London: Tata Steel on Friday said it will cut 900 jobs in the UK and close 12 sites as part of major restructuring of European operations to make it an "all-weather" steel producer, capable of succeeding in difficult economic conditions. "The proposed changes are expected to lead to a net loss of 900 jobs in the UK, including 580 in South Wales, 155 in Yorkshire, 120 in the West Midlands...
08:20 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: A fire broke out in a power sub station in Okhla on Tuesday afternoon. The blaze was reported from the 220 kv sub-station located near Crown Plaza in Okhla at around 2.40 pm. Around 12 fire engines have been rushed to the spot. Rescue operations are underway. No casualties have been reported so far. More details on the incident are awaited. ...
04:09 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday banned all mining operations and transportation of iron ore in Goa. The order came following a hearing on a PIL filed against resumption of mining operations in the state. Earlier this year, the Directorate of Mines and Geology had temporarily suspended mining operations in all 90 mines in Goa till October 2012. The move came on the basis of the Justice MB Shah...
02:55 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Kolkata: Two personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed on Sunday during an anti-Naxal operation conducted jointly by West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. The 184th battalion of the CRPF was engaged in search and combing operations in a forest in West Midnapore when the Naxals ambushed them, resulting in heavy exchange of gunfire. The two personnel were shot dead. The injured have been shifted to the West...
09:05 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 21 people were killed in Sikkim, three in Arunachal Pradesh and more than 7 lakh people affected in Assam after days of incessant rainfall triggered landslides and flash floods in the region on Sunday. In Assam, 13 districts are said to be affected, the worst-hit being Tinsukhia. The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark and the Kaziranga and Dibru-Saikhowa national parks are under water. Nearly 60...
09:41 AM, Sep 23, 2012
New Delhi: Earlier this month Motorola announced that it will axe 20 percent of its global work force, and shut almost a third of its offices across the world. As per a report by BGR.in, it appears that this process is already underway, and the Google-acquired brand is now shutting down its operations in India. As per the report, "Motorola is shutting down its operations in India and across Asia...
04:30 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Shillong: Operations to rescue 15 trapped miners from a private coal pit in South Garo Hills district of Meghalaya were on Friday officially called off after 14 hours of intense search failed to yield results and as the mission posed a threat to the rescuers. "The National Disaster and Rescue Force (NDRF) have called off their mission to rescue any trapped miners and they have submitted a report citing that...
02:40 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Gurgaon: Police have arrested the owner of the house in which the parents of four-year-old Mahi, who died after falling into an open borewell last month, were staying as tenants. Rohtash Tayal, nabbed on Saturday by the Gurgaon police, is the third person to be arrested in the case. Police had earlier arrested Himmat and Satbir who had dug out another borewell, adjacent to the one in which Mahi fell....
05:45 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Ladakh: The Indian Army on Sunday rescued around 400 people and nearly 150 vehicles from a landslide-hit road in Ladakh. The massive landslide had blocked nearly 250 metres of the Tangtse-Chang la road in the Durbuk village. Those rescued have now been evacuated to safer places, including the military camp in Tangtse. The civilians have been provided shelter, food, warm clothing and medical aid by quick reaction medical teams. Meanwhile,...
10:12 AM, Jul 08, 2012
Guwahati: Torrential rains for one week have led to flash floods in Assam's capital in what may be easily described as the worst floods the state has witnessed in eight years. Almost 23 of its 27 districts are under water. Nearly four lakh people in 2,000 villages are said to be affected and 40,000 hectares of crop land is believed to be destroyed. The Brahmaputra and its tributaries breached their...
08:01 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Gurgaon: The rescue teams were able to put an end to the agonising ordeal and finally lifted out five-year-old Mahi from the 70-feet borewell after 86 hours and rushed to the ESI Hospital in Gurgaon on Sunday afternoon. The five-year-old fell into the borewell on June 20 in Kho village near Gurgaon. Mahi's health status is unknown but reportedly she has lost consciousness. Earlier on Saturday night the rescuers had...
01:41 PM, Jun 24, 2012
New Delhi: Rescuers on Sunday managed to reach five-year-old Mahi, more than 86 hours after she fell into a 70-feet-deep borewell near Manesar in Haryana but the rescue operations have been hit again. The delay has been due to the fact that Mahi is caught between two other rocks. Her distraught family waits for the rescue workers to reach the child as early as possible as the chances of her...
01:06 PM, Jun 24, 2012
New Delhi: With the Air India management mulling sacking 300 more pilots who have been on strike for the past 34 days, the troubled national carrier has set up a committee to review its global operations to find out how many pilots are required to operate flights. This committee would advise the management on the actual number of pilots needed to run Air India's international operations, airline officials said, adding...
01:37 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: With no end in sight to the Air India pilots' strike, the national carrier has firmed up plans to hire new cockpit crew to run its long-haul international operations which have been hit by the 29-day long agitation. Hiring of new batches of pilots is part of a new business plan for international operations, which the ailing carrier is likely to announce on Wednesday. It would be implemented...
03:58 AM, Jun 06, 2012
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of increasing role of satellites in modern warfare, the Navy has created a new post of Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Communications, Space and Network Centric Operations) at its headquarters in New Delhi. "On June 1, Rear Admiral Kishan K Pandey took over as the first incumbent of the newly created post of ACNS (CSNCO) at the Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defence (Navy)," it...
02:50 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Seeking to allay apprehensions that the NCTC would infringe on the states' rights, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said the Standard Operating Procedure of the proposed anti-terror body will ensure that they are kept informed of all its operations. "The Government of India has come up with a detailed Standard Operating Procedure which ensures that the state governments concerned would be kept meaningfully informed of...
03:59 AM, May 06, 2012
Dhubri: More than 100 people have been found dead and the death toll from the boat accident in the Brahmaputra River in Assam's Dhubri continues to rise. As rescue teams searched for survivors, the families of those who died and those who were missing were inconsolable. A day after the ferry capsized, very few bodies have been recovered. There is no clarity on the number of people dead. While there...
09:08 PM, May 01, 2012
Raipur/New Delhi: With the Maoists' April 25 deadline looming large, Chhattisgarh government suspended the anti-Naxal operations in Bastar region and Monday night offered to hold talks in a bid to end the hostage crisis involving Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon. After an all-party meeting in Raipur to discuss the three-day-old crisis, Chief Minister Raman Singh said the political parties have made an appeal to the Naxals to release the...
12:33 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Tokyo: Sony Corp CEO Kazuo Hirai signaled his determination to turn around the group's ailing TV business by keeping direct charge of the division, as the Japanese brand fights to regain ground against rivals such as Apple. Hirai, who formally takes over as chief executive from Howard Stringer next week, inherits a company that - like much of corporate Japan - has been outgunned in recent years by rivals like...
04:24 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: Air India on Sunday ruled out any disruption of its operations due to a strike warning from various unions from April 2, saying there is no threat of any strike from any of the registered unions of its employees. In what would have come as a breather to the debt-laden national carrier, the Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU) on Sunday came out with a statement ruling out any strike....
03:34 AM, Mar 26, 2012
