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Counting on 3 November showed the TDP-Jana Sena-BJP alliance winning about nine in ten wards and controlling 75 of 100 bodies in one tracker. TDP's Geeta Kumari beat YSRCP's YS Prameelamma in Pulivendula by 13,898 votes. The YSRCP leads only in Nandikotkur. Tallies are provisional and differ.
Prateek Rawat5 min
Severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu crossed the south Andhra coast near Ongole early on 3 November with 100–110 km/h winds, gusting to 120. Thousands of trees and hundreds of poles fell in Prakasam and Bapatla, boats were wrecked and crops flooded. No deaths are reported; about 30,000 people were moved.
Amita Sahani5 min
Five youths from Visakhapatnam and Chodavaram say they were promised jobs in Russia, were enlisted in its army and are being sent to the front, in a video appeal to the PM. Three were reportedly sent to the front two months ago and cannot be traced. Minister Nara Lokesh has asked his office to help.
Amita Sahani4 min
Andhra Pradesh's 92 urban bodies voted on 1 November with 60.96% turnout, and the SEC ordered repolling at 13 stations in seven bodies on 2 November. Jagan Mohan Reddy says YSRC agents were kept out of most stations and that repolling in four booths is not enough; he will go to court.
Subhash Gupta4 min
A blast and large fire broke out at HPCL's refinery in Gajuwaka, Visakhapatnam, late on 2 November. Police say it is confined to the affected tank, smoke is not hazardous and no casualties are reported. Reports differ on whether a sulphur pitch tank or the residue upgradation unit was hit.
Amita Sahani4 min
With Cyclone Murasu 260 km from Chennai early on 2 November, schools and colleges were shut in Chennai, Tiruvallur and Eluru. IMD has red alerts for Krishna, Guntur, Bapatla, Prakasam and Nellore, and Telangana has orange and yellow alerts. Landfall is due near Ongole between 11:30 pm and 4 am.
Subhash Gupta2 min
Hemanth, accused of attacking a Class 10 girl with a chainsaw in a Raptadu classroom, was shot six times by police in the Atmakur forest area of Anantapur on 1 November. Police say he attacked the team and tried to flee. Minister Nara Lokesh says the girl, in a Bengaluru hospital, is stable.
Reyaansh Agarawal2 min
A 21-year-old man, Hemanth, attacked a 15-year-old Class 10 girl with a chainsaw in a Zilla Parishad High School classroom in Raptadu, Anantapur, on 31 October, in front of a teacher. She was moved to Bengaluru in critical condition. A second girl was hurt trying to stop him; he has been arrested.
Subhash Gupta2 min
Cyclonic Storm Murasu is forecast to become a severe cyclonic storm on Monday and cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast between Nellore and Narsapur from about 11:30 pm on 2 November to 4 am on 3 November, with winds of 100 to 110 km/h. A red alert is out for coastal Andhra; Odisha is on alert.
Amita Sahani3 min
IMD's 2:50 am bulletin on 1 November says the depression will become a cyclonic storm, then a severe one, and cross the south Andhra coast between Nellore and Narsapur on the morning of 3 November with winds of 100 to 110 km/h. Fishermen are warned off; it will be named Murasu if it strengthens.
Subhash Gupta3 min
The IMD said on 31 October that a well-marked low-pressure area over the southeast Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea will likely become a depression within 12 hours and come close to the Andhra Pradesh coast by the evening of 2 November. Coastal residents are asked to stay alert.
Reyaansh Agarawal3 min
About 300 Ganjam villages in Odisha are marooned after days of extremely heavy rain from Cyclone Arnab, with the Rushikulya overflowing at Sorada. Odisha plans to airlift 120 people first with a Coast Guard helicopter. In Andhra Pradesh a railway bridge in Srikakulam is submerged.
Amita Sahani4 min
