Certain strong-smelling household ingredients and plant-based oils may help make areas around a home less appealing to snakes. While no scent offers a guaranteed solution, some odours appear to be disliked by snakes and are often used as part of broader efforts to discourage them from settling near buildings. According to guidance published by PETA,…
Busy hands, restless mind. That’s the shape of your day. Mars pushes hard work, while the Moon unsettles your nerves a bit, so even productive hours can feel tense and hurried from the inside.You’re likely to go through a hectic schedule of messages, calls or errands. There are deadlines, quick travel, interactions with neighbors or…
Bristol [England], Jul 09 (ANI): Indian skipper Shreyas Iyer plays a shot during the 4th T20I against England, at County Ground in Bristol on Thursday. (ANI Photo) India captain Shreyas Iyer admitted his side fell short in all departments after England clinched the five-match T20I series with a commanding nine-wicket victory in the fourth T20I…
Mumbai: The Maharashtra govt took its first step towards implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) on Thursday with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announcing the formation of a seven-member committee led by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Desai to formulate a draft legislation for its implementation within six months. Desai had earlier headed a committee which…
NEW DELHI: The city witnessed the year’s most intense spell of rain on Thursday, making it the wettest July day in three years. The heavy downpour caused the maximum temperature to drop below 30 o C. Four stations in DelhiNCR received more than 100mm of rainfall in 24 hours till 8.30am Thursday. Tukmirpur-Khajuri logged 160mm,…
TVK’s `friendly parties’ met and decided to take forward the formation into an official alliance on July 1 Chennai: Days after TVK’s ‘friendly parties’ met and decided to take forward the formation of an official alliance, differences among alliance partners have begun to surface. CPI and CPM have questioned govt’s decision to provide jobs to…
Ahmedabad: A 25-year-old woman from Vastrapur has accused her former boyfriend of using their compromising images as his display picture and threatening to circulate them online after she refused to marry him. The 29-year-old accused is a native of Kangra in Himachal Pradesh.According to the complaint filed on Thursday, the accused allegedly sent pictures of…
Taratala warehouse collapse Kolkata: The mandatory pre-construction soil tests were not carried out at the Taratala site, revealed an internal KMC investigation into the collapse of a warehouse being built there.A team from the structural engineering department at Jadavpur University will carry out soil tests once the steel and concrete debris is removed from the…
Governor of Himachal Pradesh Kavinder Gupta (left), and managing trustee and executive president Rahul Karad at MIT-World Peace University Pune: Himachal Pradesh governor Kavinder Gupta visited MIT World Peace University on July 5th and held discussions with the university’s academic leadership.The discussions ranged from higher education and leadership development, to student transformation initiatives. Speaking during…
Panaji: With the southwest monsoon over Goa weakening again, the rainfall, though widespread, has been light to moderate for a few days, as the seasonal rainfall deficit increased to 26.7%.The last few days of June and the first four days of July had yielded moderate to heavy rainfall in some places, raising the water level…
