Weather

Authorities in Pakistan's Sindh province have adopted a high alert mode after the country's meteorological department issued warnings over cyclone Tauktae.The Pakistan Meteorological Department on Sunday issued the sixth consecutive alert…

 At least 6 persons were killed in Maharashtra as the fury of Cyclone Tauktae wreaked havoc in the state, bringing heavy rains, strong gales of over 100 km/hr, uprooting scores of trees, damaging over 2,500 homes, disrupting road traffic,…

Stormy winds and heavy rains caused by Cyclone Tauktae claimed two lives and uprooted more than 1,000 trees in Goa, disrupting normal life and road traffic and causing power outage in most parts of the coastal state on Sunday."Two people…

Rain lashed the Kashmir Valley and light snowfall occurred at a few places in Ladakh on Thursday as the Meteorological (MET) Department said there would be improvement from Friday onwards till the end of April."At present it is raining at…

Around 64,000 deaths a year in England are linked to air pollution, with disadvantaged communities hit the most, a new British parliamentary report revealed on Thursday.Published by the House of Commons (lower house of the British…

The Jammu-Srinagar highway will remain closed on Friday due to maintenance or repair work, officials said on Thursday."No vehicular movement will be allowed from either side on the National Highway on February 5 in view of…

New York has declared a state of emergency after a massive snowstorm hit the state, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo.The emergency was declared on Monday for New York City, Long Island and seven counties in Hudson Valley, reports Xinhua…

One person was killed and five others were reported missing in Fiji as tropical cyclone Ana battered the South Pacific island nation.According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) on Monday, a 49-year-old man drowned on January 29, while…

Kashmir Valley on Saturday received fresh snowfall, bringing respite from shivering cold conditions after nearly a fortnight resulting national highway closed.A meteorological department official said that Gulmarg, the world-famous skiing…

Minimum temperatures plummetted further across the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh on Thursday as the weather office forecast another spell of snow and rain during the next three days.Minimum temperatures across the valley and Ladakh dropped…