Srinagar records hottest April day in 78 years at 30.4 degrees Celsius

Srinagar records hottest April day in 78 years at 30.4 degrees Celsius

The city on Tuesday recorded the hottest April day in nearly eight decades at 30.4 degrees Celsius, which was 10.2 degrees above normal for this time of the season, officials said. The summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir recorded the highest ever maximum temperature of 31.1 degrees Celsius on April 20, 1946, the officials of … Read more

Residents living in transit camp for 40 years demand CID probe

Residents living in transit camp for 40 years demand CID probe

Over 400 residents from the Sheva Koliwada village demanding justice from the State and Central governments, which had promised rehabilitation over 40 years ago after acquiring their lands for a township project | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Over 400 residents from the Sheva Koliwada village in Uran taluka of Maharashtra’s Raigad district sat in protest … Read more

India flying and how: Air passenger traffic set for 80% jump in 5 years

India flying and how: Air passenger traffic set for  80% jump in 5 years

India’s civil aviation industry is in for a steep upward climb. New government figures predict air passenger traffic will increase by 80 per cent over the next five years, from 222 million passenger journeys in 2023-24 to nearly 400 million by 2028-29. The magnitude of the expansion underscores a definitive post-pandemic rebound and suggests that … Read more

ATREE researchers rediscover long-lost species after 111 years

ATREE researchers rediscover long-lost species after 111 years

Typhloperipatus williamsoni was spotted in the Siang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A team of researchers at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and The Environment (ATREE) had reported rediscovering a long-lost species of the velvet worms (phylum Onychophora), one of the oldest living fossils in the world, after 111 … Read more

How a surgeon tried to avoid justice for years after stabbing colleague

How a surgeon tried to avoid justice for years after stabbing colleague

Liam Barnes BBC News, Nottingham YouTube Jonathan Peter Brooks was arrested on the day of the stabbing and appeared in court days later – but has only just been convicted More than four years after he stabbed his colleague, plastic surgeon Jonathan Peter Brooks has been found guilty of attempted murder. On Monday, the 61-year-old … Read more

‘I could live 30 years – but want to die’: Has assisted dying in Canada gone too far?

‘I could live 30 years – but want to die’: Has assisted dying in Canada gone too far?

Fergus Walsh Medical editor Camilla Horrox Global health producer BBC April Hubbard sits on the theatre stage where she plans to die later this year. She is not terminally ill, but the 39-year-old performance and burlesque artist has been approved for assisted dying under Canada’s increasingly liberal laws. Warning: This article contains details and descriptions … Read more

Kejriwal, Mann offer prayers at Golden Temple on completion of three years of AAP govt in Punjab

Kejriwal, Mann offer prayers at Golden Temple on completion of three years of AAP govt in Punjab

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal with Sunita Kejriwal at the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, Sunday, March 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday (March 16, 2025) offered prayers at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the completion of three … Read more

Measles highest in 25 years in European region, WHO says

Measles highest in 25 years in European region, WHO says

Reuters The rise is attributed to increasing scepticism about immunisation The number of measles cases in the European region doubled last year to reach the highest level in 25 years, health officials say. A joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN children’s fund, Unicef, said children under the age of five … Read more

Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years

Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years

Carolyn Atkinson and Ben Robinson File on 4 Investigates Getty Images It took a clinical psychologist and others nine years to get Kasibba released (stock photo) An autistic woman with a learning disability was wrongly locked up in a mental health hospital for 45 years, starting when she was just seven years old, the BBC … Read more