Srinagar: Kashmir remained cut off from the rest of the country for the second day on Monday as snowfall blocked the vital Srinagar-Jammu National highway and delayed all scheduled flights to the Valley. The snowfall, which began on Saturday night, continued overnight in most parts of the Valley including in the summer capital Srinagar, crippling normal life as most of the people preferred to remain indoors. However, the snowfall has...
12:01 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Srinagar: With the Jammu-Srinagar highway closed, the Kashmir valley has been cut off from the rest of the country. The temperature is hovering at minus 6 degree Celsius and expected to fall further in the next few days. The power has been restored but only to Srinagar and some major townships. As the mercury dips further in Kashmir, the woes of people especially those living in Muffassil areas have only...
08:43 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Srinagar: Freezing cold prevailed in Kashmir Valley on Monday where Gulmarg recorded a low of minus 14.5 degree Celsius but there was some respite for people of the city and parts of north Kashmir as electricity was restored after three days. Communication woes, however, continued for the people of the Valley with the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, Kashmir's only road link with rest of the country, remaining closed for the fourth...
12:25 PM, Jan 09, 2012
The Kashmir Valley on Sunday experienced its coldest night this winter. The Jammu Srinagar highway is shut for the third consecutive day today. But the power crisis could abate. A 400 kilowatt line has been repaired, and Kashmir has started getting power from the Northern Grid. The administration says the Kishenpore-Pampore line will be repaired by Monday evening. Snow and rainfall has affected transmission lines in the Pir Panjal range ...
10:24 AM, Jan 09, 2012
Facing protests, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has promised to restore the power supply by Tuesday. ...
09:38 PM, Jan 08, 2012
Srinagar: At least a hundred vehicles were stranded on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Sunday as heavy snowfall forced authorities to close the road down. Extreme weather also triggered a major power supply failure for over 24 hours in the valley as heavy rains affected transmission lines in the Pir Panchal ranges and other grid stations. Life has been thrown out of gear in the valley with even internet access...
12:55 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New York: An Indian managing director of a US investment firm was among five people who were killed when a small plane lost control and crashed on a New Jersey highway on Tuesday. Rakesh Chawla, 36, worked at New York-based investment bank Greenhill & Co. The Georgia-bound plane was also carrying a second Greenhill Managing Director Jeffrey Buckalew, 45, his wife and their two children. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said...
08:22 AM, Dec 21, 2011
Raipur: Maoist militants on Tuesday blew a bridge on a key national highway in Chhattisgarh that connects the state's violence-hit Bastar region to the state capital, police said. The bridge is at Kondagaon on National Highway Number 30 in Bastar district, some 210 km south of Raipur. "It was a massive blast that ripped through the bridge. The traffic on the key national highway, Number 30, was blocked for hours...
01:12 AM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: Fifteen people were burnt to death, in Buldhana district of Maharashtra, following an accident that involved two buses. Sources say 57 others have been injured out of whom 35 are said to be critical. The injured have been rushed to the nearest hospital. Sources added that the toll is expected to rise. The two buses met with an accident on the Nagpur-Aurangabad highway. One of the buses was...
09:57 AM, Nov 28, 2011
CHENNAI: The first phase of the long-awaited Ennore-Manali highway project, which would facilitate quicker transport of goods to and from the Chennai Port as well as reduce the traffic congestion in North Chennai, is expected to be completed by April 2012, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly D Jayakumar said here on Monday. Speaking at the inauguration of a Public Health Centre in Kathivakkam, an initiative of the Coramandel Group, the...
08:31 AM, Nov 15, 2011
A bus was hit by a landslide on the Chungthang-Mangan highway and the injured engineer was airlifted. ...
03:27 PM, Sep 22, 2011
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The other day, an Air Force officer just back from Gangtok told me: "the situation in the north is grim. It's only now beginning to ...
03:44 PM, Sep 21, 2011
The National Highway-31 which connects Sikkim with rest of North Bengal was completely blocked due the earthquake. ...
09:21 PM, Sep 19, 2011
New Delhi: An IBN-Lokmat report has blown the lid off a land scam that implicates the Sharad Pawar family in Maharashtra. In 2007 when Ajit Pawar, nephew of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief, was irrigation minister of Maharashtra AG Mercantile, a company partly owned by Ajit was given a contract to repair a dam in Raigad. But instead of money for the repairs the company was given land. AG...
06:52 AM, Apr 20, 2011
New Delhi: An IBN-Lokmat report has blown the lid off a land scam that implicates the Sharad Pawar family in Maharashtra. In 2007 when Ajit Pawar, nephew of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief, was irrigation minister of Maharashtra AG Mercantile, a company partly owned by Ajit was given a contract to repair a dam in Raigad. But instead of money for the repairs the company was given land. AG ...
06:52 AM, Apr 20, 2011
Before Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Union Budget for 2011-12, many political observers felt that he may just use it as an opportunity to shore up the governments diminishing equity. Others expected some big-ticket reforms to indicate that the government had recovered from the sting of a series of scams and meant business worthy of the mandate people gave it two years ago. Belying either expectation, Mukherjee laid out...
06:39 PM, Mar 15, 2011
The Jammu-Srinagar national highway remains closed for the second consecutive day. ...
04:42 PM, Jan 15, 2011
Jammu: The 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, only surface link between Kashmir and rest of the country, remained closed for the second consecutive day on Saturday due to heavy snowfall at two stretches with over 400 vehicles stranded on the road. "The highway remained closed for second day today due to heavy snowfall at Jawahar tunnel and Patnitop. The road has been very slippery and at several places.", Senior Superintendent...
03:25 PM, Jan 15, 2011
Jammu-Srinagar highway was closed due to heavy snowfall and jawans at International border are facing problems. ...
12:43 PM, Jan 14, 2011
Srinagar: Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, the only road link between Kashmir and the rest of the country, was on Saturday restored partially after remaining closed for two days due to snowfall. "One way traffic from Jammu to Srinagar has been restored on Saturday as the snow clearance operations were completed last evening," an official of the Police Control Room said. He said vehicles from Jammu were allowed to...
01:38 PM, Jan 01, 2011
