IMD on Sunday predicted “subdued rainfall activity” over the plains of north-west and west-central India NEW DELHI: India’s monsoon has weakened again after a week of good showers slashed the nationwide rainfall deficit from 40% at the end of June to 14% by July 9. The current dry phase has widened the overall nationwide shortfall…
File photo: Vehicles lie damaged after a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst sweeps through the area, in Pahalgam (Picture credit: PTI) SRINAGAR: Cloudburst-triggered flash floods in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pahalgam inundated hotels and huts, and damaged roads, power infrastructure, and agricultural fields along Overa stream on Saturday evening, sparking panic among locals and tourists…
Picture a bank vault the size of Madhya Pradesh. Inside it sits not gold bullion or govt bonds, but clean water, breathable air, pollination services, flood barriers, carbon blocks, and medicinal plants — a portfolio of natural assets worth roughly $2.5 trillion every single year. Now imagine that this vault does not appear on any…
Patronage can’t stop transfers: Manohar Lal on CPWD posting culture NEW DELHI: Taking a swipe at the long-entrenched ‘Delhi club’ within Central Public Works Department (CPWD), housing minister Manohar Lal on Sunday said that some employees had, over the years, mastered the art of staying posted in the capital for more than three decades with…
Arunachal Pradesh floods (Photo credit: ANI) “O! The mad torrents of the Luit,Where are you rushing toWith a thunderous roarIn a deathly garb repeatedlyWho are you chasing…”Penned by the ‘Bard of the Brahmaputra’ Bhupen Hazarika in 1968, these haunting lines remain as relevant today as they were more than five decades ago. Hazarika’s ode to…
CM Yogi at ‘Maha Vriksharopan 2026’, calls 35 crore sapling drive a “grand endeavour” to honour Mother Earth Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that the mega plantation drive, ‘Maha Vriksharopan 2026’ with a target to plant 35 crore saplings across the state under the central theme “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam”…
K Annamalai (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Sunday outlined the roadmap for his newly launched movement, “We The Leaders”, asserting that “Religion is outside the scope of this organization” and reiterating that it would eventually evolve into a political party.Speaking at the ‘Drug-Free Pollachi Awareness Conference’ organised…
Sunil Ambekar (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Sunday expressed “grief” over the alleged irregularities in the counting of donations at the Shri Ram Temple in Ayodhya, while voicing confidence that the ongoing SIT investigation and police action would soon reach a “decisive turn”.The issue was discussed on the concluding day…
Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday escalated the Aam Aadmi Party‘s political attack on the BJP, claiming that those opposing the recitation of the ‘Sundarkand’ have “demonic tendencies”.“Lord Rama had said – ‘In Kaliyuga, people with demonic tendencies will oppose the recitation of the Sundarakanda’,” Kejriwal wrote in…
NEW DELHI: Punjab BJP leader Fatehjung Singh Bajwa on Sunday targeted the Congress over reports of infighting in its Punjab unit, claiming the party is “no longer even in the race” for the 2027 assembly elections and would do well to retain its existing seats.“I have been in the Congress. The Congress is a party…