Sayeeda is on dharna outside the house of the man she married at a temple. Sayeeda and Rangoli Sadhu met over two years back. She was from Mahabubnagar and worked as a nurse, while he was from Vizianagaram and worked at an NGO. They eloped and married at Vija...
The NCS sugar factory in Bobbili mandal of Vizianagaram, at the centre of a storm over taking crores of loans from banks in the name of farmers, is causing land and water pollution. The effluents discharged from the sugar factory are released into the surround...
Farmers who send their sugarcane crops to the NCS sugar factory in Vizianagaram are facing a situation where they have been slapped with notices by banks who had given loans to the factory. The farmers say the management has diverted the money taken from the b...
Farmers in Bobbili mandal of Vizianagaram are facing a double whammy. On the one hand the NCA sugar factory nearby is refusing to accept fresh sugarcane crop for crushing and hence the crop is drying in the farms, on the other hand the banks have issued notice...
They did not take loans but were slapped with notices claiming they have to repay loans to the tune of 70 crores. The farmers who were supplying sugarcane to the NCS sugar factory in Vizianagaram are stunned and have asked the management to come clear. The wor...
Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana warned revenue and transport officials not to stop smaller vehicles like tractors from transporting sand. His argument was that that sand is a natural resource and locals can be allowed to use it for construction. This ha...
They were once rajas, big zamindars, and landlords, who lorded over the vast stretches of the former princely state of Vizianagaram. The permanent revenue settlement of the British brought them to the fore. Now more than sixty years after independence, these f...
Locals in Vizianagaram attack an poultry complaining of the foul smell emanating from there. The locals say the school children at a school located nearby were falling sick due to the poultry. The locals then cut the power supply to the poultry, leading to the...
Two villages in Vizianagaram district have literally come to blows over the issue of water. They have attacked each other with sticks and knives. A police picket has to be set up in the area. What has made these peaceful villagers in these green landscape run ...
The raids by the Road Transport Authority officials enters its sixth day, and the tally so far of seizures of buses is- over 200 private luxury buses and 300 school buses. Whether it Visakhapatnam or Vijayawada or Hyderabad, across the state, buses are stopped...
Two Congress stalwarts in Vizianagaram district have confused their constituents. Both are engaged in a bitter battle over a thermal power plant. One is Union minister Kishore Chandra Deo who says no to the project on grounds of lack of water from the Nagavall...
Kondavelagadu village in backward area of Vizianagaram district produces top weightlifters, who have won national and international laurels. This despite the poverty of the village. The need now is to encourage and provide facilities in this village.
Watch this episode of Encounter With Murali Krishna with PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana, who talks about his family's alleged links with the liquor syndicate.
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu protests against the liquor syndicates in Vizianagaram, a traditional stronghold of Congress leader Botsa Satyanarayana, amid prohibitory orders from the police.
Chandrababu Naidu wins the day in Vizianagaram as he manages to break though the heavy police presence, hold a rally, and also take potshots at Botsa on his home turf.
Section 144 has been imposed near the Collector's office in Vizianagaram, ahead of rallies planned by both the TDP and the Congress, at the same venue.
Vizianagaram locals are baffled by the competitive politics indulged in by the TDP and the Congress, over the staging of dharnas on the same day, and at the same time.
The situation in Vizianagaram is tense, as both Chandrababu Naidu and Botsa Satyanarayana have announced plans to stage a dharna on the same day, and at the same venue.
After PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana's home district of Vizianagaram, it is Chittoor, the home district of Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, that has the highest number of liquor shops.
Min Shatrucharla Vijaya Rama Raju is pitted against Union minister Kishore Chandra Deo over the construction of a thermal power plant in their home district of Vizianagaram.
K Srinivas Reddy the IPS officer who headed the SIT team in charge of ACB raids on liquor syndicate was transferred to another post. Was this transfer done under pressure from politicians involved in liquor syndicate?