Bengaluru: Karnataka high court has ruled that Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) can legally lay and maintain sewerage through private property without acquiring ownership of the land, provided it requires only a limited right of use.However, Justice Suraj Govindaraj made it clear that the board must strictly follow the safeguards laid down in…
Chennai: Health and Family Welfare Minister K G Arunraj on Monday called for a global association of Tamil doctors on the lines of the World Tamil Sangam, saying he would seek Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay’s consent to organise an international meet for doctors from Tamil Nadu practising around the world.The minister was speaking at…
Hyderabad: A principal district & sessions judge on Monday awarded the death penalty to the son and daughter of a retired railway employee for poisoning and murdering their 70-year-old father, Maruthi Suthar. Suthar’s wife, Ganga Bai, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The crime, committed on Aug 16, 2019, in Medchal-Malkajgiri district, involved the trio’s attempt…
Ground-level ozone is not directly emitted but forms when pollutants from vehicles and industries react with sunlight and heat Gurgaon: Even as policymakers and residents focus on tackling winter pollution, a silent killer has emerged in the warmer months. Ground-level ozone — invisible, unlike smog or dust — is breaching national safety standards across Haryana,…
Jalpaiguri: India stepped in on Monday to provide shelter and food to a Bangladeshi family of 10 who had been stranded in no-man’s land for days near the Shyam border outpost in Sakati, Jalpaiguri Sadar block, after Bangladesh refused to take them back and allegedly had their documents seized.The family had originally been pushed back…
Vikas Chawla, a manager at a co-working space in Noida, was the sole earning member of a household that included his wife, two children and both his parents A chunk of concrete broke away from a roof beam above and struck the 46-year-old Vikas Chawla on the head Vikas Chawla, a manager at a co-working…
Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said the Central Site Selection Committee has given in-principle approval to a 4.5 lakh sqm land parcel at Farmagudi in Ponda taluka for IIT Goa’s permanent campus. A six-member panel inspected the site.Sawant said he has invited Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan to Goa to lay the foundation…
Pirana continued to record the highest pollution levels among the city’s monitoring stations Between Nov 2025 and May 2026, the city-wide average concentration of PM10 remained above 100 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m³) every month Pirana continued to record the highest pollution levels among the city’s monitoring stations Between Nov 2025 and May 2026, the…
Experts advised farmers to maximise the use of highly digestible, quality fodders—such as maize silage, berseem hay, and fresh green fodder—while strictly limiting poor-quality straw in the daily ration Ludhiana: As soaring temperatures trigger severe heat stress in dairy livestock—leading to lower feed intake and reduced milk production—experts from Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal…
Mohali: A jeweller was allegedly abducted and extorted of ₹5 lakh by a gang posing as police and CIA staff in Zirakpur. Three accused have been arrested, while two remain at large.According to the complaint, Gaurav Goyal, proprietor of MG Jewellers and a Panchkula resident, was at his shop on the Chandigarh-Ambala road around 3.50pm…
