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Vijayawada: Guntur police arrested on Friday a three-member gang of women serial killers. Disclosing details to media, Guntur Superintendent of Police S. Satish Kumar identified the accused as Gontu Ramanamma and Mudiyala Venkateswari, mother and daughter respectively, and Murugappa Rajini. About two months ago, police received information about a woman's decomposing body, aged around 35 to 40 years, near a …

VIJAYAWADA: A twenty five-year-old woman veterinary doctor from Tenali in Guntur district died in a road accident in Oklahoma state, USA. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Harika died and four others were injured in a multiple-vehicle crash in Logan County. The family of Srinivasa Rao and Nagamani urged minister Lokesh to help the family get their daughter’s body airlifted …

VIJAYAWADA: After YSRC president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu launched their respective election campaigns, Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan is set to kick off his ‘Varahi Vijaya Bheri’ yatra from Pithapuram, the Assembly constituency he is contesting, on Saturday. During the first phase of the campaign that will continue till April 12, the actor-politician will …

VIJAYAWADA: Tenali Urban became the first mandal in Andhra Pradesh to achieve a Gross Enrolment Ratio of 100. Principal Secretary to School Education, Praveen Prakash, said the Department of School Education, with the help of the Village and Ward Secretariat, has undertaken the mission of achieving a GER of 100 per cent. The Tenali Urban which has 47 secretariats has …

Vijayawada: Tension prevailed at Thullur in Amaravati on Wednesday following a protest by pro-Amaravati farmers against the state government allotting house sites for the poor in the R5 Zone. Former MLA and Guntur Telugu Desam president Tenali Sravan called for the 48-hour Deeksha at Thullur against the government’s housing plan for the poor in the R5 Zone. TD leaders including …

VIJAYAWADA: Bapatla SP Vakul Jindal said an auto-rickshaw driver accused of raping a young woman has been arrested by Kolluru police on Saturday. When the auto reached Musalipadu village, the auto driver suddenly drove into maize fields, following which she tried to jump out from the auto. They tried to catch the auto driver but he managed to escape from …

Vijayawada: Jana Sena political affairs committee chairman Nadendla Manohar criticised YSR Congress government for taking into preventive custody several of JS party leaders on the eve of Chief Minister Y.S. Speaking to media persons at party headquarters in Hyderabad on Tuesday, the senior Jana Sena leader asked under which law is YSRC government arresting leaders of opposition parties during the …

VIJAYAWADA: Tenali is all geared to celebrate on Friday the role that its magnificent seven martyrs played in the freedom struggle during the Quit India movement. Elders of Tenali point out that they have been holding a memorial programme every year on August 12 at Ranarang Chowk to kindle pride among young Tenalians about the role their predecessors played in …