Here are the top news developments in the State to look out for today.
- Visakhapatnam Steel Plant employees are attending duties by wearing black badges in protest against the Central government’s disinvestment proposal. They are demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should withdraw the decision before coming to participate in the Naval exercise Milan scheduled to begin on February 27.
- Corporators from the CPI(M), the CPI and the Janasena are opposing the budget proposed by Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation. The council meeting on February 26 might be a stormy affair with the budget about to be placed for approval.
- CM and Governors’ visit to Visakhapatnam ahead of the Presidential Fleet Review (PFR-2022) and Milan-2022.
- The Nellore district administration created a record of sorts in the creation of work to landless poor persons in villages under the flagship poverty eradication programme at a time when they are struggling to cope with Covid induced economic crisis. The district reached the target set by the State government for February under the wage employment scheme by February 14 itself and stood first in the State on this count.
- MLA Bhumana Karunakar Reddy moots Tirupati anniversary by month-end; it was in this month nearly 1,000 years ago that Bhagawad Ramanujacharya arrived here and named the township as Govindaraja Pattanam, which later came to be known as Tirupati. His press conference today on celebrating the event as an official function.
- IIIT Sri City gets down to mentoring startups; 50 entrepreneurs and 100 final year students register as cohorts in the program.
- Minister for Irrigation P. Anil Kumar to lay the foundation for the distributary network of Thotapalli project at Pusapatirega in Vizianagaram.
- Two teachers who developed a low-cost wave model could bag prizes in a tough national level competition over innovative Teaching Model Presentation. The teachers of the Srikakulam district developed various devices to enable youngsters to understand physics lessons easily.
- TDP Politburo member Varla Ramaiah writes a letter to the additional director general of police (vigilance and enforcement) on the alleged smuggling of PDS rice through Kakinada Sea port.
- Teachers’ associations in Anantapur to post letters to the Chief Minister from Kurnool Head Post Office seeking proper implementation of PRC. Teachers had been collecting signatures of teachers for the past five days.
- Krishna district SP Siddharth Kaushal formed special teams to investigate the murder of BJP leader Malla Reddy near Jaggayyapeta on February 19.
- Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan is addressing fishermen in the West Godavari district on the problems faced by them.
