Islamabad: Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods across Pakistan have killed 60 people over the past three days, with southern port city of Karachi being worst-hit, officials said today. Most of the people were killed in Karachi where some areas like Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Amroha Society and Saadi Town are still inundated, they said. The deaths occurred […]

Mangalore : The city of Mangalore experienced light showers while other places in DK and Udupi districts  quite heavy showers accompanied by thunder and lightning on April 26, Friday evening. The lighting even claimed the life of one person at Belthangady, while in other places several houses were damaged as trees got uprooted. The lightning […]

Colombo : Twenty-three people were killed and over 68,000 families were displaced in floods in Sri Lanka, an official said Thursday. Heavy rains lashed for the fifth day Thursday in several parts of the country. Fifteen others were missing, Xinhua reported. Relief workers were struggling to get aid to the affected people in 11 districts. […]

Mangalore: Heavy rains that lashed the Shiradi Ghat area on Friday night made travel on the route absolutely nightmarish. With land slides reported from as many as ten places traffic came to a grinding halt on the Mangalore-Bangalore National Highway for several hours. Several trees have also been uprooted. Even the Kannur –Yeshwanthpur train service […]

Mangalore : The problem on the NH at Adyar, Kannur which saw knee deep water on the highway during the recent heavy rains, has been solved, with the MCC officials making the right move and demolishing the wall of a building which had blocked a storm water drain. The side drain was blocked due to […]

Udupi : Two persons lost their lives in accidents in Udupi district which witnessed heavy rains on Monday. In an incident reported from Kandlur in Kundapur, a person named Shekhar Poojari met a tragic end when he slipped and fell into the overflowing river. Incidentally, Shekhar Poojari was an expert swimmer who had saved several […]

Udupi: With the temple town of Udupi in the grips of acute water scarcity, the local MLA Raghupathi Bhat chose to turn to God to pray for early rains. He offered Bondabhisheka (tender coconut abhisheka) and special prayers at the Sri Anantheshwara Temple in the town to seek the blessings of the Rain God. Special […]

Mangalore: It was a 2- minute soft rainfall past midnight on Thursday in Bunder areas in early morning hours, followed by a break, and a 15-minite steady rains, with a break at again and there regular morning showers during market hours and office work starting period upto 11AM, when roads got wet, pools of muddy […]

Sullia: The DK district, especially hill areas in Puttur and Sullia had copious rains accompanied by thunder, lightning and strong winds, to cool the oven-hot region that needed drinking water for urban and rural areas alike. The flashy bolts in DK took one life, that of Girija(35) in Sullia taluk on Sunday evening when it […]

Mumbai: Four days of heavy downpour has hit the lifeline of Mumbai — the local trains. Tens of thousands of passengers had a harrowing time getting to office Monday morning as service at most stations was suspended due to flooding on the tracks, officials said. All Central Railway suburban train services were hit between Chhatrapati […]