, the Andhra Pradesh unit of the BJP harped on the ‘blasphemy’ committed by TTD-owned Sri Venkateswara Bhakti Channel (SVBC) for not airing the Ayodhya event live on 05 August. TTD stands for Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam,…
22-year-old I Vara Prasad from Vedullapalli village in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district had written a letter to the President on August 10. The letter requested the President to allow him to join the Maoists to get justice. Talking to The Lede, Vara Prasad said that on July 18, an…
On July 25, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted that he was tested positive. Later he was shifted to a COVID hospital for treatment. It is not often that a chief minister falling ill becomes a hot topic of discussion in a neighbouring state. But, Chouhan’s tweet has…
Prakasam district collector Pola Bhaskar gave an open challenge and wished that “like in a movie where a common man was made as a one-day CM… given a chance if I have that power, I would like to give an opportunity to someone to be a one-day collector who thinks…
An interesting drama is unfolding in Andhra Pradesh. On June 08 chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy unusually ordered a CB-CID inquiry into the charges leveled by a rural medical officer Dr P Anita Rani, who is in charge of the Primary Health Centre (PHC) at Penumur, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh.…
Pattem Venkata Subbaiah, 43, has 15 years of teaching experience. He is now selling bananas to meet the needs of his family. Talking to The Lede, Subbaiah, who has two postgraduate degrees in political science and Telugu, says, “Due to lockdown I have lost my job. I have two kids…
The political atmosphere grew murkier in Andhra Pradesh for the ruling YSR Congress, which dreamed of celebrating the completion of one year by chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s government in an unprecedented way. Reddy took oath as chief minister on 30 May 2019. Unfortunately, the Coronavirus has already hobbled enthusiasm…
A well known government civil surgeon, who had raised the issue of absence of masks and PPE suits for healthcare professionals at a government hospital, has been admitted to a mental health institute in Vizag after he was publicly manhandled by the police for staging a dharna. Dr K Sudhakar…
