Chennai: The first phase of Census 2027, for houselisting and housing, will begin across Tamil Nadu on Saturday, with around 1.15 lakh enumerators set to conduct a month-long door-to-door survey covering every household in the state.Enumerators will collect information through a 33-question schedule on housing conditions, civic amenities and access to utilities until Aug 30,…
Gold and silver ornaments recovered from the accused Hyderabad: Karimnagar police arrested three accused from Meerut in connection with a robbery in which the assailants, brandishing dummy pistols and knives, tied up four members of a family and decamped with valuables. According to the police, the 80-year-old victim’s son-in-law and grandson had orchestrated the robbery…
File picture of an waterlogged Kolkata street Kolkata: Even as India grapples with an unpredictable monsoon, Bengal has emerged as an anomaly, recording near-normal rainfall despite a 30% deficit across eastern and northeastern India, a Climate Trends briefing has found.Monsoon 2026 began under the threat of a developing Super El Niño, prompting the India Meteorological…
Anti power theft drive at Mehandipur, Greater Noida on Thursday Noida: The power department has intensified its crackdown on electricity theft in Greater Noida’s rural areas, detecting illegal connections at more than 20 locations over the past two days. On Thursday alone, officials found 7,106 W of unauthorised consumption from three spots in Mehandipur Bangar….
AMC cancels Jaya-Parvati Vrat events at Riverfront, Kankaria Ahmedabad: In view of the India Meteorological Department’s forecast of extremely heavy rainfall across Ahmedabad and other parts of Gujarat over the next few days, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has cancelled special arrangements planned for women and girls observing Jaya-Parvati Vrat. Acting on instructions from mayor Hitesh…
Guwahati: 80 deaths, over 2L still displaced, and now, no place to cremate the deads.The Assam floods have not only destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands, but have also robbed the dead of a customary dignified farewell, much to the anguish and pain of their loved ones.With cremation grounds and ancestral homesteads in upper…
Lucknow: A family of four was found dead inside their house in UP’s Balrampur district on Friday evening in a suspected case of murder followed by suicide.The deceased were identified as Bajrang Giri (28), his wife Komal (25), their three-year-old daughter Shraddha, and 10-month-old son Jaydeep.According to the preliminary investigation, Bajrang Giri allegedly shot his…
Jaipur: Rajasthan continues to lag the national average in rural tap water coverage nearly seven years after the launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), with only 59.11% of rural households having functional tap water connections compared with the national average of 82.09%, Centre informed Parliament.Replying to a question by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Satish…
Medical personnel shift an injured migrant worker to an ambulance outside the Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital SRINAGAR: Terrorists shot dead a 24-year-old labourer from Chhattisgarh and critically wounded another from the same state at a brick kiln in south Kashmir’s Kulgam on Friday evening, marking the first fatal attack on migrant workers in J&K…
On a hot summer day, when most of his peers grabbed a drink from the cooler and moved on, Quazeem Tiamiyu paused to think about what’s underneath. That very thought led this University of Maine student to develop something extraordinary: a safe alternative to the toxic conventional insulation used in beverage coolers. And he built…
