Mumbai: The ongoing wet spell has led to the single-biggest jump in water stocks this monsoon in the seven lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai.As of 6 am on Tuesday, July 7, the total water stocks stood at 4.2 lakh million litres, or 28.9% of the lakes’ total live storage capacity. Just 24 hours…
CJP protest at Jantar Mantar continues for eighteen days (R). Activist Sonam Wangchuk (L) is on his tenth day of an indefinite hunger strike (Photo credit: X/@Abhijeet Dipke) NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party’s protest at Jantar Mantar entered its 18th day on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and accountability…
Santosh Iyer, MD & CEO of Mercedes-Benz India Chennai: Mercedes-Benz India said more than half of its sales in the country now come from cars priced above Rs 1 crore, while nearly one in three vehicles sold costs more than Rs 1.4 crore, as the German luxury carmaker is doubling down on a strategy centred…
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat govt will construct its first air-filled rubber dams on the Heran river at Rajvasana in Chhota Udepur district and on the Ambika river at Pathakwadi in Tapi district. The projects, estimated to cost Rs 161 crore, are expected to enhance irrigation and water management in the two regions.According to an official statement…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday deferred the hearing on TMC’s plea challenging the freezing of three of its bank accounts to Thursday, instead of Wednesday.When the party’s counsel requested that the matter be taken up on Tuesday itself, Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya declined the plea, remarking, “Come back the day after tomorrow, heaven will…
Pic for representational purpose Pune: Two officers from an army training institute in Khadki had a narrow escape after their car plunged off a bridge into a swollen stream at Devale village in Maval taluka, around 63km from Pune, on Sunday night.The incident occurred around 9pm when the officers were travelling to Lonavla to pick…
India has launched the National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM) in January 2025 for a seven-year period from 2024-25 to 2030-31. India has been focusing on securing its critical minerals and rare earth supply chain, especially in times of increased geopolitical uncertainties. During PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Indonesia it was announced that India will invest…
Ab de Villiers, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Former Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) batter AB de Villiers believes teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi could become one of the first players of his generation to choose T20 cricket over Test cricket.Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made his India debut last week in the second T20I of the ongoing series against England. Speaking on…
Hema Malini denies being Bollywood’s top-paid actress (Image Credits Archives and IMDb) During the 1970s and early 1980s, Hema Malini was among Bollywood’s biggest stars and was widely regarded as one of the industry’s highest-paid actresses of that era. However, in a recent conversation on a podcast, the veteran actor and politician dismissed that long-standing…
Quote of the day by Franklin D. Roosevelt (AI-generated image) Franklin D. Roosevelt said this in a speech on the fourteenth of April, 1939, months before the Second World War began. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds,” he told the audience. “They have within themselves the power to…
