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Delhi Jal Board (DJB) announced that parts of South Delhi will face water supply disruptions on the morning of December 12 due to maintenance work, as reported by PTI.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says she is suing a Saudi Arabian agribusiness over what she calls “excessive pumping” of groundwater

Luigi Nicholas Mangione, suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEOBrian Thompson, contested his extradition to New York at a court hearing Tuesday, though it isn’t expected to delay legal proceedings significantly

New York City’s police commissioner says the gun found on the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO matches shell casings found at the crime scene

Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), the faecal coliform count reached 79,00,000 most probable number per 100 milliliters (MPN/100ml). This marks a sharp increase from 3,20,000 in 2023 and 6,80,000 in 2021, a TOI report stated. The river’s biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), a measure of organic pollution, also deteriorated in November, indicating a worsening pollution load compared to October.

This programme will support India’s climate and sustainability goals by empowering local communities, restoring ecosystems, and fostering sustainable development practices in collaboration with Safe Water Network, the company said in a statement. Program Vasundhara’s will prioritize water resource management, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity conservation, and renewable energy across the two cities. In Bengaluru, around the Aivarakhandapura Lake, Program Vasundhara is building an 18-million-liter rainwater harvesting structure to boost local water availability and reduce dependency on external sources. This is a crucial step in addressing local water challenges while fostering resilience in the community.

Chinese military activity around the island on Wednesday, including 53 military aircraft, with Taiwan on high alert over Beijing's latest pressure campaign. China's military has yet to comment and has not confirmed it is carrying out any military exercises. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, had been expected to launch drills to express its anger at President Lai Ching-te's tour of the Pacific that ended on Friday, which included stopovers in Hawaii and the U.S. territory of Guam.

For eight years a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World Heritage Site, accused by locals and conservationists of decimating the environment

Chinese electric battery company CATL and automaker Stellantis say they will build a major battery factory in northern Spain

ISRO on Tuesday said it carried out 'well deck' recovery trials of the Gaganyaan with the Indian Navy on December 6. The trials were carried out at Eastern Naval Command using a well deck ship off the coast of Vishakhapatnam, ISRO said in a statement. The space agency said the well deck in a ship can be flooded with water so that boats, landing crafts, recovered spacecraft can be taken inside to dock within the ship. Once the Crew Module touches down in the sea at the end of the mission, crew have to be recovered in the minimum possible time and with the least discomfort, it said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Yardena Kurulkar’s current exhibition, The Body in Agreement, at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, is an attempt to further her ongoing personal examination into the human body and its relationship with nature. After her initial training in ceramics, the artist’s practice has been multidisciplinary and is expressed here through multi-layered etchings, video projections, 3D printed works, composite sculptures made of clay, brass and wood, and more.

Perseverance rover by NASA has eventually made a significant discovery on Mars while finding a rock sample nicknamed ‘Cheyava Falls’ that might provide and eminent evidence of ancient microbial life, reported Popular Mechanics. According to Popular Mechanics, located in the Jezero Crater this certain rock actually features two vertical veins of calcium sulfate while eventually indicating significant past water presence and a central band filled with distinctive ‘leopard spots.’ These spots actually suggest chemical reactions that could have supported significant microbial life. Using its significant SHERLOC and PIXL instruments, Perseverance rover detected organic compounds within the rock while marking the first compelling evidence of organic material which are being found alongside signs of water and potential energy sources for life, asserted Popular Mechanics.

Mirai Ningen Sentakuki, or the “Human Washing Machine,” is an AI-powered invention by Osaka-based Science Co. Promising to cleanse the body and calm the mind in just 15 minutes, this futuristic machine is designed for efficiency and relaxation, making it a potential game-changer for those short on time.

gold smuggling attempt involving three passengers on a flight from Almaty, Uzbekistan to Delhi after their suspicious behaviour during the journey raised alarms. The eagle-eyed staff onboard the flight alerted the captain who contacted customs officers at Delhi's IGI airport to intercept the passengers. The incident occurred aboard a flight en route to India, a three-and-a-half-hour late-night journey. While most passengers accepted meal services, three individuals repeatedly refused offerings from the air hostess, including water and tea. Their unusual stillness and abrupt refusals drew the air hostess’s attention, prompting her to inform the flight captain. Acting on her concerns, the captain alerted customs officials via air traffic control.

Elon Musk's Starlink seeking details of who purchased its internet device that helps in sea navigation when smugglers with $4.2 billion worth of meth were caught in the biggest such Indian seizure. Two people with direct knowledge of the police notice sent by Andaman and Nicobar island officials said Starlink had been asked for the purchaser's name and payment method, registration details and where the internet device was used when smugglers travelled in international waters from Myanmar to India. Starlink and Andaman police did not respond to Reuters request for comment.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Our struggles with achieving foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) in the nine schools that we run, despite the resources and expertise available, are significant. To begin with, let me recap my earlier column.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Raise your hand if you’ve been victimized by bad weather in the last year or so. Was your travel disrupted? Did your home get unbearably hot? Have you been impacted by flooding? When I asked these questions at a panel event recently, only a lucky few in the audience kept their hands down.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Toto! I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kolkata anymore. In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, after a tornado picks them up and dumps them in Oz, Dorothy famously tells her little terrier Toto that she thinks they are no longer in the cornfields of Kansas.

comets may have delivered water to Earth. This theory has faced challenges due to conflicting data from past research. New findings suggest dust on comets could affect key measurements.