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In view of the high-risk maritime conditions, the weather bureau has issued a total prohibition for workers at sea. | Photo Credit: K R Deepak A low-pressure area has formed over the Northwest Bay of Bengal and its neighborhood at 5.30 a.m. on Sunday (August 23, 2026), under the influence of an active upper-air cyclonic…
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India’s Saransh Jain on the day of his Test debut ahead of the second Test cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI India handed a debut to spin bowling all-rounder Saransh Jain as captain Shubman Gill elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the second…
India’s Devdutt Padikkal during a practice session ahead of the second Test cricket match against Sri Lanka, in Galle, Sri Lanka, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI Former India batter Cheteshwar Pujara backed Devdutt Padikkal at the crucial number three spot in Test cricket, but added that his long-term prospects depend on tougher…
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The 10-day Ganeshotsav, which begins on September 14 this year, is one of the biggest and most widely celebrated annual festivals in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra. | Photo Credit: AP Two persons were killed and five others, including two children, suffered injuries after a huge Ganesh idol of ‘Bhuleshwaracha Raja’ fell during its…
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In this picture from May 1961, a traffic policeman regulates traffic for people to cross to the Marina, to the sandy beach near Triplicane. The Standard Motor car (in double shade) seen in this picture is a thing of past along with the traffic police’s dress. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives Escaping the heat…
Decades of improper industrial waste management have contaminated groundwater with toxic hexavalent chromium across parts of three districts of Uttar Pradesh, exposing villagers to unsafe water and serious health risks. Groundwater from handpumps glows bright yellow in different villages of these districts — a telltale sign of toxic hexavalent chromium contamination. Patches of yellow-green earth…
The “Great Transshipment Scam”, an August 2026 White House report, accuses India’s Pune–Gujarat–Chennai production belt of pumps and compressors that export to the U.S. as being largely just pit stops in the movement of Chinese goods to America where no meaningful value addition is made. The report says China-linked exporters use jurisdictions like India for “both limited production activity and logistics-side routing”. And the alleged scam lies in evading the high tariffs that the Trump administration levied on China in its first term by routing these pumps and…
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ICE is facing criticism for use of aggressive tactics as it carries out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Indian American Congressman Shri Thanedar and two others have asked the U.S. government to immediately halt the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) plan to procure electric shock gloves for its officers….
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Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The price of good quality cotton during harvest is expected to be around ₹75-80 per kg, as per the pre-sowing price forecast by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore. In Tamil Nadu, cultivation of cotton was expanded to 1.02 lakh hectares with a production…
New leader of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The new leader of Iran’s top security body is threatening neighbours against joining new U.S. efforts to squeeze Tehran’s economy. Egypt is trying to revive Iran-U.S. negotiations. And Iraq and Iran say Tehran has helped some ships carrying Iraqi oil to…
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