Come October and Goa will welcome its tourists with open arms but there’s seems to be a catch this time around. Goa’s welcoming beach shacks might not be around to facilitate tourists when the tourism season begins next month, with the National Green Tribunal on Friday directing the state government to keep its beach shack …

Around 3.11 crore out of the 3.3 crore applicants have made it to the final list of the Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC). According to the list published on Saturday, some 19 lakh people have been left out from the list, which means that they are no longer Indians. One of the prominent names who was excluded from the …

When a student at the ISRO Centre here urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give him tips to become the President of India, the former jovially asked him why doesn’t he aim to become the Prime Minister instead. He was interacting with the group of students who were here to witness the Chandrayaan-2’s soft landing on the moon. ANI “My …

Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated across the nation with much fervour and pandals across the country are catching everyone’s fancy. A Ganesh idol has been installed in the city by Future Foundation Society to mark the launch of Chandrayaan-2, the lunar mission, by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Hyderabad, Telangana: Ganesha Pandal inspired by …

The rupee is continuing to go downhill amid reports of economic slowdown. The rupee tumbled by 67 paise to 72.09 against the US currency in early trade, tracking weak opening in domestic equities amid strong dollar demand from banks and importers. Forex traders said the US tariffs on imports from China took effect on Sunday and were followed later by …

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath-led UP goverment’s much publicised ‘Prerna’ app, that allows teachers to mark their attendance by clicking a selfie in government schools, has been embroiled in a controversy. The apex body of government primary school teachers is preparing to launch a statewide agitation against the app on September 4, a day before the Yogi Adityanath government launches it …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to embark on a three-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain from August 23, the Ministry of External Affairs said. During the visit, PM Modi will receive the Order of Zayed, the highest civil decoration of the UAE which was conferred to him in April 2019 in recognition of his …

Plastic waste has been accumulating and slowly eating up our planet. Plastic is not biodegradable and we are aware of this fact but somehow we still want to carry things in plastic bags. Eighteen states have imposed complete ban on plastic carry-bags, while five other states have imposed partial prohibition at religious and historical places, the Central Pollution Control Board …

14 years ago on July 26, 2005, Mumbai was ravaged with severe rains as the city had received over 944 mm rainfall in a single day. If the rains don’t subside in the financial capital of the country, things are definitely going to get worse in the upcoming days as the MET has forecast heavy rainfall in the coming days. …

Startled farmers in Bihar were in for a huge shock after a suspected meteorite the size of a football plunged into a rice field. Onlookers said the light brown-coloured object sent them fleeing from the field when it fell at their rural village, sending up smoke. “The farmers were working in the paddy field when this heavy rock fell from …