Indian cities face dangerously warmer nights, harming health (AI image used for representational purpose only) Nights are warming faster than days because our cities are using more and more concrete, which retains heat, making a 45 degrees Celsius summer feel like 50 and stealing precious hours of sleep from the urban population. It’s time to…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu will amend public health laws to permit criminal proceedings against home births carried out without trained medical supervision, health minister K G Arunraj said on Wednesday, days after a Tirupur-based woman who had delivered her child at home died in a Coimbatore hospital.On Sunday, 32-year-old Sasikala, who attempted a “natural” home birth…
Ahmedabad: A special Pocso court on Tuesday sentenced a tuition teacher to five years’ imprisonment for molesting a girl student even though she had retracted her statement and turned hostile in court.In this case, the teacher from Behrampura was booked under BNS and Pocso Act in May 2025 after a woman filed a complaint at…
KOLKATA: West Bengal has emerged as a critical industrial hotspot for black carbon emissions, discharging a staggering 95,901 tonnes annually into the atmosphere. A pioneering study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) reveals that the state is the second-largest emitter in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), a region that collectively generates roughly 4.5 lakh…
Pune: Divisional commissioner Dr Chandrakant Pulkundwar on Friday highlighted the need to ease congestion in the city, directing local authorities to prepare a 10-year traffic management plan and prioritise improvement of 90 major junctions across Pune.Pulkundwar was speaking during a traffic management plan review meeting attended by civic, police and infrastructure agencies.He said all departments…
AI generated image, used only for representational purpose Every next electric vehicle in India will reduce not just petrol usage, but also help cut down the country’s crude oil import bill!According to a recent report by State Bank of India (SBI), the country could save nearly Rs 1 lakh crore if electric vehicles account even…
India’s Sanju Samson (ANI Photo) Former India wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik has thrown his support behind Sanju Samson despite the opener’s poor run of form, insisting the experienced batter deserves more backing even as calls for teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continue to grow.Samson’s struggles continued in the opening T20I against England at Chester-le-Street, where he fell…
Reports suggest the Duchess of Sussex is feeling uneasy about returning to Britain amid ongoing tensions surrounding the royal family.Image credit (Instagram) Meghan Markle is reportedly struggling with anxiety ahead of her planned trip to the United Kingdom with Prince Harry. The Duchess of Sussex has expressed significant reservations about returning to England for what…
Representative image of Twana Jamal in French court (AI generated) A convicted Iraqi human trafficker, Twana Jamal, was traced to Leicestershire, where he is allegedly living under a false identity while awaiting a decision on his UK asylum claim.According to an investigation by BBC, an Iraqi man once labelled the “godfather of traffickers” has been…
Many parents worry that if children don’t get the “best” of everything, they’ll complain. Farah says that’s rarely been the case. Talking about long flights, she laughed and said, “All three of them sit with their headphones on and watch movies or TV during the flight.”When they were much younger, she occasionally kept them with…
