Live Updates: Hyderabad, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh News Today 17 November 2021

The counting of votes for municipal and Corporation elections is in progress. Based on the results revealed so far YSRCP has once again continued its winning streak achieving overwhelming successes across the state. As part of this, the ruling YSRCP created a new history in the Nellore Corporation elections as the party swept the elections. Not a single opposition party has been able to withstand the onslaught of the ruling YCP.Read more

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday wrote to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking directions to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) on paddy procurement. He asked the PM to direct the FCI on the complete procurement of balance five lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of rice produced in Yasangi (Rabi) this year. The CM in the letter also stated to increase target beyond 40 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) for paddy procurement during Kharif season to 90 per cent of production.Read more

With the unprecedented victory in the pending municipal and corporation elections held recently, the Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan has took to his Twitter handle and thanked all the sections of people for giving this massive victory in panchayat election, municipal and corporation elections. The chief minister has wrote that the grace of God and blessings of the people had fetched this massive victory.Read more

A major fire broke out in flat of Green hills colony in Mallapur of Medchal district. The fire which is said to have occurred due to a short-circuit engulfed like wild fire after coming in contact with oil cans. A person, residing in the flat died of asphyxiation. The oil cans is suspected to have stored illegally in the apartment. The apartment residents alerted the fire fighters who rushed to the area and launched efforts to bring the fire under control. Meanwhile, the police also reached the spot and took up the investigation. The loss of property is yet to be ascertained.

A employee of Entamology wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) died after falling from the building here on road no. 2 of KPHB in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Kamalraj Mehra (50). The incident is said to have occurred when Mehra sat on the wall after a walk and accidentally fell off the building. Locals informed the police who rushed to the place and inspected the spot. They registered a case and shifted the body for autopsy. A case has been registered.

Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy said that the people supported the rule of Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. He told the media on Wednesday that YSRCP's victory in Chandrababu's constituency was the result of public support. He said people in panchayats, parishads, and municipalities of Kuppam have voted for the YSRCP.Read more

The incident of sexual harassment of a female employee in the Visakhapatnam district has caused a stir when the family members of the victim came and taught a befitting lesson to the AE. Going into the details, a woman working as a sub-engineer in a government office in Chodavaram has been harassed by an officer working as an AE in the same office for two months. Despite she has said many times that this is not good, he has not changed.Read more

As many as 250 customers in Suryapet were duped by an agency to the tune of Rs 75 lakh which promised to provide furniture at low costs. The 'Golden Agency' further assured to deliver the furniture in 12 days after joining in the scheme by paying Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000. Interested people who joined in the scheme initially were delivered the furniture after 12 days. The police said that the fraudsters gained trust of the people by delivering the products initially following which numerous people joined into the scheme.Read more

TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu received a huge blow in his own constituency Kuppam as YSR Congress Party has registered a unprecedented victory in the elections for Kuppam Municipality. While one ward has already been unanimous and among the 25 wards in Kuppam, the YSRCP has won another 12 wards. With this, it won a total of 13 wards and secured the seat of Municipal Chairman. With the YSRCP's victory in Chandrababu's municipality, party leaders and activists were engrossed in festivities.Read more