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Volunteers painted Judicial Layout railway underpass in various shades of green to reflect the character of the area Bengaluru: Around 150 employees of a multinational company, collaborating with the Bengaluru North City Corporation, spent Thursday afternoon cleaning and painting the walls of the Judicial Layout railway underpass in north Bengaluru as part of a special beautification drive under the corporation’s Safe Footpaths campaign.Led by Arun Pai of Project Walkaluru, the volunteers painted the underpass in various shades of green to reflect the character of the area, which is surrounded by the GKVK campus and greenery off Airport Road.“We had great…

Hyd man critically injured in targetting stabbing at Utah mall Hyderabad: A Hyderabad man was critically injured after he was allegedly attacked for his religion, and stabbed 15 times at a shoppig mall in the US on July 13. According to local media reports, Syed Sohail Uddin was attacked while working at a kiosk in the Valley Fair Mall in Utah and suffered grave injuries all over his body. A GoFudme page set up by his cowoker to raise funds for his treatment stated that Sohail has undergone multiple surgeries on his hands, heart and lungs and continues to be…

Chennai: A 32-year-old meat shop worker was beaten to death by his friends near Somangalam in Kancheepuram district on Wednesday night.The victim, Rajesh of Sethuputtu near Somangalam, was married and had two children. Police said Thangam and Anandajothi, who lived in the same locality, took him in a car on Wednesday night to consume alcohol.When Rajesh failed to return home, his family began searching for him. On Thursday morning, Thangam and Anandajothi surrendered at the Somangalam police station and confessed to killing him. They told police that the three consumed alcohol at a vacant site along the Somangalam-Sethuputtu Road. An…

Mahant of Ahmedabad’s Shri Jagannathji Temple, Shri Dilip Das Maharaj, with an elephant decked up for the city’s 149th rath yatra on Thursday, July 16 Ahmedabad: During last year’s rath yatra, a young male elephant grabbed headlines for running amok and injuring one person. This year, organisers exercised extreme caution to make sure the procession’s stars — 18 temple elephants — literally decked to their teeth, went along undisturbed by distractions and loud noises.And that’s what happened. Bedecked in grand drapes, trunks painted in psychedelic colours, the giants ambled along on their route peacefully. DJs’ systems fell silent and cops…

Prayagraj: A 30-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed by her husband with a kitchen knife in front of their children following a domestic dispute in Prayagraj’s Thatheri Bazaar area on Thursday. The accused later surrendered before the police.The victim, identified as Sashi Gupta, was rushed to SRN Hospital, where she is undergoing treatment. Doctors said her condition is stable.DCP (City) Maneesh Shandilya said Sashi had been married to Abhishek Gupta for about 12 years, and the couple had been facing frequent domestic disputes.According to the officer, Abhishek allegedly attacked his wife with a kitchen knife, leaving her seriously injured. After the…

Actor Samarpita Dash, Veteran theatre director and playwright Subodh Patnaik, actor-writer Mamata Tripathi and former Sangeet Natak Akademi secretary Pradip Mishra at the roundtable Before setting out to assess the Rath Yatra chariots across Bhubaneswar, an esteemed panel of artists, theatre practitioners and cultural commentators gathered for a thought-provoking roundtable on the state of Odisha’s arts and culture ecosystem.The discussion brought together veteran theatre director and playwright Subodh Patnaik, actor Samarpita Dash, former Sangeet Natak Akademi secretary Pradip Mishra and actor-writer Mamata Tripathi. Reflecting on the current state of theatre, cinema and arts in Odisha, the panel acknowledged both their…

The footage, which surfaced on Thursday, shows Guddi lying on the floor between two parking pillars when the SUV entered the parking bay around 2pm on Tuesday Gurgaon: An FIR was registered against a private school teacher after CCTV footage captured the moment her Mahindra Thar ran over a 52-year-old domestic help who was resting in the stilt parking area of a residential society in Sector 67. The woman later died during treatment.The footage, which surfaced on Thursday, shows Guddi lying on the floor between two parking pillars when the SUV entered the parking bay around 2pm on Tuesday. The…

Guwahati: Gauhati high court has upheld the conviction of a 71-year-old doctor for outraging the modesty of a schoolgirl, ruling that groping a patient’s breasts cannot be part of a routine examination for menstrual problems, terming it “absurd”.The court of Justice Susmita Phukan Khaund, while hearing the convict’s appeal in the 17-year-old litigation, noted in the order that while a doctor examining a woman for menstrual problems may need to touch her abdomen or private parts, “a diligent person will understand that he is not required to squeeze the breasts or grope the breasts inappropriately.”Justice Susmita Phukan Khaund upheld the…

Kanpur: The parents of a teenage girl have filed a rape case against a 68-year-old jeweller in Darshanpurwa, alleging that he raped their daughter while she was working at the shop and threatened to kill her.The family submitted a complaint at the Police Commissioner’s office, following which Fazalganj Police registered an FIR on Wednesday.According to the survivor’s family, their 13-year-old daughter is a Class V student. Both of their daughters worked as salesgirls at Ashok Rastogi’s shop. They alleged that in April, Rastogi took the 13-year-old to a farmhouse in Bithoor and raped her. The family further alleged that in…

Ludhiana: City residents braved a hot and sultry day to participate in the Jagannath Rath Yatra. This time, two processions were organised by different religious bodies.Both processions drew large crowds of devotees, who lined the streets to seek blessings of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra. The twin processions passed through different parts of the city amid tight security and elaborate civic arrangements.The first Rath Yatra, organised by members of the city’s Odiya community, started from Jagannath Puram in Chander Nagar. The second was organised by the Iskcon management from Durga Mata Mandir.Members of the Odiya community organise the Rath Yatra…