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A board displayed to create awareness about Amoebic Meningoencephalitis seen on the way to a pond at Navaikulam village in Thiruvananthapuram. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Health Department has invoked the Kerala Public Health Act of 2023 in launching preventive and control measures against amoebic meningoencephalitis, which is now emerging as a new public health concern for the State.Amoebic meningoencephalitis is now a public health concern as it emerges that all waterbodies — wells, ponds, canals, swimming pools, or pools in resorts and water theme parks — could be a potential source of amoebic infection for people using…

Workers at a manufacturing unit make leather footwear in Agra, India, on Monday. Manish Swarup/AP hide caption toggle caption Manish Swarup/AP NEW DELHI — Steep U.S. tariffs on a range of Indian products took effect Wednesday, threatening a steep blow to India’s overseas trade in its largest export market. President Donald Trump had initially announced a 25% tariff on Indian goods. But earlier this month he signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff due to India’s purchases of Russian oil, bringing the combined tariffs imposed by the U.S. on its ally to 50%. The Indian government estimates the…

Published on: Aug 26, 2025 06:08 pm IST Justice Tirthankar Ghosh of the Calcutta high court ordered the CID investigation after observing during Monday’s hearing that CBI probes have become gallery shows. Kolkata: The Calcutta high court on Tuesday directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal police to probe the July 12 death of two Bharatiya Janata Party workers in East Midnapore district, said lawyers who attended the hearing on a petition seeking probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The Calcutta high court. (File) “The single bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh ordered that a CID…

Kolkata: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack against the ruling-Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal accusing it of looting central funds, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that she didn’t expect him to disrespect the chief minister’s chair and the people of West Bengal by labelling them thieves. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee during the foundation stone laying event of several government projects, in Purba Bardhaman, on Tuesday. (PTI) “I don’t expect this from the Prime Minister. I respect his chair. I expect that he too would respect my chair. Why should he say…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) became a symbol of the government’s failure to prevent damage and save lives after Hurricane Katrina. Here, a plea spray-painted on plywood sits in front of an apartment complex on Sept. 4, 2005, in Biloxi, Miss., which was hit hard by the storm. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana 20 years ago this week. The storm killed more than 1,300 people and displaced tens of thousands more. In the years since Katrina, a slew of studies and government reports have found that most of the deaths…

Team Unwired from the National Institute of Technology Calicut at SUPRA SAEINDIA 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Team Unwired from the National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC) has achieved a remarkable milestone at SUPRA SAEINDIA 2025, a premier national-level motorsport competition organised by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) India.The team secured first place in Kerala and 12th position at the national level, marking one of the most significant achievements in the institute’s motorsport journey, a press release said here on Wednesday (August 27, 2025).The event, hosted at the prestigious Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida, witnessed participation from…

FILE PHOTO: Content network service provider Cloudflare announced a new Zero Trust platform for enterprises to securely adopt, build and deploy GenAI applications.  | Photo Credit: Reuters Content network service provider Cloudflare announced on Tuesday (August 26, 2025) a new Zero Trust platform for enterprises to securely adopt, build and deploy GenAI applications. Companies can use this service to analyze and control how Gen AI is used in their organizations to ensure privacy and curtail AI slop. The company’s AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), built into the Zero Trust platform, can help organizations identify shadow AI practices in the company. That…

US President Donald Trump (Photo/AP) US President Donald Trump’s administration appealed to the Supreme Court again on Wednesday in its bid to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid funding frozen. The Justice Department asked for quick intervention to halt lower court decisions requiring the money to keep flowing, including for global health and HIV and AIDS programs. Story continues below this ad The justices rebuffed the Trump administration on the issue earlier this year, but the court was divided 5-4. The Republican administration says the funding at issue includes about $12 billion that would need to be spent by…

On the day 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods imported into the US took effect, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the India-US relationship is a “complicated” one, but added that he believed that “at the end of the day” the two countries will “come together”. Speaking to television news channel Fox Business, Bessent suggested that the recent unease in the relationship between New Delhi and Washington was not just due to India’s hefty purchases of Russian oil, but also the delay in the two countries reaching a trade agreement.“This is a complicated relationship. President Trump and Prime…

Archana Puran Singh recently sat down for a chat with her son Aaryamann Sethi on his vlog. During the conversation, she spoke about the time Aaryamann went through depression while studying in boarding school in London as a 13-year-old. “I faced another setback in life when you got sick in London,” she said. Archana recalled how Aaryamann broke his leg while in boarding school in London and how this injury shattered his dream, but they did not specify the ‘dream’ they were talking about here. She said, “I knew that your dream would be shattered with this broken leg. Your…