Rayana Bhagya Lakshmi elected as 12th Mayor of Vijayawada
The Hindu
Rayana Bhagya Lakshmi has been unanimously elected as the 12th Mayor of Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) at the first council meeting held after the declaration of municipal election results, here on Thursday.
Bellam Durga was unanimously elected as the Deputy Mayor. All the 64 new corporators except one were sworn in by the presiding officer and Krishna district Collector A.Md. Imtiaz.Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).