It was a foggy morning here on Wednesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 6.8 degrees Celsius, the season’s average, the weather office said. Visibility stood at 800 metres and humidity was recorded at 87 per cent at 8.30 a.m. The Railways cancelled 22 trains while 49 were delayed and three rescheduled due to fog […]
Intense cold wave continued in the valley on Wednesday as Kargil in Ladakh region recorded bone-chilling night temperature at minus 23.6, lowest so far in Jammu and Kashmir this season. “Cold wave conditions are likely to continue in the valley and the Ladakh region for at least another three to four days,” a Met official […]
Oil prices on Monday rose after data showed a weekly decline in the number of US drilling rigs. The number of rigs operating in US oil fields unexpectedly fell by five to 742 last week, Xinhua quoted oilfield service firm Baker Hughes as saying. Meanwhile, traders kept a close eye on the political tensions in […]
Buoyed by positive global cues, the key Indian equity indices opened at fresh high levels on Tuesday with healthy buying in metals, auto and healthcare stocks. However, minutes into trading, the key indices pared some gains to trade on a flat note. The wider Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) opened above the 10,600-level […]
It was a cold and foggy morning here on Tuesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 4.2 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. The Met has predicted a misty day ahead. Visibility stood at 400 metres and humidity was recorded at 100 per cent at 8.30 a.m. Operations at […]
The Coal India board on Tuesday approved non-coking coal price hike for both power and non-power consumers. The price increase is expected to push the miner’s revenue up by Rs 1,956 crore for the remaining period of the current fiscal. The price revision is effective from Tuesday and the projected incremental annual revenue would be […]
Scores of journalists held demonstrations in Punjab and Chandigarh on Monday to protest against the UIDAI’s move to register a case against The Tribune newspaper and one of its reporters for exposing illegal data leak of Aadhaar details. The protests were organised on behalf of the Chandigarh Press Club, the Punjab Press Club in Jalandhar, […]
The transgression incident in Arunachal Pradesh, where Chinese workers entered Indian territory constructing a track, has been resolved, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said on Monday. He also said that there was a major reduction in the number of Chinese troops in the Doklam area. Speaking on the sidelines of an event here, the Army […]
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will re-examine its verdict upholding Section 377 of the IPC that criminalises gay sex. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra decided to re-examine the top court’s earlier order upholding section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. “Our earlier order needs to be reconsidered,” said Justice Misra […]
A moderate fog cover over the national capital region disrupted train and flight operations as visibility dropped to 300 metres on Friday. Operations at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here were affected due to the low visibility and at least 15 flights were delayed. The Railways had to cancel 18 trains while 62 were […]