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Security was tightened in all 115 railway stations in the Waltair Railway Division of the East Coast Railway.

Models sporting designer creations with Lord Ganesha motifs lead to protests in Vizag.

CPI(M) and CITU cadre held protests at Vizag, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts on Monday asking the state government to supply quality onions at subsidised prices.

The city is set to turn into a political battlefield on June 22 with Telugu Desam Party and opposition party YSRCP choosing the same date to propagate their political agendas.

More than 200 TDP leaders, including former ministers and MLAs, were placed under house arrest while they were preparing to participate in a protest in Rushikonda. The TDP leaders were out to express solidarity with the protest in vizag.

The leaders and activists of Girijana Sangham and few other organizations staged a protest in front of Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) office in Vizag Agency demanding action against the officials who removed Valmiki tribe from the list of the Scheduled Tribes on the state government's website.

Karachi Bakery's management in Hyderabad has sought police protection to maintain its brand name after facing protests in Vizag, where a religious group demanded a name change. Established in 1953 by an Indian national who migrated during the Partition, the bakery is requesting support from authorities to preserve its identity. Police have provided security at the Begumpet branch.

Marking 500 days of the agitation against the proposed privatisation of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), members of the Visakha Ukku Parirakshana Porata Committee and trade unions organised a bike rally, protest and public meeting on Sunday.

Commuters on Vizag-Araku road near S Kota in Vizianagaram district witnessed a traffic jam on Monday as protesters blocked the road and staged a protest with a body in front of S Kota police station, demanding action against the accused.

While emotions ran high, Union minister of state for science and technology Y Sujana Chowdary stoked controversy with his comments on the candlelight march.

Nekkanti Keerthan, a student from the Hyderabad-based IIT Ramaiah Academy, was supposed to return to Hyderabad from Vizag on a SpiceJet flight at 4.45 pm on Thursday. But, he missed the flight.

A group of youth under the banner of Andhra Yuvatha were made preventive arrest on Thursday by Vizag cops in Andhra Pradesh in order to prevent them in the participation of a silent protest with a demand of Special Category Status (SCS) to Andhra Pradesh.

Amid Cauvery protests, IPL matches scheduled to be held in Chennai will be shifted to another venue. As uncertainty looms large on the new venue, the Andhra Pradesh Cricket Association (ACC) has expressed its readiness to be a "happy host" for the matches in the port city of Visakhapatnam.

Models sporting designer creations with Lord Ganesha motifs lead to protests in Vizag

Stars have taken to Twitter to show support.

Auto-rickshaw drivers’ unions staged a protest in vizag on Friday against higher fines for traffic rule violations.

The ongoing protest by members of the Visakhapatnam Bar Association (VBA) to establish the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Vizag city has intensified and affected court proceedings, with advocates boycotting courts over the past few days.

Nearly 30-40% of about 10,000 Visakhapatnam district-based goods carriers, including 3,000 oil tankers that ply across the country, have been bearing the brunt of the Seemandhra protests in the 13 coastal districts.

Tension prevailed in Makavarapalem and nearby villages after one of the two seriously injured persons in police lathicharge died in a Vizag hospital on Thursday evening.