Coronavirus Live Updates: Hyderabad, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh News Today 20 June 2021

Andhra Pradesh registers 5646 new coronavirus cases and 50 deaths today

Andhra Pradesh has reported as many as 5646 new coronavirus cases in the last twenty-four hours as of Friday against the tests conducted for about 1,00,001 people. The recent cases take the total tally to 18,50,563. While coming to the fatalities, 50 new deaths occurred in the state in the last twenty-four hours taking the tally to 12,319. Read Full Story

Guntur Urban SP Arif Hafeez sets up special teams to probe the incident of attack on lovers

Guntur Urban SP Arif Hafeez said they were investigating the incident of attack on lovers in Sitanagar under Tadepalli of Guntur. Last night, two men attacked a couple sitting in Pushkara Ghat. The thugs who tied the young man with ropes, committed sexual assault on the young woman. The SP said special police teams have been set up to probe the incident. He said the accused would be caught soon. Read Full Story

KCR holds meeting with officials and leaders in Siddipet tour, says our govt. is farmer-centric

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said that the state is producing three crore tonnes of food grains surpassing Punjab, the leading state in grain production. He said that all this is possible with the sincere efforts of the government and people. "The cotton grown in Telangana is superior; there are 400 ginning mills in Telangana," said CM KCR. Read Full Story

KCR inaugurates camp office in Siddipet, touches his uncle's feet and sets example on Father's Day

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao as part of the districts tour visited Siddipet today. On this occasion, he inaugurated the newly constructed MLA camp office in the district center along with Finance Minister Harish Rao. He has embarked on a series of development projects. Read Full Story

Andhra Pradesh: Special vaccination drive underway for mothers of children aged below five in Vijayawada

AP Weather Update: Andhra Pradesh to receive heavy rains from June 23

The recently formed monsoon trough in the Bay of Bengal is expected to weaken by Sunday evening. With this, the Meteorological department officials said there were no signs of rains in the state as the southwest monsoon was expanding in northern India. Read Full Story

Can't pay Rs 4 lakh compensation to Covid victims, Centre tells Supreme Court

The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the finances of states and Centre are under severe strain, due to the reduction in tax revenues and increase in health expenses on account of the coronavirus pandemic. And Rs 4 lakh compensation can't be paid to all those who died due to Covid-19 as it would exhaust the disaster relief funds, and also impact the Centre and states' preparation to address future waves of COVID-19. Read Full Story

At over 58,000 Covid cases, India sees lowest tally in 81 days

The Covid-19 cases in India continued to witness declining trend with the country recording 58,419 new cases, lowest in the last 81 days. In the same time span, 1,576 fatalities were reported, according to data released by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Sunday. Read Full Story

Gold rates today in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kerala, Visakhapatnam continues to slash on 20 June 2021

Gold rates today on 20 June 2021: Gold rates today have continued to slash further on Sunday at all major cities across the country with a margin of Rs. 250. The gold rate had fallen more than 2% due to the U.S. Federal Reserve has hinted about the rise in interest rates. Read Full Story