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There were also reports of atleast 50 trees being uprooted by strong winds. (Photo: Twitter | @tnsdma)

4 dead as heavy rains batter TN; cyclone Ockhi heads for Lakshadweep

TN State Disaster Management Agency said that the depression is likely to intensify further into a cyclonic storm during...

30 Nov 2017 10:03 AM GMT

A Rohingya refugee girl looks next to newly arrived refugees who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in Ukhiya. (Photo: AFP)

The year of the missing: Where's our humanity?

All genocidal intent in India's new policy is a clerical act of reclassification and the Rohingya go missing.

3 Jan 2018 9:28 PM GMT

S. Sobha (right), tailoring instructor at the Animation Centre at Vallavilai in Tamil Nadu along with the other widows. (Photo: Asian Age)

Widows turn to tailoring to stitch up their lives

Thanks to Fr Darwin Peter, the widows are fast picking up lessons to start life anew.

26 Feb 2018 11:04 PM GMT

Fisherwomen at Vallavilai collect fish catch from the boats. (Photo: Asian Age)

Braving insurmountable odds

Cyclone Ockhi had claimed 144 lives from Vallavilai and seven other parishes under the Latin Catholic Archdiocese of...

26 Feb 2018 11:07 PM GMT

Prime Minister said that the Union Government will support the cyclone-affected States through a package of relief measures. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Cyclone Ockhi: PM announces relief measures for affected states

PM assured the people that all help will be provided to them, the Govt stands shoulder to shoulder with them in this...

19 Dec 2017 2:24 PM GMT

More than 75 people have been killed and hundreds of fishermen are missing in the wake of Ockhi.

Centre biased in aiding Ockhi-hit states: Opposition

Calls for stronger coordination; Cong walks out of LS.

22 Dec 2017 6:46 PM GMT

A man uses his umbrella as he walks on a street during rains in Thane. Cyclone Ockhi brought unseasonal rains to some parts of the state. (Photo: Deepak Kurkunde)

Cyclone Ockhi weakens into depression, may not hit Gujarat

Although the cyclone has weakened, the state administration has made all the preparation to meet any eventuality.

6 Dec 2017 2:08 AM GMT

Road and rail traffic was partially unaffected. (Photo: Rajesh Jadhav)

Weather could be normal today, says IMD

Mumbai witnessed a decline of five degrees in temperature on Tuesday, with a minimum temperature reaching up to 22...

5 Dec 2017 8:25 PM GMT

Road and rail traffic was partially unaffected. (Photo: Rajesh Jadhav)

WR on high alert, trains on CR line delayed, public transport runs...

Road transport and trains ran empty as several working professionals opted to work from home.

5 Dec 2017 8:17 PM GMT

BJP chief Amit Shah attacked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for asking Prime Minister Narendra Modis report card for the NDA governments work in Amethi. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Cyclone hits poll campaign

Mr Shah's poll rallies in Rajula town of Amreli and Mahuva and Shihor of Bhavnagar district were cancelled.

5 Dec 2017 8:04 PM GMT

Devotees resting inside a BMC school in Dadar. (Photo: Rajesh Jadhav)

Dadar civic schools host Ambedkar devotees in Mumbai

The civic agency has also deployed a team of doctors and arranged for ambulances around Chaitya Bhoomi, his Dadar-based...

5 Dec 2017 7:57 PM GMT

Fishermen pull their boat during high tide in the Arabian Sea in Mumbai on Tuesday. The weather office has issued a rain and thundershower warning for Mumbai and suburbs beginning on Monday night in view of Cyclone Ockhi. (Photo: AP)

PM Modi assures assistance, says monitoring all states

Rainfall at most places with isolated heavy rainfall very likely over Andaman and Nicobar Islands during next three...

5 Dec 2017 7:36 PM GMT