Thiruvananthapuram: The culvert on the Edanada-Killiyar stream which is notorious for causing flooding in the Pipinmoodu area is being widened. The PWD-Irrigation Department began the widening work on Monday. The widening of the culvert has been a long-pending demand of the residents of the Pipinmoodu area. Waterlogging in the residential area owing to the overflowing of the stream has been common during the monsoon season. Last year too, on December...
12:50 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: Standard and Poor's has lowered the growth forecast for India to 5.5 per cent for this fiscal, from 6.5 per cent projected earlier, citing "volatile" global economic situation. According to S&P, Asia-Pacific is feeling the pressure of ongoing global economic uncertainty and it has lowered India growth forecast by one percentage point to 5.5 per cent for this fiscal from 6.5 per cent earlier. Lack of monsoon rains...
04:34 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Hyderabad: The city is currently reeling under a spate of viral fevers with sudden seasonal changes due to incessant rains, leading to mosquito breeding in stagnant water and drinking water contamination. According to GHMC, Telugu Desam floor leader Singireddy Srinivas Reddy, there is a sudden increase in the cases of malaria, dengue, chikungunya and other viral fevers in various corporate, private hospitals, nursing homes, clinics. The TDP corporators led by...
02:11 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: The south-west monsoon is set to withdraw from northern and some parts of western India in the next 48 hours after bringing ample showers since late August triggering cheers among millions of farmers. According to a bulletin released by the weather department this afternoon, "conditions have become favourable for withdrawal of southwest monsoon from parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Saurashtra and Kutch during next...
06:11 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Hyderabad; The sudden downpour that caught people by surprise inundated several localities in the city on Friday. At LB Nagar crossroads, rain water gushed onto the road disrupting the vehicular traffic. There were traffic snarls for a long time between Koti and Malakpet. The rain water entered into the LB Nagar municipal office, forcing the staff to drain it out with whatever means available like containers and broom sticks. The...
12:34 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Chennai: Over the past couple of weeks, the intermittent showers in and around the city limits have contributed to a significant rise in the water levels in the reservoirs that supply drinking water to residents. The city gets its water supply from reservoirs and lakes at Poondi, Sholavaram, Chembarambakkam and Senkundram (Red Hills). While the water level still continues to be almost 4500 million cubic feet (mcft) lesser than what...
03:05 PM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: India's wholesale price index (WPI) rose a higher-than-expected 7.55 per cent in August from a year earlier, mainly driven by higher food prices due to deficient monsoon, government data showed on Friday. The data comes ahead of a policy meeting at the Reserve Bank of India on Monday where the bank is expected to leave interest rates on hold as it grapples with inflation. However, a move by...
12:08 PM, Sep 14, 2012
New Delhi: India has moved further away from a widespread drought with a third straight week of heavy rains and the weather office is now suggesting the crucial monsoon could even slow its retreat, helping winter planting in the major food producer. The rains, vital for the 55 per cent of Indian farmland without irrigation, are still 8 per cent short of average so far in the June to September...
02:03 AM, Sep 14, 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
New Delhi: In a stinging attack on the CAG, the Congress on Monday alleged that the government auditor was as much responsible as the BJP for the disruption of the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament on the coal mine allocation issue. Party spokesperson Manish Tewari also sought to make a major issue out of a telephone call by a senior BJP leader to the CAG on a yet-to-be-tabled report by...
09:43 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu's plea for water from the Cauvery is all set to come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Monday. The plea has sought a direction to Karnataka from the apex court to release 2 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) of water from the river to the state that is facing a rainfall deficit. One crop of the current season has already been destroyed in the...
07:57 AM, Sep 10, 2012
CNN-IBN brings you the experience of driving Audi Q7 and Audi Q5 SUVs down the beach roads of Maharashtra during monsoon. ...
06:43 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Seeking to blame the government for the partially washed out monsoon session, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday blamed corruption for the lost session, and asserted that stalling parliament was also a form of democracy. "I would like to remind the prime minister, when he was leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, they had stalled parliament over the Tehelka issue. Even over the coffin scam, they stalled...
01:18 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Youth kills four of a family in Delhi, commits suicide. Hina Rabbani Khar said that India and Pakistan needed to take big leaps forward. ...
11:30 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Minimal business conducted over 3 weeks as Opposition repeatedly disrupted proceedings over the coal scam. ...
11:10 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Monsoon Session of Parliament ended on Friday with virtually no business transacted. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whose resignation was made by the Opposition as a pre condition for allowing Parliament to function, spoke out. The Prime Minister called the stalling of Parliament a negation of a working democracy while the Opposition countered saying having majority is not a licence to loot. On the last day of the...
08:47 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attacked the Opposition over the Monsoon Session washout and called the stalling of both the houses a violation of democaratic and Parliamentary norms. Below is the full transcript of his speech: We have just ended a wasted session of Parliament when both Houses were not allowed to function. The cause of the repeated disruption was that we had received a report of the CAG...
04:53 PM, Sep 07, 2012
With the BJP and the UPA Government locking their horns on the quota bill and coal scam, the Monsoon Session lost many working hours. ...
04:02 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday defended itself after a complete washout of the Monsoon session. The party that has been demanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation over the CAG report on coal blocks allocation, blamed the Parliament deadlock on the government. "We did not want a straight discussion. We had three demands and we limited it to two demands and left the demand for discussion. But...
02:52 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Slamming the Opposition as Parliament adjourned sine die on the last day of the monsoon session without conducting any major business, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the regular disruptions by the Opposition were a negation of democracy and a violation of norms of Parliament and the Constitution. "We have great respect for the CAG. However, if we respect it, we should be willing to discuss its reports...
02:29 PM, Sep 07, 2012
