Chandigarh, April 30 (IANS) Heat wave conditions prevailed across Haryana and Punjab on Tuesday with most areas experiencing 40-plus degree Celsius temperatures. The maximum temperatures hovered between 40 to 44 degrees, up to five degrees…
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The cyclonic storm “Fani” is expected to aggravate further to “extremely severe” by Tuesday mid-night, causing light to heavy rainfall in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha till Thursday, the…
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) The state government has told tourists visiting West Bengal’s coastal areas not to go near the sea between May 2 and 4 and advised fishermen not to venture into the sea…
Amaravati, April 30 (IANS) With the severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ in the Bay of Bengal likely to have an impact on north coastal Andhra Pradesh, the state administration was gearing up to prevent loss of…
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has quashed the Central government’s decision that production of Basmati variety would not be taken outside the Indo-Gangetic plain including Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttarakhand,…
Nagpur (Maharashtra), April 30 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) here on Tuesday issued a Red Alert — the highest warning level — as temperatures soared to up to 47 degrees Celsius in some parts…
Bhubaneswar, April 30 (IANS) The Odisha government is likely to begin the evacuation of people affected by cyclone Fani from May 2 as the severe cyclonic storm is heading to make a landfall on the…
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The Home Ministry (MHA) on Tuesday issued an advance financial assistance of Rs 1,086 crore to four states for preventive and relief measures in response to cyclonic storm ‘Fani’, a…
Chennai, April 30 (IANS) India is planning to launch its radar imaging satellite RISAT 2BR1 sometime towards the end of May 2019 on one of the variants of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket,…
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The Indian Army has claimed that an expedition team sighted the “mysterious Footprints of mythical beast ‘Yeti'” at the Makalu Base Camp in the Himalayas. “For the first time, an…
Visakhapatnam, April 30 (IANS) As the cyclone storm Fani was intensifying into a ‘Severe Cyclonic Storm’ over the south-east and adjoining south-west Bay of Bengal, the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) is on high alert to…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Coastal states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal will be on high alert as the cyclone storm ‘Fani’ is “very likely” to intensify into a very severe…
Chennai, April 29 (IANS) Cyclonic storm Fani over southeast Bay of Bengal is very likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm during next six hours and into a very severe cyclonic storm during subsequent…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala/Guwahati, April 29 (IANS) The normal life in the northeastern region has been affected due to heat wave in several areas and deficit pre-monsoon rains, officials said on Monday. According to the…
Bhubaneswar, April 29 (IANS) With cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ likely to trigger rainfall in Odisha from Thursday (May 2), the state government on Monday asked all its District Collectors to stay alert. The India Meteorological Department…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Cabinet Secretary P.K. Sinha on Monday took stock of the situation arising out of the cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ that has been intensifying in the in southeast Bay of Bengal in…
Kathmandu, April 29 (IANS) A total of 3,000 kg of solid waste has been collected from the Mt Everest region since the beginning of the Nepal government-backed Sagarmatha Cleaning Campaign on April 14, the media…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday directed officials to take stock of preparedness for Cyclone ‘Fani’ that has been gaining strength in the southeast Bay of Bengal and is likely…
Visakhapatnam, April 29 (IANS) Cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ in southeast Bay of Bengal is likely to turn severe on Monday and intensify further into a “very severe” cyclonic storm on Tuesday before heading towards north coastal…
Jakarta, April 29 (IANS) The death toll from floods and landslides in Indonesia’s Bengkulu province and the capital Jakarta increased to 31 on Monday, while the search for 13 missing people was underway, disaster agency…