A service road near IFFCO Chowk caved in, creating a large crater and disrupting traffic GURGAON: A massive section of the service road on the Delhi-Jaipur highway near IFFCO Chowk caved in on Tuesday afternoon, prompting authorities to shut the stretch to traffic after a crater nearly 10ft wide and 15ft deep opened up.The cave-in…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday defended actor Kriti Sanon amid criticism of her outfit in a Raksha Bandhan advertisement, saying “what women wears is her choice.”In a post on Instagram, Gandhi said, “What a woman wears, what she does and where she goes – is her choice.”…
Aerial view of Lake Merced and surrounding coastal landscape San Francisco city officials have opened a search for private partners to redevelop a 9.5-acre lakeside property that was used as a private shooting range for more than 80 years. The move marks the final stage of a major environmental transformation along the western shore of…
Retired wind turbine blades are becoming a growing waste challenge as older turbines reach the end of their operating lives, but a Tennessee company is developing a way to recover valuable material from them instead of sending the blades to landfill. Carbon Rivers, a Knoxville-based advanced materials company, uses a heat-based process to separate glass…
Still from video aired by Iranian media The US Secret Service has acknowledged being aware of a video being broadcast by Iranian state media that appeared to threaten the life of Barron Trump. They have stated that they are investigating the footage as a potential threat to a protected person.The nearly three-minute video, aired over…
US widened sanctions on Iran, targeting four India-based companies and three Indian nationals for importing Iranian petroleum products The TOI correspondent from Washington: Four India-based companies – and three Indian nationals associated with two of them – have been swept into the Trump administration’s new economic offensive against Iran, adding a potentially combustible new layer…
Brydon Carse and Joe Root England captain Joe Root has admitted he is “really hacked off” and “really disappointed” after another off-field incident involving an England player brought the team’s drinking culture under scrutiny again.Root’s comments came after fast bowler Brydon Carse was pictured outside a nightclub in the early hours of Sunday in handcuffs…
At least 35,000 excess deaths have occurred across Europe during four record-breaking summer heatwaves At least 35,000 excess deaths have happened across Europe during four record-breaking heatwaves this summer, according to a report by the Guardian. The actual toll is likely to be significantly higher, with August data still unavailable for several countries and heat-related…
The area would be managed to restore native grassland and savannah and improve the hydrology of the site. (TPW photo) In 2014, a coalition of conservation groups in Texas completed the purchase of 17,351 acres of coastal land in Calhoun County. Known as Powderhorn Ranch, the property was one of the largest remaining areas of…
Photo: A map of Lechuguilla Cave in July 2019Photo credit: NPS For decades, Lechuguilla Cave was just a footnote in New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains: a 90-foot entrance pit leading to 400 feet of dry, dead-end passages that had once been mined for bat guano. But in the 1950s, cavers began noticing something strange: wind roaring…
