Twelve of the 36 meteorological subdivisions recorded deficient rainfall, while the rest witnessed normal to excess rain. In total, 38 per cent of the 662 districts received below-normal rain.
It has been also revealed that V G Siddhartha had written a letter to the Board of Directors and employees of Coffee Day Enterprises, saying he had 'failed as an entrepreneur'.
Police had denied permission for the rally but the BJP insisted they would go ahead with the rally plan.
Samanth Subramanian author of Following Fish shares with us his experiences of travelling across the nine Indian coastal states and swallowing a live fish in Hyderabad.
Initial estimates suggest the state government will need to spend over Rs 8,000 crore in reconstruction.
Yaseen Bhatkal, a distant relative of Indian Mujhahideen founder Riyaz Bhatkal, has been named the mastermind of the Pune blast by Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad. A blast in German bakery, one of the city's most popular eateries, had left 17 people dead and many more injured on February 13. Yaseen hails from the coastal town of Bhatkal in Karnataka and has been involved in terror activities since 1998, say sources in the Intelligence Bureau.
Villages along Krishna River in western Maharashtra have been alerted following heavy rains in the region and coastal Konkan area during the last two days.
Mangalore, Karnataka's coastal town, was shut down once again following a seventh incident of stabbing.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd founder, B Ramalinga Raju, his brothers and their spouses have acquired 1,065 properties with a registered value of Rs 350 crore (Rs 3.50 billion). These include 109 properties in coastal Andhra, 11 in Karnataka, 40 in Nagpur, 29 in Chennai and 876 in Hyderabad and the surrounding Rangareddy district, according to sources tracking developments in the Central Bureau of Investigation probe of the Satyam case.
The group, comprising on 147 women and 20 men, were airlifted by an Air Asia chartered flight from Kochi to the Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar.
The government's decision to celebrate the day on November 10 last year had drawn much criticism from the BJP and the RSS, who termed this act of the Congress as "minority appeasement".
The country's best riders will be on view in the Gulf Dirt Track Championship, at the NSCI, on April 19 and 20.
The SIT has summoned the district president of fringe right-wing outfit Sri Ram Sene.
Traditional Indian sports have been played in villages since ages. Though most sports lovers in the country follow cricket, hockey, tennis and even English football on television, disciplines like kabaddi, archery and wrestling are fast catching up. But there are some sports people hardly know anything about. Take a look.
Communal violence continued to haunt Mangalore on Monday, with fresh incidents of violence being reported from the coastal city. The protest rally began on a peaceful note, but turned violent at the Holy Cross Church in Kulashekar, when a group of protestors began pelting stones at passers-by. In a bid to control the mob, the police resorted to lathi charge and also lobbed tear gas shells.
Several states of the country are battling grim flood situations that have affected lakhs of people and have also resulted in loss of life and property.
Incessant downpour battered several states, including Kerala, Maharashtra and Karnataka, on Friday, with landslips and floods throwing normal life out of gear.
Bajrang Dal Karnataka unit convener Mahendra Kumar was arrested in Mangalore on Friday night.He has been held under Sections 153 A and 120 B. The police have taken suo motu congnisance in this case. The Bajrang Dal has been allegedly responsible for the wave of violence that rocked Mangalore recently. Kumar has been in the news for speaking out against forcible conversions.
Aditi Phadnis and Archis Mohan take a state by state takedown of the party's chances in the poll-bound states.
When humanity's away, the animals will play. With much of the world driven indoors to quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, some species not often seen -- or, at least, rarely in such large numbers, and certainly not against such empty backdrops -- are exploring cities across the globe. We must sadly report that though there have been many circulating on social media, many of these optimistic posts have turned out to be fake -- there were no dolphins in Venice's celebrated canals, or drunken elephants ambling through China's Yunnan province. However, there are some other instances where animals have, in fact, come out to explore city streets.
The coastal town of Mangalore in Karnataka, which is known as the Garden City under Coconut Groves has been under fire since the past three days. Incidents of violence, places of worship being desecrated and not to mention the damage to public property -- Mangalore has seen it all and has been on national headlines.
'Storms push a lot of water into land, then there is heavy rainfall due to the cyclone.' 'Along with this, we see the gradual rising of the sea level.' 'We see this during and after the latest Cyclone Tauktae.' 'This kind of overlapping events are increasing and we do not know much about how to tackle them.'
Opposition parties in Lakshadweep and Kerala are up in arms against various measures initiated by the Administrator of the group of islands, terming them as 'anti-people' and have sought his recall.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf lists seven states where the Grand Old Party suffered a severe setback.
In the unlikely event of the BJP-NDA losing all five states going to the polls in February-March, the Presidential electoral college numbers could be significantly altered, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Around six lakh people have been housed in over 2000 relief camps in the two states.
Two other Indians, Dharmarajan and Mohd Abdul Rahim, both of Andhra Pradesh, were injured in the storm, Ahamed said.
The slow progress of the south-west monsoon has led to overall deficiency of rains by 22 per cent over the last fortnight, the meteorological department on Wednesday said.
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday said the government would soon take a decision on the action to be taken on the communal clashes that claimed two lives in the coastal belt of the state last week.
Sixteen deaths in rain and flood-related incidents have been reported from western Maharashtra in the last seven days, while the toll in Karnataka rose to five since Sunday.
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YSR Congress President Y S Jaganmohan Reddy said that he would undertake an indefinite fast in Hyderabad from on Saturday against the Centre's decision to divide Andhra Pradesh.
What kind of chowkidari is Narendra Modi doing, asks Rahul.
Thunderstorms and dust storms are 'very likely' on Tuesday too, the weather office warned.
The presence of top American companies like Microsoft, Cisco and McKinsey in Bengaluru seem to be motivating terror groups to repeatedly target the IT city as it gives them instant publicity globally and acts to thwart foreign investment there.
"Photographs (Nirav Modi Davos photo) mean nothing. Even you people are sitting with me and we being photographed and if somebody does anything will I be linked?" he told reporters.
The UNICEF said an estimated 2.4 million children have been affected by the recent floods in the country.
'What motivated us was that a lot of people, especially youngsters, had a negative image about India.'
A bandh to protest against the release of Cauvery waters to Tamil Nadu has brought Karnataka to a standstill on Friday
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