With the aim to provide paramedical, medical and nurses training courses at its upcoming Apollo Aragonda Health Knowledge City in Andhra Pradesh, the Apollo Hospitals Group, on its 25th anniversary, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indira Gandhi National Open University. The project, which will require an investment of Rs 1,000 crore over the next five years will be located on 100 acres. 

H & R Johnson (India) Limited, has signed a 50:50 JV pact with Silica Ceramica Pvt. Ltd., to set up a tile manufacturing facility at Eluru in Andhra Pradesh.

Visakhapatnam, Sept. 16 : Fishermen in coastal Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, particularly along Vishakhapatnam, have been warned not to venture out to sea in the wake of a depression over northwest Bay of Bengal.

Meteorological warnings said that the depression is moving northwest wards, and as of 11.30 a. m. lay centred about 130 kms southeast of Chandbali.

Officials said the system is likely to intensify further and move in a west-northwesterly direction and cross Orissa coast near Chandbali by this evening.

Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Sept 15 : A medical student from Adilabad District of Andhra Pradesh was shot dead by an unidentified person in Chicago in the United States.

Soumya Reddy, who is a native of Muniyal village in Nirmal mandal of the district, was killed on Sunday said the Adilabad District Superintendent of Police, Anil Kumar.

Kumar said that they got information about the incident last night and the police are collecting details of the family of the victim.

Reddy had gone to the US to pursue an MS degree after completing his MBBS in Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society (APSACS) has decided to come up with an Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) from September 15 in the state.

The main motive of the AEP programme will be to spread the awareness regarding AIDS among the adolescents. For this purpose, the programme will cover nearly 16,160 high schools and different colleges across the state.

AEP aims to reach 22 lakh young people across the State this academic year.

New Delhi - At least 14 people were killed and 20 injured when a passenger bus plunged into a deep gorge in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, a news report said Friday.

The accident occurred in the Nellore district about 600 kilometres south-east of state capital Hyderabad on Thursday night.

Police told the IANS news agency that the bus, which was carrying 70 people from an extended family, fell into a 100-foot-deep gorge and got struck in trees.