Couscous kind of parboiled dried cracked wheat of similar size to couscous, cooked by adding boiling water and leaving for a few minutes to soften. Couscous Couscous ( ' ; ') is a Maghrebi dish of small (about diameter) steamed balls of crushed durum wheat semolina that is traditionally served with a stew spooned on top. Pearl millet and sorghum especially in the Sahel and other cereals can be cooked in a similar way and the resulting dishes are also sometimes called couscous. Couscous is a staple food throughout the North African cuisines of Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, Libya, and Egypt.
Granules India Limited joint venture with Ajinomoto OmniChem to venture into Contract Research And Manufacturing Services(CRAMS) business with a manufacturing facility at Vizag SEZ. In 2013, Granules opened a 10,000 sq. foot R&D facility at Pragathi Nagar in Hyderabad. In the same year the company signed an agreement to acquire Auctus Pharma, which includes twelve APIs in its product portfolio as well as key intermediates of those APIs. It has two manufacturing facilities, an API facility in Vizag and an Intermediate facility in Hyderabad. Granules has seven manufacturing facilities; six are in India while the seventh is through a joint-venture with Hubei Biocase