News in Frames | Toxic water runs deep
The Hinduby Shashi Shekhar Kashyap·23 Aug 2026
Decades of improper industrial waste management have contaminated groundwater with toxic hexavalent chromium across parts of three districts of Uttar Pradesh, exposing villagers to unsafe water and...
Selwyn calls early end to 'challenging' ski season
ABC News Australiaby Adriane Reardon·23 Aug 2026
In short; Selwyn Snow Resort has announced a wrap on its 2026 season due to a lack of snow cover Perisher, Thredbo and Charlotte Pass continue to operate in the NSW alps. What's next?
Karaikal hoping for power infrastructure boost in 2026-27 budget
New Indian Expressby Mohamed Salahudeen B·23 Aug 2026
KARAIKAL: Ahead of the 2026-27 Budget, residents of Karaikal have urged the Puducherry government to allocate funds to strengthen the region’s power infrastructure and address frequent outages.
Godavari waters will flow to Anakapalli in September, says CM Chandrababu Naidu
New Indian Expressby Usha Peri·23 Aug 2026
VISAKHAPATNAM: Stating that the Veligonda project, initiated 30 years ago, would be inaugurated on August 31, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday announced that Godavari waters will be...
Poor rainfall cuts Siruvani water supply to Coimbatore to 55 MLD
New Indian Expressby Aravind Raj·23 Aug 2026
COIMBATORE: Poor rainfall in the water catchment areas of the Siruvani Dam in Kerala has led to a reduction in water supplied to Coimbatore, with the TWAD Board scaling down the daily supply from...
Big road, rail links set to spur Andhra's Nellore growth
New Indian Expressby S Guru Srikanth·23 Aug 2026
VIJAYAWADA: While heavy freight trains are already rolling along Rs 2,212 crore worth of newly completed port-rail links, a massive Rs 16,000 crore road grid is now racing against time to bridge...
Veligonda Phase-I will be inaugurated on Aug 31: CM Chandrababu Naidu
New Indian Expressby S Guru Srikanth·23 Aug 2026
VIJAYAWADA: Marking the end of a three-decade wait for the drought-prone regions of Prakasam, Markapuram, Nellore and Kadapa districts, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has announced that Phase-I...
4K TN water tanks completely dry, farmers forced to deepen borewells
New Indian Expressby S Guruvanmikanathan·23 Aug 2026
CHENNAI/ THANJAVUR: Tamil Nadu is facing a severe water crisis as 4,208 of its 14,141 water tanks have completely dried up.
‘India’s Forests, Real and Imagined’: Forests as literary-political figures across three millennia
Scroll.inby Ankush Pal·23 Aug 2026
India’s Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation by Alan Johnson is an ambitious work of literary ecocriticism that attempts to trace the figure of the forest across approximately...
India’s monsoon weakens, IMD predicts below-normal rain for next two weeks
Hindustan Timesby Jasjeev Gandhiok·23 Aug 2026
India’s monsoon weakens, IMD predicts below-normal rain for next two weeks Despite some weather systems developing, rainfall is expected to remain below normal across the country in both weeks of...
A Herd Day’s Night
New Indian Expressby Khursheed Shah·23 Aug 2026
About an hour after sunset, the countryside around Odisha’s Kantamila village belongs entirely to the frogs. Their chorus swells from every direction during the monsoon.
Keeping Company With Trees
New Indian Expressby Sheila Kumar·23 Aug 2026
Studies have repeatedly shown that being near trees lowers our blood pressure, slows our heart rate and reduces stress hormones; the activity cuts down cortisol, the main chemical our body makes in...
Sowing the seeds of a solar power intervention
The Hinduby Vanita Bhatnagar·23 Aug 2026
Kojadmal Jat’s solar farm is different from those surrounding it. In Kundanpura, a village in Bassi block, nearly an hour’s drive east of Jaipur, Rajasthan’s capital, the sight of fields dotted...
Heathrow expansion ‘is threat to England’s largest surviving medieval barn’
World news | The Guardianby Dalya Alberge·23 Aug 2026
Six hundred years after it was built, England’s largest surviving medieval timber-framed barn could now be “shaken to pieces” by aircraft vibrations, campaigners warn.
Frustration mounts for thousands still without power after deadly Indiana storms
CBS Newsby Ash-har Quraishi·22 Aug 2026
Like so many in Gary, Indiana, Shatiya Hardin has been waiting for the minute her power finally turns back on. "It's been absolutely horrible," Hardin told CBS News.
Why Australia risks losing iconic animals
PerthNowby Nathan Schmidt·22 Aug 2026
Bird flu threatens to wipe out Australia’s iconic black swans, experts warn Australians could expect to see lakes without iconic native animals such as the black swan “or large numbers of carcasses...
Energy UK says struggling households need more support with bills
BBC Newsby Lucy Hooker·22 Aug 2026
- Published Higher energy bills this winter mean the government should step in to provide more help for households most in need, the body representing energy firms in the UK has said.
Tropical Storm Moke advances towards Hawaii with heavy rain, strong winds
Al Jazeeraby Al Jazeera Staff·22 Aug 2026
Tropical Storm Moke is grinding towards Hawaii, bringing gusts of wind and heavy rain only a week after the islands faced similar conditions from Hurricane Lala.
‘This is our home’: The women fighting a company’s land claim on Indonesia’s Pari Island
Channel News Asiaby Kiki Siregar·22 Aug 2026
‘This is our home’: The women fighting a company’s land claim on Indonesia’s Pari Island Pari Island is at the centre of a decade-long land dispute which has seen local residents attempting to...
Burnham's 'climate tsar' racks up 250,000 air miles in just two years
Mail Onlineby Gabriel Millard-clothier·22 Aug 2026
- See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Andy Burnham is under mounting pressure to sack his 'climate tsar' after she racked up more than enough 'air miles' to get to the...
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