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Cyclone Remal makes landfall: Over 1 lakh evacuated; rail, air, road traffic hit

As severe cyclonic storm 'Remal' initiated its landfall process between the coasts of Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal on Sunday evening, authorities took swift action, evacuating over 1 lakh......

At 135 kmph, cyclone 'Remal' to make landfall in Bengal tonight

Cyclone 'Remal' has intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and is expected to make landfall between West Bengal's Sagar Island and Bangladesh's Khepupara on Sunday night, the India......

Kashmir: Vote For Hope After A Long Decade

It's just not about selecting a candidate. It's not about helping some candidate win.It's about expressing emotion, after ten years, that could reach out to larger India and beyond it, notes Sheela......

Himachal Rain Havoc Devastates Business

Tourism is badly affected. Entire apple orchards have been washed away. 2 million people are threatened with loss of livelihood. IMAGE: National Disaster Response Force personnel conduct a rescue......

Manipur: A Distant Outpost Full Of Promise

A lesson we have not learnt from China is the urgent need to knit the vast country together to keep it from falling apart at the seams.While there is considerable dent in poverty, sadly, the North......

Monsoon getaways are cheaper on your pocket

Image: Uttarakhand's Valley of Flowers. Photograph: Araghu/Wikimedia Commons Hotels, airlines offer discounts to attract customers during lean season; attractions include treks, nature trails,......

Himachal apples turn bitter for farmers as agents gain at their cost

Many commission agents (artiyas) have opened apple shops all over Himachal Pradesh in recent years but this is giving sleepless nights to farmers as the apple harvest has just begun. Apple farmers......

Coal ministry plans to buy Gandhi's S Africa house

Coal India plans to buy the house in Johannesburg, where Mahatma Gandhi had lived for over a year, with an aim of building a memorial there. "The coal ministry intends to purchase the house and......

Communists are the greatest consumerists!

China teaches - and the Great Kolkata Shopping Festival confirms - that Communists are the greatest consumerists. Shopping is the new opiate of the masses. I thought one bought what one needs when......

Bitter harvest drives grape farmers to suicide

The well-laid road through Kadegaon taluka, a small administrative block, is bordered by sugarcane fields and grape orchards. But far more noticeable are large flex boards wishing Patangrao Kadam,......

Aahana's awesome Turkish treat

Turkey and Rumi: What a holiday for the Lipstick In A Burkha actress. Shilpa Shetty spent some time with her family a Maldives. Jacqueline Fernandez holidayed in Bali. Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Kemmu......

Spotted: Mika Singh in Singapore

Reader Sushanta Manna and his wife met singer Mika Singh at Orchard road in Singapore.If you encounter/meet/see film or television personalities and take a photograph or a video of the......

Shimla to host mountain biking race

India's first mountain biking race will be held in the beautiful backcountry of Himachal Pradesh from October 6 to 14. Over 60 top international and Indian riders will compete against each other......

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