With the city receiving record rainfall for a single day this season, the city looked virtually submerged in water at several places, including India Gate, Akbar Road, Ashok Road and other surrounding areas. Elsewhere in the city, two people were injured in a house collapse, while roads caving-in and falling trees disrupted traffic movement at several places. Traffic snarls were reported on most of the major roads. However, with Saturday being off for a large section, the citizens were saved from worse

Suspected Maoists on Saturday killed two people, including a special police officer (SPO) and set afire eight iron ore-laden trucks in two separate incidents in Chhattisgarh’s restive Bastar division, the police said.

A recklessly driven police bus went out of control near the Gandhi Medical College in the state capital on Saturday crushing to death seven persons, including two first-year medical college students, one woman and a child.

The police on Saturday laid siege to camp of the People’s Democratic Party leader, Mr Abdul Nasser Madani, in Kollam as a prelude to arresting him in connection with the Bengaluru blasts of 2008.

The government on Friday said there is a need to check whether there were “ulterior motives” behind the claim that a drug-resistant superbug had been traced to India.
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “The reasoning that has been given was that the patients went from India and Pakistan to London. But this has not been m

Domestic flight operations from the new integrated Terminal-3 at the New Delhi IGI airport will be delayed and will not begin from August 27 on account of erratic power and water supply (by Delhi government agencies) to the T-3 as well as inadequate road and metro rail connectivity to the T-3, the civil aviation ministry announced on

In a sad commentary on the manner in which the country’s sportspersons are treated, a Lok Sabha MP complained in the House that 15 players who went to participate in the World Shooting Championship in Munich recently had to foot their travel bills.

A book on Left politics, Left Politics in Bengal-Time Travels among Bhadrolok Marxists, authored by senior journalist Monobina Gupta, was released in the city on Thursday.

A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) performance audit (PA) report on the canteen stores department (CSD) has pointed out withdrawal of liquor in excess of authorisation by some Army units. The excess liquor withdrawn had a market value of over Rs 19 crores. The report has recommended that “the CSD and the Services

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar to oversee preparations for the Commonwealth Games to be held here in October, the top bureaucrat held a meeting with the secretaries of the key ministries concerned with the event.