Pic only for representation Mumbai: Mumbai Climate Week chief convener and Project Mumbai founder-CEO Shishir Joshi has been invited to join the nine-member Earthshot Prize India Advisory Council, which will shape the global environmental initiative’s programmes and partnerships in India. The appointment comes ahead of the 2026 Earthshot Prize events in Mumbai on Nov 16…
Kendriya Vidyalaya school students travel on the inaugural Madgaon-Mangaluru-Bengaluru Vande Bharat train in Mangaluru on Friday Mangaluru/Bengaluru: Rail connectivity between Bengaluru and coastal Karnataka is set for a major upgrade with the launch of the Bengaluru–Mangaluru–Madgaon Vande Bharat Express and the commissioning of electrification along the challenging 55-km Sakleshpur–Subrahmanya Road ghat section.Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw…
Chennai: Space tech startup Agnikul has decided to establish an industrial unit in Andhra Pradesh’s space city, located in Tirupati district, to support equatorial launch operations and build a space-based orbital data centre platform, it said on Friday.The company plans to enable end-to-end support for equatorial and low-inclination launch operations, which suit east-bound launches carrying…
Hyderabad: Seven Army jawans sustained injuries when the Army truck they were travelling in rammed into a roadside tree at Chevella on Friday morning. Police said all seven jawans were out of danger and no case had been registered. According to Chevella police, the incident occurred around 6.30 am when the Army truck, carrying 13…
Pollution levels remained alarmingly high in Gurgaon on Friday, with Gwalpahari recording an AQI of 417 and TERI Gram reporting 400 Gurgaon: Pollution levels in the city remained dangerously high, with the air quality index (AQI) touching 417 at Gwalpahari and 400 at TERI Gram on Friday. Doctors warned that sustained exposure to fine particulate…
Children Killed In Accidents in Behala Chowrasta-Taratala Kolkata: The Majerhat accident, which claimed the life of 12-year-old Anmol Jha, reignited public outrage against persistent vulnerability of schoolchildren on Kolkata’s southern industrial transit corridors between Taratala and Behala Chowrasta on one side and the Tarata-Port stretch on the other.Over the past decade from 2016 to 2026,…
Panaji: Goa police on Friday registered an FIR against the headmistress of a primary school and a class teacher for allegedly failing to report the alleged sexual assault of a minor boy on school premises, a day after a TOI report. The child in conflict with the law (CCL) has been produced before the Juvenile…
Varanasi: A contract has been awarded for the construction of a 60 MLD sewage treatment plant in the Durga Nala and Lohta areas as part of river rejuvenation efforts. The project is targeted for completion by December 2027.District magistrate Satyendra Kumar chaired a review meeting on Thursday to discuss environmental conservation, river cleanliness and measures…
Ahmedabad: As the festive glow faded across the city, so did the lingering warmth, with both daytime highs and nighttime lows settling back into their seasonal rhythm, signalling the gradual transition toward pleasant winter conditions..According to India Meteorological Department (IMD), the city recorded a maximum temperature of 33.5°C — just 0.3°C above the seasonal average…
Police inspect the site in Panjab University’s Botanical Garden where a head constable was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot Chandigarh/Amritsar: It was a day of tragedies for Punjab Police as three of its personnel died on duty under mysterious circumstances on Friday — two of them from self-inflicted gunshots from service weapons and a…
