New Delhi: A thick fog on Monday thrown off flight schedules off gear and disrupted road and rail traffic at several places in north India, including Delhi, as the cold wave intensified. In UP alone, 26 people died due to cold this season. At least 13 domestic flights have been delayed at Delhi airport alone and several trains are also running late. In Delhi the mercury dipped 3 notches below...
08:06 AM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: Cold wave intensified in North India on Sunday claiming six more lives, all in Uttar Pradesh, as thick fog disrupted road and rail traffic at several places. Six more people succumbed to the piercing cold in Uttar Pradesh since Saturday evening pushing the state-wide death count to 26. Fog hampered movement of road and rail traffic in several parts of the state where Meerut was the coldest place...
11:02 PM, Dec 18, 2011
London: Coldplay singer Chris Martin says pop star Lady Gaga writes better choruses for her songs than he can for Coldplay. The 34-year-old met with the 'Bad Romance' hitmaker when they both performed at the Children in Need Rocks Manchester charity show in November and while she is renowned for her wacky stage wear, he is most impressed by her ability to write, reported The Sun. "She's very sweet. I...
01:09 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Intense fog also resulted in cancellation of over 10 flights to and from Srinagar. The Srinagar-Leh highway has also been closed. ...
02:12 PM, Dec 02, 2011
London: Coldplay frontman Chris Martin says he would be a terrible solo artist he needs his bandmates around him to perform well. The 34-year-old thinks he would struggle to get concerts if he ever left the 'Yellow' rockers and said he wouldn't even be good enough to get a show, reported The Sun online. "I'd just be terrible. I don't think I could even get a gig in Butlins -...
02:32 PM, Nov 29, 2011
Out in the cold, CJ Bipin shows how Delhi's homeless shelters are inadequate. ...
09:03 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Los Angeles: Taylor Swift was crowned artist of the year at the American Music Awards for a second time. "This is so crazy!" the country superstar said after beat such contenders as Adele, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry to capture all three awards that she was nominated for at Sunday's ceremony, including artist of the year, the show's highest accolade that she previously claimed in 2009. "I ended up writing...
01:47 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Belfast: Lady Gaga stole the show at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast on Sunday, scooping four prizes and going one better than 2010 when she also led the field with three. The flamboyant 25-year-old New Yorker won best female, best song and video for her hit single 'Born This Way' as well as the biggest fans award. "I knew that this song was very special when I wrote...
12:04 PM, Nov 07, 2011
London: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow says acting became unimportant to her when she had kids with husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. The 39-year-old, who has two children - daughter Apple, seven, and five-year-old son Moses - said she lost her sense of being an artist after she gave birth, reported Daily Mail. "When I first had my kids, I just didn't want to be anywhere else. Now they are older, I...
12:32 PM, Oct 22, 2011
United Nations: In a reference to countries like India, US and Pakistan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said states that have not ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty should do so "as a matter of priority" as voluntary moratoriums are not enough to ensure a global ban on nuclear testing. In his message on the occasion of 'International Day Against Nuclear Tests', Moon said "we urgently need new progress...
09:27 AM, Aug 30, 2011
New Delhi: Baba Ramdev after becoming an enemy of MNCs is now a crusader against corruption, but there's a whole other side to the Yoga Guru. Ramdev has made some pretty striking statements in the past. Baba Ramdev had earlier taken a stand against cold drinks saying, "Drinking cold drinks cause cancer, drinking cold drinks can also lead to impotency, drinking cold drinks causes osteoporosis, drinking cold drinks can also...
09:26 PM, Jun 03, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani security agencies have arrested two brothers in the country's northwest for alleged links with the two al Qaeda couriers who owned the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in a US raid. The security agencies arrested Razaul Hasan, 22, and Ziaul Haq, 24, in Martung area of Shangla district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday. They were accused of having links to Arshad Khan and Tariq Khan, the...
11:50 AM, May 17, 2011
Rock band Coldplay might perform at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics to be held in London. The prestigious sports event is slated for July 27-Aug 12, 2012, and Coldplay is at the top of the organiser's wish-list of acts for the opening gala, reports contactmusic.com. "Coldplay are the biggest stadium rockers in Britain today, and their style of anthemic music would be perfect for the Olympics. (The opening...
12:19 PM, Apr 09, 2011
New York: A new look at the medical evidence shows zinc supplements may take the edge off the common cold. But not a whole lot. Although the precise estimate is still uncertain, researchers found that people who started taking zinc-loaded lozenges or syrups within 24 hours of showing symptoms -- a sore throat, say, or runny nose -- shortened their cold by one day. By comparison, a normal cold lasts...
10:45 AM, Feb 17, 2011
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: Freezing weather and snow paralyzed the border city of Ciudad Juarez on Friday, knocking out electricity and water in thousands of homes and closing roads and factories. Record low temperatures hit the city, across from El Paso, Texas, from Tuesday, which is already suffering from some of the worst violence in Mexico's drug war, fluctuating between -0.4 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-18 and -10 degrees Celsius). "There...
11:45 AM, Feb 05, 2011
London: Feeling like getting a cold? Rush for a hot curry laced with fenugreek, as it acts like a 'winter elixir' and could help you keep the winter cold at bay, a leading Indian-origin nutritionist has claimed. Fenugreek, a common ingredient in Indian cuisine, is rich with antiviral properties that not only alleviate cold and flu symptoms but also prevent the conditions starting in the first place, said Anglo-Indian chef...
06:35 PM, Jan 21, 2011
New Delhi: The sun shone bright in the national capital on Monday but icy winds blowing at a velocity of 16 km per hour along with a dip in mercury levels made it a chilly day. Delhi was back in the grip of the winter chill after a brief spell of warm weather as the temperatures during the dark hours slipped to 7.5 degree Celsius early on Monday morning from...
10:56 AM, Jan 17, 2011
Jammu-Srinagar highway was closed due to heavy snowfall and jawans at International border are facing problems. ...
12:43 PM, Jan 14, 2011
Bhopal/Chandigarh: At a time when food prices are at a 23-week high, the extreme cold caused more problem by damaging crops across north India. Pulse farmer Tejram of Narsinghpur district, the pulse bowl of India stared at a bad crop as cold wave and frost has destroyed everything he and his family cultivated this year. Last year, he produced pulses that fetched him Rs 1 lakh. Tamar Singh of the...
08:57 AM, Jan 13, 2011
