Schools remained closed in four districts of Odisha on Monday as heavy rainfall triggered by a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal disrupted normal life, briefly affected train services and prompted the state government to place its field machinery on high alert.The precautionary closure comes after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast heavy to…
BEST Committee and commuter group discussed expanding bus services on the Eastern Freeway. MUMBAI: Expansion of bus services on the Eastern Freeway and the induction of 150 additional electric double-decker buses emerged as key focus areas during a joint meeting between the BEST Committee and commuter advocacy group Aapli BEST Aaplyachsathi (ABA), amid renewed efforts…
The accident site where a 20-year-old student was killed in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj Friday Another young life has been claimed after a vehicle fell into a drain in the national capital, once again laying bare a civic failure that Delhi has seen time and again over the years. Expert warnings, standard engineering guidelines and multiple…
Chennai: Patients at the six-storey super-speciality block of Government Stanley Medical College Hospital are forced to endure long waits due to sluggish and unreliable lifts. Poor maintenance of the elevators has especially hit the elderly patients.The lift doors take several seconds to open or close. Attenders say that at times, they don’t open at all….
Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya (file photo) Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Sunday launched a blistering attack on those involved in the violence that ensued at the Kolkata rally on Friday, saying that “anti-national forces” were surfacing across the country again and “divisive forces raising anti-national slogans” will end up in hospitals. Bhattacharya’s…
Panaji: The Akhil Gomantak Kshatriya Maratha Samaj (AGKMS) has urged chief minister Pramod Sawant to establish a separate commission for the welfare of economically weaker sections in the general category, similar to the independent commissions for reserved categories and backward classes in the state.AGKMS president Suhas Fal Dessai said the organisation will soon meet the…
A 10% US tariff sounds like a win for India’s textile exporters, but there’s a catch.India’s textile and apparel sector could still come under pressure in the US market, even though the country has escaped the steeper tariffs imposed on several competing exporters. Although the country faces a lighter Section 301 tariff than several competing…
Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya (ANI Photo) The Khelo India mission sets a clear and ambitious goal: India must emerge as one of the world’s top 10 sporting nations by 2036 and break into the top five by 2047. By aligning these milestones with the Viksit Bharat vision and the centenary of Independence, the mission elevates…
Niharika NM, from content creator to Bollywood debutante with ‘Bhai Tera Star Hai’, shares her acting journey — training in Bombay, quitting Hindi cinema over unrealistic beauty standards, signing with Stone Bench Films, and facing rejections. She recalls losing a major film after its lead actor refused to shoot an intimate scene with a body…
For much of its history, the San Joaquin River carried cold mountain water through California’s Central Valley, supporting forests, farms and some of the southernmost populations of Chinook salmon in the western United States. That connection began to disappear after the construction of Friant Dam in the 1940s, when large sections of the river were…
