Mumbai, April 17 (IANS) At least 11 persons, including a woman, have been killed in different parts of Maharashtra in the past 72 hours, besides four others last week, following thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Widespread rainfall accompanied by thunderstorm is expected in Delhi, Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday evening owing to severe western disturbances that is moving eastward from Pakistan, said the Met department….
Chandigarh, April 17 (IANS) Standing wheat crop was damaged after rain, dust-storm and strong winds lashed Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday and Wednesday. Harvesting of wheat is on for the past 10 days in most…
Islamabad, April 17 (IANS) At least 39 people were killed and 135 injured as rain continued to wreak havoc across Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority said on Wednesday. At least 80 houses were damaged…
Bhopal, April 17 (IANS) Honoured with the Stockholm Water Prize, water activist Rajendra Singh said he was disappointed with all the political parties as none of them have given due importance to the issues of…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) It was a pleasant Wednesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature dropping three notches to 19 degrees Celsius due to light rains and thunderstorm during the night….
Melbourne, April 17 (IANS) A man was killed by a deer on a rural property in southern Australia early on Wednesday, authorities said. The animal attacked the man and a woman near Wangaratta, a town…
Chandigarh, April 16 (IANS) With an increase in the number of incidents of fire in the standing wheat crop, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday demanded that the Punjab government should give 100 per…
Panaji, April 16 (IANS) Union Minister Suresh Prabhu said here on Tuesday the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was committed to resolve the crisis in Goa, following last year’s ban on mining by the Supreme Court….
Guwahati, April 16 (IANS) An elephant died in Assam’s Hojai district in the wee hours of Tuesday after being hit by a train, said Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) officials. The elephant collided with the 15603…
Islamabad, April 16 (IANS) At least 26 people were killed and scores of others injured as rains and windstorm wreaked havoc across Pakistan over the last two days. While there were no official figures regarding…
London, April 16 (IANS) Thousands of people blocked well-known landmarks in London, bringing widespread disruption to the UK capital in a “climate rebellion”, that organisers said could last several days. On Monday, parents and their…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) It was a pleasant Tuesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature dropping five notches to 20.5 degrees Celsius due to light rains and thunderstorm during the night….
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) not to take any coercive step to recover Rs 1 lakh penalty, slapped by it on…
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday predicted the monsoon to be “near-normal” this year with an expected rainfall of 96 per cent, on the other hand,…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The monsoon in the country this year is predicted to be “near normal” with the well-distributed rainfall expected to be around 96 per cent, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said…
Shimla, April 15 (IANS) Widespread rains and thundershowers have been forecast over the next few days in Himachal Pradesh, even as the state witnessed a rise in mercury on Monday and recorded temperatures one to…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Monsoon will ne near-normal this year with an expected rainfall of 96 per cent, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday “India is going to have a near-normal monsoon…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday predicted that the monsoon will be near-normal this year. “India is going to have a near normal monsoon in 2019 as the south-west…
