Coronavirus Live Updates: Hyderabad, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh News Today 29 August 2021

Maharashtra News: Juhu Beach in Mumbai witnesses a huge footfall after the state government eased COVID-19 restrictions

Explained: Why Delta Covid variant spreads like wildfire

A key amino-acid mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein might explain why the Delta variant of Covid-19 has spread so swiftly across the world, say researchers. Read Full Story

Andhra Pradesh News: The TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and the party's national general secretary Lokesh wished all Telugu people around the world a happy Telugu Language Day celebrated on the birth anniversary of Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy, the key person in promoting Telugu. Chandrababu said that Gidugu Ramamurthy is the reason for bringing world literature, history, and knowledge into the hands of the common man through the Telugu language. He recalled that he believed that to increase literacy among the people, teaching should take place in the mother tongue. Read Full Story

Telangana News: TDP MLAs from the Prakasam district wrote a letter to Telangana CM KCR on the Veligonda project. Telangana wrote a letter to the Centre two days back urging not to release funds for the project. TDP MLAs have appealed to Telangana CM KCR to reconsider the complaint, saying that it is not right that there are no permits for Veligonda. They pointed out that the Gazette had stated that the project was not sanctioned due to the AP government but they have made clear that the project was mentioned in the 2014 Bifurcation Act along with including Kalvakurthi and Nettempadu, was also included. Read Full Story

Vizianagaram News: A woman sub-inspector of police working at East Godavari committed suicide at Vizianagaram on Sunday. Read Full Story

Telangana News: The CCS police have obtained key evidence in the case of Karvy MD Parthasarathy, who is facing charges of bank loan evasion and diversion of funds. CCS‌ police cracked down on the irregularities and found the clients have duped Rs 780 crore. It is learned that 720 crore shares were mortgaged and borrowed from banks and evaded Rs. 1200 crore loan to banks. In addition, he had resorted to Rs. 3000 crore scam in Telangana. Read Full Story

Andhra Pradesh News: The star badminton player PV Sindhu will visit Visakhapatnam today to grace various events in the city. After arriving in the city in the afternoon, PV Sindhu will participate in the meeting, which will be held with the authorities of the Visakhapatnam steel plant. Later, she would play Badminton with the children at the Steel Stadium on Monday morning. Read Full Story

Telangana News: A young man who was addicted to marijuana indiscriminately attacked an old man with an axe who was walking on the road in Bussapur of Mendora of Nizamabad district. The incident has been reported days after some youths in Balkonda committed theft of bikes under the influence of marijuana. Despite such incidents, the locals express concern stating that it is unfortunate that the authorities have not taken steps to curb marijuana in the villages. Read Full Story

Weather report: Heavy rains to lash parts of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday and Monday

A low-pressure area formed on Saturday in the northwestern Bay of Bengal near the southern Odisha-north coastal Andhra and the adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal. In addition, the surface periodicity continues at an altitude of 5.8 km above sea level. On the other hand, the low-pressure area extends 0.9 km above sea level to the eastern central Bay of Bengal and extends towards the AP. Hence, the meteorological office said that there is a possibility of heavy rains in the state for the next two days, and scattered showers are expected in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, YSR Kadapa, and Kurnool districts on Sunday. Light to moderate rains is expected in other parts. Read Full Story

Hyderabad Meteorological dept. predicts heavy rains in Telangana for the next two days

The Hyderabad Meteorological Department has forecasted heavy rains across Telangana for the next three days due to low pressure in the Bay of Bengal. According to the forecast, one or two places will receive heavy to very heavy rains, while others will receive thunder and lightning along with the gusty wind. The erstwhile Khammam, Warangal, Medak, and Mahabubnagar districts are likely to receive heavy rains next three days. Read Full Story