After five days and six nights of darkness, power returned to Manash Mukherjee's flood-battered house on Monday, giving some respite, but he feels it will take a long time for Chennai to recover from the nightmare of the century's highest rainfall and floods....
The torrential rains and floods not only swamped Chennai and its suburbs but also turned upside down the lives of millions who have suffered huge financial loss and costs, residents said....
A powerful earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale shook Tajikistan on Monday, the USGS said. The epicentre of the quake was 109 km west of Murghob, Tajikistan. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) put the intensity of the quake at 7.0 on the Richter scale. The quake also shook Afghanistan and parts on northern India, including capital ...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will on Tuesday travel to Pakistan where she will meet Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, just days after the National Security Advisers (NSAs) of the two countries met in Thailand. "EAM Sushma Swaraj to lead Indian delegation for Heart of Asia 5th Ministerial Meeting on Afghanistan on December 9 in I...
Seven troopers were injured on Monday when their convoy was fired at by guerrillas in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said. A police official told IANS here, "A CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) convoy going from Srinagar to Jammu was fired at by militants at Semthan near Bijbehara town in Anantnag district today (Monday). "Seven ...
US President Barack Obama called the shooting rampage in the Californian city of San Bernardino "an act of terrorism" and warned that the terror threat has evolved into a new phase. "This was an act of terrorism, designed to kill innocent people," Xinhua quoted Obama as saying on Sunday in his third Oval Office address during his seven-year presiden...
Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader A.B. Bardhan was in critical condition after suffering a paralytic stroke here on Monday, hospital authorities said. The 93-year-old leader was found unconscious around 8 a.m. at the CPI headquarters Ajoy Bhavan where he lived. He was rushed to the G.B. Pant Hospital by CPI colleagues. "Bardhanji has suffered a paralyti...
Life in flood-hit Chennai was slowly limping back to normalcy on Monday, with shops opening up and a massive clean up initiated in areas where the water levels have receded....
Partial air and train services resumed here on Sunday after days of disruption but intermittent rains added to the misery of a city reeling under the impact of unprecedented rains and floods....
An attempt by some youths to take out a rally here to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition was foiled here on Sunday, police said....
