Four persons were killed in two separate incidents due to heavy rains in the city on Monday evening, even as traffic snarls were reported from virtually all the areas. More than five centimetres of rain was recorded within a couple of hours.

The Kerala government on Monday asked the National Investigation Agency to probe the sabotage attempt on a passenger train in Nilambur last week. The airbrake pipes of the train were found to have been cut at 20 places on the morning of July 8. On the same day, a packet of explosives were also detected in the Vanchinad Express travelling from Ernakulam to Thiruvananthapuram. Both the incidents caused much alarm in the state.

The Sundarbans in South 24 Parganas is highly vulnerable to climate change and according to an estimate 15 per cent of the region will be submerged by 2020. This was among the findings of the three District Human Development Reports. The districts covered by the survey were South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas and North

After having launched an H1N1 vaccine, the country is all set to get its first influenza vaccine in October this year.
The Drug Controller General of India, Surinder Singh, revealed that strains for the flue vaccine were being collected for a large part of 2009 from different counties across the globe.

Acknowledging that Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will be the greatest challenge in the Assembly Polls in 2011, CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Monday said that the Left Front has lost the confidence of a section of people in Bengal due to its land acquisition policy.

The Indian Army will file a review petition in the Armed Forces Tribunal to oppose any change in the Kargil war records, Army sources said on Monday. In a judgement in May this year on a case filed earlier by Brig. (retd.) Devinder Singh, who was the head of the 70 Infantry Brigade during the Kargil conflict of 1999, the Armed Forces

The state CID has recovered arms from a house at Khejuri stockpiled by the Maoists, that in turn were used for the Nandigram movement. Three six mm guns, 15 gelatin sticks and some detonators have been recovered from the house.

Haryana’s irrigation minister Ajay Singh Yadav has demanded exemplary action against Punjabi farmers who “deliberately” caused breaches in the Ghaggar river embankment to divert Monsoonal flows into the incomplete Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal to cause massive flooding in both states.

Continuing with its opposition to the Women’s Reservation Bill, the JD(U) on Sunday claimed that the government will have to face a united Opposition during upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament if i

Moved by the plight of HIV patients who need dialysis facilities frequently and the fact that only a few city hospitals have the facility for these terminally-ill patients, the Delhi high court has as