'It could rain about 200 mm in short span of time.'
While Maharashtra and Gujarat continue to top the nationwide tally, Tamil Nadu has now crossed the 5,000 mark. The death toll of the southern state has reached 37, with two more women succumbing to COVID-19 during the day.
The government has identified eight corridors to raise speed of existing trains.
Medical experts feel an aggressive containment strategy in red zones and insulation of green zones is a must while giving relaxations.
With its fleet of black-hulled houseboats, the backwaters of Kerala entice the tourists, both domestic and international, to God's Own Country.
Nuclear establishments in the country have been put on high alert after intelligence inputs warned of a possible terror threat.
The cola wars will no longer be restricted to Coke and Pepsi, with their Latin American competitor Ajegroup setting up shop in India.
Amidst the hype over a nuclear renaissance in India, state-run Nuclear Power Corporationhas threatened to close down two units of the Tarapur Atomic Power Station on the grounds of safety and security.
Social stigma and low testing are the key reasons for the high mortality rate among COVID-19 patients in West Bengal, where the disease, like elsewhere in the country, is still an urban phenomenon, experts say. The state's Trinamool Congress government has been drawing consistent criticism from the Centre and opposition parties over the way it has tackled the pandemic, and has been accused of under-reporting data about the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Cyclone Nisarga slammed Maharashtra coast with wind speeds of up to 120 kmph, making landfall at 12.30 pm at Alibaug near Mumbai. The process was completed by 2.30 pm, a senior India Meteorological Department official said. Alibaug witnessed wind speeds of up to 120 kilometres per hour. It weakened into a 'deep depression' late on Wednesday evening, the IMD said.
Nearly 750,000 tonnes of imported sugar are stuck at the Kandla and Mundra ports even as prices skyrocket in the domestic market. That's because the sugar importing mills in Uttar Pradesh have still not been able to arrive at an agreement on processing imported raw sugar by millers in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Faced with criticism, he said his words were perhaps not enough to convey what he wanted to say.
In Delhi, onions are being sold at Rs 50-60 per kg, but there were reports that in some posh colonies, vendors are even charging Rs 65-70/kg.
'The navy and coast guard have not even come one nautical mile near the islands in distress.'
The migrants were ferried to their villages in sanitised buses arranged by the Jharkhand government to take them home after preliminary medical screening at the station, officials said.
The company, which unveiled on Wednesday its Ebay India census guide, said the country has over 2,471 e-commerce hubs and states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Gujarat are most active when it comes to online trading.
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorist, who was arrested from the New Delhi railway station on Tuesday, was remanded in police custody for 14 days by a Delhi court on Wednesday.
The gold coins will be sold in over 100 post offices in Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Gujarat in the pilot phase, Minister for Communications and Information Technology A Raja said after launching the service. India Post launched the new service on Wednesday in association with the World Gold Council and the Anil Ambani Group's financial services firm Reliance Money.
The move is aimed at securing coal supply to its proposed 1,500 mega watt plant in the western coast. The company is looking for locations in Maharashtra and Gujarat for the plant. The infrastructure firm has paid half of the acquisition amount upfront and the balance will be paid after commercial production begins two years from now. Coal from the mine would be shipped to the new plant during the time of power generation.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu is targeting the commissioning of the project by 2023-24
Five more persons succumbed to H1N1 across the country taking the toll to 111 while 166 others tested positive for the viral disease on Thursday.
Aslam alias Saleem was picked up by the Delhi Police with detonators and five kilograms of RDX. During interrogation it was revealed that he was in India to activate sleeper cells and to undertake recruitments in the country.
The use of coastal route by terrorists to sneak into Mumbai has once again brought to the fore the need for beefing up security along the country's 7,516 km coastline.
Diabetic patients got a respite in Maharashtra and Gujarat when Pranav Agro industries launched its Smart Balance rice, low glycemic index health rice, on Tuesday.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India respects the Supreme Court's verdict on sweeping reforms in the cricket body and it will work towards implementing the recommendations made by the Lodha panel, senior BCCI functionary and IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said on Monday.
100 model career centres all across the country to help job seekers connect with potential employers and skill providers.
Though the rehabilitation of more than 25,000 families in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat is said to be far from complete, the authorities are reportedly pushing strongly to install the gates.
According to the data available from National Securities Depository (NSDL), the leading depository, nearly 62.8 per cent of the demat accounts are in the five states Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Maharashtra leads the number of demat accounts with 22 per cent share, followed by Gujarat with 18 per cent share. These are the only two states having more than a million accounts in NSDL.
Expressing condolences to the families of those killed, he commended Indian government on its rapid "search and rescue" operations and establishment of relief camps.
'The handling of the pandemic, under this totally constitutional and legal three-level dictatorship, has begun to show its downside,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
The resulting power produced will meet the demand of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
58-year-old Lanba, a specialist in Navigation and Direction, will have the full three-year tenure as the Navy Chief. He will succeed Admiral R K Dhowan who is retiring.
Gandhi said that he had already told the chief ministers of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh that these states should take the lead in ushering in the second Green Revolution.
Over 50 pharmaceutical companies have scaled down operations in Maharashtra and Gujarat and are moving out to states like Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh following steep hike in excise duty in the Union Budget.
The Mumbai Cricket Association headed by Sharad Pawar, is set to oppose most of the recommendations of the Justice Lodha committee submitted in its report to the Supreme Court last week. "We are opposed to most of the recommendations and are one hundred per cent behind Mr Pawar," said MCA's joint secretary P V Shetty, when asked about the managing committee meeting convened on January 13 to discuss the implications of the Lodha panel recommendations. "We will discuss everything and then put forth our views to the BCCI," said Shetty.
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