Kakinada, Mar 10th: Ice boxes of 100 litres capacity each were distributed to 300 fisherwomen of tsunami affected villages spread over to Kakinada rural, Uppada and Thallarevu mandals at a function held here on Wednesday. District Revenue officer S Venkatrao, the chief guest advised the fisherwomen to make best use of the boxes to improve their fish business and improve their living standards. Dr R Durgaraju, district secretary Indian red Cross society, who presided, said 2000 ice boxes were provided in the past by Spanish Red Cross under tsunami rehabilitation programe. Now another 500 boxes were received for distribution among the tsunami affected people. The fisheries department officials later demonstrated to the fisherwomen on the usage of the Ice boxes for preserving fish and to secure good market.
Kakinada, Mar 10th: AITUC (All India Trade Union Congress) organized dharna at district Collectorate here on Wednesday demanding the government to clear long pending demands of the contract workers. The activists and the trade workers in large numbers organized a rally from Temple Street to Collector...
Kakinada, Mar 11th: East Godavari district collector, Mr. Gopala Krishna Dwevedi inaugurated the three day fourth Revenue Sports and Games meet which began at the district’s sports complex here on Thursday. The sports meet is meant for the employees of revenue department where in nearly 2,000 r...
Kakinada, Mar 11th: Failing to take effective and preventive measures to eliminate the fire hazards and gas leakages in the industries, many fire mishaps are occurring in the industrial companies making hundreds of people hospitalized and few of them loosing their lives. To keep a check on these inci...
Kakinada, Mar 11th: Air Commodore A.S. Bahal, Deputy Director General, NCC Directorate, Andhra Pradesh has said the percentage of girl cadets in NCC will be increased from the present 24 per cent to 33 per cent as Parliament is going to pass the Women's Reservation Bill.Speaking to media persons ...
Kakinada, Mar 12th: The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-Kakinada has been declared by the University Grants Commission as eligible to receive Central aid. This is in addition to the permission UGC has already given to JNTU-K to award degrees. JNTU-K received a communication to this effect f...
Kakinada, Mar 12th: The state government has declared that all the schools in the state will function for half-a-day from March 15. In this concern the department of school education has directed the schools to work from 8am to 12.30pm till the summer vacations. The annual exams for the students stud...
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