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Hyderabad, July 7: A week after the horrific fire and explosion at Sigachi Industries Limited's manufacturing unit in Pashamylaram near Hyderabad, the search continues for eight missing workers. Here To Join Us On WhatsApp Rescue teams continued to comb through the debris to find the remains of the missing men. Personnel from Fire Services, SDRF, HYDRAA and police continued combing through the debris for human remains. The anxious wait for the families of the missing workers continued at the ...Read More >
As many as nine people are still missing in the explosion at the Sigachi Industries' pharma plant in Pashamylaram that claimed at least 38 lives and left 35 injured, and efforts are on to trace the missing people, Superintendent of Police (SP) of this district, Paritosh Pankaj, said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the expert committee appointed by the state government to ascertain the causes and establish the sequence of events that led to the explosion is expected to visit the site on Thursday. The p ...Read More >
Nagpur: Congress Legislature Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar questioned the govt's priorities on Tuesday, highlighting the increasing number of farmer suicides in Maharashtra. He accused the govt of neglecting agrarian crisis while approving Rs20,000 crore for Shaktipeeth highway project."Money is available for massive infrastructure projects, but where is the budget for farm loan waivers as promised by the BJP before last year's assembly polls to the farmers?" Wadettiwar asked while moving an adj ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 2 (UNI) The Telangana government has constituted a four-member expert committee to investigate Monday's major explosion in Sigachi Industries in Pashamylaram of Sangareddy district in which 38 persons were killed and several others injured. The Director of Factories, Hyderabad, has reported that a major explosion occurred in the Sigachi Industries at around 0920 hours on June 30, 2025, where Microcrystalline Cellulose powder is being manufactured, to be used in tablets and capsu ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Telangana government has constituted a four-member expert committee to investigate Monday's explosion at Sigachi Industries in Pashamylaram, which claimed the lives of 40 workers and left several others injured. The committee, to be headed by B. Venkateshwar Rao, Emeritus Scientist, CSIR-IICT, will identify the causes and establish the reasons and events that led to the major explosion. The members of the committee are T. Prathap Kumar, Chief Scientist, C ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The death toll in a chemical factory blast in southern India rose to 45 on Tuesday (July 1) as more bodies were retrieved from the rubble. The facility at Pashamylaram near Telangana state's capital Hyderabad belonged to Sigachi Industries Limited. It made microcrystalline cellulose, a clarified wood pulp in powder form used in industries such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. There were 143 people at the site when the blast occurred in a reactor and caused a hug ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - Dozens have died in a major explosion at Sigachi Industries Pvt. Ltd., a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Pashamylaram, Sangareddy, Telangana, India. The blast, which happened at around 9:10 a.m. on Monday, 30 June 2025, has become one of the state's deadliest industrial disasters. At least 44 workers lost their lives, and many more suffered serious injuries. As of Wednesday, 2 July, search teams are still looking for 12 missing workers, and there are concerns that the number o ...Read More >
KOCHI -- At least 34 people have been killed in a massive fire at a pharmaceuticals factory in the southern Indian state of Telangana, according to news agencies. The blast took place during work hours on Monday at a unit of Sigachi Industries, leaving several injured and in critical condition. "As many as 31 bodies have been extricated from the debris while three died in hospital while undergoing treatment," senior district police official Paritosh Pankaj told the Press Trust of India. Polic ...Read More >
HYDERABAD, India -- The death toll from Monday's massive explosion and fire at a pharmaceutical factory in India's southern state of Telangana has risen to at least 36 while about three dozen were left injured, authorities said Tuesday. The fire department recovered the charred bodies of 34 workers from the accident site in an industrial area about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the state capital Hyderabad, the state's fire services director G.V. Narayana Rao told The Associated Press. Two othe ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 1 (Xinhua) -- At least 35 people were killed and over 30 others injured in a massive explosion inside a chemical factory in the southern Indian state of Telangana, officials said Tuesday. The death toll swelled due to the recovery of more bodies from the debris during the overnight rescue operation. The blast took place on Monday in the Pashamylaram industrial area of Patancheru, Sangareddy district, about 48 km northwest of Hyderabad, the capital city of Telangana. According ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: At least 36 people died and 36 were injured in a factory fire in India's southern state of Telangana, a senior fire department official said on Tuesday (Jul 1), after an explosion at Sigachi Industries SIGC.NS that happened a day earlier. "We are still clearing the debris ... The building has collapsed and fabricated completely," GV Narayana Rao, director of Telangana fire disaster response emergency, told Reuters. "Once we are all done with the clearing, only then we will be able t ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: The death toll from the massive explosion at a multi-storey chemical plant in Telangana's Medak district climbed to 35 by Tuesday morning, with several workers injured and many still unaccounted for.Rescue operations are ongoing, and officials fear the toll may rise further as teams continue to sift through the rubble in search of those possibly trapped beneath the collapsed building.The government area hospital in Patancheru, where post-mortem examinations are being conducted, confir ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: Ravada A Chandrasekhar took charge as the new State Police Chief on Tuesday. He succeeds Shaik Darvesh Saheb, who retired on June 30. His tenure will run until July 1, 2027. A 1991-batch IPS officer currently serving as Special Director with the Intelligence Bureau, Chandrasekhar is on central deputation. He was selected over Nitin Agarwal, who topped the official list of probables. The appointment order, issued by Kerala Chief Secretary Dr A Jayathilak on behalf of the Gove ...Read More >
Hyderabad: A devastating explosion at a chemical manufacturing unit in Pashamylaram industrial area in Sangareddy district, claimed 15 lives and left 34 workers injured. The tragic incident occurred on Monday at Sigachi Industries Pvt Ltd which manufactures microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) powder used in pharmaceutical, food and other industries. Eyewitnesses said there was a loud explosion, shaking nearby areas and sending thick black smoke into the sky. The factory was soon engulfed in flames, ...Read More >
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