Day: November 30, 2019

Delhi tourist dies after slipping down hill in Himachal

Bright sunny weather in Himachal

4:30 pm November 30, 2019

Dharamshala: It was a bright sunny day in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, though temperatures remained below the freezing point in many places in the state after three days of continuous rains and heavy snowfall in the higher reaches. The met department has forecast good weather in the week ahead. A 15-cm snowfall was recorded in […]

Maharashtra CM assures complete farm loan waiver

Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena-NCP-Cong govt wins floor test

4:26 pm November 30, 2019

Mumbai: The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance won the floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly on Saturday. Altogether 169 MLAs vote in favour of the motion of confidence, pro tem Speaker Dilip Walse Patil informed the House. Four MLAs abstained, he said. Nobody voted against the motion as all […]

Delhi records lowest October temperature in 26 years

Delhiites wake up to foggy morning, air quality moderate

11:43 am November 30, 2019

New Delhi: A blanket of fog enveloped the national capital on Saturday morning with minimum temperature settling at 12 degrees Celsius. A MeT department official that relative humidity was 100 per cent at 8.30 am. The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 24 degrees Celsius, he said. Weather solutions body Skymet vice president Mahesh Palawat […]

New rodent fossil reveals how middle ear may have evolved: Study

11:40 am November 30, 2019

Beijing: Researchers have unearthed well-preserved middle ear bones from a new species of an extinct rodent that lived 145-66 million years ago in what is now northeastern China, an advance that may lead to better understanding of the evolution of hearing. The study, published in the journal Nature, looked at fossils of the extinct rodent-like […]

Rapper Tijoux gives the beat to Chile’s street revolt

11:35 am November 30, 2019

Paris: Chilean singer Ana Tijoux says she is scared of cameras. Yet it is hard to think of anything as fearless as her latest hit “Cacerolazo”, which has become an anthem of the street revolt in her homeland against its billionaire president Sebastian Pinera. Latin America’s richest country has been rocked by more than six […]