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The opposition alleged that private entities were running clubs and restaurants on BMC properties Mumbai: Former mayor Kishori Pednekar from Shiv Sena (UBT) on Tuesday accused the BMC administration of “privatising” civic properties under the guise of public-private partnerships (PPP), alleging that open plots, schools, gardens, playgrounds and municipal markets were being handed over to private developers.At a meeting of BMC’s general body, Pednekar said such a policy was “anti-Mumbai” and would result in the civic body suffering financial losses running into crores of rupees. She alleged private entities were subsequently using these parks and playgrounds to run clubs, restaurants…

New Delhi: Delhi High Court Tuesday permitted Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to continue with the admission process for its postgraduate courses, which was earlier halted by a single-judge bench over a challenge to the award of ‘deprivation points’ to certain candidates.Deprivation points are awarded to candidates belonging to certain geographical locations considered disadvantageous so that they get an equal shot at admission.A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia modified the single judge’s order passed earlier, but made it clear that the admissions would be subject to the outcome of the challenge.A single judge had halted admissions…

Karnataka’s high ASDDO figures have raised concerns that genuine voters may have been excluded from the electoral rolls. Bengaluru accounts for a disproportionately large share, with high migration, a large rental population and frequent changes of residence increasing the risk of eligible voters being left out. Manu Aiyappa Kanthanda analyses the factors that could have left genuine voters vulnerable during SIR.1. High migration and frequent movementMigration is perhaps the biggest challenge, particularly in Bengaluru, which has an estimated 42 lakh migrant workers accounting for 44% to 50% of its population. Frequent relocation for jobs, promotions, education and other reasons can…

KBR Park one-way pilot hits teething troubles, commuters face long delays, diversions 1st day one-way system led to heavy congestion across the Banjara Hills-Jubilee Hills stretch around KBR Park. Commuters also struggled with lane switching amid the changed traffic movement. Hyderabad: The KBR Park one-way pilot kicked off on Tuesday with teething issues, as commuters struggled with diversions and long delays, even as a large police deployment was made along the 5.9-km loop to manage traffic. The system, introduced to facilitate ongoing H-CITI works, is expected to remain in place till Dec 2028.The one-way system came into effect at 6am,…

Chennai: Former highways minister E V Velu on Tuesday questioned the Tamil Nadu govt over the ₹5.5-crore renovation tenders for the proposed chief minister’s office on the 10th floor of Namakkal Kavignar Maligai, citing a TOI report that work had begun even before the tender was floated, and that e-tenders were floated after five days.Participating in a debate on demands for public works department grants in the assembly, Velu sought PWD minister Aadhav Arjuna’s response to the report and questioned why chief minister C Joseph Vijay could not continue to function from Fort St George.Velu said the secretariat staff had…

Gandhinagar: Newly appointed BJP national secretary Jagdish Patel has been given additional charge as the co-in charge of Uttar Pradesh, alongside Vinod Tawde, who will serve as the in charge, according to a statement issued by the BJP central office on Tuesday.Newly appointed BJP national secretary Jagdish PatelJagdish, 61, represented Amraiwadi assembly constituency in Ahmedabad between 2019 and 2022. The seat had fallen vacant after sitting BJP MLA Hasmukh Patel quit after being elected to the Lok Sabha in 2019. BJP fielded Jagdish, who successfully defeated Congress candidate Dharmendra Patel to retain the seat for the party.BJP national headquarters in…

Prayagraj: Swaroop Rani Nehru (SRN) Hospital performed its first Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), marking a major step towards introducing endovascular treatment for brain aneurysms. The Neurosurgery department successfully conducted the procedure on a 45-year-old woman from Naini and is now preparing to start aneurysm treatment through endovascular coiling.Doctors said a ruptured brain aneurysm is a major cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), a condition that can lead to sudden severe headache, vomiting, paralysis or loss of consciousness. CT angiography and, when required, DSA are used to detect aneurysms and assess the affected blood vessels.The Neurosurgery Department has been treating brain aneurysms…

Unclaimed hoardings being removed Bhubaneswar: Ever since Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) found no claimant to almost 320 ad hoardings put up at different locations across the city, it has sold off retrieved iron frames in excess of 10,000 kg after removing those.The civic body, which has engaged a private party to remove the unclaimed hoardings, earn Rs 16 per kg by selling off the iron retrieved from the ad frames as scrap. It is the private agency’s onus to cut, declutter and reduce them into smaller pieces for resale. BMC doesn’t use its resources to remove them, officials said.BMC deputy…

Silchar: The bodies of a woman and her four-year-old son were fished out of Barak river on Tuesday, four days after they went missing after allegedly jumping from Annapurnaghat bridge.The bodies of Diya Akura, a resident of Chotodudhpatil in Silchar, and her son were recovered near Ganirgram in Cachar district. Akura was reportedly the president of a local self-help group (SHG).According to police, the two went missing around 4.30 pm on Friday after Akura completed bank-related work with SHG members. She later left the group and is suspected to have gone to Annapurnaghat bridge with her son.The boy’s body was…

Gurgaon: The city’s shift to paperless land services has yet to eliminate the backlog, with 7,585 mutation cases and 1,364 paperless registration cases pending across the district’s tehsils.The scale of pendency extends beyond registrations and mutations. The digital crop survey has another sizable backlog. Of 2,37,009 surveys allocated in Gurgaon, 81,482 have been completed and 10,551 approved, while 70,931 are pending approval.Moreover, 1,53,403 tatima (mutation-related map) cases are shown as pending in the bhunaksha-related work.Officials disclosed the figures during a review of revenue services by financial commissioner, revenue and disaster management, Sumita Misra, who directed time-bound disposal of pending cases.“Revenue…