BEWARE! High nitrate levels found in groundwater in 440 districts

High nitrate levels have been found in groundwater of 440 districts across India, with 20 per cent of the samples collected exceeding the permissible nitrate concentration, the Central Ground Water......

Delhi's Air Is Forcing People To Migrate

Some residents have already taken this step to relocate, either temporarily or permanently, some to their native places and others to clean-air destinations like Goa and Himachal Pradesh. IMAGE:......

'Ratan Made You Feel Special'

'He had a lovely, lovely, sense of humour, very subdued and very, very subtle, but it was very, very, prominent.' All photographs: Kind courtesy Ratan Tata/Instagram.com   Halekai or Home By......

Over 56k sq km of Western Ghats declared eco sensitive

The Centre has issued a fifth draft notification to declare over 56,800 square kilometres of the Western Ghats across six states, including 13 villages in Kerala's landslide-hit Wayanad,......

GST rates on host of goods rejigged

Term life insurance policies, and senior citizens' health insurance premium are likely to be exempted from GST as most members of a state ministerial panel favoured cutting taxes to benefit the......

Consensus eludes GoM on GST rate rationalisation, over 100 items discussed

The Group of Ministers (GoM) on goods and services tax (GST) rate rationalisation, which convened in Goa on Wednesday, reviewed the GST rates for over 100 items, including textiles, handloom goods,......

GST To See Two Slab Rate Structure?

Of the two rate structures on the table, one suggests tax slabs of 8 per cent, 16 per cent, and 24 per cent.The other proposes tax slabs at 9 per cent, 18 per cent, and 27 per cent. Illustration:......

Zindaginama Review: Empathetic

Zindaginama keeps its tone hopeful and steers away from making the stories tragic or depressing, observes Deepa Gahlot. IMAGE: Shivani Raghuvanshi in Daily Puppet Show. For years, till a certain......

Rashmika Misses Home

Sara in the US...Shalini in Goa...Vikrant in Shanghai... Photograph: Kind courtesy Rashmika Mandanna/Instagram Rashmika Mandanna visits Kodagu -- or Coorg -- in Karnataka, to attend her best......

Poacher Review: Hard Truths, Hard-Hitting Storytelling

Poacher neither minces words in condemning these self-seeking slaughterers nor leaves any stone unturned in highlighting the hard work put in by friends of the forest, notes Sukanya Verma. It's......

Karishma Is In The Mood For Goa

Bollywood stars love travelling. Here's where they're off to these days. Photograph: Kind courtesy Parineeti Chopra/Instagram 'I travel to places no one goes, so I can walk free and no one......

PIX: PM Modi declares 38th National Games open!

IMAGE: PM Modi receives the ceremonial torch from Olympian Lakshya Sen during the 38th National Games opening ceremony in Dehradun on Tuesday. Photograph: Kind courtesy Uttarakhand DIPR/X A......

Was always confident about getting back to scoring runs: Padikkal

IMAGE: Following a lean patch, the Karnataka batter has bounced back on a smashing note. Photograph: Kind courtesy Devdutt Parikkal/Instagram Karnataka batter Devdutt Padikkal on Friday expressed......