Sumit Bhattacharjee

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Sumit Bhattacharjee

Visakhapatnam — the City of Destiny — is all geared up and decked up to host the biggest public event ever held so far on Saturday. All arrangements appear to be in place to host the International Yoga Day, which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, on the Beach Road. The event is being held over a road stretch of about 28 km, from the Kali Matha temple at RK Beach to Bheemunipatnam.

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Sumit Bhattacharjee

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Greyhounds personnel, during a combing operation in the area near Akooru in Maredumilli forest of Alluri Sitharama Raju district, spotted a group of around 16 armed members of the banned CPI (Maoist). What followed was a fierce gun battle for about an hour, in which three Maoists were killed.

2 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Sumit Bhattacharjee

For the last four decades, political narratives in Andhra Pradesh have always hinged on caste equations. Even if we look at the composition of the current National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the two major parties — the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Jana Sena Party (JSP) — are largely represented by two major castes in Andhra Pradesh — the Kammas and the Kapus. Similarly, the Congress and YSR Congress Party are dominated by the Reddy community. This was not always the case.

4 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Sumit Bhattacharjee

Just days before the mysterious sinking of Pakistan’s submarine PNS Ghazi off Visakhapatnam coast during the India-Pakistan War of 1971, an unusual sighting by local fishermen hinted at secrets lurking beneath the sea — secrets that would soon shape a dramatic chapter in naval history. In the early hours of December 5, 1971, fishermen heading out in their traditional boats spotted a massive black object, shaped like a pointed gourd, rising from the depths near the coast.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Sumit Bhattacharjee |Ravi Reddy

In both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, two high-profile female politicians are fighting hard to cement their place in the political arena. While K. Kavitha, the daughter of former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, has grabbed headlines in Telangana thanks to a “leaked” letter, Y.S. Sharmila, the daughter of former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has been publicly attacking her brother in A.P.Recently, a letter by Ms. Kavitha to her father was “leaked” to the public.