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Handwara, Aug 17: Despite the passage of four years, the vital “Daand Kadal” bridge in Langate, which connects Mawar with the Langate Tehsil headquarter and surrounding areas, continues to remain non-functional after suffering minor damage during flash floods in 2023. The prolonged closure has caused considerable hardship to residents, who say they are being forced to take longer routes to reach the Tehsil headquarters, markets, health facilities and other nearby areas. Residents said the bridge is an important link for several villages and its closure has affected their daily movement for years.Ghulam Rasool, a resident of Shatgund, said the bridge connects…
The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday grew tense over a plan to shift chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s office to a spacious, modern building in the Secretariat complex, with minister Aadhav Arjuna clarifying that the relocation was not about “personal luxury.”Tamil Nadu CM Vijay’s office is currently located in Fort St George, which also houses the state Legislative Assembly. (ANI)The issue reportedly began after the opposition party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), slammed the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government over alleged irregularities in a ₹5.54 crore-worth tender issued for relocating the CMO.It was alleged that the tender notification for the…
The missile launches came as efforts continued to reach an agreement between Iran and Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz The United Arab Emirates’ defence ministry said on Tuesday that it had detected two ballistic missiles launched from Iran towards the Gulf country, as tensions continued to rise across the region.The ministry said both missiles fell into water, with one landing outside the UAE’s territorial waters and the other inside them. It said the country remained prepared to respond to any threats.“The Ministry of Defence confirms that it is on high alert and fully prepared to deal with any…
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurates 56-km Sabalgarh-Birpur rail section in Madhya Pradesh Source link
New Delhi: Global warming breaching three degrees Celsius will affect older adults in India, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, accounting for 1.5 billion people, or 73 per cent of the total affected population worldwide, a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal has projected.Older people could face serious health risks from heat at lower temperatures than previously estimated, it found.South Asia and the Persian Gulf regions are shown to be the most exposed, where older adults could face a dangerous heat day and night for three months straight once warming reaches three degrees Celsius or above, researchers, including those…
Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi, left, reviews structural reforms at the National Testing Agency (NTA).New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has begun a major restructuring of its examination machinery, with around 600 experts removed from its examination team and new experts being onboarded as part of measures to strengthen the conduct and security of national-level entrance and eligibility tests.The development comes a day after the government ordered an overhaul of the NTA’s examination system and directed a comprehensive audit of the testing process.Following a review meeting with Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi, the NTA Director General apprised the minister…
Before becoming Anurag’s partner, Shubhra worked as an assistant director at Phantom Films. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and his partner Shubhra Shetty have opened up about their relationship, their 20-year age gap and the early days of their romance. In a recent conversation with Janice Sequeira, the couple spoke about Shubhra’s parents’ reaction to their relationship, how they managed working together while dating, their first date and how a journalist eventually outed their relationship.Shubhra revealed that her parents did not need much convincing when she began dating Anurag, who is around 20 years older than her. Instead, they met him themselves…
Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters India Ratings & Research on Tuesday (August 18, 2026) projected India’s GDP growth to slow down to 6.8% in the current fiscal year, as against 7.6% in the previous year, citing risks from fuel and food inflation stemming from West Asia conflict’s uncertainty, weak currency, and the likely impact of El Niño on agriculture.The FY27 GDP growth projection at 6.8 per cent is a tad higher than the 6.7% growth Ind-Ra had projected in May.Earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had raised growth projections from 6.6% to…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced sanctions against the president and a senior lawyer of the International Criminal Court (ICC).The move is the Trump administration’s latest escalation in its campaign to “dismantle” the court which is empowered by more than 120 member countries to investigate war crimes.Rubio said the US was sanctioning ICC President Tomoko Akane of Japan and ICC Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal following an order from President Donald Trump’s targeting the court last year.He accused them of directly engaging “in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government…
Recently, India-based defence start-up D-Propulse announced that it had successfully demonstrated a rotating detonation engine at a Defence Research & Development Organisation facility in Hyderabad.A rotating detonation engine, or RDE, is an engine design that promises to use fuel more efficiently than conventional rocket engines. Launching satellites to space on rockets and carrying explosives to distant targets on missiles are both expensive. If an engine can use fuel more efficiently, it will need correspondingly less fuel to achieve the same task. This saving can be passed to the payload, whether a satellite or a warhead, increasing the profitability of the…