7 killed as rain-soaked wall collapses at Andhra temple

Seven people, including a couple and two of their relatives, were killed when a rain-soaked wall collapsed at the Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Simhachalam here in the early hours of......

'Naidu Will Not Waste Time Now'

'Amaravati will be a game changer for Andhra Pradesh.' IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates various projects worth over Rs 58,000 crore in Amaravati, May 2, 2025. Photograph: ANI Photo......

CPI-M Leader Sitaram Yechury Passes Away

Communist Party of India-Marxist General Secretary Sitaram Yechury died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi on Thursday, September 12, 2024 following a prolonged illness,......

Sitaram Yechury: A face of pragmatic Left politics

The CPI-M leader was fluent in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bangla, and also Malayalam. He was also well-versed in Hindu mythology, and often used those references in his speeches especially to attack the......

Education in focus for 11th Plan

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the Eleventh Five Year Plan would focus on education, particularly vocational and science education, with a five-fold increase in the spending on this......

The story behind Andhra's call money racket

The money involved is more than Rs 2,000 crore across Andhra Pradesh In today's Andhra Pradesh, loan sharks have not only been charging exorbitant interest rates to the needy, often women, but......

Strike evokes mixed response; banking, transport services hit

While some states like Kerala and Telangana were badly hit by the strike, the impact was partial in Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra Image: Women react from inside a police vehicle after their......

How Information revolution differs from Industrial Revolution

There is mounting evidence that the Information Revolution may mean the end of large-scale vertically integrated businesses whose guiding principle, “economies of scale”, was the......

Samson replaces injured Dhawan for West Indies T20Is

IMAGE: Sanju Samson was a part of the T20I squad for three-match series against Bangladesh, but failed to get a single as Rishabh Pant was preferred over him. Photograph: BCCI Opener Shikhar......