Day: January 22, 2020

5 flights diverted at Delhi airport due to fog

3:01 pm January 22, 2020

New Delhi: Five flights have been diverted at Delhi airport due to dense fog on Wednesday morning, an airport official said. “Five flights diverted as captain was not trained to land under CAT conditions,” the official said. When the runway visual range (RVR) is minimum 200 metres, then only that pilot — who is trained […]

Cold wave conditions intensify in Kashmir

Snowfall in few areas of Kashmir

2:56 pm January 22, 2020

Srinagar: Few areas in Kashmir including Srinagar received fresh snowfall overnight, leading to an increase in the minimum temperature here on Wednesday, the MET Office said. Most of the higher reaches and few areas in the plains of Kashmir received fresh snowfall on Wednesday, a MET Official said. He said snowfall was witnessed in Gulmarg […]

Bravery award for Maharashtra boy who saved drowning mother-daughter

12:27 am January 22, 2020

Aurangabad: Teenager Akash Khillare from Maharashtra’s Aurangabad was dissuaded from learning swimming by his grandfather but he picked up the skill on the sly, and that helped him save a mother and her toddler from drowning, a feat for which he will be getting a bravery award at the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

Wedding celebrations end in murder in Nagpur; three arrested

12:21 am January 22, 2020

Nagpur: Celebrations at a wedding ceremony here took a tragic turn when a man was killed and four others were injured in an attack by a group of men over the issue of playing their favourite song by DJ, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place in the Kalamna area of the city on […]

Sodomised Maharashtra boy hangs self, 14 hostel mates arrested

12:08 am January 22, 2020

Nagpur: Fourteen students from a hostel in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly sodomising a Class 12 boy, who later committed suicide on January 18, police said. The boy used to stay in the same hostel as the accused and his 18-page suicide note has detailed the sexual assaults perpetrated on him, a […]