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Intermediate regional inspecting officer of East Godavari I. Sarada said that private and unaided colleges should run from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm and collect fees as prescribed by the government. (Representational Photo:PTI)

First year Intermediate classes begin in Andhra Pradesh

Classes for first-year Intermediate students started in the two Godavari districts on Monday

19 Jan 2021 4:13 AM IST

Medical workers wait to be inoculated with a Covid-19 vaccine at the King Koti hospital in Hyderabad on January 16, 2021. (Noah SEELAM / AFP)

Telangana adds 206 new coronavirus cases, 2 deaths take toll to 1,579

The recovery rate in Telangana was 98.07 per cent, while it was 96.6 per cent in the country

18 Jan 2021 10:49 AM IST

P Ashok Gajapati Raju (DC/file photo)

Ashok Gajapatiâ€™s donation for Lord Rama idol rejected

The state government on Saturday removed him from the post of chairman of three temples in the state

18 Jan 2021 7:37 AM IST

Of all 2.24 lakh people who have been vaccinated, 447 developed minor complications. Only three persons who were hospitalised have now been discharged. (Photo:PTI))

2.24 lakh get jab; 447 adverse cases reported

While over 1.91 lakh healthcare and frontline workers were vaccinated on the day one, only 17,072 received their jabs in...

18 Jan 2021 4:25 AM IST

The vaccine is offered to health workers in the first phase; to police, municipal and other Covid related staffs in the second phase; and to people above 50 years of age in the third phase. (Representational DC Photo)

Covid vaccination to take longer than scheduled time in Andhra Pradesh

The first phase of Covid vaccination would take a month and the second dose for the health warriors would start after a...

18 Jan 2021 4:25 AM IST

A staff nurse gets administered COVID Vaccine as her fellow nurses cheer up for her during the vaccination drive at VIMS Hospital in Visakhapatnam on Sunday. (DC Image)

Less than 50% beneficiaries show up for vaccination on second day in...

Only 13,041 healthcare workers got the COVID-19 vaccine administered across the state against the targeted 27,233 for...

17 Jan 2021 10:22 PM IST

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray also rejected criticism that bureaucracy has an upper hand in his government. (PTI Photo)

Will incorporate -'Karnataka-occupied areas-' into Maharashtra: Uddhav

Maharashtra claims Belgaum and some other areas, part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency but currently in Karnataka, on...

17 Jan 2021 10:11 PM IST

Kashi-Kevadia Express after it was virtually inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Varanasi, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021. (PTI)

PM flags off 8 trains to boost connectivity to Statue of Unity

Modi said these trains will help boost tourism in the tribal region and increase connectivity to world-'s tallest...

17 Jan 2021 1:59 PM IST

The plea by Bhartiya Kisan Union (Lokshakti) also sought the presence of a former top court judge on the reconstituted committee. (Photo:PTI)

Farmers-' union moves Supreme Court, seeks new panel

Plea seeks impartial committee to resolve farmersâ€™ issue

17 Jan 2021 4:50 AM IST

The controversy, however, is more about the drug regulators emergency approval to the second coronavirus vaccine, the indigenously produced Covaxin, before critical efficacy data of the third phase of clinical trials are out.

Covaxin jabs possibly part of Bharat Biotech-'s Phase 3 trial

When Covaxin-'s -'emergency use-' was approved by the government, it was done under the -'clinical trial mode-'

17 Jan 2021 4:36 AM IST

The State government is administering the Covishield vaccine as it received 4.77 lakh doses and though 20,000 doses of Covaxin have also been received, the government wanted to start the programme with Covishield until it receives further doses of Covaxin. (DC Photo: Narayana Rao)

Female sanitation worker gets first Covid shot in Andhra Pradesh

A female sanitation worker, B Pushpa Kumari, was the first get the dose of the Covid-19 vaccine

17 Jan 2021 4:26 AM IST

For good measure, he quoted from Desamunu Preminchumanna, the famous Telugu playwright Gurujada Appa Raos extremely popular poem, to drive home the message of the importance of putting the interests of others ahead of ones own. (Photo:AFP)

Modi cites poet Gurajada to deny politicians early shot

This message was clearly heard very loudly by everyone, particularly in Telangana

17 Jan 2021 4:23 AM IST