Air India Express flight evacuated NEW DELHI: A bomb threat email received on IndiGo’s grievance portal on Wednesday triggered a high alert at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), before being declared a hoax by authorities. The message mentioned several airports – including those in Delhi, Chennai, and Goa – prompting precautionary checks across all…
Visakhapatnam: Strong winds sway palm trees as fishing boats are pulled ashore in the wake of Cyclone Montha, in Visakhapatnam. (PTI Photo) KAIKNADA/BHUBANESWAR: Cyclone Montha roared ashore on the eastern coast Tuesday night, slamming into Andhra Pradesh between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam near Kakinada with winds topping 100km an hour and sheets of rain that ripped…
Super Typhoon Ragasa struck Xiachuan Island, China, bringing fierce winds, heavy rain, and widespread flooding after wreaking havoc in Hong Kong. One of the strongest storms in years, Ragasa has prompted Chinese authorities to issue evacuation orders for two million people.The national meteorological agency predicted that the powerful typhoon would hit the coast between Yangjiang…
Thousands of residents in Hong Kong were evacuated overnight after workers uncovered a massive US-made bomb from World War II at a construction site in Quarry Bay, a busy residential and commercial district on Hong Kong Island.“We have confirmed this object to be a bomb dating back to World War II,” Andy Chan Tin-Chu, a…
NEW DELHI: Several schools in the Delhi received bomb threat calls on Saturday, prompting evacuations and large-scale security checks, news agency ANI reported. According to police, Delhi Public School (DPS) Dwarka, Krishna Model Public School and Sarvodaya Vidyalaya were among those targeted.Bomb squads and police teams were rushed to the campuses, and students and staff…
Representational AI image Hong Kong police on Friday evacuated around 6,000 residents after a World War II bomb was found at a construction site in Quarry Bay. The bomb is about 1.5 metres long and weighs nearly 450 kilograms. Police said it remains “fully functional” and warned of high risks in dismantling it. The disposal…