KAKINADA: Municipalities are expediting the collection of property and other taxes to the maximum extent to achieve their annual collection targets. A special drive is on to collect the arrears from the long-pending defaulters. Kakinada Municipal Corporation issued auction notices and removed water connections. The authorities say the corporation is creating infrastructure facilities in the…Continue Reading
HYDERABAD: Bilingual textbooks in English and Telugu languages are being printed for the students of class 2-10 in government schools for the next academic year. This, after the state government’s plan to introduce English medium under the ‘Mana Ooru Mana Badi’ scheme for over 26,000 government schools in the state. The preparation for these textbooks…Continue Reading
Vijayawada: A male student doing MBBS first-year in Guntur Medical College was allegedly ragged by his seniors, who asked him to wear formal dress during night time in the Boys’ Hostel at the College in Guntur on March 16. The issue came to limelight on Friday when the victim lodged a complaint with the Helpline,…Continue Reading
Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government aims to administer the Covid-19 vaccine, called CorBevax, to 14.90 lakh children aged between 12 and 14 years by taking up a special campaign in schools from March 21. Though state health authorities started administering the Covid jab to the targeted children at Covid Vaccination Centres from March 16 in…Continue Reading
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general is calling for the immediate removal of detainees from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in New Mexico, citing “critical staffing shortages that have led to safety risks and unsanitary living conditions.””We recommend the immediate relocation of all detainees from the facility unless and until the facility ensures…Continue Reading
The family of the 13-year-old who was driving a pickup truck in a Texas crash that killed nine, including New Mexico college golfers, “lost everything” in a fire late last year, according to a local pastor.The unidentified boy died in the Tuesday night collision along with his dad, Henrich Siemens, a 38-year-old passenger in the…Continue Reading
LIMA, Peru — Paleontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, which once lived in a prehistoric ocean that covered part of what is now Peru, scientists announced on Thursday.The roughly 36-million-year-old well-preserved skull was dug up intact last year from the bone-dry rocks of Peru’s southern…Continue Reading
A Hofstra University student who was badly burned in a suspected acid attack last year detailed the pain she still endures and questioned whether Long Island police are taking the investigation seriously. “It’s been very physically painful, mentally exhausting. I was having nightmares up until this morning,” Nafiah Ikram said at a news conference Thursday.…Continue Reading
Sales of existing homes decreased 7.2 percent last month, on a seasonally adjusted basis, and were down 2.4 percent year over year, the National Association of Realtors said Friday. This comes after sales rose 6.7 percent in January.The median price for existing single-family homes hit $357,300 in February, up from $350,300 the previous month and…Continue Reading
Gerald Brevard III was arrested Tuesday on charges of attacking at least five homeless people, two of whom died, in Washington, D.C., and New York City. One of the first things the mayors of both cities said during the attacks was that the homeless should seek shelter. And that was one of the worst pieces…Continue Reading
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