Thousands of passengers were stranded on Thursday as 55 trains were delayed and 16 cancelled due to dense fog in parts of north India. According to a Northern Railway official, the 15025 Mau-Anand Vihar Express was running 33 hours behind schedule and the 14005 Lichchvi Express was running 28 hours behind schedule. While the 22405 […]
Security agencies sounded an alert in the border belt of Pathankot in North Punjab on Thursday morning after an abandoned car was found there and villagers told the police that some suspicious people were spotted earlier. The Punjab Police and other security agencies were carrying out searches in the area, police officers said. Pathankot district […]
More than 93 per cent shareholders of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) voted to oust Cyrus Mistry as the Director of the company. According to a regulatory filing with the stock exchanges, 93.11 per cent of TCS’ shareholders voted Mistry out of its board of directors in an extra-ordinary general meeting (EGM) held on Tuesday. However, […]
India will contribute $500,000 to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), Indian diplomat Anjani Kumar has announced at the high level pledging conference here. Kumar, a counsellor at India’s UN Mission, said on Tuesday that this contribution for the year 2016-17 and New Delhi’s cumulative contribution since the fund was launched in 2006 stood […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened flat on Wednesday as investors await Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 7.36 points or 0.03 per cent higher during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was, however, trading 7.65 points or 0.09 per cent […]
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police has recovered over Rs 1.5 crore in new Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 bills from a businessman’s house here, police said on Tuesday. The CID official said that the amount was recovered during a raid at the house of Harjeet Singh Bedi on late Monday evening. “We […]
Jammu city on Tuesday recorded the coldest night of the season so far as the minimum temperature was 7.4 degrees Celsius. Leh town in Ladakh region, which recorded minus 10.6 degrees Celsius as the minimum temperature, was the coldest town in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. “The temperature dropped to 7.4 degrees Celsius during the […]
Parts of south coastal Andhra got heavy rains on Monday under the impact of severe cyclone Vardha which crossed the Tamil Nadu coast. The rains accompanied by strong winds lashed Nellore and Prakasam districts in south coastal Andhra besides Chittoor district in Rayalaseema region, officials said. In Nellore town, low-lying areas and roads were inundated […]
The Indian Navy, Coast Guard and NDRF are all geared up to undertake relief and rescue operations as cyclone Vardah made a landfall near Chennai in Tamil Nadu, official sources said on Monday. Naval ships Shivalik and Kadmatt sailed out from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh early Monday morning to Chennai to augment relief efforts in […]
A part of cyclone Vardah hit the Tamil Nadu coast on Monday afternoon, with winds touching 90 kmph and killing two people, while the central part of it is the process of crossing, authorities said. The cyclone hit the coast about 10 km north of Chennai. The Tamil Nadu government said two persons had lost […]