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The Mumbai footbridge collapse had left six people killed and more than 30 others injured. A preliminary report of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has blamed the structural audit for the collapse of foot overbridge near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station on Thursday. The incident had left six people killed and more Read More…
The biggest religious congregation has also been named in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest crowd management, sanitation drive and painting exercise on public sites. The 49-day Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj has ended with lakhs of people taking a holy dip in the Sangam, confluence of River Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Read More…
Private weather forecasting agency Skymet on Monday said the southwest monsoon this year had a 50 per cent chance of being “normal”. This early forecast was based on the data about weather patterns available till end-January, said Skymet Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jatin Singh, adding that it would be updated in April when more Read More…
The Indus system comprises the main Indus River, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej. The basin is mainly shared by India and Pakistan with a small share for China and Afghanistan. Under the Indus Waters Treaty signed between India and Pakistan in 1960, all the waters of three rivers, namely Ravi, Sutlej and Beas Read More…
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed an appeal filed by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board against the National Green Tribunal ‘s order of December 15, 2018, to re-open Sterlite copper plant at Thoothukudi. A bench of Justices R F Nariman and Navin Sinha said the plea by Vedanta was not maintainable before the Read More…
Scientists are scrambling to understand the sudden death of an estimated 20,000 guillemots off the Dutch coast, hundreds of which are washing up on the country’s shoreline. The bodies of the birds, which spend most of their lives at sea where they dive for their food, started emerging over the past month, from the Read More…
Low temperatures early Thursday morning were expected to reach minus 23 Fahrenheit (minus 31 Celsius) at Chicago Midway International Airport, with wind-chill values as low as minus 39, according to the National Weather Service. If you thought Wednesday was brutal in the US Midwest, the cold blast that sent demand for power and natural Read More…
More than Millions of people have taken to the waters at the confluence of India’s sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers as part of the Kumbh Mela festival – humanity’s largest gathering. Approximately 15m people could have bathed on Tuesday. They expect about 120m visitors over 49 days. Hindus believe bathing at the rivers Read More…
BJP ruled Meghalaya has reported another mining mishap in which two labourers died in a coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district. The superintendent of police, Sylvester Nongtnger said bodies of two labourers were found on Sunday, a day after an uncle of one of the victims had lodged an FIR at Khliehriat police Read More…
Rescuers prepare a water pump at the site of a coal mine that collapsed in Ksan, in the northeastern state of Meghalaya, India, December 29, 2018. REUTERS As the operation to rescue 15 trapped miners continue at the 370-foot-deep illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district, a survivor of the December 13 accident Read More…