Six Travel Buses Confiscated
The officials formed three groups and fanned to three entry-exit points in the city – Nandigama toll gate, old RTA check-post at Ibrahimpatnam, and near Kanaka Durgamma Vaaradhi.
Private bus operators in Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Guntur, Kurnool, Nellore, Anantapur and Hyderabad. Sources said the RTA officials checked whether the private bus operators complied with the rules. The private buses transport thousands of passengers to major cities and a number of other destinations daily.
Special teams headed by deputy transport commissioners swooped down on the offices of leading private transport operators like Kesineni, Sri Kaleswar, Moonlight, SRKT, Sri Krishna, Padmavathi, Diwakar, Venkata Ramana and others. The RTA decided to launch the crackdown after the private bus fell off a bridge on way to Shirdi on Saturday last
Kingfisher flights cancelled
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport witnessed one of the worst days on Friday with respect to cancellation of Kingfisher flights. The airport’s official website listed seven of the nine Kingfisher flights bound for various destinations from Shamshabad as cancelled. While no information or statement was released by Kingfisher Airlines, its officials said that passengers booked on the cancelled flights were informed well in advance, but they were reluctant to pay the additional charge for last minute bookings on other flights.
It was not easy for passengers to transfer to other flights. A travel agent who did not wish to be identified said that either there are no seats available on other airlines or the available seats cost a lot. Other airlines have put Kingfisher on ‘cash and carry’ status that is, they will not accommodate Kingfisher’s abandoned passengers unless the airline pays for their tickets.
Airport officials said that after Friday’s fiasco, the claims of Kingfisher that a normal flight schedule will resume soon, seem unlikely. Travel agents say that passengers have at last seen the light and very few are now booking Kingfisher flights. Among the flights cancelled on Friday were one to Bengaluru, one to Rajahmundry, one to Chennai, one to Vijayawada, one to Goa, one to Vizag and one to Pune
Lagadapati Rajagopal hails suspension of CBI Judge T Pattabhirama Rao
Vijayawada MP Lagadapati Rajagopal on Friday expressed concern over the prevalence of rampant corruption in the judiciary.
Talking to reporters before staging a silent protest before Mahatma Gandhi statue in Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation office, Rajagopal hailed the suspension of first additional Special Judge for CBI T Pattabhirama Rao, who recently granted bail to former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy. Demanding serious action against the CBI judge, he appealed to High Court to probe further to find out the involvement of other persons in the bribery episode.
Rajagopal said that he was stating a silent sit-in protest to prevent corruption at all levels and to highlight the spreading of corruption like tentacles in all departments. As so many cases relating to corruption are pending in various courts in the State, he demanded that the judiciary act promptly and take serious action against the guilty to ensure that such acts do not recur
Talking to reporters before staging a silent protest before Mahatma Gandhi statue in Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation office, Rajagopal hailed the suspension of first additional Special Judge for CBI T Pattabhirama Rao, who recently granted bail to former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy. Demanding serious action against the CBI judge, he appealed to High Court to probe further to find out the involvement of other persons in the bribery episode.
Rajagopal said that he was stating a silent sit-in protest to prevent corruption at all levels and to highlight the spreading of corruption like tentacles in all departments. As so many cases relating to corruption are pending in various courts in the State, he demanded that the judiciary act promptly and take serious action against the guilty to ensure that such acts do not recur
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