Rain toll rises to 131, over 73,000 pilgrims stranded

New Delhi, June 19 : A World Bank commissioned report '4 degree Turn Down the Heat' highlights the fact that global warming can have a catastrophic effect on monsoon patterns in South Asia. The report comes at a time when torrential floods are engulfing ...

Image via Shutterstock With the launch of Flood IT project second edition by Gujarat Urban Bank Co-operative Banks Federation (GUBCBF) leading personal computer (PC) and laptop manufacturers have rushed to join the project in a hope to capture ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently issued a set of clarifications on the numerous queries that had flooded its mailbox, 443 to be precise, following its announcement of the guidelines on issuing fresh banking licences in February this year. It has been ...

The report released here today evaluates at the likely impacts of warming between two degree Celsius and four degree Celsius on agricultural production, water resources, coastal ecosystems and cities across South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and South ...

Puducherry, Jun 5 : Teams such as Southern Railway and Indian Bank, Chennai, in the men's section and Southern Railway and Dr Sivanthi Club, Chennai, in the women's event will vie for honours in the 33rd All India (South Zone) Volleyball tournament ...

New Delhi: Five jawans lost their lives during relief operations in rain-hit areas on Tuesday. More than a dozen helicopters have been deployed in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh for relief and rescue operations in the monsoon-ravaged two hill ...

Air force helicopters and rescue teams searched for survivors in northern India after days of monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides, killing at least 138 people and leaving hundreds missing. Parts of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, ...

WASHINGTON: Global warming could lead to more extreme droughts in large parts of India, resulting in widespread food shortages and hardship in the country, in the next few decades, a new World Bank report warned today. The impact of a possible ...

New Delhi, June 19 (IBNS): Even as the rescue operations continued in full swing in the North India states, including Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, where the death toll from monsoon fury touched 130, devastation engulfs most of the areas hit by ...