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Dahanu: A day after TOI’s report on how a family in Dahanu taluka was forced to wade through a flooded river to complete the last rites of a relative due to the absence of a bridge, the district administration swung into action with a zilla parishad team inspecting the site on Thursday.Officials from the zilla parishad’s construction department said a bridge has already been proposed at the site, but the Rs 1-crore project has been stalled due to lack of funds. They added that efforts would be made to secure the required funds and take the project forward.Around 150 families…

New Delhi: Professor Sumit Sarkar, one of India’s influential historians of modern India and a leading Marxist historian, died on Thursday. He was 87.For generations of students, Sarkar’s name was closely associated with the study of modern Indian history. Through a lifetime of scholarship, he worked to shift the focus of historical inquiry towards socio-economic processes, popular struggles and the agency of working people.A professor of history at the University of Delhi, Sarkar was best known for works, including The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908 and Modern India, 1885-1947. His study of the Swadeshi movement and his writings on modern…

Bengaluru: Bengaluru North City Corporation (BNCC) suspended a senior health inspector for allegedly accepting a bribe from a salon owner in Yelahanka in connection with trade licence-related work. Rais Ahmed Aziz Mianavar from Yelahanka division was suspended with immediate effect under Rule 10(1)(a) of Karnataka Civil Services (CCA) Rules, 1957.According to the order, the corporation received a complaint alleging that Rais Ahmed had demanded and accepted money from a hair salon owner in connection with the business’s trade licence and a health department inspection. Sources said Rais Ahmed fainted while he was caught taking bribe.The official, however, denied taking any…

Hyderabad: The forest department has launched a joint probe with police and electricity officials into the electrocution death of Forest Beat Officer (FBO) Naveen in the Krishnasagar Reserve Forest, with investigators trying to identify the suspected poachers who allegedly fled the spot and trace the source of power used for the illegal electric snare laid for hunting wildlife.District forest officer Siddarth Vikram Singh, IFS, inspected the site in Musalimadugu Section of Cheruvusingaram Beat in Paloncha Range on Thursday and examined the electric lines, possible tapping points and the route through which power may have been illegally extended into the forest.“During…

C K Raja Raja Varma | Kochu Kuttan fighter (Age 15)Abolition of untouchability. Protests against toddy shops. C K Raja Raja Varma (Kochu Kuttan) was 15 when he began taking on the establishment. He was driven out of Travancore and sent to Madras in 1922. But the exile did not kill his spirit. He joined C Rajagopalachari’s march from Trichy to Vedaranyam and participated in the 1930 Salt Satyagraha with Sardar Vedarathnam Pillai. He was arrested and spent 325 days in various jails. That didn’t stop him either. In 1931, he led anti-prohibition protests in Madurai, then a Swadeshi campaign…

School sources confirmed they are attempting to comply with all DEO directions Anand Niketan School, Shilaj campus, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: Anand Niketan School in Shilaj has terminated its association with visiting consultant Munazza Shums and shut its canteen operations on a directive by the district education officer (DEO) following protests by parents and right-wing groups.One issue was a glass shard allegedly found in a student’s snack served in the school canteen. The other, which escalated beyond food safety concerns, was protesters objecting to the presence of “I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the…

Bhubaneswar: BJD on Wednesday accused the BJP govt of trying to suppress controversy over alleged misbehaviour of Cuttack Sadar MLA Prakash Chandra Sethi with a faculty member (chief warden) of Ravenshaw University. BJP, however, countered the charges, requesting BJD to ‘stop playing politics over education’.Addressing the media, BJD functionary Lelin Mohanty alleged that the appointment of a new chief warden, wardens and deputy wardens at the university was aimed at defusing the controversy after around 30 wardens and deputy wardens tendered a mass resignation. Mohanty alleged that the govt was acting under pressure to shield the MLA from accountability.Responding to…

The woman is recovering from the surgery and her chemotherapy will start soon, doctors said Gurgaon: A 5.4kg tumour, which had turned into an infected wound after it went untreated for months, was removed from the breast of a 44-year-old woman from Democratic Republic of Congo at a Manesar hospital.Doctors at Fortis Hospital said the woman first saw the growth in Dec 2025 but did not seek treatment for it at the time. In the next few months, the tumour grew rapidly and when she reached the hospital on June 18, it covered her entire right breast and was oozing…

Dimapur: The Naga Students Federation (NSF) has asked its federating units and subordinate bodies to ensure that schools and educational institutions within their respective jurisdictions do not send students to participate in the Independence Day programmes, voicing its opposition to Centre’s order for mandatory playing or singing of the revised version of the national song Vande Mataram at official events.In a notification dated Aug 12, the NSF also directed its units to ensure that students who decline to sing Vande Mataram on grounds of conscience or religious beliefs do not face disciplinary action, discrimination, intimidation or other consequences.The federation, however,…

Times News NetworkLudhiana: Police have arrested a Mohali resident for allegedly duping a Jagraon man of Rs 2.3 lakh. The accused, posing as a woman on social media, allegedly targeted people aspiring to go abroad and cheated them on the pretext of arranging visas.Police identified the accused as Aman, a resident of Kurali in Mohali district. According to investigators, he had created fake accounts on social networking platforms using the names and identities of women. A case was registered against him on the complaint of Manjot Singh, 26, a resident of Kular village in Jagraon.The complainant alleged that he received…