The Eluru district police have arranged pickets to prevent people from crossing the overflowing streams and rivulets at the villages near the Kolleru Lake and in the Agency areas. Police teams led by Nuzvid in-charge Deputy Superintendent of Police D. Sravan Kumar and Pedavegi Circle Inspector Nabi shifted the people living in the low-lying areas to rehabilitation camps on September …
Kakinada: Members of the Bangladesh team, who visited Venkata Ramannagudem, Pedda Vellamilli and Nachugunta villages in Unguturu mandal of Eluru district on Sunday to study natural farming process, said presently, additional lands need to be brought under agriculture, as the number of farmers growing crops is decreasing but the number of people consuming them is increasing. K. Arun, Sriram and …
Fifty-year-old Mariyamma walks about half a kilometre every day carrying a 10-litre steel pot of water from a nearby well to her house. From the time borewells started yielding saline water three decades ago, everyone in the village turned to wells for drinking water. Mariyaraju, a day labourer who filed a case in the High Court against Mr. Sathyanarayana last …
Vijayawada: Tension prevailed at Porus Laboratory after a section of villagers barged into the factory demanding permanent closure of the plant at Akkireddygudem village in Eluru district on Monday. A team of officials led by Eluru joint collector P. Arun Babu had visited the village and held a grama sabha seeking their opinion whether to allow or disallow the factory …
VIJAYAWADA: Tension mounted around Porus Laboratories at Akkireddygudem village in Nuzvid assembly constituency of Eluru district, with large number of villagers agitating vociferously demanding immediate closure of the industry after a blast in its reactor killed six and injured 12 on Thursday. Sensing the delicate situation, Eluru district administration ordered temporary closure of Porus Laboratories pending an inquiry. Eluru collector …