SC ORDERS COMFORT FOR TRAVELLING WORKERS "What is the estimated time required to shift migrants?" "What arrangements are being made and what's being done to ensure that they are given information?"
A HINT OF DE-ESCALATION: BEIJING SAYS MUSTN'T LET DIFFERENCES SHADOW TIES China sought to dial down tensions yesterday on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and continued quiet diplomacy. The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing as well as Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidung underlined t
SC TAKES COGNIZANCE OF MIGRANTS' MISERIES; ISSUES NOTICES TO CENTRE AND STATE GOVTS Taking suo motu cognisance of the plight of lakhs of stranded migrant workers across the country, the Supreme Court on Tuesday pointed out the "inadequacies and lapses" in the handling of the crisis and i
INDIAN, CHINESE ARMIES APPEAR HEADING TOWARDS BIGGEST FACE-OFF AFTER DOKLAM Indian and Chinese troops remained engaged in an eyeball-to-eyeball situation in several disputed areas along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh, signalling that the confrontation could become the bigges
INDIA COVID-19 CASES CONTINUE TO SURGE With the highest one-day national surge of 6,634 new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases, India on Sunday overtook Iran to become the 10th biggest hot spot of the pathogen, which has rapidly swept the globe.
MODI AND MAMATA SURVEY THE DAMAGE Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flew down to Kolkata to take stock of the situation in large swathes of West Bengal that were decimated by cyclone 'Amphan' and announced an advance assistance of Rs 1,000 crore for restoration work, as the death to
PM MODI TO TAKE AERIAL SURVEY OF BENGAL TODAY AS TOLL RISES TO 72 Cyclone Amphan weakened Thursday, a day after tearing through West Bengal where 72 people were killed . The fiercest cyclone to hit West Bengal in 100 years destroyed mud houses and crops, and uprooted trees and electric po
CYCLONE AMPHAN: 10 KILLED IN WEST BENGAL; WIDESPREAD DAMAGE Cyclone Amphan, one of the worst storms over the Bay of Bengal in years, has left a trail of destruction in Bengal and Odisha on Wednesday, destroying thousands of houses, damaging buildings, uprooting trees, electricity poles a
CYCLONE TO HIT W BENGAL COAST TODAY Cyclone Amphan (pronounced as um-pun) is moving north at a speed of 14 kmph and according to the IMD's latest assessment is expected to make a landfall between Digha (West Bengal) and Hatiya Islands (Bangladesh) close to the Sundarbans around afternoon
WEST BENGAL, ODISHA BRACE FOR SUPER CYCLONE AMPHAN West Bengal and Odisha are bracing for Amphan, now upgraded to only the second super cyclone to form in the Bay of Bengal in two decades, which is expected to make landfall along Digha in West Bengal by Wednesday evening. On Monday, Prim
