Buenos Aires, Nov 26 (IANS) Heavy rain has killed three people and displaced 12,000 in northeast Argentina, authorities said.
Two children drowned near Resistencia city, the capital of Chaco province, about 1200 km north of Buenos Aires, Xinhua reported.
In Goya City, 730 km north of Buenos Aires, a seven-year-old girl died when her house collapsed while [...]
Bhubaneswar, Nov 19 (IANS) A spell of rainfall has pushed the mercury down across Orissa — a state which witnessed unusually high temperature a few days ago.
Bhubaneswar and Talcher, which recorded a maximum of 37.6 degree Celsius Sunday — the hottest day in November in the last 57 years — recorded 32 and 28.5 degrees [...]
Chennai, Nov. 10 (ANI): A major landslide, triggered by seasonal torrential rains, has killed at least 42 people in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiri district.
“In this heavy rain and flash flood nine people got trapped in the debris and five people of one family died due [...]
Lucknow, Oct 7 (IANS) At least 20 people have been killed in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh, officials said Wednesday.
Heavy showers lashed parts of the state Tuesday. Most of the casualties were due to wall and roof collapses, officials added.
The casualties were reported from Sitapur, Lakhimpur, Unnao, Hardoi, Moradabad, Banda and Fatehpur districts.
The maximum number [...]
Bangalore/Hyderabad, Oct 1 (IANS) At least 30 people have been killed in Karnataka and 15 in Andhra Pradesh due to heavy rain, officials said Thursday. The downpour has inundated several villages, damaged crops and has disrupted communication and transport links.
In Karnataka, the worst affected was Bijapur district, about 580 km north of Bangalore, with 17 [...]
New Delhi, Sep.10 (ANI): Thursday saw a mixed voter turnout in bye-elections to 20 assembly seats in the three states of Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi.
In Uttarakhand, about 35 per cent polling was reported till noon in Vikasnagar Assembly by-election of Dehradun district.
In [...]
New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday ordered an inquiry into the tragic death of five students following a stampede at a government school located in East Delhi due to rumours of short circuit caused by heavy rain.
According to souses, Dikshit ordered the probe after taking stock of the situation [...]
Mumbai, Sep 4 (ANI): Twelve people, including children, were killed and 13 others injured in a landslide in Mumbai on Friday morning.
According to police the incident took place in the suburban Andheri area due to the heavy rain and water logging in the lower areas.
Landslide hit the Lal Bahdur Shastri Nagar slum at Sakinaka [...]
Rampur, Aug 10 (ANI): India’s biggest hydropower project, the 1500MW Nathpa-Jhakri power station generated a record 1.14 billion units of power in July, officials said on Sunday.
The power plant in Himachal Pradesh usually produces 6.6 billion units of power a year.
“This year the Nathpa-Jhakri station has done a record power generation. We have generated 114 [...]
Rampur (Himachal Pradesh), Aug. 9 (ANI): The 1500-megawatt Nathpa-Jhakri Power Station (NJPS) in Himachal Pradesh generated a record 114 crore units of power in the month of July, officials said on Sunday.
The power plant usually produces 6.6 billion units of power a year.
“I [...]
