The deep depression over the south west Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours. The depression, according to the India Meteorological Department, moved north north-eastwards at a speed of 10 kmph on Wednesday and intensified into a deep depression. It lay centred over west central and adjoining southwest of Bay of […]
» Read moreWith a three-day-long spell of heavy rains over Sri Lanka coming to an end on Wednesday, the toll due to floods and landslides went up to 37. The authorities recovered 17 bodies during the day, including 14 in Aranayake of the Kegalle district, where several families were feared buried in a landslide on Tuesday night. On the damages caused by […]
» Read moreThe French government plans to allow divorce by mutual consent to proceed without a judge, to simplify and accelerate the process. Details are to be discussed at the lower house of Parliament during a debate starting on Tuesday on a bill to modernise the country’s justice system. Family associations have expressed fears that the best interests of children would not […]
» Read moreAt least two militants are killed in two ongoing operations in south Kashmir’s Shopian and north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. An encounter started in Shopian district’s Pehlipora area, around 52 km away from Srinagar, on late Monday evening when security forces laid a cordon. In the exchange of fire, one militant, identified as Farooq Sheikh, has been killed. “The operation is […]
» Read moreSadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, against whom the NIA recently dropped charges in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, on Monday launched a hunger strike in a hospital here for not being allowed to visit the Kumbh fair in Ujjain despite a court order in her favour. Sadhvi, who wanted to take a dip in Shipra river and had secured an order […]
» Read moreAndhra Pradesh State Cooperative Bank (APCOB) Chairman and former Minister Pinnamaneni Venkateswara Rao escaped with minor injuries while his wife Satyavani and their driver Das died when the car they were travelling in turned turtle on Outer Ring Road (ORR) near Tukkuguda of Pahadisharieff on city outskirts on Monday past midnight. Mr. Rao was initially treated at a near-by hospital […]
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