Extremely Severe Cyclone Tauktae at 210kmph to touch Guj by evening

Gandhinagar (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned that Cyclone Tauktae will take an extreme shape in the east central Arabian Sea by Monday night, with wind speed reaching 180-190 kmph gusting to 210 kmph likely to prevail during…

Cyclone Tauktae storms over Mumbai, razes trees, damages homes

Mumbai (IANS) Cyclone Tauktae hit Mumbai with full fury bringing heavy rains, strong gales of over 60-75 km/hr, which wreaked havoc by uprooting scores of trees, damaged some homes, and disrupted road traffic, though there are no human casualties,…

India's WPI inflation rises to 10.49% in April

New Delhi (IANS) India's annual rate of inflation based on wholesale prices sequentially rose to 10.49 per cent in April from a rise of 7.39 per cent in March.

Significantly, this is the highest rate of WPI inflation in the last 6-months.…

Cyclone Tauktae forces Mumbai Airport to shut, 3 flights diverted

Mumbai (IANS) Owing to the threats created by the raging Cyclone Tauktae, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai has shut all operations for 3 hours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday.

This resulted in at least 3 in-bound…

Missing Kerala fishing boat located off Mangaluru, all crew safe

Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) A fishing boat, with 15 aboard, which had sailed from Beypore in Kerala's Kozhikode from May 5 and was declared missing as there was no contact with it for the past couple of days, has been located off the Mangaluru coast,…

Cyclone Tauktae: Heavy rains claim 4 lives in Karnataka

Bengaluru (IANS) Four persons died in isolated incidents across coastal and central Karnataka due to heavy rains and gusty winds triggered by Cyclone Tauktae during the last 24 hours, a weather official said on Sunday.

"The isolated incidents…

Cyclone Tauktae: Two killed as ferocious winds, heavy rain hit Goa

Panaji (IANS) Stormy winds and heavy rains caused by Cyclone Tauktae claimed two lives and uprooted more than 1,000 trees in Goa, disrupting normal life and road traffic and causing power outage in most parts of the coastal state on Sunday.

"Two…

Tauktae: 15 fishermen who went to sea from Kozhikode missing

Thiruvananthapuram (IANS) At least 15 fishermen who ventured into the sea on May 5 from Beypore port in Kozhikode are missing. All of them are natives of Tamil Nadu.

The boat "Ajmeer Sha" which sailed from the shores of Beypore on May 5 is…

Arrest me too, Rahul tweets poster criticising Modi

New Delhi (IANS) Amid reports of people being arrested for putting posters against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has dared the government to arrest him.

Tweeting the poster on Sunday, Rahul…

Madras HC's intervention sought to prohibit NSE co-location services

Chennai (IANS) The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) should be prohibited from providing the co-location facility that has already been considered as discriminatory by various authorities, including the Securities and Exchange Board of India…