Hardwar: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Wednesday reiterated that the administration was facing no shortage of funds or resources in carrying out relief and rescue operations in the flood and landslide ravaged areas of the state.
Even as the death toll crossed 100, Bahuguna said that he was not in a situation to give the exact estimate of the people killed in the calamity.
Speaking on the wide scale damages in the state as a result of torrential rains, massive landslides and flash floods, Bahuguna said that pilgrimage for the Chardham Yatra will take over a year to commence again, adding that the path leading to Kedarnath shrine has been reduced to debris.
The Chief Minister claimed that the devastation could have been much worse had the Tehri dam on the Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand not been there. He said the dam has helped control the flood water, which could have washed away western Uttar Pradesh....
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05:29 PM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: Monsoon has covered the entire country one month in advance with Delhi receiving its first showers of the season on Sunday, almost over a fortnight before its scheduled date of June 29, and breaking the 52-year-old record. South-west monsoon, which kept its June 1 date with Kerala, made rapid progress across the country bringing bountiful showers all along and providing relief to most drought-hit regions and bringing down...
11:05 AM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: Isha Singh, who hails from Dharamshala, has won the FEM Miss North India 2013. The 26-year-old bagged the title Friday. Jagmeet Kaur, 24, was the first runner-up and Shweta Singh, 23, the second runner-up. The participants at the pageant, organised by Shree Sai Entertainment, were selected from various North Indian states. The platform was meant "to enter glamorous world of fame, attracting a lot of fanfare," Bharat K....
12:05 PM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: Parts of north India, including Delhi, received heavy showers on Saturday as the southwest monsoon advanced further into central and northern India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The monsoon this year had set over Kerala on schedule June 1 and advanced fast, covering the southern, eastern and central states within two weeks. In northern India, pre-monsoon showers for the last three days have brought respite from the...
05:34 AM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: After hitting Kerala, the monsoon is expected to advance to parts of Tamil Nadu and drought-hit states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh over the next two days. Arriving in Kerala two days ahead of schedule, the monsoon has boosted farming prospects and raised hopes in the cotton and sugar growing belt. Meanwhile, onset of monsoon brought respite from the heat for the north Indians as the mercury continued...
07:00 PM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: As the mercury touched 43 degrees Celsius in the national capital, there is no respite from the heat yet. Rajasthan continued to remain in the grip of the heat wave with Churu recording a maximum of 45.2 degrees Celsius. Temperatures across North India on Tuesday hovered over 43 degrees Celsius at several places with the region getting little relief from the summer sun which continues to beat down...
07:59 AM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: Temperatures continued to remain high across North India on Friday with the national capital touching 45 degrees Celsius and Amritsar boiling at 47 degrees Celsius. Rajasthan sizzled between 44 and 47 degrees Celsius. However, the Met department has said that a marginal fall in temperature can be expected by Sunday. 84 people have died in Andhra Pradesh since the 1st of April due to the heat. New Delhi...
07:30 AM, May 25, 2013
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...
12:00 PM, 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
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: 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: Heat wave swept across Northern states as temperatures on Sunday soared past 45 degrees Celsius at several places affecting normal life in the region. Churu in Rajasthan was the hottest place in the region with temperature touching 47 deg C. The national capital recorded a high of 44 deg C while mercury in parts of Punjab and Haryana shot up to 46 deg C. Delhi sizzled under a...
07:46 PM, May 19, 2013
Srinagar: A 5.8 magnitude earthquake that shook Jammu and Kashmir and North India earlier in the day on Wednesday left one person dead and 69, including 32 children, across the state. An injured person was airlifted to Jammu. Scores of houses have developed cracks in the Chenab Valley. The quake had its epicentre in Doda district in the state. Tremors were felt in parts of North India as the mild...
05:26 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Tremors were felt in parts of North India as a mild earthquake hit Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. The epicentre of the earthquake, measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale, was the border of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. "A tremor measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale was recorded at 12.27 PM today," an official of the MET office said. He said the epicentre of the earthquake was...
12:42 PM, May 01, 2013
Chandigarh: Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday said the VAT collections in Punjab had more than doubled in the past five years and was likely to touch Rs 16,000 crore in 2013. Honouring "Achievers of North India" at a function in Chandigarh, he announced his government would honour 635 top VAT payers who were "virtually" sustaining the economy of Punjab. Badal said similar functions would also be organised...
03:05 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the richter scale hit Afghanistan on Wednesday. Tremors were also felt in parts of Pakistan including Lahore, Abbotabad, Sargodha, Islamabad, Kasur, Peshawar, Swat and Parachinar as well as in North India including New Delhi and Kashmir. There were no initial reports of any damages. While the Pakistan Met department put the magnitude of the earthquake at 6.2, the USGS put its magnitude at...
03:17 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Iran-Pakistan border on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 21 people in Pakistan and injuring 5 in Iran. While earlier reports indicated at least 40 dead, the Iranian state owned media later denied the reports saying only five people have been injured. The epicentre of the quake lay 86 km east-south east of Khash, Iran, near the country's border with Pakistan, the US...
09:59 PM, Apr 16, 2013
After a brief respite from the cold, The Indian Meteorological Department has warned that Western Disturbances could cause temperatures to drop by 4 to 6 degrees across North India. The cold spell started Sunday evening with Delhi experiencing light rain. ...
08:10 AM, Feb 04, 2013
