Bengaluru: Mangoes appear to be becoming less sweet, for both buyers and growers. Year after year, recurring issues have sharply reduced production in Karnataka, pushing up prices. With a dip in production of nearly 5 lakh tonnes expected this year, mango prices are likely to rise to Rs 150-200 a kg.In a good year, mangoes…
Fishing ban comes to an end Chennai: The first Sunday after the seasonal fishing ban was lifted brought large crowds to Chennai’s Kasimedu harbour. However, celebrations were short-lived as a dramatically thin catch drove fish prices to punishing highs.Species such as sankara, aiyla, vanjiram, nethili, paarai, soorai, crab, and squid arrived in meagre quantities, triggering…
Navi Mumbai: The Maharashtra Forest Department moved to enlarge the DPS Flamingo Lake Conservation Reserve area to 36 hectares from the earlier proposed 12 hectares, a step conservationists said could effectively checkmate Cidco’s controversial realty plans for the ecologically sensitive wetland. The revised proposal awaited the final Govt Resolution (GR) and substantially increased the protected…
Scientists have uncovered something unusual deep inside the Milky Way. It is not a new planet or a hidden star. A giant magnetic twist that seems to cut across the galaxy in a strange diagonal pattern. The finding comes from new radio observations, and it is already making researchers rethink how our galaxy is structured….
Preliminary investigation suggests that the auto caught fire suddenly, possibly due to a cylinder explosion, and the driver may not have been able to escape in time Preliminary investigation suggests that the auto caught fire suddenly, possibly due to a cylinder explosion, and the driver may not have been able to escape in time Preliminary…
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Tuesday sought responses from Goa govt and state election commission (SEC) on two petitions challenging an ordinance empowering SEC to carry out delimitation and reservation for municipal elections.The court posted the matter for final hearing on June 10.One petition, filed by Trajano D’Mello, seeks directions to conduct elections to…
NEW DELHI: A 38-year-old woman arrested in Jaipur last week was planning to travel to Pakistan to marry a close associate of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, officials said on Thursday.The woman, identified as Babita Dhakar alias “Khadija”, allegedly intended to enter Pakistan via Nepal. She had been under surveillance by military intelligence agencies for…
Hisar: Police have arrested two men after 2.72 kg of opium was allegedly recovered from them near Agroha. Shiv Dayal and Aklesh Kumar, both residents of Jharkhand, were planning to deliver a large consignment of opium near the Jhiri Agroha Mod bridge when a team of crime investigation agency caught them on a tip-off, police…
The protester was waving an upside-down American flag when she was hit, video shows. A protest outside a US immigration detention centre turned chaotic on Sunday after a demonstrator was struck by a car while waving an upside-down American flag, reports the New York Post.The incident happened outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey where…
Lucknow: Intense hot and humid conditions continued across the state on Thursday, with Banda emerging as the country’s hottest location at 43.2 degrees Celsius.Odisha’s Boudh recorded 42.8 degrees Celsius, while Brahmapuri in Maharashtra registered 42.3 degrees Celsius. Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh and Bathinda in Punjab shared the fourth spot at 42.2 degrees Celsius.Across Uttar Pradesh,…
