New Delhi: The ghost of Bofors returned to haunt the Congress following new revelations by Sten Lindstorm, the man who blew the lid off the defence corruption case. The Congress on Wednesday claimed that the party had always raised the question of Ottavio Quattrocchi while defending former prime minister late Rajiv Gandhi and said that the issue should be closed. "This has been proved again that Rajivji was innocent. This...
06:09 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The man who blew the lid off the Bofors scam, former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstorm, on Wednesday gave a clean chit to actor and then MP Amitabh Bachchan and his family in the case. Revealing his real identity after being known as Swedish Deep Throat for 25 years, Lindstorm had said that Bachchan and his family were planted in a Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, by Indian investigators....
01:42 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Kolkata: At least nine persons were killed when a thunderstorm hit several districts of West Bengal on Sunday. In Murshidabad, four farmers who were busy working in the field at separate places were killed by lightning, officials said. Similarly in South 24 Parganas district, Rita Mandal, 70, and Sanath Mistri, 65, were struck by lightning when they were working outside their houses in Gosaba block. Besides Gosaba, Canning and Basanti...
06:00 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Kolkata: At least nine persons were killed when a thunderstorm hit several districts of West Bengal on Saturday. In Murshidabad, four farmers who were busy working in the field at separate places were killed by lightning, officials said. Similarly, in South 24 Parganas district, Rita Mandal, 70, and Sanath Mistri, 65, were struck by lightning when they were working outside their houses in Gosaba block. Besides Gosaba, Canning and Basanti...
10:09 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Washington: Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued on Wednesday. The greatest threat from extreme weather is to highly populated, poor regions of the world, the report warns, but no corner of the globe - from Mumbai to Miami...
12:34 AM, Mar 29, 2012
Jammu: The windstorm that ravaged parts of Jammu and Kashmir this week left three persons dead, 39 injured and affected over 16,000 structures, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said. "The windstorm claimed 3 lives while 39 persons received injuries. The tornado damaged residential houses, non-residential structures, public service infrastructure including power distribution system, school buildings (numbering 16,790) in Jammu and Kashmir," Omar told Legislative Assembly. "The...
03:43 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Srinagar: A massive windstorm hit Jammu and Kashmir damaging several houses and other property in Srinagar. The state government announced a school holiday. The police in Srinagar have evacuated many tourists from the Dal Lake. A group of tourists in Pahalgam had a narrow escape when a tree fell on the hut they were staying in. Reports say the windstorm will recede on Tuesday. ...
11:44 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Moscow: A magnetic storm that is being felt on Earth due to a huge solar flare on the Sun has now intensified to G3 (strong), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said. The storm occurred on the Sun at 4.24 AM Wednesday. "The magnetic field orientation needed to cause strong geomagnetic storming finally occurred overnight, so although it got off to a slow start, levels have reached what...
12:48 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Washington: One of the strongest solar storms in years engulfed Earth early on Thursday, but scientists say the planet may have lucked out. Hours after the storm arrived, officials said were no reports of problems with power grids, GPS, satellites or other technologies that are often disrupted by solar storms. But that still can change as the storm shakes the planet's magnetic field in ways that could disrupt technology but...
10:28 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Washington: The largest solar flare in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights. The sun erupted on Tuesday evening, and the effects should start smacking Earth around 7 am EST on Thursday, according to forecasters at the federal government's Space Weather Prediction Center. They say the flare is growing as it speeds outward from...
01:26 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Kentucky: Rescue teams and residents combed through storm-wracked towns to assess damage on Saturday from a chain of tornadoes that cut a 1,000-mile swath of destruction from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, as the death toll crept up to at least 39 people. The fast-moving twisters spawned by massive thunderstorms splintered blocks of homes, damaged schools and a prison, and tossed around vehicles like toys, killing 20 people...
08:39 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Part detective, part academic, part chronicler, Stephen Tankel provides what is arguably one of the finest and most detailed accounts of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the terrorist group that represents the greatest threat to India. The hook for the book is the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks when 10 trained LeT fighters wreaked havoc in South Mumbai. That was the turning point for LeT when it announced to the world that it had...
11:39 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Washington: The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption. The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST (0400 GMT) Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado. The...
06:30 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Friday proved to be the coldest day of the year in many parts of North India. In Delhi, the maximum temperature plummeted to the season's lowest of 16.9 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature, however, was 12.4 degrees. The city also experienced rain and a hailstorm. The Met department has predicted more showers on Saturday. Jaipur, Lucknow and Patna were a couple of degrees warmer at 14 degrees. The...
07:57 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Chennai: Cyclone Thane dumped heavy rain and sent wind gusts up to 140 kmph after it hit the Tamil Nadu coast on Friday killing at least 33 persons and left a trail of destruction and threw life out of gear in Cuddalore district and adjacent Union Territory of Puducherry. The storm has now weakened and many people have been shifted to relief camps. The cyclonic storm however left the southern...
07:24 AM, Dec 31, 2011
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