Seeking relief: Onion growers want an MSP of Rs 3,500/quintal and a Rs 1,500-a-quintal compensation for distress sales Rain clouds rolled over Maharashtra’s onion belt. Then came war winds from West Asia. Prices collapsed. Crops rotted. Farmers counted losses in rupees — and sold tears by the quintal. Across Nashik, Solapur and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, onion…
El Niño is a climate pattern of warming of the ocean surface in central and eastern tropical Pacific. NEW DELHI: With the shadow of El Niño looming large over India due to its potentially negative impact on monsoon, a study by a group of farm scientists from an ICAR institution shows that El Niño years…
BENGALURU: For a brief moment Saturday, around 100 employees at BMTC’s Yeshwanthpur depot-26 may have felt that long-promised rewards had finally arrived in full. Then came the phone calls.In what the corporation described as a “technical error”, a billing clerk accidentally credited the entire 26 months’ salary revision arrears to about 100 staff members instead…
HYDERABAD: Cyberabad Police, as part of the investigation into the Pocso case involving Union minister Bandi Sanjay’s son, Bandi Sai Bageerath, have altered the charges by adding Section 64(2)(m) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which pertains to repeatedly raping the same woman. The offence carries a minimum punishment of 10 years’ jail, which may…
This photo released by Moscow Region Governor’s official telegram channel shows a house on fire after a Ukrainian attack in Khimki, just outside Moscow. MOSCOW/NEW DELHI: An Indian worker was killed and three others were injured in a drone attack in the Moscow region, the Indian embassy in Russia said on Sunday.Russian media reported that…
US President Donald Trump intensified pressure on Iran on Sunday as diplomatic efforts to end months of conflict in the Middle East appeared to edge closer to collapse. Fresh tensions erupted after reports emerged detailing Washington’s demands for restarting nuclear negotiations, while a drone strike near the United Arab Emirates’ Barakah nuclear power plant further…
Two EA-18 fighter jets collided mid-air during an air show at a military base in Idaho on Sunday, with dramatic footage capturing the moment the aircraft appeared to smash into each other before plunging towards the ground in flames. Videos shared online showed four parachutes opening in the sky moments after the collision, indicating that…
KANPUR: A 16-year-old boy belonging to Dalit community was beaten by upper caste men for drinking water from a public handpump and touching a bucket kept there. The assailants stripped him of his clothes, punished him and beat him mercilessly. They spat on a shoe and forced him to lick it, filled the shoe with…
Every child occasionally complains about school. Undoubtedly, there are times when early morning schedules, homework, or exams take a toll on the child’s mind. However, not every “I hate school” emotion is a tantrum or laziness, sometimes, it’s related to a deeper issue. Since children don’t have the vocabulary to express themselves, they tend to…
AHMEDABAD: In an undercover operation in the US by the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC), a US-based tech professional of Gujarati origin has been arrested in Florida for allegedly attempting to exploit minors.The accused, Siddharth Sunil Kumar Patel, 41, a resident of Frisco, Texas, was taken into custody on May 14. According to a Lake…