Jammu, Feb 27 (IANS) Following landslides and sinking of road, the strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway remained closed for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. “Landslide clearance operation has started at Mom Passi in Ramban-Ramsoo sector. Concrete…
Chandigarh, Feb 27 (IANS) Chandigarh and its surrounding areas received light rain on Wednesday morning. The rainfall started on Tuesday night and continued intermittently. Chandigarh recorded a maximum temperature of 22.8 degrees Celsius and a…
Bengaluru, Feb 26 (IANS) The forest fire in Karnataka’s Bandipur national park, raging since Friday, has been brought under control, a top official said on Tuesday. “The forest fire in Bandipur has been doused by…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Delhi Finance Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday allocated Rs 100 crore for the State Electric Vehicle Fund in the Budget for 2019-20, a measure termed a “positive start” by E-vehicle…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) A thunderstorm caused waterlogging in the city disrupted flight movements to and from the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport on Tuesday, Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials said. Flights plying…
Shillong, Feb 26 (IANS) Indian Navy divers on Tuesday located the fifth body from inside the 370-feet deep flooded coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district, where over a dozen miners remain trapped since…
Shimla, Feb 26 (IANS) The minimum temperatures in Himachal Pradesh remained below freezing point on Tuesday as the state received more rain and snow, the weather office said. The state capital recorded the minimum temperature…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) It was a cold and cloudy Tuesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 10.3 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average. “Generally cloudy sky,…
Jammu, Feb 26 (IANS) Landslides along the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Tuesday blocked the major traffic artery of the state. The landslide was triggered by rain in Ramsoo sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Debris removal operation…
Bappaditya Chatterjee Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) Faced with challenges in penetrating the residential and the SME market space, the solar rooftop sector would fall short of its target of installing 40,000 megawatt (mw) capacity by…
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) Six persons were killed and normal life disrupted as rains accompanied by thunderstorm lashed Kolkata and other southern West Bengal districts on Monday, officials said. A 20-year-old youth died while trying…
New York, Feb 25 (IANS) Stress impacts the behaviour in meerkat offsprings at an early age as maternal characteristics can have a profound influence on their children, suggests a new study. The meerkat is a…
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) Three persons, including a girl, were killed and normal life was disrupted as rains accompanied by thunderstorm lashed Kolkata and other West Bengal districts on Monday, officials said. A 20-year-old boy…
Chandigarh, Feb 25 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday assured the state Assembly that all possible measures to check noise pollution, especially from loudspeakers at religious places and marriage venues, would be taken…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal here on Monday asked agencies for proper collection of construction and demolition waste, its scientific disposal and proper utilisation of the processed products. Baijal issued…
Chennai, Feb 25 (IANS) The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) on Monday said the Rs.32.5 crore, 1.19 km long check dam it is building across the Palar river in Tamil Nadu’s Kancheepuram district will be…
Bengaluru, Feb 25 (IANS) Karnataka intensified efforts to contain a raging wildfire in the Bandipur forest area in the Chamarajanagar district bordering Tamil Nadu, an official said on Monday. “As the wildfire spread to about…
Shimla, Feb 25 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh is bracing for more snow as a cold wave continued to lash the state on Monday, the weather office said. The western disturbances — storm systems originating from Caspian…
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) It was a cold morning in the national capital on Monday with the minimum temperature recorded at 9.2 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average. “Shallow fog enveloped the…
Shimla, Feb 25 (IANS) A day after snowfall halted the search operation for five troopers, who went missing last week after an avalanche hit Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, the operation began again on Monday,…