3 Roses Season 2 Out on OTT: Know Where to Watch it Online

3 Roses is a Telugu OTT series that is out with its second season. The streaming began on Dec 12th, 2025, only on AhaTamil.

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Bengaluru Lake Crisis: No Potable Water In India's 'Silicon Valley'

According to data published by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, water quality analysis conducted across 147 monitoring locations between April and November 2025 shows that not a single lake in the city consistently met potable or safe bathing standards.

No Lake Achieves Safe Water Quality

The report categorised lakes under standard water quality classes:

Class A: Potable without treatment

Class B: Safe for bathing

Class D & E: Severely polluted, unsuitable for human use

Shockingly, no lake achieved Class A or Class B status during the monitoring period. Most lakes were classified under D or E, indicating heavy contamination.

Iconic Lakes Among Worst Affected

Several of Bengaluru's most well-known lakes recorded disturbing pollution levels:

Bellandur Lake: Rated E in April, briefly improved to D during summer, before slipping back to E by November.

Varthur Lake: Fluctuated between D and E categories.

Hebbal Lake: Maintained D status for most months before deteriorating to E.

Other severely affected lakes include Madiwala, Kaikondanahalli, Kundalahalli, and Ulsoor (all D/E), while Sankey Tank maintained a D rating. The report notes that the Bommanahalli and Mahadevapura zones emerged as the worst-hit regions, largely due to rapid urbanisation and untreated waste discharge.

Experts Warn of 'Ecological Emergency'

Environmental activist Madhuri Subbarao, co-founder of Friends of Lakes, said the findings confirm long-standing concerns.

"Many lakes in Bengaluru are on the brink of ecological collapse," Ms Subbarao said. "Today, we cannot point to a single lake with healthy water quality, stable ecology, or safe biodiversity. Most lakes fall below acceptable standards, with water unfit even for animal consumption."

She called for urgent government intervention, including the formation of a dedicated lake restoration task force, the scientific identification of pollution sources, and stronger collaboration with citizen groups.

Summer Water Stress Likely to Worsen

The findings come at a critical time as Bengaluru prepares for peak summer, a period when dependence on groundwater and tanker supplies traditionally rises.

With the city's primary surface water bodies now officially declared unfit for use, residents face a mounting challenge in securing safe water as temperatures climb.

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Watch: Abhishek Delivers Motivational Talk Despite 3 Ducks, Gambhir In Splits

Abhishek Sharma enters the Super 8 stage of the T20 World Cup 2026 after making three ducks in a row, hitting an unprecedented rut in the middle of his first ICC tournament. However, the dashing southpaw seems to have kept his spirits high, and even delivered a motivational pep talk to the Indian team during their practice session ahead of their first Super 8 match against South Africa. Abhishek wrapped up his team talk on an emphatic note that even forced a smile out of head coach Gautam Gambhir.

"It's a sign of a champion team. Let's keep enjoying each other's performances. That's the best thing we are doing right now. The energy we are showing in all the games is fantastic. And we are here to win all the games," said Abhishek during the team talk, which was shared by the BCCI.

Abhishek then concluded his speech by exclaiming the slogan 'Jo Bole So Nihaal, Sat Sri Akal (Whoever utters this shall be fulfilled; Eternal is the true Lord)'. His energetic sign-off invited a similarly energetic roar from his teammates, while head coach Gautam Gambhir also let out a laugh.

Watch: Abhishek Sharma's pep talk ahead of Super 8

Look at Ishan kishan's face, when Abhishek is giving the pep talk. pic.twitter.com/zm1tLzUyjZ

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Abhishek's form has been a big talking point among experts and fans heading into India's first Super 8 match. Tipped by many to be the top run-scorer of the tournament before it started, the No. 1 T20I batter in the world is astonishingly yet to score a single run in the ongoing edition.

Abhishek got out for a first-ball duck against USA in India's opening Group A match. He then suffered a stomach illness, forcing him to miss India's second game against Namibia. However, Abhishek then recorded a further two ducks against Pakistan and Netherlands.

However, Abhishek's lack of form has not majorly impacted the Indian team yet. Ishan Kishan smashed 176 runs in four matches in the group phase, while captain Suryakumar Yadav and all-rounders Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube have also struck fiery half-centuries during the tournament.

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Award For BJP MP, Language Push: Trinamool's Rajbanshi Outreach Before Polls

The whispers grew louder in the media enclosure, because a sitting BJP MP isn't usually in attendance at a West Bengal government programme. Then, Rajya Sabha MP Anant Maharaj was ushered on stage by Bengal I&B minister Indranil Sen and honoured with the Banga Bibhushan, a state civilian award, by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the event in Kolkata, organised to mark International Mother Language Day on Saturday.

Reciting a poem written during his childhood, Maharaj thanked the Chief Minister for the state honour and then criticised his own party, saying the BJP has done nothing for Cooch Behar. "I am very grateful for this honour. It's International Mother Language Day, and I have been given this award for the Rajbanshi Community," he added, leaving the event 15 minutes later to catch a flight.

Earlier, on Thursday, the Chief Secretary submitted a formal proposal to the Centre to include the Rajbanshi and Kurmali languages in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution, which recognises official languages. This move was also seen as an outreach to the Rajbanshi community, ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections.

The Rajbanshis are a scheduled caste community concentrated in North Bengal, especially in districts like Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Malda, and Murshidabad.

In North Bengal, they constitute 30% of the electorate and are seen as an important swing community in the region, where neither the ruling Trinamool Congress nor the BJP can afford to lose ground to keep seat count intact.

The Rajbanshis hold sway in over 15 Assembly seats, where how they vote can affect results. Of the seven seats in Cooch Behar district, the TMC won the Sitai and Mekliganj Assembly seats, while the BJP won the five seats of Dinhata, Sitalkuchi, Mathabhanga, Cooch Behar Uttar and Dakshin.

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Adopted By A US War Veteran, An Iran-Born Woman Now Faces Deportation

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States.

She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law.

The woman, who The Associated Press is not naming because of her legal situation, received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month ordering her to appear for removal proceedings before an immigration judge in California. She has no criminal record. The letter says she is eligible for deportation because she overstayed her visa in March 1974 at 4 years old.

"I never imagined it would get to where it is today," said the woman, who believes that, as a Christian and the daughter of an American Air Force officer, deportation to Iran might be a death sentence. "I always told myself that there is no way that this country could possibly send someone to their death in a country they left as an orphan. How could the United States do that?"

The already terrifying prospect of being deported to Iran was made more so in recent days, she said, as the Trump administration began amassing the largest force of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, preparing for possible military action against Iran if talks over its nuclear program fail.

The Associated Press profiled the woman in 2024 as part of a story about how many international adoptees were left without citizenship because their American adoptive parents failed to naturalize them. The woman has tried to rectify her legal status for years, so the Department of Homeland Security has been aware of her situation since at least 2008. She guesses their file on her is thousands of pages long. She does not know what prompted the sudden threat of removal.

The Trump administration has been on a mass deportation campaign, touting that it is removing the "worst of the worst" criminals. But many with no criminal records have been swept up. The only interaction with law enforcement the woman can recall is being pulled over 20 years ago for using her phone while driving. She works a job in corporate health care, pays taxes and owns a home in California.

"When the media refuses to give names, it makes it impossible to provide details on specific cases or even verify any of this even happened or that the people even exist. If you can't do your job, we can't do ours," the Department of Homeland Security wrote in a statement. The AP did not provide them the woman's name, but sent a detailed description of the letter she received, the stated reasons she is eligible for deportation and the date she was ordered to appear in court, March 4.

A judge delayed the hearing to later next month and agreed with her attorney, Emily Howe, to specify the woman does not have to appear in person - a relief as they worried immigration officers would be waiting at the courthouse to take her away.

The woman's father was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II, captured in 1943 and held until the end of the war. When he retired from the Air Force, he worked as a government contractor in Iran, where he and his wife found her in an orphanage in 1972 and adopted her. She was 2 years old.

They returned to the U.S. in 1973, and the local newspaper ran a full-page story about the family and their new daughter. Her adoption was completed in 1975. But at that time, parents had to separately naturalize the children through the federal immigration agency. The woman's parents have since died.

She didn't learn she hadn't been naturalized until she applied for a passport at 38 years old. She still doesn't know how the oversight happened. She searched her father's papers and found a letter from a lawyer, dated 1975, that said he was working with immigration officials, "it appears this matter is concluded," and billed her father for his services.

She did not keep her situation secret. She has for years asked everyone she could think of for help: the State Department, immigration officials, senators. She has contacted her congresswoman, Rep. Young Kim, a Republican from California, but to no avail. Most recently, Kim's office responded to her plea about her pending removal by saying that they were "not able to advise or interfere."

"It just baffles me that it's OK to send me to a foreign country that I could potentially die or I could get imprisoned because of a clerical error," she said.

More modern adoptees do not face this legal limbo: Congress passed a bill in 2000 meant to rectify the issue and confer automatic citizenship on everyone legally adopted from abroad. But they did not make it retroactive, and it applied only to those younger than 18 when it took effect; everyone born before the arbitrary date of Feb. 27, 1983, was not included.

A bipartisan coalition - from the Southern Baptist Convention to liberal immigration groups - has been lobbying Congress ever since to pass another bill to help the older adoptees left out of the law, but Congress has not acted. Some of those lobbyists say now that the administration threatening to deport an adoptee is the exact scenario they worked hard to try to avoid.

"I'm horrified. It's rare for me to feel shocked by a story these days. But this is an absolutely unbelievable situation," said Hannah Daniel, who, as the director of public policy for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the lobbying arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, begged legislators for years to address the issue.

Intercountry adoption has been a rare topic championed by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Many Christian churches preach intercountry adoption as a biblical calling, a mirror to God welcoming believers into a family of faith.

Daniel, who recently joined World Relief, a Christian humanitarian organization, said threatening to send a Christian adoptee to Iran represents a collision of two issues she and many other Christians care deeply about: international adoption and the persecution of Christians around the globe.

"That is what is most troubling to me about this: We are a nation that prides itself on fighting for religious freedom both here and abroad," Daniel said. "And it feels so antithetical to that to then say we're going to send this person who, for me, is a sister in Christ to face a death sentence."

She called it "un-American and unconscionable."

Ryan Brown, chief executive officer of Open Doors, a nonprofit that supports persecuted Christians around the world, said some in Iran are Christians by birth and face widespread discrimination. But it is much worse for those considered converts to Christianity from Islam. He said he expects a deported adoptee would be viewed in that later category - as a convert.

"It is assumed that you are an enemy of the state. It is assumed that if you are a Christian, that you are aligned to the West and you desire to see that the regime toppled," he said. "There is no benefit of the doubt extended."

Converted Christians are arrested routinely. Some are sentenced to death.

"Their prisons are world renowned for their deplorable conditions," Brown said.

There is no sanitation. Food, water and access to health care are scarce. Iranian prisons are "notoriously more evil for women," he said, and women have routinely reported sexual assault by their captors. Others have been forced into marriages.

Brown, an adoptive father himself, struggled to even contemplate what a Christian woman, accustomed to the freedom of the United States, might experience if she had to walk off a plane into Iran. She does not know the language. She knows nothing about its customs. She has lived a fully American life.

"I cannot even fathom that," Brown said. "My prayers are with her."

The woman believes Iran would likely view her with even more suspicion given her father's military service and work as a U.S. government contractor.

She grew up listening to her father's war stories. She read the journal he kept while in the prison camp, how cold and hungry he had been, and she was proud of his sacrifice and his service to a country she believed had saved her.

When she is sad or scared now, she said, she looks at her favorite photo of him in his military uniform, medals lined up on his left shoulder, a slight, confident smile on his face.

"I'm proud of my father's legacy. I'm part of his legacy. And what's happening to me is wrong," she said. "And I know that he was here, it would break his heart to know that I'm on this path."

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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"Fools And Lapdogs": Trump's All-Out Attack On Judges After Tariffs Order

Speaking at the White House after the Supreme Court ruled his global tariffs illegal, US President Donald Trump said that the ruling was "deeply disappointing". He attacked the justices involved in the ruling and said that he was "ashamed" of "certain members of the court for not having the courage to do what's right for our country".

He then thanked and congratulated justices Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh, who dissented, for their "strength and wisdom".

The Republican leader in his speech also accused the Supreme Court of being "swayed by foreign interests".

"I won by millions of votes... but these people are obnoxious, ignorant and loud. And I think certain justices are afraid of that, they don't want to do the right thing", he said.

Two Supreme Court justices nominated by Trump in his first term, ruled against him in the case.

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"Disgrace": Trump Slams Supreme Court Order Striking Down Tariffs

US President Donald Trump has reacted after the Supreme Court struck down his global tariffs and called it a "disgrace" during a meeting with state governors. The ruling handed the Republican leader a significant loss on an issue important to his economic agenda.

In a 6-3 vote, the judges found that the 1977 law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorise the imposition of duties. 

Trump has long relied on tariffs as a lever for diplomatic pressure and negotiations, he made unprecedented use of emergency economic powers in his second term to slap new duties on virtually all US trading partners.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who served during Trump's first term, cheered the ruling and wrote on social media, "American families and American businesses pay American tariffs - not foreign countries. With this decision, American families and businesses can breathe a sigh of relief."

On Thursday, Trump complained that he had to justify his use of tariffs to the Supreme Court in a speech at a Georgia steel company. 

"I have to wait for this decision. I've been waiting forever, forever, and the language is clear that I have the right to do it as president," he said. "I have the right to put tariffs on for national security purposes, countries that have been ripping us off for years."

New research tied to one of America's leading banks found on Thursday that tariffs paid by midsize US businesses tripled over the course of the past year.

The additional taxes have meant that companies that employ a combined 48 million people in the US - the kinds of businesses that Trump had promised to revive - have had to find ways to absorb the new expense by passing it along to customers in the form of higher prices, employing fewer workers or accepting lower profits.

Trump's tariffs - not all of which were overturned - were expected to generate $3 trillion in revenues over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That sum is large, but it would be insufficient to cover the costs of the projected deficits.

The Supreme Court has not ruled on how any refund process would work.

(With inputs from agencies)

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