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Cyclone Laila Poses Risk To Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa »
By SUNIL Sonkar Hyderabad, May 18 — A deep depression has been intensified into tropical cyclone Laila over the southeast and nearby areas of the Bay of Bengal. In a special bulletin Tuesday the Met Office said...
Longest And Worst Fog Spell In Capital »
By SUNIL Sonkar New Delhi, Jan. 22 — The prolonged spell of thick fog in Delhi this season was the worst since 2003. It has put off travel plans, took calls on sending kids to school, rescheduled...
Dense Fog In North India Paralysed Road, Train, Air Traffic »
By SUNIL Sonkar NEW DELHI, India: Major part of North India is covered with dense fog from late Friday night and has hit the road, train and air traffic. At the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in...
Foggy And Icy Weather Embraced New Year In Capital »
By SUNIL Sonkar DELHI, India: The New Year started with a foggy and icy weather for Delhiites. Though the mercury rose marginally to 6.6 degree Celsius, but the city continued to reel under biting cold. In the...
Almost two dozens flight delayed due to heavy fog in Delhi »
By SUNIL Sonkar DELHI, India: Due to heavy fog in the capital on Wednesday, over 20 flights to and from the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) were delayed. An official of IGIA airport said to the media,...
Mercury dips 6.4°C in Capital, season’s lowest »
By SUNIL Sonkar DELHI, India: Delhi was swept by icy winds Tuesday early in the morning. The city experienced the lowest temperature of the season Tuesday morning with mercury plummeting to 6.4 degree Celsius. The chilly morning...
Met UK says this decade warmest recorded »
By SUNIL Sonkar The UK Meteorological (Met) Office says that the past ten years have been warmest in the recorded history. The figures of the weather that is released at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen shows...
Unusual temp of Nov; Srinagar -23.5 degrees Celsius, Delhi 8.6 »
By NIMY Sara Joy NEW DELHI/ KASHMIR, India: The weather change in Srinagar marked -23.5 degrees Celsius in Leh says the weather officer. The minimum temperature here dropped to -23.5 degrees whereas the maximum was 9.5 degrees...
India’s west coast under Cyclone threat »
By NIMY Sara Joy MUMBAI, India: The depression formed over the Arabian Sea has strengthened into a Cyclone Phyan, with heavy rains and storms forecast for west coast part of India including the financial capital Mumbai. The...
Heavy rain disrupts life in Chennai »
Heavy Rain disrupts life in Cheenai on Thursday. Traffic on the arterial Anna Salai in the city was thrown into chaos on Friday due to the pouring rain. Rain lashed the city from 3 p.m., inundating not...
Heavy rains in Hyderabad »
Heavy rain lashed Hyderabad on Friday evening. Traffic came to a grinding halt for several hours in many areas including Punjagutta, Khairatabad, Somajiguda, Lakdi-Ka-Pul, Ameerpet, Raj Bhavan, Dilsukhnagar, Saidabad, Paradise, Ranigunj & MG Road. There was water-logging...
Floods disrupted life in West Bengal »
The flood situation in Midnapore district of West bengal has been turned worse on Thursday with fresh areas inundated by Subarnarekha river, leaving nearly three lakh people marooned. Besides Narayangarh, Sabang & Pingla blocks, which were flooded...
Heavy rains lashed Orissa, 1 killed »
Heavy rains lashed several parts of Orissa on Tuesday which killed one & raising the specter of floods in many parts of the state. The heavy rains also threw train traffic out of gear & affected the...
Monsoon reached Punjab, Delhi, breaking 108-year-old record »
Breaking a record of 108 years the monsoon has reached Delhi & Punjab on Sunday. Heavy rains, accompanied by lightning in some areas, lashed the capital & Punjab in the wee hours on Sunday. The Met has...
Heavy rains lashed south China, 55 killed »
At least 55 people have been killed over the past 10 days in torrential rains & flooding across south China & more gales & storms were expected in the coming days. China’s National Meteorological Centre has said...
14 killed in landslides in Itanagar »
At least 14 people have been killed in landslides in different places in Itanagar on Saturday. Four members of a family were killed when a large chunk of earth fell on their hut on the slope of...
Punjab: Heavy rain lashes Patiala city, kills one »
The heavy rains lashed Patiala on Saturday. The local meteorological office has recorded a total of 92 mm rain in Patiala on Saturday morning. Heavy rains lashed Patiala yesterday also. The normal life was badly disrupted in...
18 killed as Heavy rains lashed Maharashtra »
18 people have been killed in different parts of Maharashtra as heavy rains lashed Maharashtra on Thursday. Four people were struck by lightning in Kolara & Bhorsabhorsi villages in Buldana district of eastern Maharashtra. In Aurangabad, three...
After “Nargis”, Dhaka warns of cyclone “ABC” »
A day after Cyclone Nargis hit Bangladesh & swerved to Myanmar killing 351 people, the meteorological office Monday warned that one more cyclonic storm was developing over the Bay of Bengal. A senior meteorological official said, “At...
Cyclone Nargis poised to strike Tamil Nadu today »
The weather bureau has predicted rain in Tamil Nadu following the development of cyclonic storm Nargis 700 km southeast of Chennai in the Bay of Bengal, leaving many worried. Nargis is threatening to whip up speed and...
