Ottawa, May 3 (IANS) Canada will see more than six dozen containers of Canadian household trash returned to its Port of Vancouver soon from the Philippines, the media reported. Canada made a formal offer earlier…
Bhubaneswar, May 3 (IANS) At least one million people have been evacuated in the last 24 hours from the vulnerable districts in Odisha ahead of Cyclone Fani’s landfall in the state on Friday, officials said….
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ that has become “extremely severe” is set to make landfall in Odisha on Friday morning with speed of gusting 180-200 kmph, affecting about 10,000 villages, even as…
Bhubaneswar/Kolkata, May 2 (IANS) All flights to and from Bhubaneswar have been cancelled for 24 hours starting midnight of May 3 in view of the impending severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ threat over the Bay of…
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Some parts of Delhi witnessed drizzles on Thursday evening and there are chances of thunderstorm with light rains and gusty winds on Friday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. “The…
Bengaluru, May 2 (IANS) The railways cancelled at least 10 express/mail trains for Thursday night between Bengaluru/Mysuru in Karnataka and Puri and Bhubaneswar in Odisha, Howrah in West Bengal and Guwahati in Assam, in view…
Bhubaneswar, May 2 (IANS) With the cyclonic storm Fani moving closer to the Odisha coast, the state government has evacuated 3,31,794 people to safer places so far while it has targeted to evacuate 11,54,475 people…
Lucknow, May 2 (IANS) In a bizarre incident, a monkey looted Rs 5,000 cash from a toll plaza in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Rural district, an official said. The incident took place recently at Bara toll…
Kolkata, May 2 (IANS) With less than 24 hours left for Cyclone Fani to make landfall in neighbouring Odisha coast, the West Bengal government and civic bodies on Thursday worked on war footing to cope…
Visakhapatnam, May 2 (IANS) Parts of north coastal Andhra Pradesh started receiving heavy rains on Thursday as the extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ in the Bay of Bengal neared the coast and was likely to…
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reviewed the preparedness for cyclone ‘Fani’ and instructed Central government officials to maintain close coordination with officials of the affected states to ensure preventive…
Bhubaneswar, May 2 (IANS) Cyclone ‘Fani’ is expected to make landfall on the Odisha coast between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Friday, said an official. “We have received information from the Indian Meteorological Department…
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting to review preparedness for cyclone Fani, which is going to hit Odisha and some other eastern coastal states on Friday,…
Guwahati, May 2 (IANS) The Assam government has made special train arrangements to bring back pilgrims from the state who got stranded in Puri in Odisha due to cyclonic storm ‘Fani’. Assam Health Minister Himanta…
Panaji, May 2 (IANS) The principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) to deposit Rs 1 crore with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) as…
Bhubaneswar, May 2 (IANS) A massive evacuation process was underway ahead of the landfall of cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ in Odisha coast, even as Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday appealed people not to panic over…
Agartala/Guwahati, May 2 (IANS) Due to the cyclonic storm ‘Fani’, six trains, scheduled to run between the south Indian states and Assam were cancelled on Thursday by the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), an official said….
Bhubaneswar, May 2 (IANS) The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run a special train from Puri to Shalimar on Thursday for tourists in view of the landfall of cyclonic storm Fani on the…
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) Cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ is expected to make landfall in Odisha on May 3 afternoon with wind speeds ranging up to 180 km per hour causing heavy rainfall in the coastal…
Kolkata, May 1 (IANS) In wake of Cyclone Fani gradually gaining strength, weather officials on Wednesday warned of destruction of thatched houses, roads, and crops in eight districts of West Bengal and advised people be…