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About 70% of all El Niño years since 1980 have been accompanied by weak summer monsoons, showing that the link between Pacific conditions and the country’s June–September rains is one of the strongest of the global weather events affecting India’s monsoon season. The link gains importance in light of recent forecasts by US and European…

MALDA: The 77-year-old wife of an 85-year-old voter died of a suspected heart attack in a village in Bengal’s north Dinajpur on Monday after their family quarreled with election officials when they went to the home of senior citizens to register their votes.When the news of Tafizan Bibi’s death spread, the local residents were angry…

New Delhi: Ten days after the ED conducted searches at multiple premises in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai on officials of political consultancy firm I-PAC, whose clients include Trinamool and DMK, the agency on Monday arrested one of its directors and co-founder Vinesh Chandel. He will be produced before a special court in Delhi for…

Srinagar: Clip-Clop. Hoofs pound the asphalt. As a horse-drawn carriage slips into traffic, the engines grow quiet as if it has been forgotten.Ghulam Rasul Kumar reins his tonga through Srinagar’s old town, a lonely throwback to the crowd of honks and headlights. At 70, he’s back on the roads he once left behind when the…

Bengaluru: When Vikram, India’s lunar lander, briefly lifted off and settled back on the moon in 2023, it marked a small but telling moment in the Chandrayaan-3 mission. Now, that short “hop,” which lasted about 3 minutes, is helping scientists piece together what lies just below the lunar surface through very precise measurements.The maneuver toward…

At the Times Internet Half Marathon, the real pace of the race was created not just by speed, but by those who mastered the controls. The pacers—steady, disciplined, and focused—became the silent architects of the course, guiding hundreds of runners with precision toward their goals.In the 10K category, their impact was immediate. The group of…

New Delhi: Nepal Prime Minister Balendra “Belen” Shah accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit India even as he unveiled a 100-point governance agenda at home targeting VIP culture, political influence and bureaucracy on campuses, delays in public services, free healthcare access for poor children and access to safe schools for young children. Foreign…

US CENTCOM said it would begin a blockade targeting Iranian ports from Monday after talks broke down. The UP government set up an inquiry panel after protests broke out in Noida, blaming the violence on “vested interests”. Iran has warned that the blockade of Hormuz could lead to a sharp, disproportionate escalation Global fuel prices….

Dibrugarh: Firing near the ancestral home of militant group ULFA (I) chief Paresh Barua. AssamHis family claimed in Dibrugarh district on Monday.His brother Bimal Barua claimed that two rounds of blank shots were heard near the house in Jerai village after midnight, but nothing was caught on CCTV.Alleging that someone wants to create law and…