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…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has formed a four-member independent inquiry committee to investigate the sexual harassment allegations made against Hockey India secretary Bhola Nath Singh by former India women’s hockey captain Asunta Lakra.The committee has been set up following a directive from the Union sports ministry. It will be headed by retired…
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…
‘Mirzapur: The Movie’ makers reveal they worried about Ravi Kishan’s Babban overshadowing Munna, Guddu, and Bablu; also share why the character became fan-favourite ‘green flag gangster’ The makers of ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’ have shared an interesting behind-the-scenes detail about Ravi Kishan’s gangster character Babban Babua Yadav, admitting they were worried he might end up outshining…
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…
A fossil found in southern Brazil is giving researchers a closer look at the reptiles that lived near the beginning of the archosaur lineage, the group that would eventually include dinosaurs and crocodile-line animals. The animal has been named ‘Silescelida acristata’ and is identified as an early-diverging eucrocopodan archosauriform from the Middle Triassic. A recent…
The Tamil film ‘Modha Rathiri’ is gaining attention for its simple rural setting, humour, and fresh cast. After earning appreciation from audiences, the film received a special shout-out from National Award-winning actor and filmmaker Dhanush. His words are particularly notable because he praised the efforts of a team taking its first steps in cinema. Dhanush…
Viswanathan Anand loses on time to Javokhir Sindarov (GCL Photo) BENGALURU: Viswanathan Anand’s difficult start to the 2026 Global Chess League took another turn for the worse on Tuesday as the five-time world champion suffered two defeats in a day, the second coming in painful fashion against 20-year-old Javokhir Sindarov.Playing for Alaskan Knights, Anand had…