Rainwater Harvesting Pits helped increase groundwater level by an average of three to nine metres in Hyderabad compared to the last year | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board’s campaign to augment groundwater resources in the city, ‘Prathi Intlo Inkudu Guntha’ or rainwater harvesting pit in every house, according... Read More

A file photo of a tourist vehicle. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Karnataka State Travel Operators Association (KSTOA) has raised strong objections to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) 2.0 reforms, which exclude mid-sized multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs) and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) from the revised concessional tax structure. In a recent letter to the... Read More

Two years after scientists from the National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR), under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), released a tiny parasitic wasp into South India’s tapioca fields, the crop that once faced near devastation from an invasive pest is now thriving again. Farmers in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry report that their... Read More

Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes widespread pain all over the body. It is still unclear what causes fibromyalgia, and there is no cure for it, but its symptoms can be managed. The condition is often misunderstood, but there is no doubt that it is real and is believed to affect 2 to 3%... Read More

Posters of Andrzej Poczobut, a jailed journalist for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and a representative of the Polish minority in Belarus, in Bialystok on January 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Two journalists, one imprisoned in Belarus and the other in Georgia, have won the European Union’s top human rights honour, the Sakharov Prize,... Read More

Ilaiyaraaja. File | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan Sony Music Entertainment India Private Limited on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) refused to share with musician R. Ilaiyaraaja the statement of accounts with respect to the revenue earned by it through the ‘commercial exploitation’ of the songs composed by him for certain movies in the past. Appearing before Justice... Read More

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde speaks to reporters in Thane during the Diwali celebrations on October 22, 2025. | Photo: X/@mieknathshinde. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) slammed attempts to curb the activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), terming them “unfortunate”. Speaking to reporters in Thane during the... Read More

According to the police, five persons barged into the house of the woman, threatened her with dire consequences, and demanded money and valuables. While three of the accused allegedly raped her, the other two stood guard. | Photo Credit: Illustration by Satheesh Vellinezhi The police arrested two persons for allegedly raping a 30-year-old woman from... Read More

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Monday clarified that the proposed $100,000 H-1B visa fee will not apply to F-1 students, L-1 company transferees, or professionals changing status within the United States. For thousands of Indian students and tech workers, the clarification brought relief after a week of alarmist headlines predicting the end... Read More

Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan has said that the Prime Minister’s Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme should be implemented in Kerala. Speaking to the media on Wednesday (October 22, 2025), Mr. Natesan said that if other States were implementing the National Education Policy (NEP), Kerala too should implement... Read More