Coronavirus News Updates: Hyderabad, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh News Today 17 March 2021

Telangana govt. mulls promoting Class 1 to 8 students due to coronavirus

Telangana: Telangana government is mulling to promote Class 1 to 8 students without exams due to the rise in the coronavirus positive cases. At present, the schools are being run from Classes 6 and above. Read Full Story

YS Jagan directs officials to increase coronavirus tests amid an increase in cases

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a video conference with governors, lieutenant governors, and chief ministers of various states on the corona. After the meeting, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy held a review with the officials. On this occasion, he said that the electoral process has become an obstacle to the vaccination process as the bureaucracy is engrossed in the conduct of elections. Read Full Story

CM KCR assures 100 per cent farm loan waiver

Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has clarified that the farm loan waiver in the state would be done for 100 per cent. "The government has done a lot and what has been said in the assembly was a little," Rao said in the third day of the assembly budget session. Read Full Story

Andhra Pradesh: Cash of Rs. 8 lakh stolen from Veeravasaram police station in West Godavari

Andhra Pradesh: In a shocking incident, the theft of money at a police station in West Godavari has become a sensational. More than Rs. 8 lakh cash was stolen from Veeravasaram police station in West Godavari district. Read Full Story

Couple commits suicide in Nizamabad, woman dies

Depression drove a couple to commit suicide here at Sirikonda mandal of Nizamabad district. While the woman died on Wednesday morning while undergoing treatment, the condition of man is said to be critical. The incident took place two days ago but came to light after a video related to the incident surfaced online. Read Full Story

LPG cylinder explodes at Dondaparthi in Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam: An LPG gas cylinder exploded at a residence located at Chukkavari street, Dondaparthi here on Wednesday. Read Full Story

Corona update: 247 fresh positive cases, 3 deaths in Telangana

Telangana recorded 247 fresh coronavirus positive cases and three deaths until 8 pm on Tuesday pushing the total tally to 3,01,769 and the fatalities to 1,659. Meanwhile, the recovery cases went up to 2,98,009 with the recovery of 158 persons on a single day. Read Full Story

Retired judge Justice Mandati Sitarama Murthy to head AP human rights commission

The high power committee suggested the name of retired judge Justice Mandati Sitarama Murthy to head the Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Commission.

The committee also suggested the name of Danda Subrahmanyam as the judicial member and Dr Gochipata Srinivas Rao as a non-judicial member.

Votes counting stated at AC College

The counting of votes for the Krishna-Guntur districts Teachers MLC elections started at AC College in Guntur city on Wednesday morning. About 12,568 votes were polled in Krishna-Guntur districts.

First, the priority votes will be counted. Vote counting is expected to be completed by 2 PM. Sitting MLC A S Ramakrishna, former MLC Boddu Nageswara Rao and 17 other candidates are in the race for the post. Guntur collector and returning officer for Krishna-Guntur Teachers MLC constituency, Vivek Yadav is supervising the vote counting.

Chandrababu Naidu may file the petition in AP High Court today

TDP National president N Chandrababu Naidu is likely to file a quash petition on Wednesday in Andhra Pradesh High Court seeking quashing of the FIR filed by AP CID in connection with the Amaravati land scam.

It may be mentioned that the CID officials on Tuesday served notices to Chandrababu Naidu at his residence in Hyderabad requesting him to attend CID office in Vijayawada on March 23. After consulting his lawyers Chandrababu Naidu is likely to file a petition in AP High Court.