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Delhi Police registered a case after Rahul Gandhi staged a dharna. NEW DELHI: Delhi Police registered a case after leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi staged a five-hour dharna outside Parliament Street police station Friday, demanding an FIR in connection with pellet injuries suffered by 19-year-old Sahil Lochab during the July 20 Jantar Mantar protest, reports Abhay.Gandhi reached the police station with Lochab, his mother and their lawyer around 11.30am. He was later joined by Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other party functionaries, and met the DCP and other senior officers.Displaying Lochab’s medical reports, Gandhi said…

Bengaluru: A study by Kannada Development Authority (KDA) has found that students of classes 6 and 7 in govt bilingual schools in Karnataka have limited vocabulary, difficulty in forming sentences, and weak comprehension — a stark commentary on the huge gaps in learning in schools which offer English and mother tongue as mediums of instruction.Karnataka pioneered the concept of bilingual schools to boost confidence among students nearly eight years ago. Deena Bandhu Trust of Chamarajanagar conducted the study for KDA to understand English-language proficiency among class 6 and 7 students in ‘recently converted English-medium schools’. The trust spoke to 201…

15L SIR notices generated, only 650 served so far Hyderabad: The massive exercise of serving notices to nearly 93 lakh electors flagged during Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is yet to gather pace, with only a fraction of the notices delivered so far, chief electoral officer (CEO) C Sudharshan Reddy said on Friday.The CEO said around 15 lakh notices have been generated for electors identified with anomalies or categorised as “unmapped”, but only about 650 notices have been served so far. He said the process is expected to pick up over the next two days.In Hyderabad, service…

Chennai: Raising the issue of legislative decorum, former chief minister and MLA O Panneerselvam on Friday urged assembly speaker J C D Prabhakar to accord proper dignity and protocol to leader of the opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin inside the House.During the ongoing assembly session, Panneerselvam drew attention to parliamentary conventions, noting that the leader of the opposition holds an equivalent stature to cabinet ministers.“The speaker has been in the assembly since the era of M G Ramachandran and is fully aware of House traditions. While opposition leaders must be given adequate time to articulate their views, presently the leader of the…

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– A 10th-class pass man posing as a doctor was caught during a health department decoy operation in Sohna on Friday after he allegedly offered to terminate a two-month pregnancy for Rs 1,000 and handed a decoy woman a kit containing mifepristone and misoprostol tablets._______________Picture by TOIBala allegedly demanded Rs 1,000 from a woman seeking to terminate a two-month pregnancy- A 10th-class pass man posing as a doctor was caught during a health department decoy operation in Sohna on Friday after he allegedly offered to terminate a two-month pregnancy for Rs 1,000 and handed a decoy woman a kit containing…

The meeting focused on trade facilitation in the northeast Aizawl: The second meeting of Inland Container Depot and Land Customs Station (ICD/LCS) Feedback Sharing Committee, organised under the aegis of the office of principal chief commissioner of customs, Kolkata customs zone, was held at the state guest house in Aizawl on Friday to review the implementation of procedural reforms announced in Union Budget 2026-27.The meeting focused on trade facilitation in the northeast, including ICD and LCS operations, trade-clearance timelines, digital connectivity and bottlenecks in border infrastructure.Following the review, senior officials held an interactive session with trade stakeholders and officers from…

Times News NetworkKanpur: The Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) on Friday launched online tickets for the second leg of the prestigious UP T20 League, which will be held at the Green Park Stadium from August 28 to September 6.The cheapest ticket, priced at Rs 49, has been kept for girls and will be sold offline. Prices of other tickets range from Rs 99 to Rs 349. Sanjay Kapoor, chairman of the UP T20 League governing body, told mediapersons that online ticket booking would begin from Friday evening, while tickets would also be available at the box office from Saturday.Kapoor said…

The Rs 190-crore embankment will run from city forest to Farukhnagar along the Hindon Ghaziabad: A 7km embankment along the Hindon and a 2km elevated road over one of the city’s most congested stretches were among 17 proposals approved by the GDA board on Friday. While the embankment is aimed at protecting a proposed international cricket stadium and major civic developments in the area, the elevated road is designed to take traffic pressure off the city’s busiest junctions.The Rs 190-crore embankment will run from city forest to Farukhnagar along the Hindon. The six-lane stretch will protect the proposed stadium, Aero…

Keshavnagar residents say water supply is a major concern. According to KENWA, around 60% of housing societies do not have municipal water connections and are dependent on private tankers. The association says it places a significant financial burden on residents and raises concerns over inconsistent water quality Pune: Residents of Keshavnagar have urged Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) commissioner Naval Kishore Ram to take immediate action on civic infrastructure, water supply and traffic problems in the area, saying that over 1 lakh residents continued to face problems despite paying property taxes.A delegation of the Keshav Nagar Welfare Association (KENWA) met Ram…