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Lucknow: Rising prices of vegetables, fruits, rice, pulses, cooking oil, and spices are putting pressure on household budgets in the city ahead of the festive season. Families say they are cutting quantities, avoiding some items, and adjusting their monthly grocery spending as food prices have risen sharply since July. The biggest impact is being felt in vegetables.Onion, which was selling at Rs 25-40, is now about Rs 50-70. Garlic, which was selling for Rs 80-100 per kg about 20 days ago, is now priced at Rs 200-250. Ginger has gone up from Rs 60 to Rs 160-200 per kg, while…

Araria: The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Araria, has disposed of 851 of 928 trial and bail matters through its Legal Aid Defense Counsel System (LADCS) since the system became operational in Nov 2023, recording a disposal rate of 91%.Launched under the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) initiative on Nov 2, 2023, the system provides free and competent legal assistance to people unable to afford private representation.Between Nov 2023 and Jul 2026, 77 matters remained pending. The team, headed by chief legal aid defence counsel Vinay Kumar Thakur, handles trial and bail matters involving eligible persons.Of the 604 bail applications…

The AIIMS common recruitment exam re-test at ION Digital Zone in Sitapura, Jaipur, was cancelled Monday after a power outage disrupted the test, a day after a similar disruption hit the NEET-PG exam at the same venue Jaipur: The AIIMS common recruitment exam retest at a centre in Sitapura was cancelled Monday after a power outage disrupted the computer-based examination. This comes just a day after the NEET-PG exam at the same centre was cancelled for similar reasons.The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, said the cancelled test will be held again on Sept 7 for candidates affected…

Nagpur: An advanced wood processing and training centre built at a cost of 1.6 crore has opened at Alapalli in Gadchiroli to convert the district’s famed teak from raw forest produce into finished furniture and keep value, employment and profit inside the district. What’s heartwarming is that the Alapalli success story is driven by tribal women.Gadchiroli teak has already been used in nationally important work linked to Prime Minister’s Office, Central Secretariat, Central Vista and Bharat Mandapam.Set up under the district planning committee’s innovative scheme for 2024-25 at Maharashtra Forest Development Corporation’s govt saw mill, the facility is designed as…

In a letter to Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday, Marandi claimed a massive change had taken place in the demography of assembly constituencies in the region. The former CM claimed the transformation was a threat to national security and tribal identity. Ranchi: Leader of the opposition Babulal Marandi on Monday urged Union home minister Amit Shah to carry out a special drive in Santhal Pargana division of the state to identify illegal Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants and hold them in detention centres before extradition.In a letter to Shah on Monday, Marandi claimed a massive change had taken place in…

Surat: Surat residents planning a quick getaway to Udaipur will soon have a faster option to reach the popular tourist destination in Rajasthan, with the Railways clearing a new Vande Bharat service between the two cities.In an important decision, the ministry of railways has approved a Vande Bharat train connecting Surat and Udaipur. The service will be the first Vande Bharat to originate and terminate in Surat, giving the city a direct premium train link to Udaipur.The train, numbered 26903, will depart from Surat at 6.10am on all days except Tuesday and reach Udaipur at 1.40pm. The return service, numbered…

People arriving with corpses for funeral rites had to move through submerged streets for several metres to reach the steps leading to the upper platform of Manikarnika Ghat. Varanasi: The flood threat started looming large in localities developed along the banks of the river Varuna as, after reaching close to the warning level of 70.26 metres, the Ganga started flooding its tributary in Kashi.The Central Water Commission reported that by 4 pm on Monday, the water level of the Ganga had crossed the 70-metre mark and continued rising at the rate of 2 cm per hour. The warning level in…

T’puram: A defunct water supply project at Thoduve in Varkala has turned into an overgrown, unused asset even as parts of the municipality continue to face drinking water shortages. The nearly one-acre premises, once housing water tanks, a pump house and staff quarters, is now covered with vegetation, while hundreds of abandoned pipes remain scattered across the site. Locals say the facility could be revived for emergency water supply, tanker distribution and firefighting instead of allowing the infrastructure to deteriorate further.Kerala Water Authority (KWA), which owns the property, said it would examine the possibility of removing the old pipes from…

A woman mourns the loss of her son outside a cremation ground, in Chitwan, Nepal Kolkata: Six days after the devastating flash flood in Nepal, families of the 37 Bengal tourists still missing in the disaster zone are getting around to confronting questions they had until now been afraid to even articulate: What if their loved ones are never found?When does a missing person become legally dead? Can a spouse access a missing husband’s or wife’s bank account? Will insurance be paid without a death certificate? What happens to pension, investments, fixed deposits and property?For families who have spent the…

JD Vance warns Michigan leader Abdul El-Sayed not to take the name of Usha Vance, amid a raging controversy. Vice President JD Vance slammed Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for commenting on Second Lady Usha Vance and said Usha is way out of El-Sayed’s league and the Michigan leader should keep Usha Vance’s name out of his mouth. El-Sayed recently suggested that Vance’s papaw (grandfather) would not have approved of Vance’s marriage to Indian-origin Usha. This was a counter-attack to Vance’s earlier comments that his papaw would not have supported El-Sayed’s position on working class.”I actually think the people of…