Incessant rain in the past three days flooded 14 locations in Dimapur district, leaving many families homeless and submerging several houses.A report from the Nagaland State Disaster Management Author...

Bharat Coking Coal Limited, the Dhanbad subsidiary of Coal India Limited, will send two high capacity diesel motor pumps to suck out water work from inundated residential colonies of Patna. Senior o...

Carsten Meiner and Kristin Veel wrote that crises and catastrophes have a cultural life for they expose covert wounds and emplaced hierarchies that are otherwise accepted. This kept ringing in my he...

Sir — The Central government did well to ban the sale and production of e-cigarettes (“E-cigarette production & sale banned, not use”, Sept 19). Smokers often have the wrong perception that ...

The Karnataka government has shunted out an IAS officer who reportedly refused to divert funds from her department for flood relief.Rohini Sindhuri, secretary of the Karnataka Building and Other Const...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced a Line of Credit worth a billion dollars for the development of Russia’s Far East, warming the cockles of his support base while critics questioned...

Floods in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Barak flood plains have become an annual phenomenon. The scale of the disaster is enormous, dwarfing the menace of floods in many other states. At its peak, the floods ...

Inter-ministerial teams from the Centre will conduct on-the-spot assessments in all the flood-affected states of the country for recommending allocations for additional funds.After a high-level meetin...

Sir — Sonia Gandhi taking charge as the interim president of Congress might help tide over the leadership crisis that the party is facing (“Rear view”, Aug 14). In spite of being an active leade...

Sir — In the past six months, the Mumbai Regional Transport Office has allegedly cancelled the licences of around 900 autorickshaw drivers for refusing customers. Fourteen special squads have been f...