Delhi witnessed its coldest day on Wednesday in the past 44 years, with the maximum temperature falling sharply to 9.7 degree Celsius. Residents woke up to a foggy morning, with the minimum temperature dipping to 4.8 degree Celsius. ...
07:01 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi were affected on Wednesday after dense fog partially disrupted the schedule of over 30 flights, including diversion of an international flight to Mumbai. ...
12:52 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Dense fog enveloped the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Tuesday, disrupting the schedule of around 30 flights. ...
11:22 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Delhiites shivered in the morning as the mercury plummeted to the season's lowest on Monday even as dense fog affected air traffic. The minimum was recorded at 5.5 degree Celsius, two degrees below normal and down from Sunday's 7.7 degrees. ...
01:23 PM, Dec 31, 2012
The death toll due to the intense cold wave currently enveloping north and east India has risen to 40. Even though the Meteorology Department has forecast a slight improvement in the weather condition on Friday, with officials predicting a clear sky and light mist in the morning, cold winds are expected to sweep parts of the region. ...
07:56 AM, Dec 28, 2012
The cold wave sweeping through Uttar Pradesh has claimed more than 30 lives in a 24-hour span, officials here said ON December 27. The maximum number of deaths, between Wednesday and Thursday morning, were reported from Bhadohi district where five people succumbed to the cold. As many as four people died in Balia and three each in Allahabad, Mirzapur, Sonebhadra, Ghazipur, Barabanki, Chandauli and Azamgarh districts. Shrawasti and Mau districts...
02:23 PM, Dec 27, 2012
The prevailing intense cold wave has claimed 11 more lives in Bihar, taking the total number of deaths in the state due to inclement weather to 18, an official said on December 27. "The inclement weather claimed 11 more lives within a span of 24 hours, taking the death toll to 18 in the state," an official of the state disaster management department here said. ...
02:12 PM, Dec 27, 2012
After three days of dense fog, operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here remained largely normal on December 26. Though there was shallow fog in the morning, visibility remained above 1500 metres and flight operations remained normal with departures and arrivals as per schedule, airport sources said. ...
11:10 AM, Dec 26, 2012
With the European transfer window due to open January 1, the 18-year-old central defender should move to Turin in a matter of days, reports
Xinhua. ...
03:38 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Winter has set in across the north and the cold wave has intensified, claiming five more lives in Uttar Pradesh, taking the death toll to 11 in just three days. Temperatures have dropped to 2 degrees Celsius in some areas of Uttar Pradesh. ...
06:21 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International airport here remained suspended for over an hour after the city witnessed the first dense fog of this winters on Sunday. Around 20 flights were delayed while two were cancelled as the fog enveloped the airport suddenly around 7 am, sources said. ...
09:40 AM, Dec 23, 2012
Private carrier Jet Airways on Tuesday said it has put in place several measures including deployment of additional planes and cancellation and rescheduling of some flights to deal with the problem of fog. ...
08:30 PM, Dec 18, 2012
The MeT department has announced that dense fog is likely to descend on the national capital by the December 20. Is the Delhi airport prepared for the delays and chaos it causes every year? Come winter and flight delays are a common woe. A few days ago passengers at London Heathrow had a harrying time as 200 flights were cancelled due to fog. ...
06:37 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Dense fog disrupted flight operations at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here early on Saturday. At least five flights, two of them international, were diverted to Bangalore. ...
12:08 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Los Angeles: Director Dan Fogelman says it was beyond his wildest dreams to get Al Pacino and Julianne Moore to star in his John Lennon-inspired film debut. The film centres on an aging 1970s rocker played by Pacino, who decides to turn his life around, and marks the directorial debut and career highlight of the 'Crazy, Stupid Love' scriptwriter, reported Deadline. "Every writer has 'that one project'... the one they...
10:22 AM, Oct 25, 2012
Chennai: With the rainy season around the corner, the Chennai Corporation is gearing up to deal with its annual mosquito challenge. The civic body is taking steps to ensure the winged menace is kept under check, to prevent an outbreak of malaria and dengue during the rains. Apart from regular fogging operations, the Corporation is also taking up special fogging drives every week, say officials. The fogging drives are to...
04:30 PM, Sep 11, 2012
London: Serbia's Novak Djokovic is hoping to leave London with a better result than the bronze medal he won on his Olympic debut in Beijing. Djokovic is the second seed for the men's singles, having been nudged off the world number one spot earlier this month by Roger Federer after the Swiss snapped up his seventh Wimbledon title. "In the past when you win Olympic Games you are considered immortal...
02:00 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Wimbledon: Roger Federer put on quite a display in front of Prince Charles, sweeping aside Fabio Fognini 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 in the second round of Wimbledon on Wednesday. Federer and his Italian opponent bowed to Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in the Royal Box before their match, and the Swiss six-time champion then showed them the type of tennis that helped him rule on Centre Court for...
07:14 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Kochi: The city might have found its own Phileas Fogg in 62-year-old Thomas Chacko who is trying to travel around India in 80 days. Chacko, who started his all-India driving expedition in a Tata Nano car from Mumbai on May 3, made a brief stop in his hometown for a day. A motoring enthusiast, Chacko said the idea came to his mind when he helped his friend Suresh Jospeh edit...
10:18 AM, Jun 18, 2012
