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ANDHRA PRADESH Indian Ports Act to cover entire coastline The government extended the Indian Ports Act (IPA), 1908, to the entire coastline excluding the waters of the Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT), notified reserve forests and the mangrove forest land. The coastline, the second largest in India, is booming with significant activity including oil … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH Agreement signed for Andhra Pradesh start-up area A crucial step in the development of the start-up area of the seed capital in Amaravati was initiated on Thursday with the signing of a Concession and Development Agreement (CADA) between the AP Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA) and Singapore-Amaravati Investments Holding Ltd (SAIH) for … Read more
RAJASTHAN Blood donation: Rajasthan at dismal 24th spot Voluntary blood donation in summers has taken a significant dip leading to crisis of blood in some blood banks of the city. One blood bank in a private hospital faced shortage of blood which was immediately helped by social organisations by holding blood donation camps in different parts of the city. However, … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH Tourism wing introduces TSA AP Tourism has introduced the Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA) in the State to identify the needs of tourists. Datamation has been appointed as the agency for collecting information by conducting a survey that reveals the purpose of the visit, mode of transport, range of expenditure, preferences and … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH Andhra Pradesh gets new state bird, state flower Four years after the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the government of the residual state has announced its state symbols. The notable change is the state bird. The state bird of undivided Andhra Pradesh was Indian Roller (coracias benghalensis) or Palapitta. This has been … Read more
RAJASTHAN Centre proposes 590km Kutch-Rajasthan waterway The Centre has proposed a Rs 10,000 crore project to develop a 590km long inland waterway connecting Gujarat and Rajasthan through the Jawai River, Luni River and Kori Creek in the Rann of Kutch. This project will create an alternative transport route to the railways. Industrial corridors are … Read more
RAJASTHAN No books for Urdu medium schools in Rajasthan Since the year 2005-06 supply of books to the Urdu medium schools have been stopped due to various reasons and teachers in those schools are forced to teach the students translating from the Hindi medium books. There are eight Urdu medium schools left in Rajasthan after state has … Read more
RAJASTHAN • Introduce course to celebrate Gandhi’s birth anniversary Governor Kalyan Singh has asked the universities to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary by introducing ‘Gandhi Vichar Darshan’ course. He said while speaking at the governor’s conference in Delhi on Tuesday. During his speech he gave a suggestion that Gandhi’s 150th anniversary can … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH Andhra Pradesh now is Open Defecation Free (ODF) State Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has announced that the state was now Open Defecation Free (ODF) as it had achieved its goal of constructing 2.77 lakh individual toilets. With this achievement, Andhra Pradesh becomes the first large state in the … Read more
ANDHRA PRADESH ASI to identify protected monuments in Masula The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is exploring the historical sites in the port town of Machilipatnam to declare the eligible sites as ‘protected monuments’ for conservation. Until the 1864 cyclone which left more than 30,000 people dead in Machilipatnam, the site was known … Read more