Coronavirus News Updates: Hyderabad, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh News Today 16 March 2021

Telangana: Bye-elections for Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly seat on April 17

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday issued schedule for bye-elections to Nagarjuna Sagar Assembly constituency.

According to ECI, the Gazette notification for the bye-elections will be issued on March 23 while March 30 will be the last date for filing of nominations which will be scrutinised on 31st March. The last date for withdrawal of candidatures will be 3rd April.

Polling will be on April 17 and the counting of votes and declaration of results will be on 2nd May.

Bye-elections for Nagarjuna Sagar seat were necessitated due to the demise of sitting MLA Nomula Narasimaiah.

Bye-elections for two Lok Sabha seats, including Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, and 13 other Assembly seats across the country will be held on the same schedule.

PM Modi chief Advisor PK Sinha Resigned today

Prime Minister Modi's chief advisor PK Sinha has resigned citing personal reasons. Sources have given information about this. Sinha, a 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was appointed as the Principal Advisor to the Prime Minister in September 2019.

Earlier, he was briefly appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Prime Minister's Office. He has also served as Cabinet Secretary for four years. Sinha has also served as Secretary in the Ministry of Power.

Telangana MLC Elections: Results Will Be Out Tomorrow Amid Tight Security

The results of Rangareddy-Mahabubnagar-Hyderabad Graduates Constituency MLC Election will be out on Wednesday. Votes from all the polling stations in the constituency will be counted at the indoor stadium in Saroor Nagar. As 93 candidates were in the ring, the counting is likely to take a long time as the voters turned out larger in number than ever before. In the same constituency election held in 2015, 31 candidates along with Nota were present. Read Full Story

Fresh covid cases scare students to leave Veda Patasala in Tirupati

The relapse of Covid cases in TTD Veda patasala scaring the students leave the Vedic institute. Ten cases including four teachers and six students found Corona positive on Monday taking the total number of cases in TTD Veda patasala to 67. Read Full Story

Two deaths, 204 new coronavirus cases in Telangana

Telangana continued to see a marginal rise in COVID-19 cases with 204 fresh infections being recorded, taking the tally to 3.01 lakh, while the toll rose to 1,656 with two more fatalities. Read Full Story

AP High Court clarifies on Unanimous polls in MPTC and ZPTC elections, says it can't be cancelled

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has once agai given a rude shock to the state election commission. The High Court on Tuesday held a hearing on a petition filed against the MPTC and ZPTC election unanimous results. The High Court clarified that the SEC did not have the power to investigate unanimous and struck down the SEC orders. The High Court directed the SEC to immediately formally declare the MPTC and ZPTC, which were unanimously elected to this extent. Orders were issued to give declaration to the selected candidates immediately. Read Full Story

Telangana: Assembly Pays Tributes To All The Late MLAs

It is known that the Telangana budget meetings started on Monday. On the first day, Governor Tamilsai Soundarajan addressed the joint sittings at 11 am. Today (March 16) the House passed a resolution of condolence on the death of the late Member of Parliament. The Legislative Assembly has paid tributes to the recently deceased MLAs in Telangana. Read Full Story

Kaleshwaram lifted 100TMC water by each pump house

The world's largest multi-stage Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme lifted hundreds of TMCs water from the Godavari river in the shortest possible time and set a record. The three out of four major pump houses lifted 100TMCs of water each. The Saraswathi and Parvathi pump houses in Link-1 and Gayatri underground pump house in package-8 had lifted the 100 TMCs of water each and made the impossible possible. Read Full Story

Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, pay floral tributes to Potti Sreeramulu along with Ministers at the CM camp office.

United Forum of Bank Union conducting a Dharna by Bank Employees and Officers strike. 2nd day against Government’s move to privatise the Public Sector Banks in Vijayawada on Tuesday.