Chief minister V D Satheesan said the families of those who died in floods would receive assistance of Rs 8 lakh through State Disaster Response Fund, Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund and Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund. An additional Rs 10,000 will be provided towards funeral expenses. Thiruvananthapuram: The state cabinet on Wednesday approved a…
Thiruvananthapuram: Agriculture minister T Siddique has said intense rain and flooding have damaged crops across 1,882 hectares, causing losses to the tune of Rs 67.44 crore.According to the preliminary assessment of crop-wise first information reports from the districts, 23,537 farmers are affected by the disaster. “Paddy and banana crops account for more than 80% of…
Police present the accused in front of mediapersons Jharsuguda: Badmal police on Monday busted an interstate drug trafficking racket, seizing 23,640 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup worth over Rs 1 crore and arresting two alleged traffickers under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.The accused were identified as Mohammad Ahsan Ahmed (38) of Aurangabad…
Noida: A 73-year-old man was allegedly cheated of Rs 2.2 crore in a share market trading scam in Sector 21 between June 15 and July 21. After transferring the money, the man received no returns. He visited the trading app’s headquarters in Mumbai on July 27, where he learnt he had fallen victim to a…
In the scrubby expanse of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a set of impressions pressed into ancient mud has continued to unsettle assumptions about when people first moved through the Americas. The markings, preserved in layers of sediment that later hardened into gypsum, were first described in a 2021 study published in Science,…
Prayagraj: The directorate of higher education has forwarded the requisition for recruitment to 2,107 vacant assistant professor posts in 330 govt aided colleges across the state to the Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission (UPESSC).The vacancies were uploaded on the commission’s e-requisition portal on Friday, paving the way for the issuance of a recruitment advertisement…
Varanasi: NEET re-examination conducted by the National Testing Agency was completed successfully at various centres across the district. A total of 25,480 candidates were registered at 47 examination centres in the district. Of them, 23,787 appeared for the examination, while 1,693 remained absent, resulting in an attendance rate of 93.36 per cent.District magistrate Satyendra Kumar…
Once spread across 40,000 hectares, paddy cultivation in Kodagu is shrinking steadily as farmer interest declines Madikeri: Kodagu district, once known for flourishing agriculture, is now witnessing a reversal, with the area under cultivation—particularly paddy—declining rapidly. Earlier, paddy was cultivated on about 40,000 hectares, but this area has reduced significantly as farmers show declining interest…
The Swachh Survekshan campaign brochure Belagavi: The Belagavi City Corporation (BCC) has launched a citizen feedback drive under the Swachh Bharat Mission (City II), but officials say public participation remains low. Under Swachh Survekshan 2026 norms, at least 5% of the city’s population must submit feedback through QR codes on cleanliness and civic services. However,…
For most of the twentieth century, the story of how humans arrived in North America felt settled. They came from Siberia, crossed a land bridge called Beringia, moved south as the ice sheets retreated, and by around 13,000 years ago had given rise to the Clovis culture, the earliest widely accepted evidence of human presence…
