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  • delhi school students discover asteroid

    Delhi school students discover asteroid

    June 22, 2013 22:38 IST

    New Delhi, June 22: A new asteroid has been discovered by two students from a Delhi school and the find has been confirmed by the international space community, an NGO for popularizing space said Saturday.Shourya

  • modi effect yeddyurappa syndrome returns to haunt karnataka

    Modi effect Yeddyurappa syndrome returns to haunt Karnataka BJP

    June 22, 2013 22:25 IST

    Bangalore, June 22: The BJP's Karnataka unit is gung-ho, like a section in the party, over Narendra Modi's ascendancy. However the Gujarat chief minister's rise also seems to have emboldened former leader B.S. Yeddyurappa's supporters

  • food security bill impractical mamata

    Food security bill impractical: Mamata

    June 22, 2013 22:14 IST

    Kolkata, June 22: Describing the proposed food security bill as "impractical", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday accused the Congress-led central govrnment of trying to make political gains instead of securing food for the

  • eco imbalance may cause uttarakhand type calamity dikshit

    Eco-imbalance may cause Uttarakhand-type calamity: Dikshit

    June 22, 2013 22:05 IST

    New Delhi, June 22: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Saturday urged Delhiites to plant more saplings, saying that environmental imbalance may invite an Uttarakhand-type natural calamity that has claimed over 600 lives. Speaking at a function

  • akhilesh directs officials to make up mandis world class

    Akhilesh directs officials to make UP 'mandis' world class

    June 22, 2013 22:01 IST

    Lucknow, Jun 22: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday directed officials to chart out a project to improve facilities at state's 'mandis' and make them world class. Akhilesh, who is also the chairman

  • narendra modi gujarat ready to renovate kedarnath temple

    Narendra Modi: Gujarat ready to renovate Kedarnath temple complex completely

    June 23, 2013 7:48 IST

    Dehradun, Jun 23: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today met Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna here and offered to take responsibility of renovating the Kedarnath temple complex completely. Speaking to mediapersons after meeting Bahuguna, Modi

  • uttarakhand nearly 10 000 evacuated today 22 000 people

    Uttarakhand: nearly 10,000 evacuated today, 22,000 people still stranded, death toll may touch 1,000, says CM

    June 22, 2013 21:47 IST

    Dehradun/New Delhi, Jun 22: Racing against time in the face of predicted adverse weather, over 10,000 people were today evacuated from various upper reaches of flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, including the worst-affected Kedarnath, as the death toll

  • uttarakhand helpline numbers

    Uttarakhand: Helpline numbers

    June 22, 2013 23:23 IST

    New Delhi: Around 30,000 people were estimated to be stranded in rain-ravaged Uttarakhand, officials said. Rescuers scrambled Saturday to evacuate those who are still trapped as met office predicted rains from June 24.Following are the

  • uttarakhand akali bjp mlas to donate one month salary

    Uttarakhand: Akali, BJP MLAs to donate one month salary

    June 22, 2013 19:28 IST

    Chandigarh, June 22:  MLAs belonging to ruling SAD-BJP alliance in Punjab today decided to donate one month's salary for relief and rehabilitation of victims in Uttarakhand.  An official spokesman said, legislators took the decision following

  • 14 killed 23 injured as bus rams into truck

    14 killed, 23 injured as bus rams into truck

    June 22, 2013 19:21 IST

    Basti (UP), Jun 22: Fourteen people were killed and 23 others injured when a bus dashed into a stationary truck on Lucknow-Basti road in the wee hours today, police said.  The mishap took place around

  • militants kill two policemen in srinagar

    Militants kill two policemen in Srinagar

    June 22, 2013 19:16 IST

    Srinagar, Jun 22: Militants today struck in the heart of the city shooting two policemen dead from point blank range in an apparent attempt to vitiate the atmosphere ahead of the Prime Minister's visit to

  • uttarakhand havoc patience of relatives running thin

    Uttarakhand havoc: Patience of relatives running thin

    June 22, 2013 19:10 IST

    Dehradun, June 22: Carrying photographs, people here are running from one hospital to other in desperation to get some news about their relatives and friends as their patience ran thin due to passage of almost

  • uttarakhand havoc i myself threw nearly 300 bodies into the

    Uttarakhand havoc: I myself threw nearly 300 bodies into the hillside, says survivor from Meerut

    June 22, 2013 19:02 IST

    Dehradun, Jun 22: With the Uttarakhand administration and the army still struggling to cope with the enormity of the flash floods, heart-wrenching tales of devastation, hunger, feral greed emerge as survivors return to the plains.

  • uttarakhand old couple recall nightmarish experience

    Uttarakhand: Old couple recall nightmarish experience

    June 22, 2013 18:45 IST

    Phagwara, Jun 22: An old couple, who survived the massive Uttarakhand flash floods triggered by incessant rains, said it was a “second life granted to them”.Girish Sharma, 60, and his wife Sushma Sharma, 59, reached

  • kamakhya temple closed for four days for ambubachi festival

    Kamakhya Temple closed for four days for Ambubachi festival

    June 22, 2013 18:00 IST

    Guwahati, Jun 22: The doors of the famed Shakti Kamakhya temple were closed for four days today on the occasion of the annual ‘Ambubachi' festival.  The temple doors were closed at 12:15 pm after the

  • uttarakhand 134 stranded tourists flown to gujarat by

    Uttarakhand: 134 stranded tourists flown to Gujarat by chartered flight

    June 22, 2013 17:52 IST

    New Delhi, Jun 22: A chartered flight from Dehradun today flew 134 passengers, stranded due to the devastating floods in Uttarakhand, to Ahmedabad.  This was the first chartered aircraft to operate from Dehradun carrying stranded

  • sgpc dispatches vehicles for rescue operations in

    SGPC dispatches vehicles for rescue operations in Uttarakhand

    June 22, 2013 17:46 IST

    Ludhiana, Jun 22: Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), apex body of Sikhs, today dispatched two dozen vehicles including ambulances to Dehradun to assist the ongoing rescue operations in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand.  Mini buses, SUVs and ambulances

  • uttarakhand haryana provides plane chopper hooda makes

    Uttarakhand: Haryana provides plane, chopper, Hooda makes survey

    June 22, 2013 17:36 IST

    New Delhi, Jun 22: Haryana government has provided its state plane and helicopter for relief and rehabilitation measures in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand and its Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda made an aerial survey of the flood-affected

  • uttarakhand many pilgrims died of starvation survivors

    Uttarakhand: Many pilgrims died of starvation, survivors still waiting for rescue

    June 22, 2013 17:30 IST

    Sonprayag (Uttarakhand), Jun 22: Having gone without food or water for nearly a week, scores of pilgrims are on the verge of death, while others who managed to reach Sonprayag on foot have complained that

  • give us uttarakhand for 24 hours we will evacuate everyone

    Give us Uttarakhand for 24 hours, we will evacuate everyone, says Azam Khan

    June 22, 2013 18:37 IST

    Rampur, UP, Jun 22: An overconfident Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan today claimed that the entire rescue operation in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand could have been completed in eight hours through efficient handling of the situation. "Give

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