The Interdepartmental Climate Research Centre (ICRC) at Cotton University (CU) has installed a lightning detection system to understand better severe storms and lightning activities over Assam and rest of the NE region. To prevent lightning-related disasters in this part of the globe regarded as a major theatre of lightning activities,
Month: March 2019
A Panchkula special court on Wednesday acquitted four people including Swami Aseemanand for the deadly firebombing of the Samjhauta Express in 2007. 68 people – 42 of them Pakistani passengers – were killed in the attack when the bi-weekly train, connecting Delhi and Attari at India-Pakistan border in Punjab, on
The BJP has suffered a major setback in the northeast with 23 of its leaders quitting the party in the last two days. In Arunachal Pradesh, 20 BJP leaders, including two ministers and six MLAs, joined the National People’s Party (NPP) late on Tuesday evening. This move took the strength
Three CRPF personnel were killed Wednesday after a colleague allegedly fired at them after an altercation at their camp in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The alleged fratricide incident happened at around 10 pm when constable Ajit Kumar shot three of his colleagues from his service rifle at the 187th
Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi was arrested and denied bail at the Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, setting off another high-profile extradition trial involving large-scale financial irregularities in India, three months after that of businessman Vijay Mallya. Modi, 48, was arrested by Scotland Yard in the central London area of Holborn