The capital is ready to record coldest November in a minimum of 10 years, with the mean minimum temperature for the month this year hovering around 10 degrees Celsius, consistent with India Meteorological Department data. In Delhi, the typical minimum temperature for the month of November is 12.9 degrees Celsius. From All Saints’ Day to November 29, the town has recorded a mean minimum temperature of 10.3 degrees Celsius, which is that the lowest in a minimum of a decade, consistent with IMD data. The mean minimum temperature was 15 degrees Celsius last year, 13.4 degrees Celsius in 2018 and…
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Reacting to Madhya Pradesh Forest Minister Vijay Shah told PTI that the typical death rate of tigers was less compared to their birth rate within the state in last six years. According to the National Tiger Conservation Authoritys (NTCA) website, out of the 26 tiger deaths reported since April this year, MP lost 21 felines inside the tiger reserves, including 10 within the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. No tiger death was reported within the first three months of this year, as per the info. In 2019, the state lost 28 tigers while three cases of seizures of body parts thanks to…
An official of the CRPF’s specialised CoBRA unit has been killed and 7 other personnel injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, a police official said on Sunday. The Improvised device (IED) went off around 8.30 pm on Saturday during a forest near Aravraj Metta hills when a team of 206th battalion of the CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) and police was out on an anti-Naxal operation, he said. No exchange of fireside happened at the spot, which falls under the Chintagufa police headquarters limits and is over 450 km from the capital Raipur,…
The BJP on Sunday released its election manifesto in Urdu for the continued District Development Council (DDC) polls in Kashmir. Former MLC Vibhod Gupta released the manifesto in presence of senior party leaders from the Valley like Sofi Yosuf and Darakhshan Abdrabi. The manifesto claims that while the BJP has unified the country by abrogating provisions of Article 370 and Article 35A that provided special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration an amalgam of several mainstream political parties, including NC and PDP was working against the national interest for vote bank…
A drone from Pakistan was spotted flying at the International border in Jammu and Kashmir’s RS Pura sector on Saturday night, the Border Security Force (BSF) said on Sunday. The drone was spotted at the International Border in Arnia area. The BSF also said the drone went back to Pakistan after its security personnel fired at it. A search operation has also been launched in the area. “A drone was sighted at the international border in Arnia area of RS Pura Sector in Jammu and Kashmir last night. It went back towards Pakistan after alert BSF troops fired on it,”…
An asteroid named (153201) 2000 WO107, that is more than 800 metre high and over 500 metre wide will barrel past earth on November 29 and will be closest to our planet at 10.38 am, according to scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building with a height of 829.8 metre and asteroid 2000 WO107, which was discovered in 2000, has a diameter is 820 metre. The massive asteroid has been classified as a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA). NEA is a group of comets and asteroids pulled into the orbit due to the…
Thousands of farmers continue to camp in and around Delhi as their protest against centre’s contentious agricultural laws enters the fourth day. A meeting has been called this morning to hold discussions, a day after Home Minister Amit Shah reached out to protesters and assured them that the government was ready to “deliberate on every problem and demand of the farmers”. “We will discuss on how to engage in talks with the centre. We are ready for talks with the centre only if they invite us for the same,” said Ruldu Singh, state president of Punjab Kisan Union which is…
Coronavirus cases in India are steadily on the rise with 41,810 new infections in the last 24 hours taking the tally to 93,92,919. There were 496 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours and the number of active cases went down by 984. There are 4,53,956 active cases in the country. Over 42,000 people recovered from the deadly disease in the last 24 hours taking the total recoveries to over 88 lakhs. The total deaths in the country stand at 1,36,696. India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 70 lakh on October 11, 80 lakh on October 29, and surpassed 90…
A Hindu group, Hindu Munnani, warned of a terror attack as Islamist backed boat was intercepted in Tamil Nadu. A Pakistani boat carrying narcotic substance worth Rs 600 crore was seized by the Indian Coast Guard. Acting on a tip-off, the Indian coast guard stopped the Sri Lankan vessel “Shenaya Duwa” on the high sea smuggling heroin worth Rs 500 crore in the international market. Coast Guard intercept Tamil Nadu bound vessel carrying drugs in the international waters About 99 packets of heroin, 20 small boxes of synthetic drugs, five 9mm pistols and Thuraya satellite phone set were recovered from…
Ahead of next week’s Hyderabad municipal election, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath – one of an army of A-listers unleashed by the BJP in its bid to win voters in the southern state – blamed the “nefarious alliance” of the ruling TRS and Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM for the lack of development and declared the BJP could rename the city to Bhagyanagar if it won. “Some people were asking me if Hyderabad can be renamed as Bhagyanagar. I said – why not? I told them we renamed Faizabad as Ayodhya and Allahabad as Prayagraj after BJP came into power. Why…