Bhubaneswar: Flood's fury in Mahanadi and other rivers has wreaked havoc in Orissa submerging about 2,600 villages spread over 19 districts and leaving eight dead as the state government on Sunday stepped up relief and rescue operations for 11 lakh affected people. The floods, which claimed eight lives and left three others missing so far, have snapped road communications at several places in Puri, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Sambalpur, Boudh and...
02:11 PM, Sep 11, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan and the United States have agreed to resume joint intelligence operations against Islamist militants, the Pakistani foreign ministry said on Friday, in a first step toward rebuilding trust between the two countries. The announcement came a week after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Pakistan's civilian and military leaders to take decisive steps against militant groups operating in the country after the discovery of Osama bin Laden...
02:47 AM, Jun 04, 2011
London: Flights across Europe were returning to normal on Wednesday as high levels of volcanic ash from the Icelandic eruption cleared the skies after threatening to disrupt air traffic for days. The Air India flight from London to Mumbai (AI130) left on schedule on Wednesday morning while two flights (AI116 and 112) are slated to take off in the evening for New Delhi. A spokesperson for the airline told PTI...
05:57 PM, May 25, 2011
A monster tornado tore through the US state of Joplin, leaving 116 people dead, Anderson Cooper brings you scenes from the disaster struck area. ...
10:42 AM, May 24, 2011
Joplin: A monster tornado killed at least 116 people in Joplin, Missouri when it tore through the heart of the small city, ripping the roof off a hospital and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. Weather officials said the tornado that hit the city of 50,000 at dinner time on Sunday was the deadliest single tornado in the country since 1947 and the ninth-deadliest tornado of all time, they said....
07:09 AM, May 24, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan army and the government on Thursday reacted sharply warning India against any Abbottabad-like "misadventure", saying it would be responded to "very strongly" that could lead to a "terrible catastrophe". The warning came after a meeting of the Corps Commanders chaired by Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, which decided to reduce the level of US military personnel in Pakistan and threatened to review intelligence cooperation with it, if a repeat...
10:26 PM, May 05, 2011
New Delhi: Massive search operations to find missing Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu began at 5:30 am on Sunday with the SSB and ITBP personnel joining the Army in the massive search operation. However, bad weather hampered the search operation as helicopters could not take off for the search operation. Six helicopters were stranded, four of which were in Tejpur. Pawan Hans suspended commercial operations in North East on...
07:56 AM, May 01, 2011
Bolangir (Orissa): A senior officer of a private steel company was burnt alive by suspended factory workers at Titlagarh on Thursday. Titlagarh, where the is incident took place is tense - One person has been arrested. R S Roy, deputy general manager (Operations) of Graphite India Ltd-Powmex steel division was coming out of the plant in a jeep along with two others during lunch break when the incident took place,...
07:43 PM, Mar 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Income Tax Department on Saturday conducted survey operations on city-based business premises of onion traders from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh to detect hoarding and illegal profiteering. Sources said the surveys were carried out on the premises of those traders who were searched by the department in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. "There were no searches on any trader from Delhi but surveys were conducted on the city premises of...
03:56 PM, Jan 08, 2011
New Delhi: Flight operations at the IGI airport in Delhi remained normal for the second day on Wednesday due to absence of dense fog. Though the airport witnessed fog at night and in the morning but the runway visibility was good enough for smooth operations and there were no cancellations or diversion of flight, an airport official said. Delhi airport had witnessed dense fog for three day since Christmas, leading...
09:34 AM, Dec 29, 2010
New Delhi: The debris removal operations at the east Delhi building collapse site was affected due to rains on Wednesday even as a cautious MCD asked occupants of 38 "dangerous" buildings in the locality to move out. No bodies were recovered or survivors rescued since midnight from the building collapse site where 67 people lost their lives in the one of the worst tragedies in the capital in recent years....
03:05 PM, Nov 17, 2010
Islamabad: Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI got itself an allocation of a staggering Rs 5.55 billion, apparently for covert operations, but has not accounted for it. And now, the country's top officials appear reluctant to disclose how and on what the military intelligence agency spent the huge sum of money on. According to information provided by the finance ministry to the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC), the amount was paid to...
05:23 PM, Sep 22, 2010
Washington: More than 60 countries have committed over $ 700 million in aid for Pakistan in contrary to belief that international community is not coming forward for the help of flood-affected people. These countries would again be meeting on the margins of the UN General Assembly session in New York next month to take stock of the situation. "So far, over 60 nations have committed more than $ 700 million,...
12:32 PM, Aug 31, 2010
Karachi: Fresh floods sent a million people fleeing from their homes in the southern part of Pakistan in the past 48 hours, the United Nations said on Friday, as officials evacuated towns threatened by the swollen Indus. While floodwaters are beginning to recede across most of the country as the water flows downstream, high tides in the Arabian Sea meant they still posed a threat to towns in Sindh province...
06:05 PM, Aug 27, 2010
The United Nations has launched a global appeal for USD 460-million in aid for Pakistan. But so far, only about USD 150-million have been pledged. ...
11:42 PM, Aug 17, 2010
It is estimated that more than 13 million people have been left homeless by the floods. ...
10:26 PM, Aug 17, 2010
Majority of victims of the deadly floods in Pakistan are struggling to make it to relief camps. ...
07:37 PM, Aug 16, 2010
Sukkur: Disease outbreaks pose grave risks to victims of Pakistan's worst floods in decades, aid agencies said on Friday, causing fresh concern about the already complicated relief efforts. The floods, triggered by torrential monsoon downpours, have engulfed Pakistan's Indus river basin, killing more than 1,600 people, forcing two million from their homes and disrupting the lives of 14 million people, that forms 8 per cent of the entire population. At...
09:26 AM, Aug 14, 2010
Army lady surgeon Lt Col Chitra Banerjee recounts the horrors and difficulties that doctors face while they battle waves of exhaustion and crisis in Leh. ...
12:21 PM, Aug 10, 2010
Three days after the killer flash floods wrecked havoc in Leh town - rescue operations are still underway. ...
10:01 AM, Aug 09, 2010
