Gurgaon schools go online, offices switch to WFH as heavy rain triggers waterlogging and traffic disruption Heavy rainfall, waterlogging and traffic disruption have prompted authorities in Gurugram to keep schools on online mode and advise offices to follow Work From Home (WFH) arrangements today, August 25, 2026. The District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) issued the…
Dhruv Jurel marked his century on Day Two of the second Test with a salute, before pointing to the tattoo on his biceps, ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ — former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s tribute to India’s soldiers and farmers during the 1965 Indo-Pak war.Jurel is the son of Kargil War veteran Nem Singh Jurel,…
Beneath the surface of the Great Barrier Reef, a 165-tonne building is being slowly reshaped by the environment around it. The Coral Greenhouse, an underwater installation at John Brewer Reef, was designed to work with the sea rather than simply sit on the seabed. Coral can grow across its surfaces, fish can move through its…
You can want the full ritual and still not be able to do it. That is the starting point for many Hindu families in the US and UK. Not indifference. Not lack of faith. Just real life.A proper yagya, also written yajna, is a Vedic fire ritual with trained chanting, offerings into a consecrated fire,…
Kangana Ranaut shared an Instagram reel contrasting her English speaking with Abhijeet Dipke’s NEW DELHI: Actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut has taken an apparent swipe at Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke by sharing an Instagram reel that compares their English-speaking abilities and contrasts clips of the two speaking in English.The reel, shared…
Mumbai’s auto and taxi driver sector has become a new political battleground. MUMBAI: As the two Shiv Senas battle it out with the ‘Marathi’ rule for auto and taxi drivers brought in by Shinde Sena and the Sena (UBT)’s opposition to bike taxis, their alliance partners BJP and Congress respectively are wary and trying to…
Chennai: Govt doctors have objected health department’s move to secure gold rings for newborns in hospitals through grilled storage enclosures and anchored cupboards, urging govt to instead use banks to hold and distribute the rings.The service doctors and post graduates association said the proposed hospital-based arrangement for ‘Thai Maaman Thanga Mothiram Thittam’ could draw doctors,…
Telangana BJP president N Ramchander Rao during the two-day hunger strike at the party office, in Hyderabad on Monday Hyderabad: Telangana BJP said it had collected signatures from five lakh students across the state as part of its campaign for the release of pending fee reimbursement dues, even as state president N Ramchander Rao began…
The underpass will remain closed until the water level recedes and the passage is safe for traffic Gurgaon: Medanta underpass once again bore the brunt of the city’s perennial waterlogging problem.Authorities on Monday closed it to traffic around 3pm after heavy rain left the passage inundated.This is the fourth time this monsoon season that the…
The gutted cars at the service centre The fire at the service centre on Jessore Road The gutted cars at the service centre The fire at the service centre on Jessore Road The gutted cars at the service centre Kolkata: A massive fire broke out at a car service centre on Jessore Road at Birati’s…
