Electricity generation from hydroelectric projects declined nearly 21%. (AI image) El Nino and the resultant weak monsoon has had an impact on India’s hydropower output, which has dropped by more than 20% in June. The dry weather, which is associated with El Nino, has meant that the water levels in reservoirs have gone down. This…
Shakira is one of the most celebrated women – for her singing, dancing and how she sets an inspiration by looking like a million bucks at the age of 49. Over the course of her career, Shakira has won multiple Grammy Awards and Latin Grammy Awards. She has sold hundreds of millions of records worldwide…
Shreyas Iyer‘s luck at the toss continues to shine even as his wait for a maiden victory as India’s full-time T20I captain goes on. The 31-year-old won his fifth consecutive toss in T20Is after electing to field against England in the third T20I at Trent Bridge on Tuesday. In doing so, Iyer joined an elite…
For most people, asteroids are distant objects that remain hidden behind telescope lenses and scientific instruments. That will briefly change in April 2029, when one of the best-known near-Earth asteroids is expected to become visible without specialist equipment across large parts of the world. The object, called Apophis, has attracted scientific attention for more than…
Mohammed Mobshir Mohammed Shahid had sneaked into Kharghar’s Pandavkada waterfall with four friends Navi Mumbai: Four days after a 20-year-old Taloja resident went missing at Kharghar’s Pandavkada waterfall, his body was found in a downstream channel on Tuesday.Mohammed Mobshir Mohammed Shahid, a garage worker, had sneaked into the waterfall area, along with four friends, in…
Bengaluru: Kannada Development Authority (KDA) has urged the higher education department to make four hours of Kannada teaching per week mandatory in all undergraduate and postgraduate colleges, warning that shrinking the space for language and literature in higher education is weakening critical thinking, cultural engagement, and philosophical enquiry.In a letter to the department, KDA chairperson…
Auto driver arrested for abusing minor Chennai: A 37-year-old autorickshaw driver was arrested for sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl with an intellectual disability in Kolathur. On July 3, the seven-year-old girl was playing near her house when the man sexually abused her. The girl’s grandmother filed a complaint at Kolathur All-Women Police Station. Police conducted…
Road cave-ins and severe waterlogging affected key arterial roads across the city. Thousands of commuters were stranded as traffic jams stretched for kilometers. GURGAON: The city was battered by its first spell of heavy monsoon rain on Tuesday afternoon, receiving around 82 mm of rainfall within two hours.The rain triggered road cave-ins, severe waterlogging and…
The ED search in Salt Lake on Tuesday Kolkata: The ED on Tuesday carried out coordinated searches at five locations across Kolkata as part of its probe into transactions linked to Trinamool Congress’s bank accounts. The central investigating agency has claimed to have detected transactions worth more than Rs 150 crore routed through a network…
School PGI climbs, but learning score stays frozen (Image/ANI) NEW DELHI: Chandigarh has become the first State/UT in the PGI 2.0 series to enter the top (Uttam) range, scoring 766 out of 1,000 in 2025-26. But a domain-wise reading of the union education ministry’s latest Performance Grading Index 2.0 report released Tuesday shows the recent…
