A severe wildfire near Saumos in southwestern France became intense enough to generate a pyrocumulonimbus cloud Imagine a wildfire so powerful that it begins creating its own weather.That is what happened in France, where a monster wildfire burning across an area four times the size of Paris produced the country’s first recorded ‘fire cloud’. A…
THANE: Maharashtra revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday said that Thane district will soon have an additional collectorate and two new tehsildar offices to improve administrative efficiency and strengthen property-related services for residents.Speaking at the ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Maharajswa Samadhan Shivir’, Bawankule said the state government’s revenue outreach campaign had benefited thousands of families in…
AI generated image for representation A Pennsylvania township has refused to reject a proposed AI data centre project outright. Instead, Pennsylvania’s Plymouth Township has attached a list of conditions for the project’s continuation, prompting developer Brian O’Neill to sue the township. The project developer has argued that the requirements have become too stringent for development…
Young professionals are increasingly embracing shared mobility options (Representative image generated using AI) MUMBAI : India’s intercity travel landscape is witnessing a significant shift as young, working professionals increasingly opt for shared mobility over personal vehicles, according to the IntrCity SmartBus Intercity Mobility Survey 2026 conducted among 13,320 respondents across the country.The survey found that…
From IIT Bombay to ‘Ramayana’: Inside Nitesh Tiwari’s journey as one of Bollywood’s most acclaimed directors The release of the first trailer for ‘Ramayana’ has once again brought filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari into the limelight. The ambitious mythological epic, featuring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash, and Sai Pallavi, marks one of the biggest projects of the director’s career….
The Total Solar Eclipse of August 12, 2026 will be a major sky event for astrology enthusiasts and eclipse enthusiasts. In the field of science, photo shades can change during an eclipse due to camera settings, solar filters, weather, exposure and editing. In spiritual belief, these shades are also understood as symbolic signs.There are no…
Workers on battery and chassis assembly line. Photo for representation Kolkata: Exide Industries has registered a 27.1% year-on-year jump in Q1 net profit, from Rs 320 crore to Rs 407 crore. The Q1 turnover of the company was up by 17.6% to Rs 5,305 crore, from Rs 4,510 crore in the last fiscal.Increased affordability and…
The incident stemmed from an argument over serving food late and with dirty hands, police said. Patna: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly hacked to death by her younger brother-in-law at Imadpur village under Parsa Bigha police station area in Jehanabad district on Wednesday morning. The victim, Anshu Devi, was the wife of Dharmendra Kumar. The…
The reported strike came hours after the US military announced it had carried out a “heavy wave of strikes” against Iran Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Thursday claimed it destroyed three US F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets and severely damaged three more in a ballistic missile strike on Jordan’s al-Azraq Air Base,…
CLASS 1 ADMISSIONS TO GOVT SCHOOLS PLUNGE IN HAVERIBasavaraj Maralihalli/TNN/Cld by KattimaniHaveri:First-grade admissions across the district fell sharply this year despite the govt spending crores of rupees on infrastructure and rolling out schemes such as free textbooks, uniforms, hot midday meals and milk distribution to boost enrolment in govt schools. According to the education department’s…