A farmer in Kurugodu, Ballari district, sprays bio-pesticide on a chilli crop to control the infestation of black thrips, one of the most destructive pests affecting chilli cultivation across Karnataka. Bengaluru: Tiny enough to escape the naked eye but destructive enough to devastate an entire crop, black thrips have emerged as one of the gravest…
Informal workers labor in Tamil Nadu’s sweltering heat across farms, construction sites, brick kilns, salt pans, and stone quarries, highlighting harsh working conditions and heat stress in India’s unorganized sector. Chennai: Nearly 88% of outdoor informal workers surveyed across 11 Tamil Nadu districts were exposed to unsafe heat levels during summer, while 42.5% faced such…
The 50 Wh off-the-shelf satellite battery pack developed by Hyderabad-based TakeMe2Space that has become the first `Made in India’ pack to get space qualified on a private orbital flight by performing at an altitude of 450 km in low Earth orbit. Hyderabad: An indigenously built satellite battery pack developed by Hyderabad-based spacetech startup TakeMe2Space has…
KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed investigating authorities not to take coercive steps against Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee in three FIRs — filed at Bhowanipore, Kalitala and Bishnupur police stations — until Aug 6, when the matter will be heard next.Investigators may, however, continue the probe. Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya also directed the state…
Dibrugarh: Floodwaters have marooned families and swallowed roads across Sivasagar and Charaideo, but volunteers are battling through Assam’s devastation with food, water and hope.For five consecutive days, Global Sikhs teams have waded through waterlogged villages, ferried supplies by boat and cleared mud-choked homes in the two upper Assam districts.They have distributed emergency food packets, drinking…
LUCKNOW: Two men working on a Jal Jeevan Mission water tank project were found dead under suspicious circumstances near a roadside field in Hardoi district on Thursday.According to police, the Dial 112 control room received information around 11 am that two bodies were lying near the roadside on the Atrauli route between Takiya and Atamau…
Jaipur: Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot Wednesday accused Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) of indirectly helping the BJP by splitting anti-BJP votes and turning elections into three-cornered contests.Addressing mediapersons, Gehlot appealed to BAP functionaries and workers to return to the Congress, saying his party had always protected Adivasi interests. He said BAP may have been…
Protest against NEET UG paper leak was held at Jantar Mantar (ANI images) NEW DELHI: NEET-UG 2026 was compromised after the same set of individuals was entrusted with both question-setting and translation, exposing a key procedural lapse.The teachers entrusted with setting and translating the NEET-UG 2026 question paper allegedly memorised the final questions, reconstructed them…
Hermitage quarry beside Oaken Wood. Under the soil sits Kentish ragstone, which Kent county council says is crucial for the conservation of ancient buildings. In 1600, Oaken Wood near Maidstone was already an established English woodland; in 2026, Kent County Council proposed turning 41 hectares of it into a stone quarry, reports the Guardian.The Reform-led…
Baba Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved’s Managing Director Acharya Balkrishna (File Photo) Patanjali Ayurved, which is known for its herbal and other fast-moving consumer goods, is now set to enter financial services through a nearly Rs 4,500 crore acquisition.The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) has approved the acquisition of Magma General Insurance by…
