Incessant heavy rain lashed Mumbai, prompting the meteorological department to upgrade the 'orange' alert to 'red' with effect from Wednesday night till Thursday afternoon, officials said.
The former hockey Olympian died at his residence in Varanasi after a prolonged battle with cancer.
The headquarters of the South Eastern Railway, Calcutta Improvement Trust and Calcutta Telephones in the metropolis have been identified by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation as among the 500 defaulting property tax payers over the past 4 to 5 years.
The ministry has also decided to offer station for redevelopment by inviting open bids from companies.
His statement came in the backdrop of media reports of construction of a ropeway at Torsa Nala near Doklam by the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
The heptathlete scored a whopping 6162 points on the concluding day of the Inter-state Athletics Championships and made the grade.
Armed Maoists on Sunday hijacked a passenger train on the West Bengal-Jharkhand border and threatened to blow it up, but later abandoned it and made off with two rifles and a walkie-talkie.
The railways could not start various projects in West Bengal announced by former Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee as she had not arranged funds for them, Minister of State for Railways Adhir Chowdhury said.
Following the cancellation of regular train services to flood-hit Mumbai, the South Eastern Railway has decided to run five additional special express trains from Howrah to Manmad daily from Tuesday till August six.
Mohun Bagan beat Eastern Railway 2-1 for their first victory in two matches in the Kolkata Senior League.
Surkumar Singh scored a brace of goals in a 4-1 win over East Bengal in the Kolkata Super Division football league.
The fire occurred in the Bilaspur-Tata-Danapur link express near Kansbahl station on the Jharsuguda-Rourkela section.
A historic railway service flounders for an inflexible privatisation policy.
The local train traffic on the Central and Western Railway routes was mostly normal though the trains were running a few minutes late, railway officials said.
The 24-year-old Eastern Railway employee won the 200m in the fourth National circuit athletic meet.
Vivek Singh says a medal win by the Indian team at the Olympics would inspire him in his fight against the disease.
'There is tension between the zones all the time.'
The former beat Andhra XI while Signals got the better of Karnataka XI in the Beighton Cup hockey tournament.
From Eastern Ladakh to Sikkim, new drone units that can carry out missions for up to 48 hours are begin deployed.
Both teams easily won their quarter-final league matches in the 109th Beighton Cup hockey tournament.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has released its manifesto for the upcoming Nagaland assembly elections, promising a special package for the eastern part of the state and establishment of a board for the holistic development of the region if the party returns to power for the second time in a row.
The commander said the situation in the region has been stable and no major "changes or palpable shift of stance has been noted" even as the Indian and Chinese troops are engaged in a stand-off in Demchok and Depsang in eastern Ladakh.
The lack of proper coordination and disaster management plan on the part of railways resulted in the stampede at Allahabad station during last year's Maha Kumbh Mela in which 37 persons were killed, the Comptroller and Auditor General has said.
Goyal lashed out at zonal general managers and said that they cannot hide behind the pretext of maintenance work to explain delays in train services, a senior railway ministry source said.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall in Mumbai and suburbs with very heavy to extremely heavy rains very likely at isolated places.
Nineteen people have been killed in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours, the state relief commissioner's office said Monday evening.
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A 22-year-old person was killed and another one injured on Thursday after a tree fell on their hut in Mumbai as moderate to heavy rains lashed the city and its suburbs in the last 24 hours, officials said.
Heavy rains continued to pound Chennai and nearby districts on Monday under the impact of a cyclonic storm, which is likely to cross the coast in Andhra Pradesh on December 5.
Of the 900 prisoners, 500 are being shifted to Azamgarh Jail and remaining to Ambedkarnagar.
The Eastern Railway has cancelled the departure of Howrah-New Delhi AC Special Express for Wednesday.
Incessant showers lashed Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Wednesday morning, leading to flooding in many low-lying areas and traffic snarls on roads, officials said.
Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma, in the eye of a storm over her remarks against Prophet Muhammad, Monday sought time to appear before the Maharashtra police to record her statement, while more than 300 people have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh in a crackdown on protesters who indulged in violence after the Friday prayers on June 10.
Thirty-eight people had died in their sleep when four coaches of the Amritsar-bound train caught fire, about 10km from Ludhiana.
Surface links to Assam's Barak Valley and Dima Hasao district and to neighbouring states of Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur remained snapped on Tuesday as incessant rains triggered landslides and washed off roads as well as railway tracks in multiple locations of Assam and Meghalaya.
The Delhi Police arrested six people in this connection
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