Four persons were killed, while 10 went missing and hundreds remained stranded on Friday due to the heaviest spell of snow in Jammu and Kashmir so far this season, authorities said.


4 dead in J&K after seasons heaviest snowfall


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Ten people were reported missing after an avalanche hit the Jammu-Srinagar highway. The strategic 300 km-long road remained closed for the third consecutive day on Friday due to heavy snowfall and landslides, police said.


10 missing after avalanche hits Jammu-Srinagar highway


Heavy rains, accompanied with hailstorms, hitting northwest India for past three days have damaged standing crops, raising concerns over the overall output and the quality this season.


Heavy rains, hailstorm damage crops in northwest India


Fresh snowfall in the Kashmir Valley and rains in plains of Jammu on Thursday adversely affected life across the state with people forced to stay indoors without electricity at many places, road links snapped and flight operation disrupted.


Heavy snow in J&K, roads closed, flights cancelled


Flight operations were suspended on Thursday at the Srinagar airport due to poor visibility and heavy snowfall.


Flight operations suspended at Srinagar airport


US President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated David Malpass, one of his top economic advisers and a Wall Street veteran, to be the next president of the World Bank.


Trump nominates David Malpass to head World Bank


The government on Wednesday approved a proposal for setting up of 12,000 MW of solar power projects by state-run producers.


Government approves setting up of 12,000 MW solar power projects


India and Germany on Wednesday agreed that after their robust bilateral economic cooperation, they will focus on the environment and cooperate on water and waste management.


India, Germany decide to cooperate on water, waste management


The Congress on Wednesday alleged that three successive BJP-led governments in Goa had facilitated several illegalities in an eco-tourism project promoted by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's son Abhijat in a south Goa village next to a wildlife sanctuary.


Congress alleges illegalities in eco-tourism project of Parrikar's son


Three men booked under the National Security Act (NSA) for cow slaughter in Madhya Pradesh were likely to be transferred to Rewa Jail from Khandwa, police said on Wednesday.


3 held for cow slaughter may be shifted to Rewa jail


Flight operations were adversely affected on Wednesday at the Srinagar international airport due to bad weather, officials said.


Flight operations suspended in Srinagar due to bad weather


Fresh snowfall in the Bannihal sector on Wednesday forced closure of the Jammu-Srinagar highway.


Fresh snowfall closes Jammu-Srinagar highway


The number of deaths due to the collapse of an iron mine dam on January 25 in the Brazilian city of Brumadinho has risen to 142 on Tuesday and the number of missing persons has dropped to 194, according to the latest Civil Defense report.


Death toll from mining dam collapse in Brazil rises to 142


A 5.6 magnitude earthquake rocked the Valley on Tuesday evening as people at many places ran out of their homes in panic.


5.6 magnitude earthquake jolts Valley


A year after the Supreme Court banned mining in the coastal state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to meet a delegation of mining dependents from Goa along with the party's local MPs and ruling MLAs from the state's mining belt in the national capital on February 6, in a bid to restart mining.


PM likely to meet Goa delegation over mining resumption


The Vedanta Group on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that if the high level of water pollution was the ground for shutting down its Thoothukudi Copper smelting plant, then by that measure other industries too should face closure.


If Sterlite plant closed for water pollution, then others too be shut: Vedanta to SC


India and Monaco can further augment their ties by focusing on areas such as environment and climate change and renewable energy where they have a "strong meeting of minds", President Ram Nath Kovind said on Tuesday.


Climate change, renewable energy priorities in India-Monaco ties: President


A wide-eyed owl found its way into the cockpit of a Jet Airways Boeing 777 that was parked for the night at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, officials said  on Monday.


Owl found in Jet plane cockpit at Mumbai airport


A team of scientists from the state-run Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research will conduct a 40-month atmospheric study on the impact of fog on the Bengaluru airport operations, said its operator on Monday.


Scientists to study impact of fog on Bengaluru airport


More than 100 tortoises were seized from a train at the Dhanbad railway station in Jharkhand on Monday, police said.


100 tortoises seized in Jharkhand


Dense fog descended over the national capital on a cold Monday morning bringing down visibility to 50 metres disrupting road, rail and air traffic as the minimum temperature was recorded at 8 degrees Celsius, one notch below normal.

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