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During the heatwave days of 2024, it links about 26,500 deaths from ischaemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to ozone exposure. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu While surface ozone — a pollutant harmful to the heart and lungs — already exceeds safe limits across much of India in the hot pre-monsoon…
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During the heatwave days of 2024, it links about 26,500 deaths from ischaemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to ozone exposure. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu While surface ozone — a pollutant harmful to the heart and lungs — already exceeds safe limits across much of India in the hot pre-monsoon…
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Social media and video networks — Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube — have overtaken news organisations’ own websites and apps as the most widely used means of accessing news. | Photo Credit: Reuters Trust in news is at its lowest level globally since 2015, as interest in news dwindles; at the same time, more people…
Founder of Cockroach Janata Party Abhijeet Dipke during a demonstration in Jaipur on June 15, 2026. Photo: Screengrab from X/@PTI_News Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke was allegedly manhandled and slapped by some people during a protest in Jaipur on Monday, triggering chaos and a brief struggle at the venue. Police detained two youths…
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla receives a letter from TMC MPs including Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Satabdi Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Mala Roy, Yusuf Pathan, and others for separate seating arrangement in the House, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI The decision made by the rebel MPs of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to merge with the…
: The Builders Association of India (BAI), Vizag Steel City Centre, distributed buttermilk to those visiting the Public Grievance Redressal System (PGRS) in the city, for the fifth consecutive week. The initiative was carried out at the PGRS counters at the District Collectorate, GVMC, and Police Commissionerate under the chairmanship of BAI Vizag Steel City…
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The Poonamallee All-Women Police on Monday arrested a 44-year-old man for allegedly sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl, who was playing outside her house in Poonamallee on Sunday. Police sources said the arrested was identified as R. Saravanan of Kattupakkam, a load van driver. He was from the same locality as the victim. Saravanan allegedly abducted…
Heat stress a major concern for elderly persons, says study. | Photo Credit: S.R. RAGHUNATHAN As World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is observed annually on June 15, HelpAge India released a study ‘Climate Resilient Ageing – Ensuring Care, Dignity & Agency’ to mark the occasion this year. The study tracks the ways climate change is…
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Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran delivering the virtual inaugural address at the event on Monday. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU The ‘peace deal’ between Iran and the U.S. over the Strait of Hormuz was “very welcome” for a country like India that imports oil, natural gas, and fertilizer, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor…
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Parties involved in the Pariyathukavu land dispute sign a settlement agreement at the Ernakulam District Collector’s chamber on June 15 in the presence of Minister Roji M. John, MLA V.P. Sajeendran and Collector G. Priyanka. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The families involved in the long-standing Pariyathukavu land dispute on Monday (June 15) signed a…
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