Heavy rain continued to lash the Rayalaseema region for the second consecutive day on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) as a low-pressure area over the southwestern Bay of Bengal deepened, bringing incessant rains to the interior districts. Heavy to very heavy rainfall alert has been issued in the districts of Sri Sathya Sai, Chittoor, Annamayya, YSR... Read More

With elections to the local self-government bodies in Kerala around the corner, the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) has raised the spectre of corruption, alleging that the Kochi Corporation has come under the scanner of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) during the five-year term of the Left Democratic Front (LDF). The LDF, however, has... Read More

A private school bus collides with the divider on the Salem-Kochi highway | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Four students escaped unhurt after a bus of a private school met with an accident at Karumathampatti near Coimbatore on Wednesday (October 22, 2025). The police said the bus involved in the accident belonged to Sri Chaitanya Techno... Read More

Andhra Pradesh Education and IT Minister Nara Lokesh expressed deep shock and outrage over an alleged attempted sexual assault on a girl student of Tuni Rural Gurukulam School in Kakinada district of Andhra Pradesh, by a man identified as Tatika Narayana Rao. According to reports, the accused attempted to assault the student, and upon learning... Read More

Have you ever gone into a store, checked a product, and seen the words “ISO” on it? Or maybe when you were watching television, an ad might have popped up, and you would have heard ‘ISO approved’ somewhere. Ever wondered what ISO stands for? Or why is it important to check the same? ISO, or... Read More

Food being prepared by Greater Chennai Corporation workers at a relief camp in Manali on Wednesday | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam The Tamil Nadu government has set up 215 relief camps and 106 community kitchens in Chennai and deployed a total of 24,149 personnel as part of Northeast monsoon relief and rescue operations. According... Read More

Idealised model of a platinum nanoparticle about 2 nm wide, showing individual atoms. | Photo Credit: Vadim A. Volochaev Inspired by an artist’s stencil, a team of scientists has developed a groundbreaking method to ‘paint’ microscopic gold particles with polymer patches, giving them new and exciting functions. The technique, detailed in a paper published in... Read More

In this image received on Oct. 22, 2025, Union Minister for Defence Rajnath Singh (left) conferred the Honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army upon star javelin thrower and two-time Olympic medalist Neeraj Chopra during the pipping ceremony in South Block, New Delhi. Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi (right) also... Read More

FILE PHOTO: Amazon is looking to ramp up the number of robots in its facilities, a move that could replace over 600,000 jobs by 2030. | Photo Credit: Reuters Amazon is looking to ramp up the number of robots in its facilities, a move that could replace over 600,000 jobs by 2030, per a report... Read More

Come November 2, and Bengaluru’s Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises Road, commonly known as NICE Road, will transform from a congested stretch of tarmac to an ode to Karnataka’s glorious past. The reason? The Hoysala Hustle, a run that celebrates the history and legacy of theState, described by the organisers, Bhasin Sports, as “a carefully designed... Read More