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Former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief and Additional Director General of Police of Maharashtra Himanshu Roy shot himself dead with his service revolver at his Malabar Hills residence in Mumbai on Friday (May 11). He was 54.In his suicide note, the top cop said he took the step “out of frustration” due to his illness.Pertinently, he was fighting cancer. Read more..

Water storage level of India’s 91 major reservoirs have dropped to 20% of their storage capacity, shows government data.This is well below the 10-year average; a result of decline in rainfall over the last few years.The northern and southern parts of India are worst affected. read more..

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that it will send an autonomous helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter is a small, autonomous rotorcraft that will travel with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet.  read more...

Lok Sabha  Speaker Sumitra Mahajan flagged off a Humsafar Express train that will run between Indore city of Madhya Pradesh and Puri city of Odisha. Here is everything you need to know about the Indore-Puri Humsafar Express train: read more...

Poverty-stricken women in the semi-arid regions of West Bengal and Jharkhand, used to subsisting on meager incomes, have defied huge odds and transformed their lives by rearing goats and poultry Nityanagar, a remote village in Birbhum district of West Bengal, appears far removed from the rest of the world. The closest medical shop is 7km away. People living in the 40-odd houses are  tribals . None of them have ever owned agricultural land or anything of worth, but their shacks. read more..

Maharashtra  Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam said manufacturers, producers, sellers, traders, retailers and users will have to finish their existing stock within a month by either handing them over to the local civic body for scientific disposal or selling them to an authorized recycle. read more....

Sugar production in India, the world’s second-biggest producer after Brazil, is set to hit a record at 29.5 million tonnes in 2017-18, up 45% from the previous year.India’s sugar year runs from October to September. read more....

A recent news item caught my attention as a reader. The eye-catching news was about fifty alumni of IIT-Delhi planning to form a political party to fight against the injustice faced by Dalit. In all probability, they would start their political voyage from Bihar elections in 2020. read more.....

At a time when the global effort to counter climate change hangs in the balance, Prem Shankar Jha has delivered a powerful message in his new book, “Dawn of the Solar Age: an end to the global warming and to fear ”.The book is all the more significant coming from a distinguished Indian journalist deeply immersed in Indian economic and energy policy.The author has been an adviser to the Prime Minister, economics editor of the Times of India, and a member of the energy panel of the Brundtland Commission. read more..

Ending row over appointments, senior advocate Indu Malhotra took oath as the new Supreme Court judge on Friday (Apr 27) readmore..

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik has recently accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre for allegedly obstructing the flow of Mahanadi water into the state. At a party symposium on the Mahanadi water dispute in Bhubaneswar, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo told his co-workers: “The Centre is not solving the Mahanadi water dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh. It is obstructing Mahanadi water flow into our state. It is the duty of BJD workers to go to people and make them aware of this.” readmore...

Delhi has topped the list of polluted cities, while Mumbai is at number 4 in the world, says the World Health Organization (WHO) in its latest report.  The new data from WHO shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. 2.   The WHO estimates around 7 million people die every year from exposure to fine particles in polluted air that penetrate deep into the lungs and cardiovascular system, causing diseases including stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and respiratory infections, including pneumonia                          readmore..

All set to become an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, Haryana’s Anu Kumari, has ranked second at the Civil Services Exam 2017 conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).With this feat, Anu Kumari set an inspiring example for all women who dream big but don’t know how to balance their personal life and career.The 31-year-old showed there is no age or obstruction big enough to stop pursuing your dreams. All you need are determination, dedication and hard work. readmore..

The Turnbull Government will protect thousands of jobs, improve water quality, tackle coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish and implement scientific reef restoration on the Great Barrier Reef. The Reef is a critical national asset providing $6.4 billion a year to the Queensland and Australian economies,” he said in a media release. readmore.