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Little girl seeks road repair Varanasi: A seven-year-old Class I student walked into the district magistrate’s Janata Darbar in Mau on Monday morning with a complaint of her own — the poor condition of the road to her school was making her daily journey difficult, leaving children injured and their uniforms soiled.Samra Naz, a student of a private school in Ward 17 of the Mau municipal area, had reached the district headquarters with her father, dressed in her school uniform. During the daily public hearing, DM Anand Vardhan noticed the little girl and asked why she had come. When he…

T’puram: In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the city corporation is set to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and technology-driven systems to track and recover around Rs 200 crore in outstanding property tax, with govt institutions, courts and other public establishments accounting for a substantial share of the arrears.The civic body has collected around Rs 160 crore against total property tax dues estimated at nearly Rs 360 crore.While property tax defaults are spread across various categories of property owners, a significant portion of the pending amount is reportedly owed by govt establishments and other institutions, making recovery a major challenge for the corporation.…

Fines ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 200 will be imposed for violating the order Kolkata: The state urban development & municipal affairs dept has put a ban on open defecation, public urination, spitting in public places, littering, illegal dumping of waste and use of banned plastic bags in all municipalities, municipal corporations and notified areas across the state from Tuesday onwards.Fines ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 200 will be imposed for violating the order. The authorities including minister Agnimitra Paul have been campaigning for the last few months to generate public awareness on the matter. The phase I…

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a bipartisan group of 22 states has filed a lawsuit alleging Amazon secretly overcharged more than a million advertising customers by manipulating online auctions it uses to set ad prices.The FTC and states say in their lawsuit filed Monday that the alleged scheme has likely netted the company $20bn from advertising customers since 2019.”Amazon overrides and replaces the actual auction results with higher prices set by Amazon to increase its profits,” says a complaint filed in the company’s home state of Washington.In a statement to the BBC, Amazon “strongly disagrees” with the premise…

Fast-fashion giant Shein is set to make its highly anticipated stock market debut on Tuesday as it lists in Hong Kong after a years-long quest to go public.It comes after failed attempts to list in the US and UK, as concerns were raised over issues including the firm’s labour practices and its environmental impact.Once estimated to be worth nearly $100bn (£74bn), Shein is now valued at around a quarter of that figure, as the firm faces other issues like increased competition and global trade tensions.Shein has grown hugely popular, especially with younger customers, due to its ability to source the…

Last winter’s flu season was unexpected, beginning more than a month earlier than usual, external with the Super-K strain.Super flu is not a medical term, and it does not mean the virus has become harder to treat, just that people are yet to build up immunity against it.Flu vaccines are updated annually to ensure they are a good match for the type of flu circulating. Influenza viruses constantly mutate and experts have to predict these changes ahead of time.This year’s vaccine has had a few tweaks, including one to better match subclade K.It is not clear when flu will hit…

There is something striking about the way the UK’s summer temperature record is being broken. In a climate that isn’t changing, new records should generally become progressively rarer, because every time a record falls, it raises the bar for the next one.Instead, all five of the UK’s hottest summers on record have occurred since 2000, external. And until last year, the margins between them were tiny: the four hottest were separated by just five hundredths of a degree. Then came 2025. The record jumped by 0.34C. Now, just a year later, it looks like that record has gone too.”Record-shattering” sounds…

Home becomes your strength today, Capricorn. The domestic atmosphere feels calmer, more supportive, and easier to live in. The Moon steadies emotional matters, while Venus brings harmony under your roof. If there have been small tensions about chores, timing, or family duties, they can soften now.There is also a quiet joy in the day, not loud celebration, more like the comfort of things sitting in the right place. A peaceful breakfast, a helpful spouse, a cleaner room, a solved family matter. These things count.Love and Relationship:Your spouse stands with you, and that support will matter across several fronts. Venus enhances…

Have you ever tried to sit quietly for just a few minutes without any phone, music, or anyone to talk to?With just you and your thoughts.It doesn’t take long before the mind wanders off on its own, replaying an old conversation, worrying about tomorrow, or drifting into a memory you didn’t even ask for.Well, it seems that we all have been there.Centuries before modern psychology started studying it, the Bhagavad Gita described the very same restlessness with clarity.In one of its passages, Arjuna admits to Lord Krishna that his mind feels impossible to control, and Krishna doesn’t dismiss the complaint;…

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), New Delhi has made a fresh reference to the president of the tribunal in the insolvency proceedings against Essel Group founder Subhash Chandra after the bench found that no majority view had emerged on the repayment plan proposed for the personal guarantor.The order was passed on August 31 by a bench comprising member (judicial) Ashok Kumar Bhardwaj and member (technical) Reena Sinha Puri in the insolvency proceedings initiated by Indiabulls Housing Finance against Chandra under Section 95 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).The bench was considering a report submitted under sections 112 and…