Follow Us on Google News Patna, July 28 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s scheduled visit to Sameli block in Katihar District was cancelled on Monday due to adverse weather conditions in Patna. The Chief Minister was expected to unveil a statue of renowned litterateur Anuppal Mandal and address a public gathering, apart from laying … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Chennai, July 24 (IANS) With overcast skies and cooler weather prevailing across Tamil Nadu in recent days, the state’s electricity demand has seen a significant decline. On Tuesday, the peak power demand fell to 17,001 megawatts (MW), down sharply from 18,853 MW recorded on the same day last week. Daily … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) The Meteorological office in Kolkata on Tuesday predicted heavy rain in several pockets of West Bengal between July 23 and 27 as a low-pressure area is likely to form over the north Bay of Bengal. The possibility of a low-pressure system and the favourable position of … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kochi, July 7 (IANS) Heavy rain on Monday forced the helicopter carrying Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, which was on its way to the Guruvayoor temple in Kerala’s Thrissur district, to return to Kochi, said officials here. He, along with his wife, boarded the chopper from Kochi and was supposed to … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Hyderabad, July 2 (IANS) Five flights arriving here from various destinations were diverted to other cities due to bad weather during the night, said officials here, adding that the operations were back to normal now. As the weather at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport was not good for landings, the flights … Read more
Follow Us on Google News New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Automated Weather Stations and Doppler radars are boosting real-time weather predictions in India, said Union Earth Sciences Minister Dr Jitendra Singh. Speaking to the media, Singh affirmed that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Mission Mausam, India’s weather forecasting system is being “substantially augmented to be … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Guwahati, June 24 (IANS) State owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), in collaboration with international well control experts, continues to make measured and strategic progress in the well control operations at its crude oil well in Assam’s Sivasagar district, despite persistent rainfall and challenging site conditions, officials said. … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Raipur, June 23 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s scheduled visit to Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh on Monday was cancelled due to heavy rain forecasts in the region, official sources said. Instead, the Union Minister remained in Raipur, where he will chair high-level meetings with security commanders to review the anti-Maoist … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) With weather conditions improving during the last couple of hours, the percentage of polling for the bypolls to the Kaliganj Assembly constituency in the Nadia district of West Bengal shot up substantially to 30.64 till 11 a.m. on Thursday. “Because of the continuous rainfall in the … Read more
