"For most of us, there was no time to think or to go pack. So we took the bus. As we passed the city, we could hear explosions. We didn't know whether we would make it to the airport alive. Some Taliban men opened fire on our bus. Luckily, the vehicle was bulletproof."
A day after the national capital recorded its highest rainfall in at least 13 years, the India Meteorological Department(IMD) has issued a yellow alert for the city today. Heavy rainfall is expected to continue in Bihar and northwest India for the next few days.
Since last September, the municipal corporations have been directing their employees to download the ‘MCD Smart’ application to mark their daily attendance on it but the staff have been reluctant.
Vijay C Roy
When she bought her electric two-wheeler for Rs70,000 last year, Chandigarh-based homemaker Muskaan (40) was sceptical. A year later, she calls herself the “happiest” commuter
Salil Misra
Rudrangshu Mukherjee has perfected the art of combining different windows to historical knowledge, micro with macro, local with national, and individual with the larger social. In one of
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 21
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on Saturday passed away at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow due to sepsi
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 21
Two persons, including a woman, have been arrested for duping people on the pretext of providing loan under various government schemes.
The police on Fr
Afghanistan news LIVE updates: India on Sunday evacuated 168 people, including 107 Indians, from Kabul in a military transport aircraft of the IAF. Separately, a group of 135 Indians, who were earlier evacuated from Kabul to Doha in the last few days by the US and NATO, also returned to India. Meanwhile, a senior Taliban official has told Reuters that the framework for the creation of the new government is expected to be announced in the next few weeks.
Ravinder Saini
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Rohtak, August 21
Over 40 per cent of college students are addicted to the Internet and many of them are showing symptoms of depression. This was revealed by a s
Weather Forecast Today Live Updates: The current rainfall activity over plains of northwest and central India is set to continue till August 23 and reduce thereafter. For today, the Met department has predicted heavy rainfall over parts of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
New Delhi, August 12
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday met WHO chief scientist and former director general of ICMR Soumya Swaminathan and discussed the issue of WHO emergency use approval
Amit Bathla
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Panchkula, August 21
After an official of the Mansa Devi temple administration stated in the media that verbal directions had been issued for allowing no entry of d
According to a price statement by state-run oil companies, the price of petrol was dropped by 15 to 20 paise per litre across the country on August 22 after 35 days of stability. After a day of break, diesel prices fell by 18 to 20 paise.
