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Forest Department officers rescue children from a landslide-affected area of Wayanad district. | Photo Credit: PTI More than a 1,000 government employees are currently engaged in the disaster management and relief operations in the landslide-ravaged regions in Wayanad district, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s office said on August 4. The 24×7 activities are being coordinated by the Civil Station at Kalpetta and the temporary control room opened at Chooralmala. Also Read: How can Wayanad reduce landslide risks?Mobilised under 15 teams, the government staff are handling the coordination of the search and rescue effort, collection and distribution of relief materials, food and medicines,…

At the end of February 10’s trading session, the rupee was quoted at 90.57 (provisional), registering a gain of 9 paise over its previous close. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The rupee pared initial losses and settled on a positive note on Tuesday (February 10, 2026), higher by 9 paise at 90.57 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar, supported by positive cues from domestic equities and weakening of the American currency in the overseas market. Forex traders said the rupee is witnessing sideways price action as the support from positive domestic equities and foreign fund inflows was negated by geopolitical tensions…

India’s Ishan Kishan celebrates his half century with Tilak Varma during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 cricket match between India and Pakistan, at R. Premadasa Stadium, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 15, 2026 | Photo Credit: PTI The Colombo detour proved to be a fruitful endeavour for the Men in Blue. With a clinical triumph against Pakistan, India enhanced its defending champion’s halo in the ICC T20 World Cup.A Super Eight berth has been sealed, and while sterner battles await, Suryakumar Yadav’s men can be proud about their initial campaign. Any clash against Pakistan, with its historical…

Dakshindari Youth Durga Puja in South Dum Dum — dedicated to acid attack survivors Kolkata’s streets and the pursuit of love during Durga Puja are cut from the same cloth, a fabric of chance and inevitability. Every wrong turn might open like a trapdoor — into an ornate, never-seen-before pandal, or into the orbit of a stranger whose glance lingers a heartbeat too long in the bhog (offering) queue. The newness of the season feels conspiratorial: the thrill of a first encounter or a perfectly timed meet cute. Or on Navami, when the smoke of Sandhi Puja coils around the…

One way to read Budget 2026 is as a conventional fiscal document: restrained on stimulus, cautious on taxes, and focused on consolidation. A more analytically useful reading is to treat it as a trade-institution reform package, designed for an era in which export competitiveness is shaped less by tariff preferences and more by regulatory precision, logistics reliability, and legal certainty under geopolitical stress.There is a continuity in India’s trade agenda over the last couple of years. India is renegotiating legacy regional trade agreements, negotiating new ones that are narrower but rule-intensive, and operating in a global trading system marked by…

Science Quiz: On Charles DarwinJulia Margaret Camero, a pioneer of close-up photography who also captured the famous 1862 image of Charles Darwin with a big beard. Photo: Public DomainSTART THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Charles Darwin originally went to the University of Edinburgh to study ________, but he disliked the experience so much that he left, but not before he learnt taxidermy from the British taxidermist John Edmonstone. In his second year, Darwin began to focus on natural history. Fill in the blank. 2 / 5 | The voyage that shaped Darwin’s science was the second expedition of the…

Mumbai Police Crime Branch team brings Bhavesh Bhinde, an accused in the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse case, from Udaipur, at the Mumbai Airport on May 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed the petition for release filed by Bhavesh Bhinde, the director of the advertising firm, Ego Media Private Limited, that erected the giant hoarding that collapsed in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area during heavy rains and storm, taking the lives of 15 and injuring around 70 people on May 13. Seeking immediate release, Bhinde, who is arrested in the case, has claimed in his petition that…

India has always negotiated with a “clear mindset” on sectors that are “very” sensitive for the country in trade pacts and has protected all those key segments under the interim trade agreement with the U.S., Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said.He also said that both teams are working to convert the joint statement into a legal agreement, which is expected to be finalised and signed before the end of March. “India has always negotiated all agreements with a clear mindset, anything that is very sensitive to India, anything where we feel our farmers, fishermen, dairy, they are going to be impacted,…

UAE’s Muhammad Arfan and teammates celebrate the wicket of Afghanistan’s Ibrahim Zadran during their ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 match at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi on December 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI An upside of the short turnaround between group-stage matches in the T20 World Cup is that the players don’t have to brood over disappointments for long. Azmatullah Omarzai will concur after his match-winning display against the United Arab Emirates at the Arun Jaitley Stadium New Delhi on Monday (February 16, 2026).Five days after Omarzai bowled a costly Super Over against South Africa in Ahmedabad,…