Opening The Flood Gates At Fukushima

The Japanese government intends to discharge all 1.34 million tonnes of wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, an operation that began on 24 August 2023. Presumably, it also plans to discharge the wastewater that will continue to accumulate over...

Fire destroys mattress factory

MEERUT: A raging fire swept through a mattress factory on Delhi Road, within the jurisdiction of Kotwali Police Station in Baghpat during the early hours of Monday.  Firefighters rushed to the scene, and it took them five hours to successfully extinguish the flames,...

3 labourers suffer burns in gelatin explosion

BENGALURU: Three men working at an under-construction site sustained severe burns in an alleged gelatin explosion at Whitefield recently.  Manikanta, Srinivas and Shashikumar were working at the site near a hospital in Whitefield. According to the family of the...

‘Muck in rivers led to HP disaster’

KULLU: Terming the recent floods and resultant disaster in Himachal Pradesh as ‘man-made,’ various environmental scientists and activists have blamed muck-dumping, illegal mining and encroachments on river banks as the primary reasons behind the deluge...