National Crisis Committee

Veteran Congress leader and former Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Friday said he cannot predict the future of the INDIA bloc as he is not part of the negotiating committee of the national alliance, but said that the return of Narendra Modi

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has advised top officials of airline companies that the government will be forced to take concrete action if there is an unbridled hike in air fares, especially in the sector where Go First has stopped operation.

Pointing to the more than 1.2 million asylum seekers welcomed by Germany in 2015 and 2016, the UNHCR selection committee hailed former Chancellor Angela Merkel's "leadership, courage and compassion."

The US' influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee has urged the Quad nations to take a "more proactive role" in addressing Sri Lanka's political and economic crisis, while praising India's role in providing humanitarian assistance.

India as a key partner of the UK in the region and chair of the United Nations Sanctions Committee will have a very important role to play in dealing with the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan with the takeover of the Taliban, the UK government said.

Nirmala Sitharaman, in a virtual address to the FICCI National Executive Committee, asked the industry to wait and watch for next few days to assess the situation arising out of second wave of Covid-19

A 13.2 megawatt small hydro project on the Rishiganga river was swept away in the glacier burst in Uttarakhand today, but there is no danger of floods in the downstream areas as the water level has been contained, the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), headed by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, was told at an emergency meeting.

Weather Alert: The National Crisis Management Committee on Tuesday reviewed the situation evolving in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep where very heavy rain is expected in view of a deep depression emerging along the coastline. At a meeting in New Delhi, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba reviewed the situation

The ruling BJP, bombarded with questions from Rahul Gandhi on the China crisis, hit back today with a dig at his reported absence from meetings of the Standing Committee on Defence, a cross-party panel of MPs. BJP chief JP Nadda, in tweets, said the Congress MP "does not attend a single meeting" of the panel but continued to question the armed forc...

Nine districts in Maharashtra and Gujrat including Mumbai, Thane, Surat and Bhavnagar have been put on high alert by the Home Ministry as Cyclone Nisarga approaches. Cyclone Nisarga will make landfall along the Maharashtra coast on Wednesday with high wind speed ranging up to 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph, and heavy rain and storm in Mumbai and ...

40 people have died in rain-related incidents across Bihar as heavy rain wreaked havoc in several parts of the state. About 11,000 people have been evacuated in Patna. The National Crisis Management Committee this morning reviewed the flood situation in Bihar, where 16 districts have been affected by the deluge.

Rahul Gandhi refused to meet anyone for the second day in a row, making it clear that he would not reconsider his decision to quit as Congress president over the party's national election rout. Several Congress leaders went to Rahul Gandhi's home this morning but reportedly could meet only his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Ashok Gehlot and Sachin P...

The Congress today asked the media to "respect the sanctity" of the closed-door meeting of its working committee and "not fall into the trap of conjectures or speculations". The statement by the party's senior leader Randeep Surjewala comes as the party is under immense pressure following its decimation in the national elections and the decision of...

Rahul Gandhi today addressed top Congress leaders at a post-mortem of a national election debacle which, many say, exposes an existential crisis for the grand old party. During the high-level meeting that went for over three hours, the Congress president kept insisting that he should resign as party president, but it was unanimously rejected, sourc...

Cyclone Fani, which is forming over the Bay of Bengal with wind speeds up to 200 kmph, has turned into an "extremely severe cyclonic" storm, the Navy said late on Tuesday night. Coastal Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are on high alert. Cyclone Fani is expected to hit the Odisha coast by May 3. "The speed of Cyclone Fani at the time of rainfa...

Veteran Congress leader and former Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Friday said he cannot predict the future of the INDIA bloc as he is not part of the negotiating committee of the national alliance, but said that the return of Narendra Modi

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has advised top officials of airline companies that the government will be forced to take concrete action if there is an unbridled hike in air fares, especially in the sector where Go First has stopped operation.

Pointing to the more than 1.2 million asylum seekers welcomed by Germany in 2015 and 2016, the UNHCR selection committee hailed former Chancellor Angela Merkel's "leadership, courage and compassion."

The US' influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee has urged the Quad nations to take a "more proactive role" in addressing Sri Lanka's political and economic crisis, while praising India's role in providing humanitarian assistance.

India as a key partner of the UK in the region and chair of the United Nations Sanctions Committee will have a very important role to play in dealing with the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan with the takeover of the Taliban, the UK government said.

Nirmala Sitharaman, in a virtual address to the FICCI National Executive Committee, asked the industry to wait and watch for next few days to assess the situation arising out of second wave of Covid-19

A 13.2 megawatt small hydro project on the Rishiganga river was swept away in the glacier burst in Uttarakhand today, but there is no danger of floods in the downstream areas as the water level has been contained, the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), headed by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, was told at an emergency meeting.

Weather Alert: The National Crisis Management Committee on Tuesday reviewed the situation evolving in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep where very heavy rain is expected in view of a deep depression emerging along the coastline. At a meeting in New Delhi, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba reviewed the situation

The ruling BJP, bombarded with questions from Rahul Gandhi on the China crisis, hit back today with a dig at his reported absence from meetings of the Standing Committee on Defence, a cross-party panel of MPs. BJP chief JP Nadda, in tweets, said the Congress MP "does not attend a single meeting" of the panel but continued to question the armed forc...

Nine districts in Maharashtra and Gujrat including Mumbai, Thane, Surat and Bhavnagar have been put on high alert by the Home Ministry as Cyclone Nisarga approaches. Cyclone Nisarga will make landfall along the Maharashtra coast on Wednesday with high wind speed ranging up to 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph, and heavy rain and storm in Mumbai and ...

40 people have died in rain-related incidents across Bihar as heavy rain wreaked havoc in several parts of the state. About 11,000 people have been evacuated in Patna. The National Crisis Management Committee this morning reviewed the flood situation in Bihar, where 16 districts have been affected by the deluge.

Rahul Gandhi refused to meet anyone for the second day in a row, making it clear that he would not reconsider his decision to quit as Congress president over the party's national election rout. Several Congress leaders went to Rahul Gandhi's home this morning but reportedly could meet only his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Ashok Gehlot and Sachin P...

The Congress today asked the media to "respect the sanctity" of the closed-door meeting of its working committee and "not fall into the trap of conjectures or speculations". The statement by the party's senior leader Randeep Surjewala comes as the party is under immense pressure following its decimation in the national elections and the decision of...

Rahul Gandhi today addressed top Congress leaders at a post-mortem of a national election debacle which, many say, exposes an existential crisis for the grand old party. During the high-level meeting that went for over three hours, the Congress president kept insisting that he should resign as party president, but it was unanimously rejected, sourc...

Cyclone Fani, which is forming over the Bay of Bengal with wind speeds up to 200 kmph, has turned into an "extremely severe cyclonic" storm, the Navy said late on Tuesday night. Coastal Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are on high alert. Cyclone Fani is expected to hit the Odisha coast by May 3. "The speed of Cyclone Fani at the time of rainfa...