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Oil prices rebounded modestly on Tuesday after posting their biggest single-day decline in weeks in the previous session.Benchmark oil prices extended their recovery, with Brent crude climbing $0.49, or 0.58%, to $84.26 a barrel, while WTI crude advanced $0.41, or 0.51%, to $80.75 a barrel around 7:20 am IST.The rebound followed Monday’s 7% slide, which had pushed the benchmark to its lowest level in three weeks. Markets had sold off after US President Donald Trump said that he was pausing any fresh military action against Iran while efforts continued to end the conflict and resolve competing claims over the Strait…

Instant messaging app WhatsApp on Monday put multiple accounts, including those in India, “under review” for 24 hours and blocked all the app features, prompting several affected users to flag the issue through social media.When contacted, a WhatsApp spokesperson said: “We are always working to stay ahead of those trying to abuse our service and ban accounts to help keep other users safe. Sometimes we get this wrong and if we do, we try to fix it as quickly as possible to get people back to chatting.”The disruption was highlighted around 8 pm IST when users started facing the issue…

Bhiwandi: A 31-year-old jawan attached to the Thane Disaster Response Force (TDRF) died in a road accident allegedly caused by a large pothole on the Mumbai-Nashik Highway in Shahapur taluka on Monday, marking the second pothole-related fatality in Thane district within two days.The deceased, identified as Vikas Lahu Gore, a resident of Bamne village in Shahapur, was on his way to report for duty at the TDRF office in Thane when the accident occurred near Ghoteghar at around 4.30 am. The sole breadwinner of his family, he is survived by his wife and nine-month-old twin daughters.According to the police, Gore,…

Ansari alleged that men associated with Abhijeet Dipke attacked him and urged the police to arrest Dipke immediately. NEW DELHI: Social media influencer Faizan Ansari on Tuesday said he has filed a written complaint with the Delhi Police against Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke, alleging that men linked to the party attacked him in Maharashtra.Ansari claimed he has evidence to support his allegations and urged the police to arrest Dipke immediately.”Today, I have filed a written complaint against Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the CJP party, with the Delhi DCP, because I have proof that his men attacked…

Bengaluru: Cybercrooks appear to have found a new way to exploit the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Karnataka, with an 82-year-old man losing Rs 3 lakh after a fraudster allegedly posed as an Election Commission of India (ECI) official.According to the complaint filed by R Parthasarathy of Jeevanbhimanagar, he received a call on the evening of July 30 from a person claiming to be an ECI official. When Parthasarathy questioned the caller’s authenticity, the accused insisted that he was a “genuine ECI official” and offered to help with his rejected SIR form.“He told me that my SIR form…

Hyderabad: Investigators probing the rape case against a trainee IPS officer claim to have gathered substantial evidence, including financial transactions, digital communications and witness statements that they believe corroborate the allegations made by a fellow trainee officer.Apart from recording the statements of the complainant and her husband, Hyderabad police have also questioned SVP National Police Academy housekeeping staff, four IPS trainees, an IAS trainee and a woman who worked at an institution run by the brother of the accused officer.Based on the alleged disclosure made by the accused, police seized his mobile phone and laptop from his residence in Ashok…

For renovation and modernisation of Infra Chennai: The Union govt has granted 10 projects totalling ₹785.21 crore from the power system development fund (PSDF) for renovating and modernising substations, establishing technical and IT infrastructure, installing bus reactors, communication & data acquisition systems, and setting up battery storage system (BESS) in Tamil Nadu, said minister of state for power Shripad Naik.Responding to queries raised by MP Kamal Haasan on the power allocation, proposal status, and central assistance for the state, Naik said under the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) launched in July 2021, projects worth ₹19,235 crore for smart metering and…

Gandhinagar: In a bid to minimise crop losses after heavy rainfall battered South Gujarat, the state govt has deployed joint teams of horticulture officials and scientists from Navsari Agricultural University (NAU) to help farmers revive uprooted horticultural trees through scientific techniques. The teams have been visiting affected villages in Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Dang and Tapi districts since last week, conducting field demonstrations and training farmers on restoring fallen trees whose roots remain connected to the soil, the govt said on Monday.Agricultural experts said uprooted saplings and fruit trees need not be written off if their root systems remain partially intact.…

Cameras installed on a Puri road Bhubaneswar: Transport department has rolled out camera-based electronic enforcement for traffic management on four additional stretches in Odisha — Manguli-Sambalpur road passing through Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Angul and Sambalpur districts; Sambalpur-Rourkela route through Jharsuguda and Sundargarh; Berhampur-Taptapani; and Berhampur-Bhanjanagar, both in Ganjam district.“The regional transport officers (RTOs) have been directed to intensify awareness campaigns on Intelligent Enforcement Management System (IEMS), urging motorists to comply with road safety norms,” said a senior official of the state transport authority (STA).The system’s cameras will detect speeding, triple riding, helmetless driving and wrong‑side movement, generating instant e‑challans delivered to…

The diverted land now accommodates residential sectors, Gym Khana Club, green belts, tourism sites, service roads, institutional and college sites among othersThe diverted land now accommodates residential sectors, Gym Khana Club, green belts, tourism sites, service roads, institutional and college sites among others Gurgaon: More than three decades after Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) developed residential colonies and public infrastructure on forest land in Faridabad without obtaining mandatory central clearance, the process of compensating for the violation has begun.HSVP has deposited around Rs 52 crore, while the forest department is set to take possession of 135.5 hectares — twice the…