Surplus power generated during solar hours is fed into the grid and drawn back at night NEW DELHI: What do Lucknow, Nagpur, Surat, Varanasi and Ernakulam districts have in common? These smaller urban centres are contributing to the country’s energy transition, with a growing number of households opting for rooftop solar systems to meet their…
Residents raise slogans against LDA Lucknow: Residents of Jankipuram Extension staged an unusual protest on Sunday, organising a ‘Keechad Mahotsav’ (slush festival) to highlight years of waterlogging and pothole-ridden roads in the area. With monsoon showers worsening the condition of the stretch, locals gathered at the waterlogged road, held placards and raised slogans, turning rain-filled…
An award-winning Queensland firefighting camp that told young girls that “to be it you have to be able to see it” has been scrapped after its first year. The Queensland Fire Department’s Girls Firefighter Experience Camp was hailed as “hugely successful” by senior leaders and won a Commissioner’s Award for Excellence in 2025. Schools were…
‘An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep’ In May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, facing destruction from the advancing German army. By every visible measure of military equipment, battlefield position, and numbers, the Allied forces were…
Taxpayers would save $1 billion a year in health sector costs if Sydney residents had better access to shady tree canopy and nature, a new report has suggested. The Sydney think tank Committee for Sydney is calling for a series of new greenways and tree plantings across the city to fight urban heat island effects,…
The blaze broke out around midnight at an entertainment venue in the northern part of the city A massive fire ripped through a pub in Thailand’s capital Bangkok early Monday, killing at least 27 people and leaving several others injured, officials said.The blaze broke out around midnight at an entertainment venue in the northern part…
Alcohol is so ingrained in Australian culture that it can be hard to drink less, even when you want to. But increasingly people are cutting back, explains Amy Pennay, associate professor and deputy director of La Trobe University’s Centre for Alcohol Policy Research. Data from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey shows people are consuming…
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during the inauguration of the ‘Tree Plantation Mahayagya-2026’ in Gorakhpur on Sunday Gorakhpur: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday called on citizens to take part in mass tree plantation, warning that indiscriminate felling could trigger water scarcity and eventually a food grain crisis.“A single tree absorbs and retains thousands of litres…
It would come as a silent threat in the middle of the night — a niqab and a knife — left outside a tent in the squalid, prison-like detention camp housing Islamic State-linked families in Syria. The message for the occupant was simple: wear the black veil preferred by the Islamic State (IS), or else….
Lucknow: A widow has accused two men of luring her into an SUV on the pretext of handing over land documents, drugging her with a spiked soft drink and attempting to rape her while the vehicle was in motion.Police have registered an FIR in the case and launched an investigation. According to the complaint lodged…