New Delhi: A day after Delhi recorded its hottest day in May in the last 10 years, the mercury is expected to rise further Friday, the India Meteorological Department said. "The heatwave conditions will prevail over the city Friday. The maximum temperature is expected to be around 46 degrees Celsius," an IMD official said.
The minimum temperature early Friday was three notches above average at 29.5 degrees Celsius, while the humidity recorded at 8:30 am was 37 per cent. On Thursday, maximum temperature touched the 45.7 degrees Celsius mark, six notches above the season's average, and highest for the month of May in the last 10 years.
The second highest temperature recorded in the month of May in the last 10 years was when the mercury touched 45.4 degrees Celsius in 2010. The highest temperature recorded in May was 47.2 degrees Celsius in 1944.
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12:00 PM, May 24, 2013
The first meeting of the Group of Ministers on making the Central Bureau of Investigation an autonomous body was held on Thursday. The investigating body's autonomy plan ran into trouble as the Department of Personnel and Training resisted the move to initiate a probe on senior bureaucrats without prior permissions. ...
10:15 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Mercury levels continued to rise across North India, with the national capital registering a record breaking 45.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday, the hottest in a decade for the month of May. Amritsar in Punjab faced its hottest day in three decades with a maximum of 48 degrees Celsius. In Rajasthan, Sri Ganganagar continued to be the hottest place with a maximum of 48.6 degrees Celsius, followed by Churu,...
07:44 AM, May 24, 2013
Bhubaneswar: The heat wave continues to grip northern India with the Met department predicting a further rise in temperatures. The heat wave continued unabated in Delhi on Thursday with the minimum temperature settling five notches above average at 31.4 degrees Celsius and the maximum expected to hover around the 45 degrees Celsius mark. "Heatwave conditions would continue across the national capital. The maximum temperature on Thursday is expected to be...
11:03 AM, May 23, 2013
Chandigarh: The Punjab government has initiated a probe into the distribution of text books containing allegedly vulgar and irrelevant content in government schools, a minister said on Wednesday. Bathinda District Education Officer Surjit Singh Khuram was put under suspension for laxity in this connection. Punjab Education Minister SS Maluka inspected the books supplied to the schools in the state which have sparked a controversy due to the alleged vulgar content....
02:35 AM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: In more trouble for the arrested cricketers and bookies in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, the Income Tax department has begun a probe into alleged hawala and illegal cash transactions and will question them. The I-T department has got in touch with the investigators of the Delhi police and initiated "tax evasion and suspected hawala dealings" related probe into the latest allegations of spot-fixing. The department, according to official...
07:29 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: There is no respite from the heat as yet. Parts of Maharashtra including the Vidarbha region sizzled at high temperatures. Nagpur and Wardha districts recorded mercury levels at 47 degree Celsius. Meanwhile, in Odisha, at least three people have died due to the heat wave as the temperatures touched 46 degrees. The national capital too recorded temperatures as high as 45 degrees. Heat wave conditions intensified in the...
08:47 AM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Heat wave conditions sweeping large parts of the country worsened, killing three persons in Madhya Pradesh, while Nagpur on Tuesday witnessed its hottest day in six decades at a sizzling 47.8 degrees Celsius. Sriganganagar in Rajasthan, with a blistering 47.5 degrees Celsius, was hottest place in the country after Nagpur, which recorded the highest temperature in 59 years. Delhi also witnessed its hottest day of the season and...
06:30 PM, May 21, 2013
Met department officials say temperatures will continue to be 3 to 4 degrees above normal for this time of the year in many parts of North India. ...
03:52 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: As North India boils under intense heat, the Met department has said that monsoon is expected to hit the Kerala coast by June 3. "Monsoon is expected to reach Kerala close to its normal date that is June 3," DS Pai, Director (Long Range Forecast), Met Department said. He also said that the first part of the monsoon will be better than the last year. South-west monsoon had...
01:45 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Expect another hot day on Tuesday across North India and parts of the South. Met department officials say temperatures will continue to be 3 to 4 degrees above normal for this time of the year in many parts of North India. The current prolonged heat wave, the second time in 10 years, is expected to last at least till May 24. As North India boils, the intense heat...
11:59 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: North India is sweating it out with the mercury touching over 44 degrees. The heat wave across UP, Delhi, Rajasthan and Punjab has intensified. And with the Met department predicting a further rise in temperatures, there seems to be no respite in sight. Delhi saw its hottest day of the season on Sunday, boiling at a record temperature of 46 degree Celsius. But the situation was no better...
08:47 PM, May 20, 2013
Bangalore: Infosys Ltd, India's No 2 software services exporter, said on Monday it would challenge a $ 5.77 billion income tax demand raised by Indian authorities earlier this month. The demand relates to certain tax benefits on income from software development done overseas at the clients' location and revenue from special economic zones in India, Infosys said in a statement. It said the latest tax demand disregards a clarification by...
10:30 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: The heat wave has well swept across North India with national capital Delhi simmering at 44.6 degrees celsius on Sunday, making it the hottest day of this season. The mercury even soared to over 46 degree Celsius in some parts of the capital. Palam area recorded 46.1 degree Celsius while Ayanagar weather station recorded 45.8 degree Celsius and Ridge station recorded 45 degrees. The Met department has predicted...
08:16 AM, May 20, 2013
Mumbai: Air India's plan to trim its 27,000 bloated workforce by offering a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) is stuck in the North Block, with the Finance Ministry questioning the rationale behind the proposed scheme. The VRS scheme is "stuck in the Finance Ministry over the payment of Rs 1,200 crore for it. The ministry has pointed out that around 7,000 employees will retire from service over the next three years...
01:50 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Income Tax department has slapped a fresh $ 106 million (about Rs 582 crore) tax demand notice on Infosys, for 2009 fiscal, adding to the tax woes of India's second largest IT firm. The Bangalore-based software services exporter is already contesting additional income tax demands of $ 214 million (about Rs 1,175 crore) for four fiscals years beginning 2005 and said it will take legal recourse against the...
12:28 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram will inaugurate a two-day conference of top Income Tax department and CBDT officers later this month in the national capital and discuss efforts to maximise revenue collection. The annual conference of Chief Commissioners and Directors General of the I-T department will be held on May 28 and 29. A host of challenges being faced by the department like illegal chit fund companies, ponzi schemes,...
09:55 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: South-west monsoon on Friday made a debut in the Andaman Sea and parts of Bay of Bengal, setting the stage for the four-month rainfall season crucial for India's agriculture-based economy. "Southwest Monsoon has set in over some parts of south Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea," India Meteorological Department (IMD) said here. It said conditions were favourable for further advance of monsoon over some more parts of Bay...
06:42 PM, May 17, 2013
Monsoon rains may arrive on the southern coast around June 3, the weather office said on Wednesday, a late debut that will raise fears any revival for drought-hit tracts of southern and western farmland could be delayed. The rains, which run from June to September, are vital for the 55 per cent of farmland that is without irrigation in India, one of the world's largest producers and consumers of food....
07:22 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: In a twist to the December 16 gangrape case, sources say that the records of the bus in which the incident took place have been destroyed. However, sources said that the Crime Branch is checking if this is a periodic cleansing undertaken by the transport department. Sources add that the Crime Branch has some evidence against the Transport Department officials who gave clearance to the bus owner Dinesh...
12:08 PM, May 14, 2013
