Outlining the contours of its ambitious plan to curb pollution through odd-even number plate formula, Delhi government on Sunday said odd-numbered cars will be allowed to ply on Monday, Wednesday and Friday while even-numbered vehicles will run on the other days -- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Twenty-five tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the fire.
Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta's Sterlite Copper has come out with a fresh notification inviting expressions of interest (EoIs) to supply raw materials like copper concentrate, imported thermal coal, rock phosphate and petroleum products, among others, as part of its preparatory measures to restart production at its Thoothukudi unit in Tamil Nadu. This plant is likely to restart operations if a Supreme Court verdict goes in favour of the company. On June 12, the company had invited EoIs for carrying out plant 'restart activities'.
No ONGC employee was on the drillship when the accident occurred.
A major fire broke out last night at the Deonar dumping yard, which had recently battled a massive blaze that led to smog in the area.
On Sunday, in an operation called Bambi Bucket, the Indian Air Force flew a total of 64 shuttles, pouring over 1,95,500 litres of water to douse the raging forest fires, a defence spokesperson said.
Hundreds of Civil Service aspirants clashed with police on Thursday night, burning vehicles, including a police jeep, and pelting stones near main highway by-pass road in North Delhi's Burari area, the police said.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday appeared all set to make his second political volte face in less than three years, with a highly-placed source close to Kumar saying that the Janata Dal-United president is likely to tender his resignation by Sunday morning.
The fire broke out shortly after midnight on the third floor of the four-storeyed building on Senapati Bapat Marg, a commercial hub of the city, a civic official said.
Five others were critically injured.
A bomb disposal squad and fire tenders were rushed to the complex where a meeting to review security in Parliament was on, police said.
Fires are blazing across Jammu and Kashmir, the state of Uttarakhand and have reached the doorstep of Himachal Pradesh's capital city Shimla.
The flight with about 70 passengers on board left Chennai around 7.30 am and when it was about to land around 8:25 am, smoke was noticed from one of its engines.
Delhiites woke up to the sound of thunder and lightning this morning and, according to the weather department, the city recorded 117.9 mm rainfall from 5:30 AM to 2.30 PM.
The entire base must be spic and span with flags fluttering along the roads. Everything that moves will be washed and bedecked with the best while everything that is static will be painted afresh, observes Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd).
An Indian Airlines flight that took off from Hyderabad had to make an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi National Airport at New Delhi due to technical problems.
Flight operations were affected after a minor fire broke out in the air traffic control room at Chennai airport in the wee hours on Tuesday.
'The flow of water in the nullah was intense. My house vanished as if it never existed'
A fire broke out at a Central Reserve Police Force installation in New Delhi in the wee hours of Saturday, killing a head constable and damaging numerous official records and goods.
Two to three terrorists are suspected to be holed up in the building, as intermittent gunshots can be heard from inside the building.
A massive fire broke out on stage at an event for the Make in India week that's being held in Mumbai.
Sada, who was away in his constituency in Saharsa district, was asked to come to Patna by Kumar soon after Suman announced his resignation.
Security agencies went into a tizzy after the police control room received a call about a bomb at the Parliament premises this evening but it turned to be hoax.
A couple and their two children were injured in a small LPG cylinder blast in their house in Sarai Kale Khan area of South Delhi on Friday, the police said.
Police said around 15 people were rescued and shifted to Acharya Bhikshu hospital. Of them, seven died and four people, who were critical, have been shifted to Safdarjung hospital. A few more persons are feared trapped under the debris, they said.
Close on the heels of the sinking of submarine INS Sindhurakshak in which all the 18 personnel died, a fire incident took place on country's only aircraft carrier INS Virat off the coast of Mumbai.
Over 2.26 lakh people have been rescued in Jammu and Kashmir so far as the rescue and relief operations in the flood-ravaged state entered 14th day on Monday.
Fresh smoke was witnessed on Monday at the Deonar dumping ground, where the fire which has been raging for three days now intensified last evening even as people living in the vicinity complained of discomfort due to the fumes emanating from the site.
Normal life across Kashmir was affected on Monday because of the strike called by separatist groups to protest against the killing of two youths in alleged army firing in Valley's Bandipora district.
Five persons were killed and nearly 200 others fell ill after inhaling ammonia gas which leaked from a gas tanker after it accidentally brushed against a flyover near Ludhiana, triggering panic in the area.
From moments that felt long time in the coming to swashbuckling statements that could be interpreted in more ways than one, there are some that fanned our nostalgia, some made our jaws drop (or stomachs churn), some hit too close home, still others left us with a lingering sense of guilt. Sukanya Verma picks cinematic imagery that stood out in 2023.
When Vineet Mittal first got into solar power, sometime around 2009, and was planting solar panels in Gujarat, renewable energy looked like a sector ripe for startups. Renewables were clearly the future of energy, and the big boys - Mukesh Ambani's Reliance, Adani Group, and the Tatas - were focusing much more on coal and petroleum. Little did Mittal know that things were going to change drastically.
The Yatri Niwas Bhagwati Nagar in Jammu serves as the main base camp for the pilgrims from across the country.
The pilot of the aircraft is safe; a Court of Inquiry will ascertain the cause of the crash.
Six persons were killed and 34 others, including four children, seriously injured when a cooking gas cylinder exploded in East Delhi's Gandhi Nagar area on Monday night.
The miscreants behind these hoax threats, which even prompted evacuations in hospitals and shopping malls, are yet to be identified. FIRs have been lodged in connection with some of the incidents, according to officials.
The ruling Aam Admi Party in Delhi rejected the allegation of any wrongdoing and accused the BJP of "using all its power to finish AAP".
Lawyers alleged that two of their colleagues were injured, including one in police firing, but the police denied that it had opened fire.
'Both the DMK and ADMK are equally to blame.' 'When the question is violence against Dalits, they don't take measures to protect Dalits.'
