Rowing in the Rabindra Sarobar in south Kolkata, where two teenage rowers drowned during a storm last Saturday, will be suspended till police draw up a standard operating procedure in consultation wit...
By Debraj Mitra, Subhajoy Roy and Monalisa Chaudhuri
in Kolkata
Dark clouds gathered over the city on Thursday afternoon but the rain that followed was scattered.
Parts of central Kolkata and Howrah received a spell of rain. South Kolkata was mostly dry.
The Met...
Delhi is likely to witness another spell of thunderstorm and heavy rain on Monday night after the first bout early morning gave residents much-needed respite from the sweltering heat and brought down ...
Landslides and flood have left a trail of destruction in Dima Hasao, a picturesque tourist hotspot in Assam, prompting a multi-agency effort to salvage the state's only hill station Haflong and it...
Eight people were injured as houses collapsed in different parts of Delhi following heavy rain and storm on Monday morning, officials said.
The houses collapsed in the Jawalpuri, Gokalpuri, Shankar r...
IMD also predicted thundershower with moderate intensity rain and gusty winds with speeds of 60-90 Km/h would continue to occur over and adjoining areas of entire Delhi and NCR during the next tw...
Subha Das, 20, was the coxswain, or simply cox, on the boat with four schoolboy rowers that capsized in the Rabindra Sarobar during Saturday’s Nor’wester, killing two of the teens.
A cox ...
The deaths of two teenagers was an accident and rowing will resume soon at the Rabindra Sarobar, said officials of the rowing clubs around the lake.
But before that, members of all three clubs &mdash...
By Debraj Mitra, Monalisa Chaudhuri, Subhajoy Roy
in Kolkata
“Uprooted trees as well as those that lost significant portions to the storm total 50, at least,” said a KMC official.
Hundreds of trees fell in the city during Cyclone Amphan in May 2020...
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