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The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket carrying the Space Docking Experiment twin satellite mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, with the satellites expected to perform a docking maneuver on January 7, 2025.
2024-12-30

At least seventeen workers are killed and 41 others are injured, many from severe chemical burns, in an explosion at a pharmaceutical facility in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India.
2024-08-21

Benin identifies an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 avian flu in Sèmè-Kpodji and Abomey-Calavi near the capital Porto Novo.
2021-08-25

Ivory Coast reports an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 after a large number of poultry birds started dying in the Grand-Bassam commune near the capital Abidjan on July 20.
2021-08-19

Tropical Cyclone Vardah is expected to make landfall in southern India today bringing heavy rain to the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu as well as Andhra Pradesh. At least four people have been killed and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from low lying areas.
2016-12-12

An Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus falls into a ravine near the town of Penukonda in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh killing at least 20 people.
2015-01-7

Cyclone Hudhud is downgraded to a tropical depression having caused at least 8 deaths in India with 5 dead in Andhra Pradesh and 3 people dead in Orissa.
2014-10-13

Eastern India feels the impact of Cyclone Hudhud which makes landfall around noon near the city of Visakhapatnam. The death toll in Andhra Pradesh is at least three.
2014-10-12

China reports the death of a second person this month to H5N1 bird flu.
2012-01-22

Health authorities in Hong Kong start slaughtering 17,000 chickens after a carcass infected with bird flu H5N1 is found at a poultry market.
2011-12-21