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…
CM Yogi highlights state’s textile heritage, industrial potential at UP Textile Conclave in Lucknow LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday highlighted the state’s rich textile heritage and industrial potential, saying Uttar Pradesh has skilled manpower, a large market, industry, entrepreneurship and the world’s youngest workforce.He said textiles produced in India, particularly in…
Before Melody Ranch became associated with Gene Autry, it was already part of the machinery of early Hollywood. The Newhall property opened in 1915 as Monogram Studios, providing a ready-made setting for Western films at a time when the genre was becoming a staple of American cinema. John Wayne was among the performers whose early…
An Amazon cargo plane lies damaged near a parking lot two days after overshooting a runway at Miami International Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Pilots of an Amazon cargo jet that overshot the runway at Miami International Airport had tried to abort an unstable landing, according to information released by…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday accused the Centre of being “pressurised” by the United States after the National Investigating Agency did not invoke the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in its chargesheet against US national Matthew Aaron VanDyke and six Ukrainian nationals.In a social media post on X, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh…
New York City Mayor Mamdani attends press conference on releasing records on Sept. 11 attacks, in New York (Photo: Reuters) Days before the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, New York City has reportedly published a number of previously withheld records suggesting officials misled the public about dangerous air quality in the aftermath of…
For the unversed, Ghost Ranch sits amid the dramatic red and yellow cliffs of the Piedra Lumbre, about 65 miles northwest of Santa Fe along U.S. 84. The region became closely associated with O’Keeffe, whose paintings transformed its cliffs, mesas, bones and expansive skies into some of the most recognizable images in American art. Long…