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NEW DELHI: Railway ministry on Sunday ordered corrective measures to ensure safe drinking water at railway stations following a CAG report on drinking water quality.After a whole-day review by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and other senior officials, the ministry ordered the installation of a “Tank to Tap” water filtration system at railway stations. The ministry said water coolers and a comprehensive water filtration and monitoring system will be installed at 20,000 locations across the railway network.The government also ordered the replacement of water tanks and strict compliance with water testing, accountability and scheduled cleaning.”This is a top priority area and…

Calafiori makes Community Shield history with a stunning 23-second goal for Arsenal. Riccardo Calafiori needed only 23 seconds to put Arsenal ahead against Manchester City in the 2026 FA Community Shield, producing an extraordinary opening to the traditional curtain-raiser for the English football season. The Italian defender’s finish in Cardiff did more than give Mikel Arteta’s side an immediate advantage: it established the quickest goal ever recorded in the 118-year history of the competition.Calafiori makes Community Shield historyArsenal had barely begun their first attack when Calafiori found himself running into the Manchester City penalty area. Myles Lewis-Skelly produced the decisive…

Mangaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have lodged a formal complaint against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi at the Urwa Police Station in Karnataka on Sunday, following a controversy during the recitation of the national song Vande Mataram at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi on Independence Day.The controversy erupted after visuals from the Independence Day programme at the Congress headquarters showed senior party leaders speaking among themselves while Vande Mataram was being recited. BJP leaders have criticised their conduct, alleging that it amounted to disrespect towards the National Song.Read more: Insult to nationalism, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: West Bengal CM on…

New Delhi: Marking another major milestone in India’s healthcare transformation, the ‘Swasth Bharat Portal’ was launched recently during the 10th National Summit on “Innovation and Inclusivity: Best Practices Shaping India’s Health Future” by the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Jagat Prakash Nadda.The Swasth Bharat Portal will be useful to integrate multiple digital applications that have been developed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) under various national health programmes to support service delivery, monitoring, and reporting.While these platforms have enabled digital data capture at scale, they have largely operated in silos, leading to duplication of efforts,…

Dolly Parton and Carl Dean were married from 1966 to 2025 until his demise, but never had a child. In her memoir ‘Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business,’ she spoke about how she loves children but never wanted her own. “Carl and I had never really wanted to have kids,” she wrote, before adding how she lied to avoid the guilt from judgments, “People had often asked me about having children, and I always felt guilty and selfish if I said I didn’t want them. So sometimes I would just say I couldn’t have them, and that lie made…

Ukraine has launched one of its largest drone attacks since the start of the war, causing a fire at a distribution warehouse near Moscow and killing at least six people overnight, according to Russian authorities.The defence ministry in Moscow said it had shot down 1,478 Ukrainian drones in the past 24 hours – the highest ever total claimed – in an escalating air war in which seven Ukrainians were also killed as Russia bombed 13 locations inside the country.A huge fire engulfed a 250,000 sq metre building near Podolsk, 25 miles south of Moscow’s city centre, belonging to the Wildberries…

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu had said that there would be no Palestinian state as long as he is PM Several countries on Sunday condemned Israel’s decision to reject the latest US proposal for the next stage of the Gaza peace process.Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan issued a joint statement, saying the move “seriously undermines collective efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace.””The roadmap, which has been accepted by the Palestinian factions, is the culmination of intensive efforts by the mediators – Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the United States, as well as the High…

Mumbai: Mumbai Metro One becomes the first metro service in India to issue metro passes entirely through WhatsApp. Commuters can now buy, store and use metro passes directly through WhatsApp, with support for Google Wallet and Apple Wallet.Mumbai Metro One on Sunday introduced a fully digital Metro pass system that allows commuters travelling on the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor to buy, store and use their metro passes directly through WhatsApp, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of urban mobility solutions in the city.The solution builds upon the operator’s WhatsApp eTicketing platform, launched in Nov 2022, which already allows commuters to book…

Bengaluru: A woman police sub-inspector was allegedly abused, manhandled and body-shamed while trying to break up a quarrel involving a lawyer and a police constable at Bhattarahalli signal recently.KR Pura police have registered a case based on her complaint against a lawyer, his friend, a student, the lawyer’s father and others.According to the woman sub-inspector’s complaint, she was on duty on Old Madras Road near Bhattarahalli signal around 8.40am on Aug 12 when she found a scooterist arguing with traffic constable Manjunath after being stopped for riding on the wrong side of a one-way road. When she intervened and questioned…

CM Revanth Reddy, K Chandrasekhar Rao HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Sunday said the state Assembly would meet in September and challenged BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao to attend the session and discuss his 10-year tenure in government, according to news agency PTI.Speaking to the media at a public meeting in Parkala near Warangal, Reddy said BRS leaders K T Rama Rao and T Harish Rao had repeatedly demanded that the Assembly be convened.”Chandrasekhar Rao, who has 40 years of experience and served as chief minister and union minister, should attend the Assembly session. He should discuss…