At least four people, including a policeman and a teenager, were killed and several others wounded in separate incidents in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, police said Saturday. According to officials, the policeman was killed [Read More]
The death toll in India’s northern state Uttar Pradesh and its adjoining state Bihar due to the prevailing extreme heatwave conditions rose to 98 over the past three days, local officials said Sunday. While 54 [Read More]
Indian authorities Tuesday said at least 8,000 people have been evacuated from the Gujarat coast and shifted to safer locations in anticipation of cyclonic storm Biparjoy. The evacuations have been undertaken from areas within 10 [Read More]
A passenger aircraft belonging to a private airline company in India has been grounded after it suffered a tail strike at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Sunday, announced the Directorate General of [Read More]
Normal rail traffic has resumed both ways at the site where the triple-train crash had occurred on Friday in India’s eastern state of Odisha, claiming 275 human lives, announced the federal Ministry of Railways on [Read More]
More than 200 people were killed and 900 others injured in a major accident Friday evening involving three trains in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, officials said on Saturday. At least 207 people died [Read More]
India’s fishing boats are being equipped with two-way communication transponders free of charge with the aim of improving overall maritime security. The transponders made by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will help track the [Read More]
At least six flights were diverted from India’s Delhi to other airports as heavy rains lashed the capital along with thunderstorms on Saturday morning, local weather agency said. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said similar [Read More]
India’s top court granted a six-week interim bail on Friday to Delhi’s former health minister Satyendar Jain on medical grounds, officials said. Jain was admitted to an intensive care unit of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash [Read More]
Students of a school in New Delhi were evacuated on Tuesday after the school administration received an email about a bomb threat, police said. The evacuation took place at Amrita School in New Delhi’s Pushp [Read More]
© Famagusta Gazette - A Mediterranean Perspective