
Rajahmundry: The YSR Congress party on Sunday called for three-day bandh in East Godavari district from Monday, in protest against the arrest of party Chief and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. YSR Congress Party district convenor Bommana Rajakumar said that "the party has called for a three-day bandh in East Godavari Godavari district to protest against arrest of Jagan Mohan Reddy. We are requesting all institutions, commercial establishments to...

10:16 PM, May 27, 2012

Hyderabad: A 12-year-old boy, kidnapped four days ago while he was on his way to school, was on Friday found murdered in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district, police said. The body of Naga Vivek, a Class 7 student, was recovered by police from Korangi Lake in Tallarevu mandal near Amlapuram town, about 500 km from here, a senior police officer told IANS from the Amlapuram police station. According to police,...

02:28 PM, Apr 20, 2012

The local train network is running late because of a fire in the electronic signal panel. ...

10:25 AM, Apr 18, 2012

Mumbai: Thousands of commuters were stranded on the Central Railway (CR) stations after a midnight fire in a signal cabin. It will take three to four days to fully restore the traffic, a CR spokesperson said adding that services on the Harbour line were also hampered. Only 70 per cent of the normal suburban services would be operated on Wednesday, he said, adding that 4 long distance trains coming from...

08:18 AM, Apr 18, 2012

Rajahmundry: Two students died and 13 others were missing after a school bus fell into a river canal near in Rajahmundry in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, police said. The bus was carrying 45 LKG and UKG students of Sai Teja Public School when it rolled into the Godavari river canal near Ganti Pedapudi village. Thirty children were rescued by the locals, they said. Two bodies have...

07:36 PM, Feb 28, 2012

Mumbai: Bollywood's evergreen star Dev Anand's ashes will be immersed in the Godavari river in Nashik on Wednesday afternoon. Dev Anand's son Suneil has come to India from London to immerse his late father's ashes in the holy river. "He (Suneil) is coming to Mumbai. From here, we are going to Nashik to immerse Dev saab's ashes in the holy river - Godavari," Mohan Churiwala, a close aide of Dev...

01:22 PM, Dec 14, 2011

A Vellayan (Murugappa group) Age: 58 Profile: Chairman of Chennai-based Murugappa Group Rank: 55 Family wealth: $ 1.02 billion Insights: - Wants to stick to values such as integrity and trust - But says decision making will have to be faster Sometime in 1945, AMM Vellayan, the second son of AM Murugappa Chettiar, went back to Burma to take stock of the wealth his family and his community left behind...

11:38 AM, Nov 02, 2011

Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is considering filing a case or multiple cases against Reliance Industries over its operations of its gas block in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin, the Mint reported on Tuesday. CBI is likely to name officials in the country's upstream regulator and the petroleum ministry in the case, the newspaper said, citing officials at the federal agency who declined to be named. Earlier this...

10:31 AM, Sep 20, 2011

New Delhi: A video purportedly showing PNS Babur brushing against INS Godavari in the Gulf of Aden has surfaced on the Internet. The 'brush' happened during the hostage rescue of hostages on board the merchant vessel MV Suez in June. The video could reignite the India-Pakistan diplomatic tussle. The video apparently shot by a sailor on board PNS Babur has a clip of the Pakistani ship brushing against INS Godavari...

08:01 AM, Aug 04, 2011

Mumbai: The Indian Navy on Saturday successfully foiled a piracy attempt on a Greek ship MV Elinakos in the Gulf of Aden. INS Godavari responded to a distress call by MV Elinakos after eight Somali pirates attempted to hijack the ship in the early morning of July 16. INS Godavari was escorting four other ships at the time in the Gulf of Aden, when she received the distress call. The...

05:07 PM, Jul 19, 2011

New Delhi: It's likely to be three days before the Indian sailors of the MV Suez released last week by Somali pirates after a $2 million ransom was paid come home. But the Suez saga has been a series of mis-steps. India failed to negotiate the sailors' release, failed to protect them once they were free, and failed to bring them home. And it culminated with a row with the...

08:53 PM, Jun 20, 2011

India has summoned the Naval Advisor at the Pakistan High Commission to lodge a protest for endangering INS Godavari and its crew. ...

10:00 PM, Jun 18, 2011

New Delhi/Islamabad: Ahead of their talks, India and Pakistan were on Saturday locked in a nasty spat and lodged protests against each other over their naval warships allegedly resorting to 'risky' and 'dangerous' manoeuvres after hijacked MV Suez was freed by Somali pirates. India lodged a protest with Pakistan against the violation by Pakistan Naval Ship (PNS) Babur of relevant regulations on navigational safety by its "risky" manoeuvres jeopardising the...

08:43 PM, Jun 18, 2011

New Delhi: A diplomatic spat has come up barely a week before the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan meet to review the relationship between the two nations. India and Pakistan have been exchanging sharp words on an alleged incident on in connection to the cargo ship MV Suez released by Somali pirates. Pakistan has claimed that India's INS Godavari, sent to escort MV Suez to Oman, brushed the side...

07:13 AM, Jun 18, 2011

New Delhi: The six Indian sailors who were freed by Somali pirates after 11 months after a $2 million ransom was paid will reach home on Friday. The sailors are still on board the MV Suez which is on its way to Salalah port in Oman, from where the sailors will board a flight home. But in a controversial move, the Indian Navy has pulled out the warship INS Godavari...

08:47 AM, Jun 17, 2011