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Passersby walk in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district under heavy rain and wind on July 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Typhoon Noul made landfall early Sunday (July 26, 2026) and was bringing winds and heavy rain to southern China, including Hong Kong, over the weekend. It prompted the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in Guangdong province with the region on high alert and dozens of flights were cancelled.China’s national weather centre said Noul made landfall along the coast of Huidong county of the city of Huizhou in the southern Guangdong province at approximately 3:50 a.m. local time…

My earliest memory of chess is from when I was seven years old.Walking into the venue of my first international tournament, my hand tucked inside my mother’s, I stopped beneath the emblem of FIDE, the international federation governing chess. Three words, printed in a language I didn’t understand, caught my eye. Gens Una Sumus.As I stood there trying to make sense of them, my mother gently squeezed my hand and reminded me that my game was about to begin.Afterwards, I found her waiting in a quiet corner of the dining area and asked what the words meant. She searched on…

Thane: An alert group of commuters helped nab a 25-year-old man who was found travelling in a suburban local allegedly carrying a sharp weapon. The youth was subsequently arrested after fellow passengers spotted him and raised an alarm, leading the police to nab him before ehe could escape, officials informed Saturday.According to the police, the accused was travelling in the general coach of a Kalyan-bound slow local Friday afternoon when a few passengers spotted him carrying the weapon in his bag and after the train halted at Mumbra platform 1 around 1:30 pm, they signalled an on-duty police staffer, alerting…

School students wait outside Mandi House Metro station (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: All 18 Delhi Metro stations in Delhi that had remained shut due to security restrictions reopened on Saturday after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) withdrew its protest, bringing four days of disruptions to an end.In a post on X, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said all stations were now open and normal entry and exit had resumed.The reopening came after Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned, following which the CJP announced the withdrawal of its agitation and protesters began dispersing from the Jantar Mantar area.The stations that…

How vulnerable is your child? Bengaluru: The recent incidents of two schoolboys in Bengaluru collapsing on campus due to suspected cardiac arrests have left many parents anxious. However, cardiologists emphasise while such events are tragic, they are extremely rare and should serve as a reminder to improve awareness and emergency preparedness rather than trigger panic.Unlike adults, where sudden cardiac arrests are most often caused by blocked arteries, children usually experience these events because of underlying congenital heart defects or inherited electrical abnormalities of the heart that often go undetected until a medical emergency occurs.“Among children, sudden cardiac events are most…

Hyderabad: A series of one-on-one meetings held recently by AICC Telangana in charge Meenakshi Natarajan with MPs, MLAs, MLCs and district Congress committee (DCC) presidents was part of a comprehensive mid-term review ordered by the party high command to assess the performance of the Congress govt and the organisation in the state.While the AICC regularly relies on private surveys to gauge public sentiment, many elected representatives and party leaders were caught off guard by the nature of the questions posed by Natarajan during the interactions. Several realised only later that the exercise was not a routine organisational review, but a…

GCCI office at Ashram road in Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: Citing severe monsoon disruptions, the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has written to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) requesting at least a 15-day extension for filing non-audit income tax returns (ITR-1 and ITR-2) for assessment year 2026-27 beyond the July 31 deadline.The representation, made on behalf of taxpayers, tax professionals, and the trade and industry in Gujarat, seeks an extension, especially as the due date coincides with ongoing severe weather alerts.The representation highlights that unprecedented rainfall, flash floods, and waterlogging have paralysed life across the state. Record downpours,…

Guwahati: The Assam govt will provide fresh sets of free textbooks to students whose books were lost or damaged in the ongoing floods, education minister Ranoj Pegu said on Saturday, aiming to minimise disruption to the academic session in the worst-affected districts.After assessing flood damage across several districts, Pegu said the Assam State Textbook Production and Publication Corporation has been directed to immediately begin preparations for resupplying textbooks. “All inspectors of schools (IS) and district elementary education officers (DEEOs) have been directed to submit their textbook requirements at the earliest to facilitate timely distribution,” Pegu said.CJP Jantar Mantar Protest UpdatesThe…

Kanpur: Moderate to heavy showers lashed Kanpur on Saturday evening, bringing long-awaited relief from the oppressive humidity and lowering the mercury by nearly 3°C. But the welcome spell of rain also laid bare the city’s fragile drainage infrastructure, with waterlogged roads and traffic snarls disrupting normal life across several localities.Major thoroughfares resembled canals as rainwater accumulated in low-lying areas, leaving office-goers stranded in slow-moving traffic during the evening rush hour. Commuters struggled to navigate submerged stretches, with several neighbourhoods witnessing severe waterlogging.The city witnessed intermittent light to moderate showers through the day, while high humidity kept conditions uncomfortable until the…

23-year-old Damanpreet Kaur, hailing from the Punjabi village of Lal Kalan, was found dead in Canada, allegedly strangled LUDHIANA: A family in rural Punjab is appealing for govt assistance to repatriate the body of a 23-year-old woman who was strangled to death in Canada in an alleged domestic violence incident.Damanpreet Kaur, originally from Lal Kalan village in Samrala, died on July 12 at an Edmonton hospital three days after police found her with critical injuries at a house in the city’s southeast Silverberry neighbourhood.An autopsy completed on July 14 by the Edmonton medical examiner determined her cause of death was…