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…
New Delhi: While returning from work on Thursday night, an exhausted Shekhar decided to postpone refuelling his car till the next morning. But when he stopped at a petrol pump before heading to office on Friday, he came to know that fuel prices had gone up overnight. “I now have to shell out nearly Rs…
CBSE’s new three-language framework places students at the crossroads of choice, compulsion and India’s unresolved language politics. A circular arrived in mid-May. With a quiet administrative confidence that is the hallmark of a policy that believes it is on the right side of history, the Central Board of Secondary Education informed schools across the country…
Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta indirectly reacted to the trolling faced by Janhvi Kapoor over her Peddi scenes, saying social media is “literally destroying” young actors’ careers. Without naming her, he wrote that actors face a ruthless and unforgiving world where the audience is “judge, jury and algorithm.” Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta has been quite vocal on social…
People gather at the accident site Varanasi: At least 11 people were killed in a collision involving multiple vehicles that led to fire in an SUV in the Dramandganj area of Mirzapur late Wed evening. The tragedy took place when two trucks, a car and an SUV collided on the steep slope of Dramandganj hills…
New Delhi: A case of dowry death has been registered two days after a 25-year-old woman died after allegedly falling from a building in west Delhi’s Dasghara village.The woman was married to Raju Singh, who works in customer verification for a private real estate company. The couple, married in 2022, and had a six-month-old child….
AI image used for representational purpose only NEW DELHI: The Regional Plan 2041, set to be adopted next week by NCR Planning Board (NCRPB), proposes developing 5-8 new townships in the region and advocates “30 minutes NCR” — keeping travel time between cities, including Delhi, to half an hour through a network of high-speed trains.The…
A routine baggage screening at an Alabama airport turned into an extraordinary security incident after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers discovered five Civil War-era cannonballs hidden inside a checked suitcase. The rusted artillery relics, some as large as grapefruits and wrapped individually in paper towels, had allegedly been taken by a teenager from Fort Morgan,…
A video posted on X showed the accused touching 203 kmph in his car Hyderabad: A man who drove his car at 200 kmph on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) and uploaded a video of the act on social media was arrested by the Narsingi police.According to the police, the incident took place on May…
US stocks edged lower on Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision later in the day, while rising crude prices linked to the Iran war kept pressure on market sentiment.The S&P 500 fell 0.2 per cent, a day after retreating from its record high amid weakness in artificial-intelligence stocks and concerns over…
