Mumbai: Forty one people have died in the Thane building collapse and over 60 were injured in one of the worst building collapse disasters in Maharashtra. The seven-storied, under-construction illegal building collapsed on Thursday evening. The rescue operations are being hampered due to severe shortage of fire stations in the area, sources said. Sources also added that the fire department is ill-equipped to deal with such a massive a building...
11:41 AM, Apr 05, 2013
Chinese authorities on Saturday said no signs of life have been detected nearly 30 hours after a massive landslide buried 83 mine workers in Tibet despite a major search and rescue operation. "Rescuers have not yet found survivors or bodies... The miners' survival chances were slim due to the scale of the landslide," officials of the regional government were quoted by as saying the state-run Xinhua news agency. ...
11:50 AM, Mar 30, 2013
An estimated 1.8 million telephones have gone silent in Mumbai since Sunday after Telecom operator Uninor closed its Mumbai operations from midnight following a Supreme Court order. ...
09:34 AM, Feb 17, 2013
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here remained normal even as the area witnessed shallow fog on Wednesday. No flights were delayed or cancelled due to fog at the airport. ...
10:27 AM, Jan 09, 2013
A consortium of lenders, led by State Bank of India, on Friday opposed ailing Kingfisher Airlines' plan to resume operations and insisted on "better commitments" from the carrier. The meeting between lenders and the KFA management in Bangalore remained inconclusive as the bankers were "not impressed" with the revival plan, sources said. ...
10:25 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Flights within the northeastern region may be hit from New Year, with Air India threatening to stop its operations to airports like Tezpur, Lilabari and Shillong following non-payment of funds by the North East Council (NEC). The alleged failure of NEC to pay over Rs 100 crore, due for two years, has also led Air India subsidiary Alliance Air not renewing the lease of three turbo-prop ATR planes operating to...
04:42 PM, Dec 06, 2012
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
An estimated 20 thousand people have been affected and 34 killed in the flash floods in Uttarakhand. ...
01:16 PM, Aug 07, 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
