Cleaner air, better sanitation on One Town voters’ wish list
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Residents of the city’s oldest area say their pleas have gone unheard for years
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Water bottles and plastic waste removed from a blocked drain lying on the road at Poorna Market in Visakhapatnam.
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K.R. Deepak
Residents of the city’s oldest area say their pleas have gone unheard for years
Rising air pollution and a deplorable sanitation system are the two things weighing most heavily on the minds of voters as they look to elect a new municipal council for the first time in 14 years.
Six held in 3 robbery cases
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Property worth ₹12 lakh recovered from accused, say police
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Property worth ₹12 lakh recovered from accused, say police
The police cracked the gold jewellery workshop robbery case, that took place at Kurupam Market in the Old Town area February 2, by arresting six persons, including three receivers, on Tuesday.
Police have found that the accused had also committed two more thefts in One Town area during the same period. Police have recovered all the stolen property worth over ₹12 lakh, including 570 grams of gold, from the accused in the three cases.
The arrested were identified as Pheer Zaelha Sayeed Navazis Hussain (28), a TV mechanic, Chalapaka Lakshman (30), a goldsmith, (both from One Town area) and S. Sagar (25), a painter and resident of Town Kotha Road. Three receivers in the case P. Satyanarayana (30), Gowri Pattapu Nanaji (60), both from One Town area, and L. Srinu of Kancharapalem were also nabbed.