Hyderabad: Weather forecasts for Hyderabad are more reliable than those for many neighbouring districts, with a new study finding that the city’s rainfall patterns are among the easiest to predict in southern Telangana.The study, published in the Springer Nature journal ‘Discover Hazards‘, analysed 43 years of daily rainfall data (1981-2023) across 12 districts in southern…
Gurgaon: A Nuh district court has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for kidnapping a Maharashtra-based businessman in 2017 by luring him through a fake business offer on IndiaMART, and extorting Rs 8 lakh as ransom.The convicts — Mubarik, a resident of Chahalka village, and Ratiram, a resident of Palri village in Nuh district —…
Kolkata: Over 7,000 and counting. That is the number of bereaved families who have been denied death certificates after cremating or burying their near and dear ones since Saturday. The pile-up of death certificates at the city’s 15 crematoriums and burial grounds follows a govt decision to suspend the rights of sub-registrars posted at crematoriums…
Noida: A 26-year-old man and his 60-year-old mother were arrested on Wednesday after his wife was found hanging at their home in Kasna’s Ghanghola village the day before.Police said Tanu (25) had married Amit Bhatia in 2020. Her younger sister had married Bhatia’s brother around the same time. At the time of the incident, the…
Margao: The Goa State Amritkal Agriculture Policy, 2025 (GSAAP-2025) has been defined, so far, by its ambitious targets — doubling pulses acreage, soil health cards, cold storage units. But a set of procedural recommendations in the policy’s Part B go to the heart of why farmers say the policy hasn’t translated into relief on the…
Varanasi: The cyber crime police arrested five members of an interstate cyber fraud racket that allegedly lured economically weak people into opening bank accounts in their names and used them as mule accounts for cyber criminals.DCP (Crime) Neetu Kadian said on Wednesday that the accused were identified as Adarsh Chaube of Mirzapur, Ashish Yadav of…
paramedical courses admissions Ahmedabad: The admission process for paramedical courses after Class XII in Gujarat has been extended to Aug 1, following disruptions caused by heavy rainfall across the state. Initially, students were required to complete document verification by July 27 after registering online. However, due to adverse weather conditions, more than 1,700 students were…
Bathinda: The Punjab and Haryana high court has issued notice to the Punjab govt and other respondents on a petition seeking cancellation of the written examination for 454 pharmacy officer posts over allegations of an organised interstate cheating racket.While seeking replies by Aug 10, the court said the ongoing recruitment process would remain subject to…
The two patients were admitted with severe polytrauma on July 9 after being rescued from under the debris Pune: Two 36-year-old men who suffered life-threatening injuries in the Moshi waste-to-energy plant collapse earlier this month have made what doctors are calling a “miraculous” recovery. After nearly three weeks of advanced multidisciplinary trauma care at Medicover…
Imphal: A volunteer of the Naga Village Guards (NVG) was killed and two CoBRA personnel were injured in a gunfight in Manipur’s Noney district on Wednesday.Official sources said a CoBRA team conducted an operation in Bitiang village in Noney district early in the morning, after which a gunfight erupted near Lamdangmei village around 6.30am.The injured…
