A thick blanket of flog that reduced visibility in the Indian capital Saturday seriously disrupted flights and trains, leaving thousands stranded, officials said. About a dozen domestic and four international flights were delayed, officials at the Indira Gandhi International Airport said. One official said the airport was expected to return to normalcy towards midday. Trains [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fog’
Thick fog hits flights, railways in Delhi
January 8th, 2011 |
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Rains give respite from fog, but rail services affected
December 28th, 2010 |
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The capital witnessed light rainfall early Tuesday, adding to the chill. It helped ease heavy fog conditions as also flight operations at the Delhi airport, but rail services continued to be hit with 50 trains affected. “There is a western disturbance over Jammu and Kashmir, because of which Delhi witnessed light rainfall this (Tuesday) morning,” [...]
Fog disrupts flights, trains in Delhi again
December 27th, 2010 |
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Flight and trains schedules were again disrupted Monday as a heavy fog enveloped the national capital. The weather office, however, forecast a sunny day ahead. Many passengers were stranded at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here with several flights running behind schedule. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the fog would clear, making way for [...]
Now, technology to see through fog
April 3rd, 2010 |
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Engineers have developed a new technology that will enable pilots to peer through fog and doctors to see more precisely into the human body without surgery.
Developed by Princeton engineers, the method relies on the surprising ability to clarify an image using rays of light that would typically make the image unrecognisable, such as those scattered [...]
Delhi Fog: Flight operations normal, but trains affected
January 18th, 2010 |
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A shallow fog enveloped the national capital Monday morning, disrupting rail services. However flight operations remained unaffected, said an airport official.
According to a Northern Railway spokesperson, at least 24 trains were cancelled and 18 were running behind schedule because of the fog.
“Trains like the Amritsar-Katihar Express, Jhansi-Lucknow Express and 22 others were cancelled because of [...]
Fog delays start of India-Bangladesh Test
January 17th, 2010 |
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Fog and murky conditions have delayed the start of the opening day’s play in the first cricket Test between India and Bangladesh at Chittagong on Sunday. India, the top-ranked Test side, are due to play two Tests on the short tour. Â Keep up with the latest business news from the
Fog may play spoilsport during solar eclipse Jan 15
January 13th, 2010 |
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As the capital’s residents eagerly await the millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse Jan 15 – even if seen only partially from here, dense fog predicted early in the day by the Met department may play spoilsport in viewing the celestial phenomenon.
D.P. Yadav, director of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) told IANS: “There is likely to [...]
Cold wave conditions persist in North India
January 9th, 2010 |
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North India continues to shiver as cold wave persists even as dense fog again impacted schedules of trains and flights while Delhi woke up to an almost clear sky on Saturday.
After three consecutive days of dense fog, Delhi woke up to an almost clear sky on Saturday, even as the severe cold wave continued to [...]
Trains collide due to heavy fog
January 3rd, 2010 |
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At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured in three separate accidents involving trains in the fog-bound northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday, police and railway officials said. In the first accident, an inter-city express rammed into the back of a stationary passenger train
Tony Parker Eva Longoria London Fog Ad Campaign Holiday 2009
October 21st, 2009 |
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Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker and her husband, NBA San Antonio Spurs point guard, Tony Parker, have been tapped to appear in the 2009 London Fog holiday marketing campaign, marking the couple’s first fashion campaign together.
“It was fun to work together,†Eva says the series of saucy snaps shot by photographer Nino Munoz at [...]
The fog of war
August 13th, 2009 |
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Unravelling the Ossetia conflict, one year later
ONE year after the Georgian war, its outcome is as debatable as the cause. Depending on where you stand, the war can be seen as the sinister culmination of a systematic provocation by a neo-imperialist Russia or as a murderously aggressive gambit by a Caucasian strongman wrongheadedly backed by the West.
The truth is somewhere in between. Russia did systematically provoke Georgia in the months leading up to the war. Its military counter-attack was disproportionate. But it is hard to avoid the conclusion that President Mikheil Saakashvili’s inner circle was badly penetrated by Russia, that decision-making processes were chaotic and amateurish, and that the move to retake the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali (pictured), played into his enemy’s hands. …
Gisele Bundchen London Fog Ads F/W 2009/10 (Photos)
July 29th, 2009 |
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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen poses seductively in a stylish trench coat in a series of new promos for the London Fog Fall/Winter Collection ad campaign.
The London Fog campaign is the first that Gisele has appeared in since news of her pregnancy broke earlier this summer.
“Although Gisele was photographed while pregnant, most of the shots have [...]