Tuesday, October 30, 2012

South India braced for Cyclone Nilam

South India braced for Cyclone Nilam

South India braced for Cyclone Nilam

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:18 PM PDT

Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are bracing for a cyclone. Deep depression in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclone, which is expected to cross between Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and Nellore ...

Superstorm Sandy may cause damages worth US$ 50 billion

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:57 PM PDT

Superstorm Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in property damages and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business, according to IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm.

Digvijaya Singh takes on Anil Ambani

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:23 PM PDT

Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday termed industrialist Anil Ambani's comparison of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to his late father Dhirubhai Ambani as "shame...

Superstorm Sandy: Death toll rises to 38; millions without power

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:42 AM PDT

Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, sti...

Cyclone Nilam to hit Tamil Nadu at 100 kmph

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:38 AM PDT

Cyclone Nilam is expected to hit the coast of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh today afternoon. Heavy landfall is being expected by forecasters after the deep depression which had formed in the Bay of Be...

Congress makes room for larger role for Rahul Gandhi

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:16 AM PDT

After the cabinet reshuffle, which the Prime Minister described as "hopefully the last" before India votes, the Congress is now working on a revamp within. While the government will focus on defeating...

Himachal polls: Is corruption an election issue?

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 11:08 AM PDT

The campaign fever is peaking in Himachal Pradesh with just days to go before campaigning ends on Friday at 5pm. And in the midst of the election rallies and door-to-door campaigns is Sukhram, the cou...

Man arrested for tweet on Chidambaram's son

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 10:36 AM PDT

A small scale industrialist in Puducherry was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly posting 'offensive' messages on the micro-blogging site Twitter targeting Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Kar...

Superstorm Sandy: Crane dangles off luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 10:14 AM PDT

The crane atop one of Manhattan's most prestigious addresses remained dangling precariously 1,000 feet above the ground on Tuesday as officials tried to determine how to safely secure it.

NYSE to reopen on Wednesday

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 10:03 AM PDT

The New York Stock Exchange will reopen for regular trading Wednesday after being shut down for two days because of Hurricane Sandy. The exchange said in a statement Tuesday that its buil...

Superstorm Sandy barrels ashore, leaving path of destruction

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

As Hurricane Sandy churned inland as a downgraded storm on Tuesday, residents in battered mid-Atlantic states faced floods, power failures and the daunting task of cleaning up from once-in-a-generatio...

Blog: In Chennai, waiting for Cyclone Nilam

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 09:20 AM PDT

Every ten years, Chennai witnesses severe floods. In November 1985, I remember cutting my birthday cake in a neighbour's home. As we lived in a low lying area in a place ironically called Little Mount...

US stock markets expected to open tomorrow

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 08:30 AM PDT

US stock exchanges are looking at opening on Wednesday after monster storm Sandy receded from New York, sources said, and the New York Stock Exchange is testing a new plan to help resume trading. ...

7.5 mn without power in New York City, supplies may be out for 2-3 days: Mayor Bloomberg

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 08:25 AM PDT

At least 7.3 million homes and businesses on the U.S. East Coast were without power on Tuesday after Superstorm Sandy tore down power lines, flooded networks and sparked an explosion at a Consolidated...

Sunanda Tharoor trapped, harassed by crowd at airport

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 08:12 AM PDT

Sunanda Tharoor, who was targeted with sexist remarks by chief minister Narendra Modi, was trapped in a huge crowd and pushed and groped when she landed on Monday afternoon in Thiruvanthapuram with he...

13-year-old's blog on Sandy: Teachers e-mailed homework to us

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 08:00 AM PDT

"The wind was howling like a wolf. As I lay there, I felt like a burrito wrapped up in my blankets."

Astronauts see superstorm Sandy from space station

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:59 AM PDT

The commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams, said on Tuesday that she and her crew were able to make out the big swirl at the center of Sandy as it neared land on Monday.

SBI vs RBI round II: CRR a waste for economy, says Pratip Chaudhuri

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:51 AM PDT

State Bank of India chairman Pratip Chaudhuri, yet again, took on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today, saying saying CRR is a "waste" for the economy and successive interest rate cuts by central ...

In fight against BJP, Congress leaders clash

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:47 AM PDT

In an embarrassment for the Congress, two senior party leaders clashed during a programme billed to motivate party workers in BJP-ruled states.

My wife is priceless: Shashi Tharoor takes on Narendra Modi

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:29 AM PDT

In the verbal duelling that he prefers, Narendra Modi might just have met his match. Hours after he made an astonishingly personal attack on new central minister Shashi Tharoor, calling his wife a "50...

For investor firms in Nitin Gadkari's Purti, carpenters are building offices now

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:29 AM PDT

BJP president Nitin Gadkari has denied that his business empire was propped up by ghost investors. But an inquiry by income tax officials signalled desperate attempts by some of these firms to assembl...

Home Ministry gives nod to India-Pakistan series in December

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 07:26 AM PDT

The Ministry of Home Affairs has cleared an India-Pakistan ODI and T20 cricket series, to be played during the Christmas week and over the New Year when touring England return home for a break.    ...

Superstorm Sandy takes down Huffington Post, Gawker websites

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:13 AM PDT

Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit eastern United States, flooded servers of Datagram Inc in New York City, bringing down several media websites it hosts, including Huffington Post and Gawke...

Superstorm Sandy claims 17 lives, power out for millions in US: 10 latest developments

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 06:05 AM PDT

The US east coast awakened Tuesday to a flooded subway system, shuttered financial markets and hundreds of thousands of people without power a day after a wall of seawater and high winds slammed into ...

US awakes to huge damage in Superstorm Sandy's path; millions without power

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:55 AM PDT

As Hurricane Sandy churned inland as a downgraded storm, residents up and down the battered mid-Atlantic region woke on Tuesday to lingering waters, darkened homes and the daunting task of cleaning up...
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