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  1. When you are helpless, you turn poetic

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    / February 25, 2012 / 2 Comments
    This is an email received from Sohan Hattangadi from Visakhapatnam. Here he takes to poetry, `inspired’ by the Vizag collector’s resolve that the city will be like Mumbai in a decade.  `The South Reports’ reproduces Sohan’s mail in full :  Our youthful collector said that Vizag will become like Mumbai in 10...

  2. Vizag on the right track

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    / February 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The City of Destiny is showing the way. The Hindu reports that the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation plans to introduce a community cycling initiative over 10.5 sq km of roads in downtown Vizag. Already `No motor vehicle’ zones across 20 km of roads is in place. Way to go, Vizag!

  3. Something is foul in the Vizag air

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    / January 16, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Despite the notices issued by AP Pollution Control Board to HPCL to back down some of their stacks to prevent air pollution that caused inconvenience to the people of Visakhapatnam during last November, the chemical smell is back in Vizag, giving one the impression that APPCB discharges its functions only...

  4. N-powered attack sub in Vizag

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    / January 8, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Vizag will be home to India’s first nuclear-powered attack submarine in the last week of January after final test trials in Russian waters. `The New Indian Express’ reports that the submarine, bearing the name Nerpa in the Russian Navy, has been leased to the Indian Navy for ten years and...

  5. We do not want a Bhopal in Vizag

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    / December 3, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By E A S Sarma The Forum for Better Visakha has, time and again, highlighted the impending pollution threat to Vizag and its surroundings from the existing and new industrial units. There has been no response to our appeals from either the Union Ministry of Environment & Forests (MOEF) or...

  6. The most personal service I ever got on a flight

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    / October 31, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Vijay Marur   It was a few years ago. There used to be an airline called Vayudoot. It was essentially a feeder airline and used Dorniers (twin engined planes) for their services. They used a hop, step and jump approach to travel. Which meant my Hyderabad-Vizag flight was actually...

  7. Eid-ul-Fitr then and now

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    / August 31, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By M S Hussain   Call it the Tahrir Square effect. When some geriatric mullahs in the port city of Visakhapatnam announced late on Tuesday night that the festival of Eid-ul-Fitr would not be celebrated in Visakhapatnam today, but on Thursday, because they had not sighted the sliver of the...

  8. For a piece of land in Vizag

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    / July 14, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By E A S Sarma I received a representation from Shri Srinivasulu Pragada of Samata, an NGO that has been working at Sewanagar slum in Visakhapatnam for quite sometime. They are concerned with the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) move to evict the slum dwellers. I visited Sewanagar last year...

  9. Blame it on the rain

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    / May 30, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By M S Hussain   The headline is from a song of the same name. It was performed by a German band called Milli Vanilli, which, sadly, turned out to be a pair of charlatans who had successfully passed themselves off as singers in the late eighties, and were awarded a Grammy for their...

  10. Is this Vizag’s destiny?

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    / February 18, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By E A S Sarma The Visakhapatnam chapter of INTACH collected a water sample from the channel draining the waste water into the sea from Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) near Appikonda village. We then got the sample analysed at the laboratory of the AP Pollution Control Board in Vizag and...

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