Two dead, four injured in pharma unit fire near Visakhapatnam

Two workers died and four others received burn injuries following a fire accident at one of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) units at Jawaharlal Nehru Pharma City (JNPC) at Parawada, about 50 km from here on Tuesday. The incident took place at Azico Biophore when cleaning operation was under progress with a solvent to prepare a new product, Joint Inspector […]

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Digvijay removed as Cong. in-charge of Goa, poll-bound Karnataka

Ahead of the crucial assembly elections in Karnataka in 2018, one of the few States in which the Congress is still in power, the party leadership replaced senior leader Digvijaya Singh as in-charge of the State on Saturday with K.C. Venugopal. And in what is being read as a reflection of Mr. Singh’s failure to put together a Congress government […]

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Telangana irrigation expert R. Vidyasagar Rao dies aged 77

Irrigation expert and Advisor to the Telangana Government R. Vidyasagar Rao, died after prolonged illness at a private hospital in Hyderabad on Saturday. He was 77. He was a close associate of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao from the initial days of the lateral phase of the Telangana movement since 2001. Vidyasagar Rao played a key role in highlighting the […]

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