A male elephant was found dead in Theppakkadu coming under the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) in Nilgiris district on Saturday, officials said.  An autopsy revealed that the 15-year-old elephant was very weak and there was an infection in its tongue and teeth. There was also no food material in the intestine and maggots were found …

April 1 was set to mark an array of significant changes that were to directly impact the lives of millions of Indians. The government had earlier issued an order to make changes to the wage code that would have impacted crores of salaried employees. Apart from that, announcements were made for changing the interest rates on small savings and mandatory …

A silent pandemic has taken over the lives of most people while the fight against COVID-19 pandemic continues. The physical effects of coronavirus and the countless deaths have been devastating at a global scale, but an unforthcoming plague is on the loose. With the first waves of the lockdown came stress and anxiety, which, for now, appear to have taken …

The Serum Institute of India (SII) has told Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Morocco that further supplies of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will be delayed due to surging demand at home and as it works through a capacity expansion, a Reuters report citing an anonymous source reported. The news comes as India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, is being criticised domestically …

Newly-appointed Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat drew the ire of scores of women when he said ripped jeans paves the way for societal breakdown and is a result of the “bad example” parents set for children. The CM also somehow also managed to link substance abuse to ripped jeans. Terming ripped jeans as “kainchi wala sanskar” (scissor culture), Rawat …

A “strict lockdown” will be enforced in Nagpur from March 15 to 21 in view of a spike in COVID-19 cases, district guardian minister Nitin Raut announced. The district has been reporting a spike in daily cases since the last month. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had last year in January appointed guardian ministers for all 36 districts of the …

Four child sexual abuse victims are denied justice everyday due to closure of their cases by police because of insufficient evidence, highlights a new study. The “Police case disposal pattern: An enquiry into the cases filed under POCSO Act, 2012” by Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF), is an analysis of pattern of disposal of POCSO cases by police from 2017 …

Hitting out at the Centre over the high unemployment rate in the country and low economic growth, former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh blamed demonetisation for the crisis.  Attacking the Centre, Singh said  unemployment is high in the country and its informal sector is in shambles following the “ill considered demonetisation decision” taken by the BJP-led government in 2016. File …

Trade Union activist Nodeep Kaur from Punjab was released from Karnal jail on Friday after being granted bail by Punjab and Haryana High Court. Nodeep Kaur, a 23-year-old activist was arrested on January 12 after she had participated in farmers’ protests at Kundli in Haryana. The activist went straight away to the hub of farmers’ agitation at Delhi’s Singhu protest …

Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site in Italy have discovered an  intact ceremonial chariot, one of several important discoveries made in the same area outside the park near Naples following an investigation into an illegal dig. The chariot, with its iron elements, bronze decorations and mineralized wooden remains, was found in the ruins of a settlement north of Pompeii, beyond …