The Assam govt revealed the data on the occasion of World Rhino Day on Sunday. Of the total rhino population in India, 88% reside in Assam. (AP) GUWAHATI: Assam recorded a five-time increase in population of one-horned rhinoceros in nearly six decades from 1960s to 2024.The state currently has over 3,000 rhinos, which was approximately … Read more
Kolkata: Bengal‘s power secretary, Santanu Basu, has resigned as the state’s representative in the DVC board, and irrigation and waterways chief engineer Uttam Ray put in his papers as a member of Damodar Valley Reservoir Regulation Committee (DVRRC), protesting against “unplanned and uncalibrated” water release by DVC, causing floods in Bengal.The back-to-back resignations, late on … Read more
Chakma groups protest attacks on minorities in Bangladesh, in Guwahati on Sunday. AIZAWL: Thirteen Chakma organisations in Mizoram, including political parties, sent a memorandum to PM Narendra Modi Sunday, urging his intervention to halt attacks on indigenous ethnic minorities in Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Chakmas share ties of ethnicity and kinship with such groups … Read more
The trawler, FB Gobindo, with 17 fishermen on board, had set out to catch hilsa but sank near Bagher Char in Sundarbans. KAKDWIP (South 24 Parganas): The bodies of eight of the nine fishermen trapped in a trawler that capsized during a storm in Bay of Bengal on Saturday were recovered a day later. One … Read more
The reptiles swam into Vishwamitri that flows just a few feet away from their enclosure. VADODARA: Not everyone in Vadodara is ruing over the recent floods that brought woes for Barodians. Crocodiles in Sayajibaug zoo, for one, as eight fully-grown reptiles escaped when the flood waters gushed into the city in the last week of … Read more
RANCHI: Questioning the necessity to suspend all internet services across the state for Jharkhand General Graduate Level Combined Competitive Examination on Sept 21 and 22, Jharkhand high court on Sunday ordered the state govt to immediately restore it and not repeat it without the court’s consent in future.Earlier, the state govt, announced that mobile internet … Read more
Andhra deputy CM Pawan Kalyan on Sunday began an 11-day penance, seeking forgiveness over the alleged use of animal fat in Tirupati laddus. VIJAYAWADA/TIRUPATI: Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu Sunday announced constitution of a SIT headed by an inspector-general rank officer to probe alleged irregularities in Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) during YSRCP regime. Naidu … Read more
The second-seeded men were almost assured of top podium finish Saturday night itself, but the top-seeded women had to fight it out. India won its first-ever double team gold at Chess Olympiad in Budapest Sunday – only the third country after the Soviet Union (four times from 1982 to ’86) and China (2018) to do … Read more
INDORE/KANPUR: In what seems to be yet more attempts to sabotage railway operations, it has come to light that railway ‘detonators‘ were placed on tracks in Madhya Pradesh‘s Ratlam on September 18 when an Army special train was passing through. The revelation came on a day when an empty gas cylinder was found on the … Read more
WASHINGTON: Rare Indian antiques Washington is returning to New Delhi formed the backdrop of a “Fab” future in US-India ties as the two sides announced an unprecedented collaboration to establish a futuristic semiconductor plant in India aimed at advancing national security for both countries. The agreement, hailed as a “watershed arrangement” between the two sides, … Read more