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A tractor being used to move people to safety in a flooded village of Dabhoi taluka in Vadodara district Vadodara: While the city remained largely dry on Sunday, the situation was markedly different in Vadodara district’s rural belt where heavy rain inundated low-lying areas and forced the evacuation of 592 people. The downpours also disrupted road connectivity and prompted regulated water release from the Deo dam in Savli taluka.The district administration shifted villagers from vulnerable areas to safer locations over the past 24 hours as water entered several low-lying settlements. Dabhoi accounted for the highest number of evacuations with 242…
Chief minister V D Satheesan T’puram: CPM state secretariat has said that chief minister V D Satheesan must understand the grave situation of monsoon devastation and sea erosion and step in to help the people.“Landslides and flooding have destroyed many homes. Eight people have already died, and eight others are missing. Agricultural damage is also extensive. More families than those staying in relief camps are suffering. People living in insecurity are placing their hopes in the state govt and the CM,” CPM secretariat said in a statement.At a time when people everywhere are in distress, the govt machinery must function…
Kolkata: Every person — Pakistani or of any nationality — should be given all opportunities to prove his/her case, Calcutta High Court said on Saturday, criticising the Centre and state for taking 24 years to decide on the citizenship application of a 60-year-old Pakistani woman, married to a Howrah man, and directed them to submit a report within 15 days.When Justice Krishna Rao queried why it was taking the administration 24 years to determine whether Bibi Fatema (Mallick) is a citizen or not, he was informed that authorities are unable to find the “files” where Fatema had applied for citizenship…
AIG Women’s Open – fourth round-5 *S Kuwaki (Jap), E Henseleit (Ger); -4 Y Noh (US); -2 N Korda (US), J Thitikul (Tha)Selected others: -1 C Hull (Eng), L Woad, (Eng), H Ryu (Kor), R Takeda (Jap); E C Boutier (Fra), S Kouskova (Cze); +1 L Li (US), L Coughlin (US)Full leaderboardShiho Kuwaki held her nerve to beat Esther Henseleit in a two-hole play-off to become the second consecutive Japanese player to win the Women’s Open. A gripping finale at Royal Lytham & St Annes was brimming with drama, magic and misfortune – particularly on the crucial 18th hole. Henseleit…
India’s Jasprit Bumrah. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah is set to miss India’s two-Test tour of Sri Lanka as he is yet to recover from his knee injury.Jammu and Kashmir seamer Auqib Nabi is all set to earn his maiden call-up to the national team.Nabi will be the third player after Parvez Rasool and Umran Malik to get a senior national call-up. Rasool and Malik were summoned in white ball set-up.“Bumrah is not fit and Auqib Nabi has been approved as his replacement,” a BCCI source informed PTI.Nabi has picked 100-plus wickets in the last two…
The four-year-old colt Andre’, who has won both his last two starts, looks poised to complete a hat-trick in the S. Rangarajan Memorial Trophy, the feature event of Monday’s (Aug. 3) races.1. HYDERABAD RACE CLUB PLATE (Div. II) (1,200m), 4-y-o and upward, rated 20 to 45 (Cat. III), 1.40 p.m.: 1. Cosmico (7) Akshay K 61.5, 2. Hurricane Wave (5) Afroz K 61, 3. Sweet Dancer (1) Kuldeep Jr. 61, 4. Double Bubble (6) Kuldeep Sr. 60, 5. Tiger Ruby (4) Surya Prakash 60, 6. Stars Envied (3) G. Naresh 58.5, 7. Beverley (11) P. Ajeeth K 57, 8. Shubrak…
The money seems to pass through your fingers in the present. A tiny expense one after the other, a taxi fare, an online order or a trip to the grocery store will pile up by lunchtime. The Moon stirs your spending zone, while Saturn presses from a difficult angle, so your sense of pressure rises faster than your patience. That’s why even ordinary matters may feel heavier than they are.There’s another knot here. A younger sibling, cousin-like sibling figure, or someone younger in the family may speak sharply, compete with you, or create a small problem around information, errands, or…
The postcards looked lighthearted, frivolous even. One offered this “Vue” of a French beach; another that “Plage” in Normandy; another a “Rue” in a pretty coastal town. They could not have been more serious. It was March 1942. Britain was readying itself to fight the Nazis on the beaches and on the landing grounds. But they had very little idea what those beaches and landing grounds looked like.Admiral John Godfrey, the head of British naval intelligence, took to the BBC with a public plea. Your photos and postcards, he said, might look like holiday frivolity but “experts may see a…
The rising burden of diseases in our society is no longer a matter for medical journals or official seminars alone; it has become a grim reality visible in homes, hospitals and communities across the region. From lifestyle disorders to gastrointestinal infections, from chronic ailments to sudden outbreaks of preventable illnesses, the public health challenge is growing by the day. One of the most disturbing drivers of this crisis is the alarming spread of food adulteration, a menace that silently poisons consumers and weakens the health of an already vulnerable population. Food is meant to nourish, but when it is contaminated,…
Aryna Sabalenka’s world number one ranking will be on the line at the WTA 1000 tournament in Toronto, where the Belarusian star aims to extend her hard court dominance in the build up to her US Open title defense.HT ImageSabalenka has won 23 of her 24 hard court matches this year, the lone defeat her loss to Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open final.But she was turfed out in the quarter-finals on the clay of Roland Garros and fell to Naomi Osaka in the round of 16 on the grass courts of Wimbledon.If Sabalenka fails to reach the round of…