Karnataka, Assam, and Tamil Nadu account for 59.29% of the estimated 22,466 elephants in India, a report released by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in Dehradun on Tuesday (October 14, 2025) has revealed. Seven north-eastern States and a part of West Bengal support 6,559 elephants, underscoring the region’s critical role as an elephant stronghold,...
The police have come up with stringent enforcement actions against the illegal single digit lottery business by deploying dedicated squads for flash inspections in Kozhikode district of Kerala. This move follows confidential reports from the State Lottery Department and licensed lottery agents, who raised protests against the growing number of unregulated lottery activities in the...
215 heritage Durga Pujas will receive ₹ 1.10 lakh each, the ones in the second and third categories will get ₹ 75,000 and ₹ 50,000, said the Culture Minister The BJP government in Odisha announced that it will provide financial assistance to Durga Puja committees up to ₹ 1.10 lakh each. Culture Minister Suryabanshi Suraj...
AGRA (UTTAR PRADESH) Two persons drowned and six others went missing during an idol immersion in the Utangan river in Agra district, officials said on Friday (October 3 2025) The incident occurred in Khairagarh area on Thursday (October 2, 2025) when nine people slipped into deep water during the immersion. While locals managed to rescue...
Vishnuvardhan, whose 75th birth anniversary falls on Thursday, is celebrated as the “Sahasa Simha” (brave lion) of the Kannada film industry by his fans. The moniker, however, does not quite capture the wide range of roles he played. His last few movies, before his death in 2009, prove that his talent was not on the...
GUWAHATI The Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) in Assam has become the first tribal council under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution to fully digitise its land records. Officials said the digitisation of more than 15 lakh land documents, including texts and maps, across the 8,970 sq. km BTR was completed a few weeks ago, ending...
Kolkata Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the ongoing teacher recruitment crisis would be resolved soon, adding that ‘tainted’ teachers could be accommodated in alternative roles. Her remarks, made ahead of Teacher’s Day, have drawn sharp criticism from groups representing ‘untainted’ teachers. Speaking at the Shiksha Ratna programme at the Dhono Dhanyo auditorium in...
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay), have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that enables machines to interpret satellite and drone images using everyday language prompts, potentially transforming applications in disaster response, surveillance, urban planning, and agriculture. The model, called Adaptive Modality-guided Visual Grounding (AMVG), has been designed by a team...
