Day: September 10, 2019

Alert villages in Nanded as Godavari water rises: Chavan

Godavari, Krishna rivers in spate in AP, dams fill up

8:40 pm September 10, 2019

Amaravati(AP): River Godavari continued to be in spate on Tuesday though there was a marginal fall in the inflow at Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage to 14.29 lakh cusecs, hours after crossing the 15 lakh cusecs mark. Though the second warning signal was continuing at the SAC Barrage in Dowaleswaram, the flood showed a falling trend […]

Boris Johnson planning to put UK on obesity-busting diet: Report

UK opposition rages at Johnson after he suspends Parliament

8:40 pm September 10, 2019

London: Opposition politicians raged Tuesday at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s five-week suspension of Parliament before the deadline for Brexit, which drew angry and unprecedented protests in the House of Commons. Parliament has been prorogued — or suspended — at the government’s request until Oct. 14, a drastic move that gives Johnson a respite from rebellious […]

NOAA chief thanks Alabama weather office in Hurricane Dorian forecast

8:34 pm September 10, 2019

Huntsville: The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is both defending the administration and thanking a local weather office that contradicted President Donald Trump’s claims about Hurricane Dorian threatening Alabama. Acting administrator Neil Jacobs told a meteorology group Tuesday that a NOAA statement which criticized a local forecast office that contradicted Trump […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Experts survey buildings damaged due to Metro work

8:34 pm September 10, 2019

Kolkata: International experts engaged by KMRCL on Tuesday surveyed some of the damaged buildings in Bowbazar, several of which have crumbled like nine pins owing to severe ground loss in the area caused by puncturing of an acuifer during tunnel boring work for the East West Metro corridor. A senior Kolkata Metro Railway Corporation Ltd […]

Shehla Rashid gets interim protection from arrest in sedition case

8:27 pm September 10, 2019

New Delhi: A Delhi court has granted interim protection from arrest to Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement leader Shehla Rashid, who was booked for sedition over her controversial tweets on Kashmir. Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain granted the relief to Rashid till November 5 and directed her to join the investigation conducted by the […]