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Activists opine that 70 per cent of shops and hotels in the city still continue to provide plastic handbags to customers.

Focus on plastic goods, not on general garbage in Vizag

Visakhapatnam: Ever since the GVMC focused attention on making Vizag a plastic-free city -- from June – the civic...

8 Aug 2022 4:16 PM IST

On the right, YSR Congress Leader Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy (Image source: DC Image)

Energy minister dispels fears over metered power

VIJAYAWADA: Energy minister Peddireddi Ramachandra Reddy asked farmers to install meters for their agricultural power...

8 Aug 2022 4:14 PM IST

Pavan Kalyan on the occassion of the weavers day. (DC image)

PK drags Naidu, Balineni into Twitter challenge

VIJAYAWADA: Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan threw a challenge on his twitter handle to TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu as...

8 Aug 2022 4:12 PM IST

The NHM officials further said that they have directed the district authorities to constitute District Rapid Response Teams and accordingly, these were constituted to keep a close watch on the situation and to take preventive measures.(DC Image)

Assam: Japanese encephalitis claims 63 lives

GUWAHATI: With the death of at least 63 people due to Japanese encephalitis in Assam in the last 37 days, Assam...

8 Aug 2022 4:09 PM IST

Karthi is a better actor than me: Suriya

“Karthi is more talented and a better actor than me. I might have entered films before him, but he is the one who...

8 Aug 2022 4:03 PM IST

Krithi Shetty signed seven films in last two years. (DC image)

My upbringing taught me to stay rooted, says Krithi Shetty

Post the magnificent success of Uppena, Krithi Shetty seems to be going places. In the last two years she had signed...

8 Aug 2022 3:54 PM IST

When contacted, the Three Town police circle inspector K. Eswara Rao said they had received a complaint from the corporator Murthy Yadav, but did not get any formal complaint from the original owner of the cow. Representational Image (

â€˜PM lauds Chhattisgarhâ€™s cow dung schemeâ€™

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the Godhan Nyay Yojana, Chhattisgarh government’s flagship welfare...

8 Aug 2022 3:51 PM IST

Srisailam took a selfie video holding the pesticide bottle.(Representional DC Image)

Farmer from Medak live-streams bid to end life, cops foil it

HYDERABAD: A 43-old farmer took a selfie video of himself attempting to die by suicide after the village sarpanch and...

8 Aug 2022 3:03 PM IST

The medicine that administered the baby Ellen ( DC image)

23-month-old girl with life-threatening disease gets Rs.16 crore drug...

Bhadrachalam: Swiss pharma major Novartis and some Good Samaritans gave a fresh lease of life to Ellen, who is about two...

8 Aug 2022 2:57 PM IST

Musi beautification works carried out at a cost Rs 11 crore were washed away in the recent flood caused by heavy rains in the city and on its outskirts. (Photo:DC)

17 flood-prone villages must be evacuated: Survey

KOTHAGUDEM: Families in nearly 17 villages in seven mandals located on the banks of River Godavari should be evacuated...

8 Aug 2022 2:48 PM IST

Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) will continue to accept applications from eligible beneficiaries for supply of 20 KL free drinking water throughout the year. (DC file photo)

SCB, GHMC at odds over water supply

HYDERABAD: The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) are at odds over...

8 Aug 2022 2:43 PM IST

Officials were instructed to improve services provided by the 1912 helpline that connects to the Electricity Control Room. (Photo: PTI)

Electricity staff to keep off work

HYDERABAD: The TS Electricity Employees Joint Action Committee said employees will boycott duty from Sunday midnight to...

8 Aug 2022 12:27 PM IST