Beijing: – China has made a significant announcement that it will be expanding the Weather Modification Program. Under this program, artificial rain or snowfall will be created in 5.5 million square kilometres area in China. This experiment will be carried out on a region almost one and a half times the size of India. Therefore, […]
Ankara – Turkey is getting isolated on the issues of oil exploration in the Mediterranean Sea and the Libyan conflict and even the United States has targeted Turkey. The United States criticised that Turkey has festered the situation in Libya by sending hundreds of Syrian extremists to Libya. The United States accused that conflict flared […]
Beijing: – Media has claimed that the intrusion by the Chinese military at the Indian border since the last few days is nothing but a Chinese ploy to cover-up the government’s failures to resolve bigger problems faced by the Chinese population, including scarcity of food. The media pointed out that even in 1962, the then […]
Mumbai: Mumbai was brought to its knees by the 332 mm rains and gusty winds, with speeds of up to 110 kilometres per hour. The rains broke the 46-year record in Mumbai. The water level in the dams has increased satisfactorily, in view of the heavy rains in the catchment areas. 16 NDRF teams have […]
Mumbai: The 10-hour rainfall of 230 mm that poured from Monday midnight reminded the Mumbaikars of 26 July. The gusts of wind and torrential downpour caused the Mumbai railway and road traffic to shut down. On Tuesday early morning, a landslide occurred in Kandivali and a large part of the hill dropped on the highway. […]
Mumbai: Heavy rains lashed the Konkan region along with Mumbai, for the second successive day. All the low-lying areas in Mumbai were waterlogged and residents of Kranti Nagar in Kurla had to be moved to a safer location, in view of the rising water level in Mithi river. Whereas, four people were washed away in the Wardha […]
Guwahati: Landslides due to heavy rains across three districts have killed twenty while nine were injured, informed officials. Government of Assam has announced an aid of four lakh rupees per family of the deceased. Due to incessant rains, incidences of landslides were recorded in Assam’s Hailakandi, Karimganj and Cachar districts. Six people were killed in […]
Brussels/Istanbul: Against the background of the ongoing conflict in Syria and Afghanistan, the number of immigrants intruding into Europe through Turkey has increased significantly. In 2019, a whopping 82,000 illegal immigrants entered Europe from Turkey. This is an increase of 46% as compared to the illegal immigrants that came to Europe from Turkey in 2018. […]
New Delhi: India has refused to sign the ‘Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership’ (RCEP) agreement. After this, China has increased cooperation with other regional countries to pressurise India to sign the agreement. While China has been taking these efforts, India has initiated steps to get the status ‘Generalised System of Preference’ (GSP) reinstated from the United […]
Israel succeeded in channelizing and supplying water from reservoirs in the north to areas in the south due to tireless efforts and research. It helped Israel bring the problem of water scarcity under control. However, taking into consideration the population that was increasing every day and the progress the Israeli society, it was quite clear […]