The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to submit a fresh affidavit detailing its plan to clear approximately 59,174 metric tonnes of silt dumped at the Singhola site. MCD said a facility capable of processing 700 tonnes of waste and silt per day was being established at Singhola, but NGT questioned
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Southern India faces heavy to very heavy rainfall, with orange alerts issued for Tamil Nadu and South Interior Karnataka. Cloudy skies, light showers, lightning and gusty winds reaching 50 kmph are likely across Delhi and neighbouring areas. Heavy rainfall may trigger flash floods and waterlogging in vulnerable districts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. Andhra
The IOM reports 4,400 child migrant deaths between 2014 and 2025, with many unrecorded due to data gaps. Children face heightened risks during perilous journeys, often trapped in hazardous conditions, especially on sea crossings. When they decide to leave their homes, they are, in effect, signing their own death certificates. Such is their desperation that
We get a lot of flak at WordPress.org for supporting older PHP versions, but an area we’ve always pushed the frontier is in Web Standards, getting websites and browsers evolving together to make the web richer. Ever since I caught the religion from Zeldman, promoting more functionality in the browser has been a life mission.
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On 19th and 20th September 2026, the WordPress community gathered at Civil Service College Uganda, a venue close to River Nile, for the fifth edition of WordCamp Jinja. The event brought together more than 300 diverse participants across 2 days and 3 parallel tracks of sessions full of learning, collaboration and connection. In a city
bbPress 2.6.20 is a security and maintenance release. Everyone running bbPress should update. This release strengthens topic and reply password validation and keeps bbPress post shortcodes literal in ordinary WordPress content loops. It also adds a site-wide Forum Status setting with Open, Closed, and Frozen modes. Existing sites remain Open unless that setting is changed.
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When we think about what keeps the Internet humming, most of us imagine massive data centers and super-fast connections. Fewer people realize that our everyday digital experiences often depend on the efforts of a very small group of individuals. Recent analysis revealed that in many essential open source projects, just one or two people are
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Are invasive plants better at competing with species in places they invade than species in their native range? A paper investigated this using Erigeron canadensis, commonly known as Canadian horseweed, to find that plants from non-native populations had 19.2% higher competitive ability than those from native populations. In the study, that advantage was evident across
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A recent debate over using DJs and high-powered sound systems during Pune’s Ganesh festival brought noise pollution and its health impacts into focus. In August and September, residents and citizen groups in Pune called for stricter enforcement of noise limit rules, prompting a parliamentary committee review of noise and light pollution. The National Human Rights
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Encroachment along Ganga in Patna The Supreme Court (SC) October 8, 2026 gave the Bihar government more time to clear encroachments from the banks of the Ganga in Patna, Bihar. The matter concerns unauthorized structures and encroachment on the Ganga river floodplains between Nauzar ghat and Nurpur ghat in Bihar. The counsel appearing for Bihar
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