While 1.65 lakh trees were classified as healthy, the report highlighted 32,876 mechanically cut trees as evidence of illegal felling. Ludhiana: Punjab’s first comprehensive tree census has mapped 2,00,000 trees across 46 municipal wards in Ludhiana, revealing a predominantly young canopy and flagging widespread illegal felling with nearly 33,000 mechanically cut trees.Ordered by the National…
BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan Bathinda: Differences have cropped up within the Punjab chapter of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) over a planned protest in Chandigarh from Sept 1, driven by disagreements over asking the state assembly to annul all inter-state water-sharing agreements.BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) and Kisan Sangharsh Committee Punjab have distanced themselves from…
Pune: The city has already received more rain than its normal quota for the entire June-Sept monsoon season, recording 655.6mm till Tuesday morning as against the seasonal average of 647.2mm.The excess, however, has been driven largely by one exceptionally wet spell in July, while both June and Aug have recorded below-normal rainfall.The city has received…
Surat: A foreign national died at an Railway Police Force (RPF) post in Surat on Monday night after he was detained following a quarrel with co-passengers aboard the Golden Temple Express.The man, whose identity and nationality are yet to be established, allegedly got violent during the altercation and was brought to the RPF post with…
Guwahati: Assam plans to partner with Spices Board India to turn its spice production into higher-value business opportunities.The state govt is preparing a long-term institutional partnership through a memorandum of understanding (MoU), focusing on processing, value addition and better market realisation for farmers.The proposal was discussed during a meeting with Spices Board India secretary MS…
Lucknow: A man arrested for possessing smack escaped from the lock-up of Durgah police station in Bahraich while the policemen were preparing to take him to the district court. Bahraich SP Vishwajeet Srivastava has suspended two policemen and ordered registration of a criminal case against them.Durgah police arrested a resident of Gilula locality in the…
Members of Kanjar community working at a factory in Jhalawar Jaipur: Jhalawar’s Kanjar settlements, once frequently figuring in police records for theft, burglary, robbery and dacoity, are witnessing a sharp decline in reported crime, with the police attributing the change to a rehabilitation programme focused on jobs, education, housing and counselling. Against an annual average…
In this image posted on Aug. 12, 2026, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor during a meeting at Nirvachan Sadan, in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump’s post appreciating India’s mandatory elector identification system followed an Aug 12 meeting between chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and US…
British Gas paid a person £38,000 by mistake, and they can’t give it back A British Gas customer spent seven weeks asking the energy company to recover more than £38,000 that was mistakenly paid into her bank account, only to discover that customer service staff had no clear process for taking the money back. The…
Jamal Musiala collapses again during Bayern match, reveals diagnosis and reassures fans he remains optimistic/ Image: X Jamal Musiala has revealed he has been diagnosed with “temporarily occurring, brief absence seizures” after the Bayern Munich midfielder collapsed on the pitch for the second time in four days, saying the episodes are caused by a neurological…
