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 A U.S. military transport plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on Tuesday, data from the flight tracking service Flightradar24 showed. The large Boeing Globemaster with the U.S. registered tail number 07-7181 had flown directly from Riga in Latvia and landed in Moscow. Reuters was unable to verify whether it carried any cargo or passengers. The Kremlin said it had no information on the plane. The aircraft had arrived in Riga on Aug. 23 from Camp Springs airbase near Washington, D.C., data from Flightradar24 showed. The last direct flight of a U.S. registered jet to Russia from Europe took place in January, carrying special envoys Steven Witkoff…

Regional transport offices issued notices to 331 drivers for failing Marathi knowledge MUMBAI: Regional transport offices (RTOs) across Maharashtra on Monday issued notices to 331 autorickshaw and taxi drivers, including 139 in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), for failing to demonstrate the required working knowledge of Marathi, officials said.During Monday’s statewide drive, RTO officials checked 1,392 autorickshaw and taxi drivers in the MMR and found 139 lacking the required Marathi proficiency. In other parts of Maharashtra, officials checked 3,415 drivers and issued notices to 192 of them.Over the past five days, RTO teams have inspected 35,190 commercial passenger vehicles across…

Residents recorded indoor temperatures, power cuts, medical emergencies, lost wages, and daily struggles during the hottest months of the year. These community-led Heat Stories became evidence in Greenpeace India’s submission to the National Human Rights Commission, continuing our calling to recognise heatwaves as a national disaster. “Logon ne araam kiya, aur chhuti poori ki… Yakum May mein mazdooron ne mazdoori ki.” Storyteller Deepali Tonk quoted Afzal Khan’s shayari before narrating the story of Haider Ali, a seller in Meena Bazar who suffered a heat stroke and was advised the unimaginable – 15 days of bed rest and, consequently, 15 days away…

Hyderabad: Former minister T Harish Rao demanded the state govt to order an inquiry with a sitting high court judge into the 22A prohibited properties list and also release a white paper on the whole issues. He said the govt should immediately remove erroneous entries suo-moto in 22A without causing inconvenience to the people and take action against the responsible officers.Harish Rao on Tuesday met families affected by the Section 22A prohibited-properties issue at Shapur Nagar in Qutbullapur, and assured them that the BRS would stand firmly by them.Speaking at the meeting, Harish Rao said the Congress govt had created…

Chennai: Finance minister Marie Wilson on Monday alleged corruption in giving permission to private schools during the DMK govt.During the debate on demand for grants for school education and higher education, he said: “During the previous govt, the school education department collected money from private schools. I witnessed this in the first hand and affected party. The former school education minister can file a defamation suit against me. I can tell how much money I paid in T Nagar. I can also tell how much money collected from minority schools.”Anbil Mahesh flayed Wilson. “Everybody knows that the one who offers…

Ahmedabad: Govt and grant-in-aid secondary and higher secondary schools in Ahmedabad must complete fresh and renewal applications for the National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship (NMMS) on the National Scholarship Portal by Aug 31. DEOs (East and West) have warned that if an eligible student is deprived of the scholarship due to negligence or pending action by the school, the principal concerned will be held responsible.Students Classes 9 to 12 who have secured merit positions in the NMMS examination conducted by State Examination Board and meet the eligibility criteria receive a scholarship of Rs 12,000 annually from Govt of India. They are required…

Koraput: National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) situated at Damanjodi in the district on Monday achieved a milestone towards operationalising its captive Pottangi bauxite mines in Koraput district with signing of govt land lease deed for overland conveyor corridor and water intake facility.Officials said the signing marked completion of a key phase of land acquisition process for the project. Nalco executive director (mines & refinery) Amarendra Kumar Mishra and IDCO chief general manager (Land) Harischandra Rout signed the lease deed in presence of Nalco director (P&T) Jagdish Arora. Pottangi tehsildar Debendra Bahadur Singh Dharua and Semiliguda tehsildar Debabrata Karati were also…

Coimbatore: The Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation, jointly with city-based Cymatics, has conducted a thermal drone survey at Vellalore dump yard to detect temperature changes and help prevent fire incidents by identifying hotspots within the dump yard on a pilot basis.It has also developed a separate dashboard that provides visualisations, historical data, and animations of hotspot locations, complete with longitude and latitude coordinates.CEO of Cymatics L Gopinath said, “We initiated this programme following the massive fire in 2024 that lasted for at least 12 days. During the summer, we conduct surveys of the dump yard two to three times a week,…

A Gurgaon entrepreneur shared a video of a waterlogged road after an hour of rain. GURGAON: A Gurgaon-based entrepreneur has sparked a debate over the city’s civic infrastructure after sharing a video of a waterlogged road outside his home following around an hour of rain, questioning why residents and businesses paying multiple taxes continue to face basic infrastructure problems.Dr Shivin Chaudhary, who runs an online company employing around 250 people, posted the video on Instagram and sarcastically compared the flooded street to Venice.“So, it has been raining in Gurgaon since the past one hour, and this is the condition of…

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