As mercury hovers above 40, rain likely to bring relief

Light rains in sun-scorched north India are likely to bring some relief in next three days, while heatwave conditions intensified on Wednesday in most parts of the country, including eastern states......

Cyclone Asani weakens; Odisha, Bengal brace for downpour

Several parts of Odisha and West Bengal are bracing for heavy rain as severe cyclone Asani weakened to a cyclonic storm on Wednesday, barreling towards north coastal Andhra Pradesh, packing wind......

India received 645 heavy rains, 168 very heavy rains in Nov: IMD

The country saw 645 events of heavy rainfall and 168 events of very heavy rainfall in November, the highest in the month in five years, the India meteorological department said on Wednesday.......

Cyclone Gulab: IMD issues 'orange' alert for Andhra, Odisha

The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into Cyclone 'Gulab' on Saturday and an 'orange' alert has been issued for north Andhra Pradesh and adjoining south Odisha coasts, the India......

RSS Union: 'Govt is bringing Syria in labour reforms'

'With this amendment, permanent employees will cease to exist.''The government should give a human touch and human face to labour reforms.''Ideas like survival of the fittest, might is right, etc,......

ONGC and RIL's dream of making it big at KG basin has turned sour?

The upstream business is not always about increasing production or produce what was envisioned. There are always surprises. It is not a factory that you put a machine and it produces 20,000 units......

New port to boost Andhra Pradesh's economy

The Central government plans to invest Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) to develop Dugarajapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore District.Presenting the footprint for development, Viswapati......

RIL loses interest in city gas distribution

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries has decided to keep away from the business of city gas distribution.Reliance Gas, which had successfully bid for three cities -- Rajahmundry in Andhra......