- Monday, June 16, 2025
OVER 70 per cent of India's aquifers have dried up, signifying a crisis so grave it may lead people to seek refuge in water-rich countries, said Magsaysay award-winning conservationist and environmentalist Rajendra Singh. Stressing that corrective steps must be taken immediately, Singh noted that people from parched areas of central…
A PAKISTANI Hindu dental college student was found dead in her hostel room in Pakistan's Sindh province with a rope tied to her neck, a media report said on Tuesday. Namrita Chandni, a final-year student of Bibi Asifa Dental College in Larkana district, was found lying on a cot by…
SUPREME Court judge Justice M M Shantanagoudar on Tuesday recused himself from hearing petitions filed by 17 disqualified MLAs of Karnataka challenging the decision of the then Speaker to disqualify them from the Assembly. "In this matter, I am not participating" Justice Shantanagoudar, who was part of a three-judge bench…
RISHABH PANT'S form would be an important sub-plot when India look to seize the advantage against South Africa in the second T20 International here on Wednesday after a washout in Dharamsala effectively made the series a two-match affair. The T20 World Cup is more than 12 months away but India…
DOORDARSHAN India will soon be available all over the world, India’s Information and Broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday, asserting that credibility is the national broadcaster's unique selling proposition. Javadekar made the remarks at the celebrations marking the 60th Foundation Day of DD at the Doordarshan Bhawan here. The…
ONE of Britain's most outspoken MPs on the Kashmir issue Bob Blackman has called on Pakistan to leave Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, asserting that India has a sovereign right over the entire region. Addressing a UK-based Kashmiri Pandit gathering organised here on Saturday (14), the Conservative Party MP countered the Pakistani government's…
INDIAN authorities were engaged in a major search and rescue operation Monday (16) to find 39 people missing after their tour boat capsized in a fast-flowing swollen river. Police said that eight bodies have been recovered, down from a previous tally of 12, after the accident on the Godavari river…
A CROWD in Pakistan ransacked a school and Hindu temple after a Hindu principal was accused of blasphemy, police said on Monday (16), the latest case to raise concern about the fate of religious minorities in the predominantly Muslim country. The violence erupted in the southern province of Sindh after…
INDIAN information technology giant Infosys has set up a technology and innovation centre in Arizona, US, and plans to hire 1,000 American employees in the state by 2023. Arizona Technology and Innovation Centre has a special focus on autonomous technologies, Internet of Things (IoT), full-stack engineering, data science and cybersecurity,…
MULTINATIONAL consumer goods giant Unilever announced today (16) that its facilities across five continents are now powered by 100 per cent renewable grid electricity. The establishments include factories, offices, research and development facilities, data centres, warehouses, distribution centres, and others. As far as possible, Unilever’s transition to renewable electricity has…
