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Patna: Environment, forest and climate change department (EFCCD) has tightened restrictions on visitor activities around waterfalls in the forested hills of Kaimur to protect wildlife and the natural environment. Picnicking and cooking have been prohibited near Karisha Waterfall and several other waterfalls within the Kaimur Sanctuary area. The restrictions also prohibit lighting fires, carrying polythene and plastic, and performing stunts near waterfalls for videos and social media reels.According to EFCCD, the forested landscape of the Kaimur hills is an important wildlife habitat. With the growing number of tourists and visitors, officials have reported instances of people lighting fires to cook…
ED arrests key Falcon scam accused, probes $1.6 M aircraft deal Jaipur/Udaipur: Police in Rajasthan’s Banswara district have arrested seven people, including the victim’s husband, after a tribal woman was allegedly assaulted, stripped and had her head shaved in public in Anjana village on Sept 1. The arrests were made late Thursday night after videos of the incident circulated on social media and triggered widespread outrage.Police said the assault was allegedly instigated by the husband, Gopal Khat (38), and carried out with the help of his relatives. The family allegedly accused the woman of leaving home 10 days earlier with…
The student lodged a complaint with Dhanbad police on Friday Dhanbad: A student of Dhanbad Law College has accused members of All India Students’ Association (AISA) of locking him in a classroom and assaulting him over his alleged links with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).The student submitted a written complaint to the college principal before approaching Dhanbad police on Friday. He alleged that AISA members confined him in a vacant classroom on Thursday and beat him after he refused to stop interacting with ABVP workers.According to the complaint, the student was earlier associated with AISA but later came in contact…
Thiruvananthapuram: Former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, S Muralidhar, said the younger generation should make an effort to avoid using mobile phones and other digital devices for at least one hour a day in order to safeguard privacy.Inaugurating a seminar on Law, Technology, and Human Rights, organized by state human rights commission at the Science and Technology Museum, Muralidhar said that this one-hour break should gradually be increased. Young people, he said, must take the initiative to form offline clubs and lead efforts to protect privacy themselves.The state will not help them in this matter, he added, because both…
Kolkata: Members of the Jadavpur University executive council (EC) raised concern over the external and internal provocations that are being carried out and urged that normal academic and administrative activities should be restored immediately.JU held an EC meeting virtually after four months to select two council nominees for appointing a new registrar and finance officer. The last EC meeting was held in April.A source said, “An administrator from a state-run university and an academic-administrator from a central institute have been selected as the two EC nominees for appointing permanent registrar and finance officer. The EC also said that the process…
Kiran Reddy makes history just weeks after becoming first Indian American to win Miss Georgia Teen USA An 18-year-old student from Douglas, Georgia, has made history by becoming the first Indian American to win the national Miss Teen USA crown. Kiran Reddy defeated 50 other contestants during the 44th annual pageant, held at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, on 26 August 2026, according to WALB News and Pageant Circle. Reddy, who had earlier become the first Indian American to win the Miss Georgia Teen USA title, also secured Georgia’s first national victory in the…
Isabel Getty, great-granddaughter of J. Paul Getty, begins a new chapter with British financier Faris McKinnon. (Photo: Instagram) Isabel Getty, the 32-year-old great-granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, has married British financier Faris McKinnon in an intimate ceremony in London. The billionaire heiress looked elegant in a white skirt suit paired with striking cobalt blue heels as she tied the knot with Faris, 41, at Chelsea Old Town Hall earlier this week.The couple, who welcomed their son Viggo last year, celebrated their wedding with close friends and family at the exclusive Harry’s Bar in Mayfair. The ceremony marked a…
Quote of the day by Cristiano Ronaldo (Image via Getty) Cristiano Ronaldo’s career has been shaped not only by extraordinary success but also by intense, near-constant public scrutiny. Few footballers have attracted as much admiration, criticism and genuine debate as Ronaldo, and yet he has repeatedly spoken about using that pressure as fuel rather than letting it become a burden. “I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me,” he told The Times, in an interview later reported by beIN Sports and theScore. “When I go to play away, they are always against me, but it’s good. You have…
A study released 20 captive-bred eastern quolls at Tasmania’s 6,500-hectare Silver Plains conservation property. (Photo: Booderee NP) The eastern quoll, a small nocturnal marsupial once common across eastern Australia, is showing signs of recovery after years of decline. Captive-bred eastern quolls released in Tasmania have successfully reproduced, with one female carrying six joeys in her pouch.Eastern quolls are considered extinct in the wild on mainland Australia. According to Mongabay, the species disappeared from the mainland by the 1960s after facing several threats, including habitat loss, disease, road accidents and predation by cats, dogs and invasive foxes.Wild eastern quoll populations still…
England have announced their white-ball squads for the upcoming three T20Is and three ODIs against the visiting Sri Lankan team. Brydon Carse continues to be out of favour after he was involved in a nightclub incident last month. Carse was part of the first two Tests against Pakistan, but since he was not going to play in the first game at Headingley, he was asked to represent his county side Durham against Derbyshire. They won the game, and later Carse was pictured and videoed handcuffed by the police at a popular joint in Derby with Durham teammates Ben Stokes and…