It was a cloudy Monday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 13 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will be generally cloudy and thundershowers with light rains is likely to occur in some areas,” an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official told IANS. […]
The Chandigarh International Airport was closed for all air traffic on Monday for authorities to carry out runway expansion and repairs. Flight operations will remain suspended from February 12 to 26, an airport official said on Monday. The 15-day closure of the airport will roughly affect over 80,000 passengers, an official said. Flight operations will […]
US President Donald Trump has declined to give a timeline for releasing Washington’s plan for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, saying that neither party was committed to the process, the media reported. “We are going to see what goes on,” Trump told the Israel Hayom daily in an interview released on Sunday. “Right […]
Himachal Pradesh’s capital Shimla and its nearby tourist destinations on Monday were wrapped in snow, giving them a picturesque look. Towns in upper Shimla district were cut off with snow piled on roads, a Met official said. This was the season’s second significant snowfall that froze the “Queen of Hills”, as Shimla was fondly called […]
The US Navy has launched a probe against American sailors based in Japan for the alleged use and distribution of drugs, a spokesman for the US Seventh Fleet has confimed. “The Navy has zero tolerance for drug abuse and takes all allegations involving misconduct of our sailors, Navy civilians and family members very seriously,” Commander […]
Australian researchers said on Monday that they have developed the first virtual platform of its kind for storing 3D copies of human cancer tissues, providing what they say is a novel way for accessing information to help treat the disease. “The Virtual Biobank will digitise and help speed up the process of accessing vital tissue […]
Moderate to heavy snowfall started in the valley as rain lashed the plains on Monday breaking the nearly two-month long dry spell in Jammu and Kashmir. The snow and rain is likely to continue till Tuesday, the weather office said. Heavy snowfall in Banihal sector of Jammu-Srinagar Highway closed the road for traffic as authorities […]
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, his younger brother Robert and their firm, the Weinstein Company, after a four-month investigation into inappropriate sexual conduct. The lawsuit, filed electronically in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Sunday, appeared timed to delay a fire sale of […]
A key Pakistan Taliban commander has been killed in a US drone strike close to the Afghan border in Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency, a media report said on Friday. The deputy chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Khan Saeed Mehsud alias Khalid Sajna, was killed in the Thursday night drone strike along with three others, […]
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and the states to ensure that all positions in Commissions for protection of child rights, Juvenile Justice Boards and Child Welfare Committees are filled up expeditiously and in accordance with the rules. Issuing a slew of directions for effective implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act, the bench […]