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BOMMIREDDY NARASIMHA REDDY – A DOYEN OF TELUGU FILM

bommireddy narasimha reddy

Padmabhushan Dr. Bommireddy Narasimha Reddy, popularly known as ‘BN Reddy’ holds a special place in the history of Telugu Cinema. He is the director who balances artistic values and business needs in the right proportion. A commemorative postal stamp on  BN Reddy was released by the Department of Posts, Government of India on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of Dr. …

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CROPS AND SOIL OF KADAPA DISTRICT

Kadapa district is endowed mainly with red and black soils ranging from poor to fertile soils. The soil of the district  has been classified into red ferruginous soil and black spoil. These two classes can be sub divided into clay, loam sand with finer distinctions.  Red soils occupy 53% of the cultivated area and are mostly situated in L. R. Palli, …

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Rayachoti – A Major Town of the Kadapa District

Rayachoti

Rayachoti or Rayachoty (Telugu: రాయచోటి urdu: رائچوٹی) has a population of 72,196 (as per census 2001), is a municipality. The nearest railway station is Kalikiri on the Pakala-Dharmavaram line twenty-eight miles to the south. The distance to Kadapa on the north is thirty-three miles (48 KM), and Rajampet and Kadiri lie some thirty five miles east and west respectively. Rayachoti is …

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Irrigation Projects in YSR District

irrigation projects

Irrigation Projects – Kadapa District Irrigation in Kadapa district is through major, medium and minor irrigation projects. There are 4 major, 5 medium completed irrigation projects in the district. The major irrigation projects are 1) Kurnool-Kadapa canal 2) TBP HLC Stage-I, 3) TBP HLC Stage-II (Mylavaram) and 4) Pulivendula Branch canal with a total ayacut of 2,27,896 acres. The five …

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Tense Situation in Kadapa

KADAPA, Dec20: A tense situation prevailed on Sunday in Pulivendula and Kadapa where mobs protesting against the arrest and hospitalisation of Congress leader Y. S. Vivekandanda Reddy attacked public property on Saturday night causing a loss estimated by Inspector General of Police R. P. Thakur at Rs. 10 crore. Deploring the arrest of Mr. Reddy, younger brother of former Chief …

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Student immolates self over arrest of Viveka

Kadapa, Dec. 20: A tense environment is prevailing in Kadapa district with MLC Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy’s arrest on Saturday evening. Irate protesters resorted to vandalism from Saturday night and this continued on Sunday. Public life was completely disturbed with the three-day bandh called by agitators protesting against Mr Vivekananda Reddy’s arrest. An ITI student Chandrashekar, upset with the arrest, committed …

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Demanding united Andhra Pradesh…

KADAPA:Dec14: Activists of Congress and Telugu Desam Party, several organisations, minorities and students took out ‘funeral processions’ of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Union Home Minister P. Chidamabaram and Telangana Rashtra Samiti president K. Chandrasekhar Rao and burnt their effigies before Kadapa Collectorate demanding united Andhra Pradesh. The Collectorate road was packed with large number of protesters and a spate of …

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సమైక్యాంధ్రకు మద్దతుగా…

కడప, 13 డిసెంబర్: సమైక్యాంధ్రకు మద్దతుగా రాజకీయ నేతలు పార్టీలకతీతంగా సమైక్యంగా ఉద్యమించేందుకు ఐక్య కార్యాచరణ కమిటీని రూపొందించారు. ఉద్యమ ఉధృతిని పెంచేందుకు సన్నద్ధమయ్యారు. ఆదివారం జిల్లా కేంద్రమైన కడపలో కాంగ్రెస్‌, తెలుగుదేశం, పీఆర్పీ, బీజేపీ, లోక్‌సత్తా పార్టీలతోపాటు వివిధ ప్రజా సంఘాల నాయకులు రౌండ్‌టేబుల్‌ సమావేశం నిర్వహించారు. 1948 నుంచే రాయలసీమ నినాదం వచ్చిందని అప్పట్లో మాజీ రాష్ట్రపతి నీలం సంజీవరెడ్డి తెలుగు రాష్ట్రంగా విడిపోవడం కంటే రాయలసీమ రాష్ట్రం ఏర్పాటు చేయడమే మంచిదని సూచించారని పలువురు పేర్కొన్నారు. ఆ వాదన అటు …

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Gandikota Fort

Gandikota

Gandikota is a small village (Lat. 140 47? N. and Long. 780 16?S.) on the Right Bank of the river Pennar, in Jammalamadugu taluk of Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh. Here lies the famous fort of Gandikota, which acquired its name obviously due to the gorge, formed between the Erramalai range of hills, also known as Gandikota hills and the river …

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