June 15th, 201700The Indian Coast Guard interacted with the local fishermen on Wednesday. They are a nodal agency that undertakes coordinated search and rescue efforts in India. One of their mandated duties is to provide protection to fishermen and assist them at sea in times of distress.The 61 day fishing ban over East Coast was lifted on Wednesday...
June 9th, 201700The land issue surrounding the TU-142M aircraft museum with Andhra University seems to be sorted. The government’s aircraft museum project proposed on Beach Road will now be materialising according to schedule. District Collector Pravin Kumar reportedly stated that the state government negotiated with AU for one acre of land near the...
June 6th, 201701570A circular is doing rounds on Whatsapp, dated 31 May 2017, stating that it’s a cyclone alert and all the tahsildars are informed that Cyclone Mora is over North East Bay of Bengal. The circular states that Mora will make landfall over Bangladesh, causing moderate to heavy rainfall in Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam and Vizianagaram from...
June 3rd, 20171222A peeping tom from the Indian Navy was arrested yesterday for filming a video of a woman while she was bathing. The man was caught red handed and beaten up by the woman and her family.Sandeep Narwal is a sailor in the Indian Navy who was allegedly shooting videos of the woman at her residence in the ex-servicemen colony. He works as...
May 22nd, 2017229The mountaineering team of the Indian Navy has achieved the feat of scaling the Mount Everest. The Indian Naval Ensign was planted atop Mount Everest at about 0715 hours on 21 May 2017 by Team A comprising Lieutenant Shashank Tiwari, Lieutenant Anant Kukreti and LCOM Maharana all from Eastern Naval Command and Lieutenant Commander CS...
May 19th, 2017026Andhra Pradesh seems to just not stop conquering the Mount Everest in some form or the other. First, there was the woman mountaineer Neillima Pudota who reached the summit, then recently there were six students from the state who had done the same. Now, nine-year-old Kaamya Karthikeyan from Vizag has reached the Everest Basecamp that...
May 18th, 2017116As part of "SIMBEX-17’, the ongoing Bilateral Naval Exercise between Navies of the Republic of Singapore and India, lndian Naval Ships Shivalik, Sahyadri, Jyoti and Kamorta and one P8-I Maritime Patrol and Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft are participating. While INS Sahyadri and INS Kamorta arrived on May 12, 2017, INS Shivalik and INS...
May 18th, 2017054Call it a little town that is barely alive; or a quaint city trying to live up to the urbanisation that is thrust upon it - but our city is unique in so many ways that every transferee who spends a year or more here falls in love. A few characteristic traits of the city that is Vizagapatnam.Uber Cosmopolitan, oh yes!Vizag is...
May 10th, 201706Indian Naval Ships Shivalik, Sahyadri, Jyoti and Kamorta of the Eastern Fleet manoeuvring in the Andaman Sea. The task force is on a routine deployment to Malacca Strait, the Java Sea, Flores Sea, the Arafura Sea and Southern Indian Ocean under the command of Rear Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, YSM, VSM, the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern...
May 5th, 2017291The whole saga of whether or not the AP government will take ownership of INS Viraat and set it up as a museum in Visakhapatnam has been one for the popcorn lovers. But AP tourism department sources have reportedly stated that the state government is still keen on establishing the museum in the port city. The AP tourism authorities have...
