JK: Army provides medical aid to over 53,000 flood victims

The India Army has treated 53,082 flood victims in Jammu and Kashmir, where 80 medical teams of the Armed Forces Medical Services are already operating in full swing. So far 2.26 lakh people......

Chennai train crash: 9 killed, 72 hurt; rail traffic hit

Nine persons were killed and 72 others injured when a speeding passenger train rammed into a stationary train here, leading to derailment of five coaches. The Chennai Beach-Vellore Cantonment......

Chennai train crash: 'First we thought it was a bomb blast'

This sleepy village in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district woke up to the sound of a big bang caused by collision of two trains here with locals initially mistaking it to a 'bomb blast'. "We all first......

Cyclone threatens Andhra Pradesh; eight dead

With the cyclonic storm "Laila", formed in the Bay of Bengal further intensifying into a severe cyclonic storm and the outer periphery of the system reaching very close to Andhra coast, authorities......

Strike hits MRF plants in TN, Puducherry

Production at Arakkonam, which produces motor tyres and tubes, and at the radial tyre-manufacturing unit of MRF at Puducherry has been hit following a sit-in strike by over 3,000 workers in both......

Grasim cements its position as numero uno

Kumar Mangalam Birla, having successfully acquired Larsen & Toubro's 16.5 million tonne per annum cement capacity, has clearly emerged as the largest cement producer in the country with around 31......