Bangalore: Karnataka has been hit by incessant rains for the past eight days after battling a drought for two months. Coastal Karnataka has reportedly received the most rainfall, while parts of Udupi are flooded. Heavy rains are also being reported from previously drought-hit areas like Raichur, Shimoga, Hassan and Belgaum as well. The rainfall deficit there is now down to 28 per cent. This has caused the water levels in...
10:14 AM, Aug 09, 2012
Patna: Expressing fear over inadequate rainfall, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said the prospect of drought loomed in several districts of the state. "There is a fear of a drought-like situation in several parts of the state as 179 of its total 534 blocks have received less than 250 mm rainfall this monsoon," he said in a statement in the legislative council. There has been 33 per cent...
07:42 PM, Aug 08, 2012
BJP leader LK Advani squarely blamed illegal migration from Bangladesh as the root cause behind the Assam violence. ...
04:40 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said LK Advani confused history and was talking about the 2008 trust vote in Parliament. ...
02:36 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Senior BJP leader LK Advani blamed the UPA government for not being able to check illegal immigration. ...
01:58 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: As the month-long monsoon session of Parliament got underway, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the government is prepared to discuss any issue in accordance with rules and hoped the Opposition would cooperate in tackling legislative business before the two Houses. "Our government is prepared to discuss any issue in accordance with the rules and procedure," he told reporters while entering Parliament on the first day of...
11:55 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Kannur: A calamity looms large over vast areas of the district as Pazhassi dam started overflowing and Iritty town downstream was submerged following relentless rain since Sunday night. The people are living in fear as there is the threat of the dam collapsing in case the reservoir is swelled to an unmanageable level. The Vazhayil bridge in Ayyankunnu panchayat was swept away following a landslide on Monday. In the second...
10:55 AM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: 2:00 pm: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said LK Advani's controversial remark on UPA-II was disgraceful and unfortunate. 1:10 pm: Reacting to LK Advani's remark for the UPA in Lok Sabha, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said, "He's a senior. he knows what he's saying." Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said LK Advani got his facts wrong and confused history. "Advani has confused history, he is talking about the...
10:30 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said no decision has yet been taken on boycotting P Chidambaram. ...
09:10 AM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Flash floods claimed nine lives in Madhya Pradesh. The district administration has asked schools to shut down as a precaution. All major rivers are flowing near or above the danger mark. A high alert has been sounded in Hoshangabad, Sehore and Raisen districts. Many state highways have been closed due to incessant rains. With rivers like Narmada, Betwa and Tawa flowing above the danger mark, giving rise to...
08:56 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Relief operations have picked up in Iritty in the Kannur district of Kerala after rains let up a bit overnight. Nine people have died in landslides that hit the region on Monday. Eight bodies have been recovered so far. Large parts of the town have been submerged but a nearby dam has stopped overflowing. A team from the Navy has arrived and a batch from the National Disaster Management...
08:49 AM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: The month-long Monsoon session of Parliament will begin on Wednesday. The Opposition is all set to corner the government on a range of issues. On Wednesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to move for a suspension of the Question Hour to discuss the Kokrajhar violence. P Chidambaram may have had a change of ministry, but the Opposition is not willing to have a change of heart...
07:35 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat government on Tuesday declared 14 districts and 152 talukas of the state as "scarcity hit" due to deficient rains and announced a stimulus package with fodder subsidies and out-of-turn power connections among other measures. A state-empowered committee to tackle a drought-like situation, which met today under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Vajubhai Vala, announced some of the relief measures to tackle the fallout of deficient monsoon. Districts which...
12:07 AM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: The monsoon session of Parliament opening on Wednesday promises to kick up a lot of heat and dust as the Opposition parties are planning to raise issues like communal violence in Assam, rising prices, economy and drought. Seeking to corner the government, the BJP has announced plans to raise on the very first day the issue of Assam clashes which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the a...
03:58 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The deficient southwest monsoon in the state has broken a 10-year record. The first half of the monsoon (June-July) has recorded a 42 per cent deficient rainfall this year. A similar scenario was there in 2002 when the state recorded 43 per cent deficient rainfall in the first half of the monsoon season. Surprisingly, both the years witnessed the presence of El Nino condition. Though the India Meteorological Department...
02:51 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Heavy rains, flash floods and landslides wreaked havoc across much of India on Tuesday. Nearly 34 people were dead and 20,000 were said to be affected in Uttarakhand, eight people had lost their lives in Kerala and four in Madhya Pradesh, while train services between Mangalore and Bangalore in Karnataka were hit. Uttarakhand It has been four days since heavy rains battered Uttarakhand, triggering landslides and flash floods....
02:04 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Bangalore: The monsoon that played traunt for more than a year is in full vigour in western Karnataka reviving the lost hopes of people. The Malnad belt of the state " from Belgaum district to Kodagu " and coastal areas received heavy rains on Monday resulting increased inflow into reservoirs. Incessant rains wreaked havoc in parts of Mudigere taluk, resulting in landslides on Charmadi Ghat, thereby disrupting the vehicular movements...
12:38 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Dharasu: It has been four days since heavy rains battered Uttarakhand, triggering landslides and flash floods. The death toll has reached 34. Seventy villages remain cut off from the Uttarkashi district headquarters. An estimated 20,000 people have been affected. Around 3,000 pilgrims on the Chardham yatra are still stranded. It hasn't rained for two days in a row. This is expected to boost relief operations as well as open up...
08:31 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Monday met leaders of different political parties, who informed her they will raise issues such as drought, floods and the country's economic troubles. The meeting in the Parliament House complex was attended among others by the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj and the Janata Dal United's (JDU) Sharad Yadav from the...
02:24 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Bemunda: Incessant rains continue to batter Uttarakhand for the third day in a row on Monday, triggering landslides, cloudbursts and flash floods. Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna who made an aerial survey of the rains-ravaged areas on Sunday said he would request the Centre for a relief package. Thousands of homes have been flattened. The death toll has now reached 34. ITBP and police personnel are searching for bodies under the...
08:25 AM, Aug 06, 2012
