The turnaround comes after steadily rising demand in early June as residents relied heavily on air conditioners and cooling appliances Chandigarh: After touching a season-high peak demand of 421MW earlier this week amid intense heat, the city saw a sharp drop in electricity consumption Friday, with peak load falling to 292MW following rain and a…
Located on the island of Java, Prambanan is Indonesia’s largest Hindu temple complex and the second-largest in Southeast Asia Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday visited the historic Prambanan Temple complex in Indonesia alongside President Prabowo Subianto, offering prayers at the nearly 1,000-year-old Hindu shrine dedicated to the Trimurti — Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu and…
Woman and cab driver found dead in car BADLAPUR: A woman and a cab driver were found dead inside a parked car in Badlapur (East) on Thursday afternoon, with police suspecting that the woman was murdered before the driver allegedly died by suicide. The case came to light after the woman’s four-year-old son reportedly alerted…
Chennai: The Doctors’ Association for Social Equality has criticized the TN assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar and called his views against abortion as an infringement upon women’s rights.Association general secretary Dr G R Ravindranath said women have the legal right to undergo abortion under the law enacted in India in 1971, and that the…
New Delhi: Four persons, including a BCA student and two minors, have been nabbed for murdering a 60-year-old security guard by thrashing him with a stick and then running him over twice with an SUV in west Delhi’s Peeragarhi, over a month-old personal grudge.Two of the arrested accused have been identified as Vinay, 22, a…
AIAPGET 2026 registration begins The National Testing Agency (NTA) has started the online registration process for the All India AYUSH Post Graduate Entrance Test (AIAPGET) 2026. Eligible candidates can now submit their application forms through the official website, exams.nta.ac.in/aiapget, till July 30, 2026, 11:50 pm.AIAPGET is conducted by the NTA on behalf of the Ministry…
Gandhinagar: An analysis of school dropouts in Gujarat has found that the lack of admission opportunities at higher levels is one of the key reasons students leave school at different stages. A study conducted by the state education department shows that around 4 lakh students drop out from their schools due to non-availability of admission…
monsoon Chandigarh:Struggling to manage heavy monsoon rains: City’s storm water drainage system designed for 15-25mm rain per hour, role of season rivulets crucial but need substantial increase in carrying capacity: Choes are unable to take the water properly, due to which they flow at very higher level than their tail points at Chandigarh Punjab border,…
Rajkot: Fearing social disgrace, a married woman allegedly conspired with her mother and cousin to kill her newborn boy conceived out of an illicit relationship in Porbandar. The incident came to light after the woman’s husband, Vipul Vasan found out the truth and filed a police complaint on May 4 at the Madhavpur police station…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court in a July 14 order directed Bengal Police to arrest cricketer Abhishek Porel and seize his electronic devices. Porel is facing criminal charges of rape lodged by a third-year medical student who alleged she was sexually assaulted and abused with a false promise of marriage. She had moved HC alleging…
