Bhubaneswar | 21 hours ago
Heat wave in Odisha, Titilagarh sizzles at 45 degrees
Bhubaneswar, May 16 - Odisha continued to reel under a severe heat wave Wednesday with one of its towns recording a maximum temperature of 45 degrees Celsius, the day's highest in the state, an official said.Titilagarh town in Balangir district, about 400 km from here, recorded 45 degrees Celsius, a senior official of the Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre told IANS. Titilagarh had recorded 44.5 de ... read more

New Delhi | 2 days ago
SC bars US vessel from anchoring at Gujarat port
New Delhi, May 14 - The Supreme Court Monday declined permission, for now, to the erstwhile American oil tanker Exxon Valdez, now rechristened Oriental Nicety, to anchor at the Gujarat ship-breaking port of Alang.Exxon Valdez hit the headlines in 1989 when it ran aground, resulting in the oil spill running into hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska. It was billed as the second la ... read more

Johannesburg | 24 days ago
South African government accelerates land reforms
Johannesburg, April 23 - The South African government is speeding up its plan to redistribute land to rightful owners, the official Bua news agency reported Sunday.The government has set a target of redistributing 30 percent of commercial farmland to historically disadvantaged communities by 2014, we are moving towards achieving this by speeding up the process through negotiated settlements with t ... read more

Guwahati | 1 month ago
Ex-Karbi militant arrested in Assam with arms
Guwahati, April 5 - Police in Assam's Karbi Anglong district Thursday morning arrested one person, suspected to be an ex-militant of a Karbi outfit, sources said.The person, identified as Kalam Singh alias Dulal Singh, was arrested from Baithalangso area with a .9mm pistol and seven rounds of live ammunition. Police said he was a former member of the United Peoples' Democratic Solidarity -, a Karb ... read more

Panaji | 1 month ago
Facelift of two popular Goa beaches to cost Rs.10 crore
Panaji, March 22 - Giving a facelift to two of Goa's most popular beaches will cost more than Rs.10 crore -, says a report.In the Economic Survey report tabled by the Goa government during the budget session of the assembly says the central government has earmarked Rs.7.58 crore and Rs.4.97 crore for beautifying the immensely popular Colva beach in South Goa, 40 kms from here, and the Calangute be ... read more

Chennai | 2 months ago
Former DMK legislator gets jail term for corruption
Chennai, Feb 29 - A special court Wednesday sentenced former DMK legislator Gomathi Srinivasan to over three years in jail for acquiring assets disproportionate to her known sources of income between 1996 and 2001.Sentencing Srinivasan to rigorous imprisonment of three years and four months, the special court trying cases under Prevention of Corruption Act also levied a fine of Rs.5,000 on her.Sri ... read more

New Delhi | 2 months ago
Performance art may be slogan of future
New Delhi, Feb 25 - India is now using performance art as a revivalist and critiquing device, a tool of social intervention. It was introduced in the country's art space by artists like Bhupen Khakhar, Vivan Sundaram and Nasreen Mohamedi in the 1970s.Considered the next level of the arts movement in countries where art is used as a tool of social change, it engages people in aesthetic dialogue on ... read more

3 months ago
Drugs worth Rs.8 crore seized, two held in Bengal
Murshidabad -, Feb 7 - Two people were arrested and drugs worth Rs.8 crore were seized from West Bengal's Murshidabad district Tuesday following questioning of two people earlier taken into custody from a heroin making unit, police said.'After interrogating the two persons arrested Sunday, we got information about six kg of contraband hidden in a building in Lalgola. The drugs have been seized and ... read more

Beijing | 3 months ago
Seven held in China for polluting river
Beijing, Jan 31 - Seven people were detained in southern China on charges of polluting a river that threatened people's health.The chemical plant executives were accused of releasing Cadmium, an industrial waste, into the Longjiang river. The pollutants were first detected Jan 15.Cadmium concentration near the Lalang reservoir was 80 times higher than the official limit of 0.005 milligrams per lit ... read more

Panaji | 3 months ago
Poll strictures could hurt Goa's tourism season
Panaji, Jan 24 - The forthcoming assembly polls in Goa have put the state's tourism season in peril.A top tourism body in Goa has voiced irritation at the decision taken by poll officials to ban sale of liquor and shut down restaurants by 11 p.m. beginning Wednesday. Gaurish Dhond, president of the Travel and Tourism Authority of Goa - said the ban would affect tourism in Goa, especially in the co ... read more