Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu assured that Andhra Pradesh will emerge as a hotspot for start-up and incubation culture in India.

Stressing on creating an ecosystem to encourage budding entrepreneurs, the Chief Minister suggested organizing an event in Visakhapatnam to bring together youngsters with start-up ideas and venture capitalists and investors to encourage in establishing them as creators of unique technology products.

In a major boost to the government’s initiative to encourage start-up and incubation centers in Andhra Pradesh, Government of Andhra Pradesh has signed a MoU with NASSCOM.

Under its 10,000 start-ups initiative, NASSCOM today announced setting up a warehouse in Vizag where technology entrepreneurs with innovative ideas will be nurtured, mentored and funded by venture capitalists and investors.

Goddess Kanaka Durga Temple atop Indrakeeladri in Vijayawada, Hundi collection netted Rs.2,00,05,541 for 30 days. The hundi collection counting of all 63 hundi’s has been done today. Added to this, 797 grams of gold, 7301 kg's silver also have been donated by the devotees.

Temple EO Chandrasekhar Azaad has supervised the hundi collection

The Indian government has banned around 344 fixed dosed combination drugs, including Pfizer's cough syrup Corex, Procter & Gamble's Vicks Action 500 Extra and Crocin Cold and Flu, this week citing their potential risks.

The government extended the ban to common medicines such as Crocin Cold and Flu, D-Cold Total, Sumo, Gastrogyl, Chericof, Nasivion, Nimulid, Dolo, Decoff, O2 and Oflox.

The ban, which comes into effect immediately, follows recommendations of an expert committee formed to examine the efficacy of these drug combinations

The ban is estimated to result in significant losses for the pharma industry and impact over 2,700 medicine brands, including Abbott Healthcare, Lupin, Sun Pharma, Glenmark, Wockhardt, Aristo and Intas.

Recently in the tour of London, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, after seeing world famous ‘London Eye’, is highly impressed and announced that he would try to set up a similar structure in Andhra Pradesh Capital Amaravati to attract tourists from across the globe. Also, Chief Minister has held initial tasks and asked to come up with a proposal of having similar one in Amaravati.

In this regard, we would like to tell you what is "London Eye" and how would it suits our Amaravati.

The London Eye, a very popular tourist attraction in London, is a big giant wheel located in the Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank of the River Thames in London. As our Amaravati, also would be in the banks of River Krishna, this would add a special attraction to tourists, if we set this up.

The other attractive thing of this is, from the top of the London Eye, we can see up to 40km radius. So, if we set this up in Amaravati, we can see the whole Amaravati city, Vijayawada and Guntur Cities.

Below are the Facts of London Eye:

• The London Eye was formally opened by then Prime Minister Tony Blair on 31 December 1999, but did not open to the paying public until 9 March 2000
• At 443 feet high, the London Eye is currently the fourth-largest Ferris wheel in the world
• The London Eye has 32 capsules, representing 32 divisions of London
• The circumference of the wheel is 1,392 feet and the height of the London Eye is 443ft
• The entire wheel weighs more than 1,000 tons, or well over 1 million pounds
• A ride on the London Eye takes 30 minutes, and it travels at a speed of about 0.6 miles per hour
• With more than 3.5 million people checking out the Eye every year, it's now the most popular paid tourist attraction in the U.K
• On a clear day, you can see around 40km from the top of the London Eye
• The London Eye can carry 800 passengers per rotation, 25 passengers in 32 capsules
• In one year the London Eye will rotate 7,668 times, or 2,300 miles
• The project cost of the London Eye is 70 million USD