
Visakhapatnam: The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday ordered an inquiry in the explosion at the state-owned steel plant in Visakhapatnam which claimed 11 lives and left eight others critically injured including GM V Kalsi. The explosion occurred at the oxygen control unit near the Steel Melting Shop-II at the plant of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) on Wednesday night. Expressing anguish over the incident, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy...

04:05 PM, Jun 14, 2012

New York: A 28-year old Indian, identified as a native of Visakhapatnam, was found dead in his apartment in Dallas by police authorities, according to information with an Indian-American organisation. Nikhil Karanam was found dead in his apartment on April 21 in Trophy Club City, a suburb of Dallas, according to Telugu Association of North America. Local police authorities say they believe Karanam had died almost 10 days ago but...

11:04 PM, Apr 24, 2012

Angry villagers beat up S Soma when he seemed to be pushing the case for a mining project. ...

11:06 AM, May 11, 2011

Visakhapatnam: A sailor of the Indian Navy was arrested by the Cyber Crime Wing of Visakhapatnam Police on charges of sending obscene SMSes to the daughter of his superior officer, police said on Saturday. According to police, M Rana, working at Eastern Naval Command in Viskhapatnam and staying at 'INS Circars', was allegedly sending obscene messages to the daughter of a Commander based in Visakhapatnam. The girl informed her father...

07:27 AM, Mar 06, 2011

Hyderabad: Former Congress MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will resume his 'Odarpu Yatra' in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh from Tuesday. Jagan had kicked off his yatra in Visakhapatnam district on January 3 and took a break from January 9 to undertake a one-day fast in Delhi on January 11 to highlight the adverse impact of the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal on the state farmers. Jagan will conduct the yatra...

12:02 AM, Jan 18, 2011

Supriya recounts the agonising hours spent waiting in the Vishakhapatnam airport lobby. ...

05:07 PM, Jan 10, 2010

Passengers given boarding passes and then told the plane will not take off. ...

12:06 PM, Jan 10, 2010

Atleast one person was killed when 12 coaches of the Howrah-Nagercoil Express derailed in Visakhapatnam. ...

11:21 PM, Jun 12, 2007

There is an IIM is in the offing in Visakhapatnam and an IIT status for the Andhra University Engineering College. ...

09:05 PM, Jan 08, 2007

Mahesh, who stays in Visakhapatnam, lost both his legs in an accident when he was three years old. ...

08:29 PM, Jan 08, 2007

Three doctors are injured after relatives of a patient attack the staff including the chief medical officer. ...

12:00 PM, Aug 21, 2006