A fire rages in Parson Valley range in the Nilgiris, burning through more than 800 hectares in two weeks When the Nilgiris forests caught fire two weeks ago, Tamil Nadu’s forest department fought back with everything it had — drones, more than 400 field staff and an Indian Air Force Mi-17 V5 helicopter equipped with…
An intense but brief spell of thunderstorms, gusty winds and hailstorms lashed Hyderabad and several districts across Telangana on Sunday evening, bringing much-needed relief from the blistering heatwave that gripped the state earlier in the day.The sudden weather shift followed a day of extreme temperatures, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Hyderabad, warning that such…
The highly anticipated fourth instalment in the ‘Spider-Man’ franchise – ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ – is already off to a record-breaking start at the box office, just a day after opening its advance ticket sales. The film that brings back Tom Holland as Peter Parker in the next chapter of the Marvel superhero franchise has…
New Delhi: A gang allegedly involved in carjacking and extorting cab drivers at knifepoint in Rohini has been busted, with three people arrested, police said.The case came to light after a cab driver was robbed and injured on New Karala Road in Jain Nagar early Monday. A PCR call regarding the robbery was received at…
The Rs 1,546-crore venture, known as the Ludhiana Bulk Water Supply Scheme under the Punjab Municipal Services Improvement Project, is backed financially and technically by the World Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Ludhiana: To address public criticism over frequent road digging, the Ludhiana Urban Water and Waste Water Management Ltd has uploaded the…
The sea change that should alarm all of us. Image Credits: Google Gemini Picture this: every winter, like clockwork, cold winds sweep across Central America, stirring up the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Panama. That stirring pulls up cold, nutrient-rich water from the depths, a process called upwelling, and everything that depends on it…
Kolkata: Veteran Trinamool MLA Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay on Saturday handed over a copy of the controversial resolution book to CID investigators as the agency intensified its probe into the Signgate case.The Ballygunge MLA said he himself called the CID to come over to his place and collect the copy of the May 19 resolution, for which…
Chennai: Every year, thousands of Class X and XII state board students in Tamil Nadu receive their provisional marksheets only to find their names misprinted—and then spend weeks navigating a correction process that school officials say is entirely avoidable.The problem is transliteration. Sanskrit-derived name prefixes like “Shri” or “Sha” are routinely garbled into “Ri,” “Siri”…
NEW DELHI: Days after the assembly polls, Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant Chandranath Rath’s killing in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas triggered a political storm in the state.Rath was shot dead by motorcycle-borne assailants, who tailed his vehicle, forced it to stop and opened fire in full public view at around 10.30 pm before fleeing.The incident…
Rupee extended its losing streak on Tuesday, slipping to a record low of 95.63 against the US dollar in early trade, as it remained under pressure from rising oil prices, intensifying geopolitical tensions and fragile investor sentiment.The decline follows an already weak session on Monday, when rupee fell 82 paise to close at 95.31. Sentiment…
