A partially damaged statue of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajashekhara Reddy stands tall among the pile of rubble and abandoned houses in Dandangi village in East Godavari district.
This is the Yamuna river in the national capital of India. Devotees observed yet another Chhath standing amid toxic froth in the river November 10 evening. Their photographs raised storm of controversy again about the ‘ecologically dead’ river.
A goods-carrier moves along NH 11 near Sri Dungargarh, Bikaner district, Rajasthan, on a sultry summer day. Though several parts of Rajasthan reeled from scorching heat with maximum temperature recorded above 45°C between the last week of Ma
A COVID-19 patient uses oxygen support at Gurdwara Shri Guru Singh Sabha Indirapuram in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. The pandemic’s second wave overwhelmed India’s healthcare infrastructure.
A day before the eighth round of talks with the Centre, thousands of farmers January 7 marched their tractors, demanding the new farm laws be rolled back. They also sought legal guarantee for minimum support prices, among other issues.
A healthcare worker receives the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital in New Delhi January 16, the first day of the vaccination drive.
A silted Rishi Ganga river and collapsed barrage of NTPS Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower Plant at Tapovan, Chamoli district, Uttrakhand .
Swarming termites, or alates, in a street in Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh. Alates are young, reproducing termites that are dispatched from overcrowded colonies to find new homes at the beginning of spring and summer, in humid conditions. The presence of a
A farm fire in Palasaur village of Punjab’s Tarn Taran district. The state saw 71,000 incidents of stubble burning between October 16 and November 15 — the second-highest in five years — covering 1.29 million hectares paddy.
A DDA employee carry a duck for culling in Sanjay Lake Park in Mayur Vihar Phase 2. The park had been declared an ‘alert zone’ after many more ducks were found dead in the green area. Avian influenza or bird flu has officially hit the national Capital as
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