A paddy field ravaged by swarming caterpillars in Sivasagar district Guwahati: Swarming caterpillars have spread across nearly 2,400 hectares of paddy fields in flood-hit Charaideo and Sivasagar districts, damaging crops weeks before they enter the crucial flowering stage.While Sivasagar bore the worst and longest flood impact, the caterpillar infestation has been more severe in Charaideo,…
Lucknow: A nine-year-old boy was injured after a leopard attacked him in Rangeelalpurwa village of Naubana gram panchayat under Katarniaghat wildlife division late Sunday night.The child was rescued after his mother and elder brother confronted the animal and forced it to retreat into the nearby forest.The boy is a student of Class IV. According to…
Jaipur: A day after the arrest of Rahul Jha for the alleged murders of his wife and three daughters in the city’s Kardhani area, police Monday said he had initially planned to kill only his eldest daughter, before changing his mind and going after his wife and two other daughters as well.Police said the accused…
NEW DELHI: A day after Union home minister Amit Shah expressed confidence that 21 NDA-governed states would implement Uniform Civil Code by 2029, three BJP allies struck a circumspect note.Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu, parliamentary party leader of Telugu Desam Party which is in office in Andhra Pradesh, told TOI, “As of now, there is no…
55-meters-deep Swedish limestone quarry When mining stopped at an isolated limestone quarry in central Sweden in 1990, the local area was left with a 55-metre-deep industrial pit cut into the pine forests outside Rättvik. Just a year later, a former opera singer discovered that the abandoned quarry had remarkable natural acoustics. Today, the former mining…
Jennifer Aniston won hearts with her sweet declaration of love for her boyfriend, Jim Curtis. The actress played the supportive girlfriend as she celebrated the launch of Jim’s new book.The ‘Friends’ star took to her Instagram Stories to show her support for Curtis’ book, ‘The Book of Possibility’, which was released on September 8. Sharing…
Woodland standing in Epping Forest, south of High Beach, England. Image Credit: Wikipedia Britain has been planting new woodland on former farmland, but a 25-year study found that these new woods can take much longer to develop like ancient woodland. Researchers studied an old farmland site and found that its soil and plants were still…
General:Finally, breathing space. Tension is beginning to ease its grip today and you’ll feel the change in your body long before your brain can even acknowledge it. The Moon is your ruler. It connects you to Jupiter which brings comfort as well as warmth from the family and the feeling it’s possible that your worst…
New Delhi: At first, it sounded like a bike backfiring, again and again. Some thought children were bursting crackers near the Ganesh Chaturthi pandal just 100 metres away.“We realised later, only when a crowd gathered, that a man was being shot at. We found the man lying in a pool of blood, just outside his…
Gurgaon: Three teenagers died after their motorcycle rammed into a truck on Delhi-Jaipur Highway on Monday morning.The deceased were identified as Mohammad Arman (14), Prince Kumar (14) and Navneet Kumar (19), all residents of Anjana Colony in Sector 37.The impact threw all three onto the road, leaving them critically injured. Passersby rushed the trio to…
