The deluge, which had affected 2.5 lakh people in 11 districts on Wednesday, spread to six more districts on Thursday affecting 4.23 lakh people, it said.
Under its impact, rains will start on Sunday night and gradually increase on Monday in the northern districts of Chennai, Tiruvallur and Kancheepuram, S Balachandran, Director, Area Cyclone Warning Centre, said.
The Northwest Airlines flight, targeted by a terror suspect on Christmas, came under scanner once again as the crew asked for emergency assistance for a disruptive passenger who was arrested after the plane landed in Detroit, but the FBI termed it as a "non-serious incident".
"Bangladesh is at risk of more sabotage," on the pattern of last weeks bloody mutiny by the nations's paramilitary force, which left 73 people dead, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned. "The conspirators are not finished yet," she said while cautioning that her administration will have to remain alert.
The World Health Organisation on Thursday declared the swine flu outbreak was a pandemic, the first in more than 40 years.
The World Health Organisation on Thursday declared the swine flu outbreak was a pandemic, the first in more than 40 years.The long-awaited announcement to its member countries was scientific confirmation that a new flu virus has emerged and is quickly circling the globe.Last month, several countries urged WHO not to declare a pandemic, its highest alert level and essentially raising the outbreak's status to a worldwide epidemic, fearing it would spark mass panic.
The GoM was told that six states -- Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal -- account for 86 per cent of the deaths caused by COVID-19 and 32 districts account for 80 per cent of such fatalities, the Union health ministry said.
The real battle for NEET abolition can take much more time and energy, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
According to SOP, those testing positive will be isolated in a separate unit of an institutional facility.
Other strong men have stopped Modi and his hordes in states before, but none of them with a footprint or battle cry to shake up New Delhi, observes Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Ratcheting up pressure on the Pakistan government, thousands of lawyers demanding reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf during last year's emergency, led a protest to a heavily fortified Islamabad on Friday where authorities sounded a high alert amid fears of violence.The protesters, who have accused the new government of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of wavering on its election promise of restoring the judiciary, have threatened to continue.
All the five have been isolated in Pathnamathitta general hospital and are under observation. Their tests were confirmed on Saturday night.
Rehan Khan, a native of Bihar's Champaran district, was in an inebriated state when he entered the enclosure.
Heavily armed police and soldiers patrolled key intersections in Belgium's capital on Saturday as the government warned of a threat of Paris-style attacks.
'From what I saw on the road that day it was evident that people want to help.' 'But they also need to have the confidence that their well-intentioned actions will not boomerang on them,' says Veenu Sandhu.
Suresh Prabhu announced ambitious plans.
The Naxals are trying to set up organisational bases in the Northeast to forge ties with other insurgent groups to meet their military needs and the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border has emerged as another theatre of Maoist activities, the government said on Wednesday.
China also said it will continue to share the flood data with India.
Sixty-eight homes have been destroyed. Sri Lankan capital Colombo was the worst hit with many roads submerged.
Army chief General M M Naravane on Tuesday hoped for an amicable resolution of the military standoff with China in Ladakh through talks based on 'mutual and equal security' even as he said India will have to be prepared to deal with a 'two-front' threat scenario due to the potent and collusive threat from China and Pakistan.
Reduction in fuel price was supposed to bring back good luck for Indian airlines. But with the global spread of coronavirus, airlines are being forced to rejig their network, cut flights, and delay launches.
The 29-year-old, who has studied electrical engineering in Sudan, lived in Birmingham's Sparkhill district. He describes himself as a shop manager.
Dentist Puneet Mehra, 35, said that the Indian Embassy in Beijing informed him on Monday that the transportation of his mother's body has got delayed in view of the restrictions on movement of people and vehicles in China after the outbreak of coronavirus epidemic in the neighbouring country.
The government has asked the general public to call toll free numbers 1070 and 1077 during emergency situations .
A note about hijackers and a bomb found in the toilet of a Mumbai-Delhi Jet Airways flight.
While the process of extracting plasma itself is simple, doctors say that it is the screening of donors, testing and filling up of numerous forms that takes time.
While Ayodhya resembled a city under seige earlier during the day, the scene was no different elsewhere in the state with police and central forces keeping an eye over the security situation and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath personally monitoring it from a hi-tech control room in the state capital.
The Army on Monday said that the Lashkar-e-Islam group which was behind the attacks on mobile towers in the Valley appears to be a "fringe" element, adding that such threats were investigated seriously.
A British fighter jet was on Tuesday scrambled to escort a Qatar Airways plane carrying 282 people to Manchester airport after reports of a possible device on the aircraft emerged, as police arrested a passenger on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat.
'Indiana Jones' star Harrison Ford underwent surgery to repair a broken ankle and pelvis following his death-defying plane crash in California.
Nail-biting landings and harrowing takeoffs -- buckle up when you fly into these airports.
All passengers are safe and they de-boarded the plane after being in the aircraft for about an hour.
The UNESCAP has warned Asia-Pacific region's governments to protect and prepare against sudden or unexpected market downturns rather than remaining complacent in the current atmosphere of prosperity.
The India Meteorological Department said rainfall would be accompanied by gale wind speed reaching 140 to 150 kmph and gusting to 165 kmph along and off Odisha and north Andhra Pradesh coasts.
154 people on board an IndiGo aircraft had a narrow escape on Wednesday following a problem in its landing gear that caused thick smoke to emanate after touching down at the airport in New Delhi, leaving some passengers with minor injuries during evacuation.
A lone attacker, believed to be a Libyan refugee, went on a stabbing spree in a busy park in the southern English city of Reading, killing three people and injuring three others, the deadliest terrorist incident to strike Britain since 2017 London Bridge attack.
French prosecutors say they are treating the hostage-taking as terror incident.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the youth to sweat it out on the play fields instead of spending time in playing computer games, saying 'playing field is more important than play station'.
A flood alert was sounded on Thursday in Srinagar city as River Jhelum was flowing four feet above the danger mark after incessant rain, while 23 villages have been inundated by floods in south Kashmir districts of Anantnag and Kulgam.
Traffic will be restricted on the Zuari bridge, a vital link between north and south Goa, as it has developed a crack, Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane said on Tuesday.\n
