A Beautiful Landscape of Krishna River, with Kanakadurga Temple in the Background. We can also see the flyover constructions works in the background.

Airtel has launched Platinum 3G network for customers in Vijayawada. This new service helps to give better 3G experience to customers, which will boost indoor coverage, improve voice clarity and helps in faster internet speed. Platinum 3G is powered by dual band spectrum of both 900 Mhz and 2,100 Mhz. This new facility is offered to all 3G customers without any additional amount.

Also Bharti Airtel CEO Venkatesh Vijayaraghavan said that they are setting up a fiber optic telecom network in Amaravati to meet the future needs. The work is already in progress and the company will be announcing the details shortly. Airtel is partnering with AP government both for fiber and telecom mobility network requirements.

The Krishna district administration is planning to introduce smart bus services in Vijayawada city soon with the cooperation of New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEITDO) of Japan.

District Collector Babu A and Municipal Commissioner G Veerapandian discussed with the representatives of NEITDO here on Thursday over implementation of smart bus services in the city as part of smart city programme. Speaking on the occasion, the collector said that a survey was conducted in 23,000 houses along Bandar Road to identify the necessities of people on transportation.

NEITDO team members led by Fusison said that they have implemented a traffic control project in Pune. He said that with the introduction of the smart buses, passengers would get the information about time to reach his destination, traffic on the roads and more on a LED screen.

A student of Vignan's University and Vadlamudi in Guntur District had invented a contemporary pollution free duster and applied for its patent rights.

The student Tirumala Vasu, pursuing M.Tech in Vignan University designed and made the duster to avoid spread of light weight dust particles inside the classroom while erasing the blackboard. Explaining his design, Vasu said that the duster consists of cotton cloth wound around a roller, a cylindrical chamber with fine brushes covering 75 percent of the roller and the rest is kept outside the cylinder to collect the dust particles efficiently.

The chalk pieces used in classrooms are made from plaster of paris and calcium carbonate.