Under Vijay’s gold ring scheme, every newborn delivered at a government health facility will receive a one-gram gold ring. At the current gold rate, the ring is worth around Rs 13,600. NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s one-gram gold ring scheme for newborns has been postponed as he prepares for his first…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday took cognisance of Greater Noida executive magistrate’s notice to a 2nd year law student for participating in a protest led by Cockroach Janata Party.Though the notice was withdrawn, the apex court said that it is a serious matter as its September 1 pan-India direction barred action against students.According to…
A wildlife centre in North Florida has welcomed two red-ruffed lemurs, turning encounters with the critically endangered animals into a way to support rainforest restoration thousands of miles away in Madagascar. The North Florida Wildlife Center in Lloyd, Jefferson County, is now home to four ruffed lemurs. Two of them, newly arrived red-ruffed lemur males,…
Was Netanyahu warned in advance about Hamas attack? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has rejected reports that he was warned in advance about the October 2023, Hamas attacks by UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed.In a post on X, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said any exchange of relevant information took place only through intelligence…
A real estate agent posted a video promoting a high-value flat in Tardeo — priced at around Rs 6.5 crore — attached to a ‘veg-only’ condition. The clip went viral, then triggered criticism from political parties and social media users, after which the agent apologised. Shreepati Arcade at Nana Chowk, south Mumbai, entered the city’s…
Nearly 4,000 public school students, more than 200 teachers and hundreds of community members have worked with NWF Nearly 4,000 New York City public school students have taken part in an effort to restore protective dunes at Coney Island Creek Park in Brooklyn. Since 2022, students, teachers and community members have planted more than 100,000…
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann (Photo: PTI) The campaign, launched on August 29 across all 166 Urban Local Bodies, including 14 municipal corporations and 152 municipal councils and nagar panchayats, has received 6,459 complaints through the M-Seva app.The Bhagwant Mann government has extended Punjab’s statewide Cleanliness Campaign 2.0 till September 12 after more than 5,400…
Forty-five kilometres off the Belgian coast, in the middle of the North Sea, humans are creating something that did not naturally exist in the water. It is the world’s first artificial energy island the size of eight football fields, being built with 23 giant concrete caissons, each weighing approximately 22,000 tons. While one might assume…
File Photo: Multiple disasters that have occurred around Delhi NEW DELHI: Between 2020 and 2024, nearly 33,000 people died across the country in incidents involving building collapses, fires and falls into pits and manholes, according to govt data. Most of these deaths occurred in urban areas, pointing to serious gaps in civic governance and enforcement…
Representative Image (AI-generated) Microplastics are now found across aquatic environments, creating a difficult challenge for water-treatment systems that must remove tiny plastic particles without generating more waste. A new approach investigated in 2026 takes an unusual route: instead of treating water-treatment waste as something that simply needs to be discarded, researchers turned it into a…