August 3rd, 201700Car rental, trusted name Zoom Car is the first 100% self-driven car rental in India. They have launched a one-way, inter city self-drive service yesterday. It is appropriately named 'Hop'. Hop allows you to travel from current location to destination and drop off the car there. This is subject to condition that the destination city has a...
June 23rd, 201700Ola has joined hands with the Andhra Pradesh government in order to boost tourism in the state. The app through with cabs and autos can be booked announced the partnership with the AP Tourism Development Corporation on Tuesday. The move is in a bid to boost intercity and intracity transport services in the state, promote tourism and...
June 16th, 201710Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu told the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu that there’s no doubt in the sanction of the new Railway Zone to be set up in Visakhapatnam. He reminded the Minister that it’s a political decision that will be taken sooner than later.
He brought the long-pending issue into focus at an event organised to...
June 16th, 201730Update (17/6/2017): AirAsia, GoAir, Jet Airways and Vistara have also come on board and banned TDP MP JC Diwakar Reddy from flying on their flights as of Friday morning.
IndiGo Airlines, SpiceJet and Air India have as of Thursday barred TDP MP JC Diwakar Reddy from flying. On Thursday he threw a tantrum at Visakhapatnam Airport....
June 10th, 201700The Indian Railway will be kick-starting the e-auction of 22 major railway stations in India under the public private partnership mode. The Ministry officials will be holding pre-bid consultations with real estate developers for the same. One of the 22 stations to be revamped is Visakhapatnam.
A senior official reportedly stated that...
June 1st, 201711471The AP Chamber of Commerce has announced the commencement of another Alliance Air Flight connecting Visakhapatnam. Alliance Air is the wholly owned subsidy of Air India. The flight will run for days a week on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Flight no.9I539 will connect Vizag-Vijayawada-Bangalore and Flight no.9I540 will come on...
May 27th, 20170331Who doesn’t love a cup of hot refreshing coffee on a nice rainy day? This magical brew was first discovered by a goat herder, Kaldi, after finding his goat extremely active post eating some strange berries from a shrub; later known to be as coffee beans. These caffeine rich seeds have since gained attention from every part of the...
May 20th, 2017099On May 18, the AP Disaster Management Force had predicted thunderbolt and lightening 30 minutes before its occurrence. The tahsildar of Anantagiri district recently got a call from the department based in Vijayawada about the prediction. Tahsildar Rani Ammaji was informed of a lightning and thunderbolt strike that would take place in 30...
May 18th, 2017040The thought of Indian railway stations usually bring to mind thoughts of unclean platforms filled with human excreta and trash. That is what the 90s image of a railway platform was genuinely like. But things have turned for the better, slowly but surely, and in an amazingly proud moment for Visakhapatnam, the City of Destiny’s railway...
May 15th, 2017212Six people from Andhra Pradesh have done what only a resilient few manage to do. They have all scaled the Mount Everest irrespective their humble roots.
The six people consist of two senior intermediate students who are sons of daily-wage labourer and farm labourer. Vooyaka Krishna Rao and Kunja Durga Rao are students of the AP Tribal...
