Karnataka minister Rizwan Arshad Friday alleged that tests at state-authorised labs found “excess” mixing of ethanol in E20 fuel, as high as 31.2% in some cases. Samples were collected from 63 petrol bunks across the state and 14 of them had ethanol above the prescribed limit, he said. PSUs denied the claim, saying it was…
Lovedeep Singh Sandhu died of burn injuries on his birthday in New Zealand. The family of an Indian man, Lovedeep Singh Sandhu, is seeking financial assistance to repatriate his body from New Zealand after he died from severe burn injuries on November 4, his birthday.Lovedeep died at Waikato Hospital, where he had been admitted for…
North Carolina student Aaryan Ghorpade has won a national competition after creating a free online mapping tool designed to reduce wildlife deaths on American roads. Ghorpade took first place in the 16 to 18 age group of the 2024 “A Voice for Animals” contest with his project, “EcoRoute: Mitigating Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions.” The annual competition is…
They won’t have to fill form 6, EC saysNEW DELHI: Electors across seven states/UTs undergoing SIR, including Delhi, who were excluded from the draft electoral roll on account of being absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD) and whose enumeration forms (EFs) were not received, will be provided one more opportunity to get their names included…
Actor John Slattery, best known for playing Roger Sterling in Mad Men, has joined Ocean Conservancy’s ‘Protect Where We Play’ initiative as its newest Team Ocean Captain. The Emmy-nominated actor was announced as the campaign’s first actor to join the campaign at a New York City Climate Week event on September 24, 2025.The initiative brings…
Wildlife conservation is tricky. The goal is never just to sustain the animal’s population but also to make the habitat and surrounding conditions suitable for them to reproduce and establish a population. The black grouse, a fairly rare bird in the United Kingdom, has brought encouraging news as part of a conservation effort. But can…
(Image credit: Josep Maria Vergès Bosch and Míriam Salas-Altès/ via Cambridge.org) Not all art is exhibited or put on display. Some of it remains hidden in plain sight, etched into rock and can go unnoticed for centuries, even when people have been walking past them for decades. In a cave in Spain, hundreds of such…
Walker alleged that Blake used his position to transfer interests in several properties to himself (AI image) A Louisiana woman who accused her uncle of transferring interests in nearly 300 acres of land from her late mother’s estate to himself has won another chance to pursue part of her lawsuit. The Louisiana Court of Appeal…
Pia Dandiya’s husband Navneet Alag is a biotech investor. 39-year-old Pia Dandiya is one of the Indian-Americans to have left a mark in the ballot box in the midterms. The Democratic leader won an election to the US House of Representatives from Florida. A first-time candidate belonging to a family of doctors, Pia may appear…
Forty-six years after Stephen King bought a red Victorian mansion in Bangor, Maine, for $135,000, the famous property has officially become a centre for literary research and a place where working writers can focus on their work. The dark red Second Empire house at 47 West Broadway is well known for its unusual wrought-iron gate…
