Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau With a sharp drop in air quality in the national capital this morning, and the onset of winter reducing early morning visibility in several parts of India, the Delhi airport and the SpiceJet airlines issued separate advisories for passengers. The Delhi airport informed passengers about low visibility procedures in progress at…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Former home minister and Congress leader Shivraj Patil died aged 90 at his residence in Maharashtra’s Latur on Friday morning. He was keeping unwell for the past few days and breathed his last at his residence ‘Devghar’, his family sources told news agency PTI. Patil’s funeral is expected to be held…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau Authorities in California have taken into custody Berri Vikram, a Silicon Valley resident and founder of India-based mental health startup BetterLYF Wellness, after a chaotic series of events at a Saratoga winery ended with a car crash and his arrest. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said the incident unfolded on…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau At least 21 labourers were killed while one person miraculously survived after a truck carrying them skidded off a narrow mountain road and fell nearly 700 metres into a gorge near Metengliang in Arunachal Pradesh’s Anjaw district, officials said on Thursday. Anjaw superintendent of police (SP) Anurag Dwivedi said the group…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau The girl’s family members and locals also clashed with the police and put up a blockade on a key road in Bagda area, disrupting traffic movement. Tension prevailed at a high school in Bangaon in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, after a large group of people vandalised the…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. Amazon.com Inc. is doubling down on India with a $35-billion investment plan, even as Big Tech firms make a beeline to tap into the AI appetite of the world’s largest internet population. The US e-commerce giant will invest in areas such as artificial intelligence and logistics infrastructure, it said in a…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. Uttarakhand Governor Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh (Retd.) on Saturday underlined the role of public relations in interpreting India’s social and cultural landscape and supporting the country’s long-term development goals, during an interaction with a delegation of the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) at Lok Bhawan. The delegation called on the…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. Less than a week ago, Vinod Kumar, his wife, and her three sisters walked out of their Karawal Nagar home with packed suitcases, waving goodbye to his mother as they set off for a long-planned holiday to Goa. It was meant to be a rare getaway for the five of them,…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. PANAJI: Fourteen of the 25 killed in the fire tragedy at the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora in Goa were staff working in the main kitchen of the nightclub, which was located in the basement with no alternate escape routes, people familiar with the matter said. They belonged to Nepal…
Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau. The national capital woke up to a blanket of smog on Sunday morning, with the average Air Quality Index (AQI) at 9 am hitting 303, in the “very poor” category, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Despite a slight improvement from the recent weeks, several parts of the city…