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Chennai: The Pinakini Express running between Vijayawada and Chennai Central was halted between Athipattu and Ennore stations on Wednesday afternoon after a fault developed in its pantograph. Railway officials said the pantograph, a device mounted on electric trains to draw power from overhead wires, developed a defect while the train was en route to Chennai. Power supply on the express line was temporarily shut off to facilitate repairs, and the fault was subsequently rectified. The incident resulted in a delay of more than 30 minutes in the arrival of the train at Chennai Central. Railway officials said the disruption did…

Ahmedabad: IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Wednesday inducted the new batch of its flagship PGP programme and PGP-FABM programme with 414 and 44 students respectively. About 61% of PGP students are engineers, whereas 31% of the batch consists of female students.Encouraging students to leverage technology and AI responsibly, Prof Ankur Sinha, chairperson, PGP, noted that learning—not merely task completion—must remain the priority. He assured students of the institute’s unwavering support for their academic, personal, and mental well-being, while urging them to actively participate in campus life and make the most of their time at IIM-A.The average work experience in the batch…

Prayagraj: In a major administrative action, UP Board has withdrawn the recognition of 465 self-financed schools across the state after finding that they neither sent any students to Board examinations nor conducted classes for two consecutive academic sessions, 2024-25 and 2025-26.The highest number of derecognised institutions belongs to the Prayagraj region, with 150 schools, followed by Varanasi, where 142 schools lost recognition. The Meerut region accounted for 102 such schools, while Bareilly and Gorakhpur regions reported 34 and 37 schools, respectively. Together, these institutions were found to be non-functional and failed to meet the Board’s mandatory academic requirements.A break-up of…

The arrested men in police custody Berhampur: Police on Wednesday arrested four persons for allegedly abducting and assaulting a 23-year-old man from Dhanaghara under K Nuagaon police station limits in Ganjam district on Tuesday.The accused were identified as Nigam Gouda (39) of Chikitigada, Sankar Gouda (26) and Sangram Panigrahy (27) of Jugudi, and Amar Nath Sahu (27) of Golanthara. Police seized a knife, two motorbikes and four mobile phones from them.Police said the victim was waiting for a bus at Dhanaghara to return to his village when the accused allegedly abducted and assaulted him with punches and kicks. They allegedly…

Intermittent rain and cloudy skies over the past 24 hours kept weather conditions pleasant in Gurgaon, with the city’s minimum temperature recorded at 21°C on Wednesday, lower than the temperatures recorded earlier this month during the heatwave Gurgaon: Cloudy skies, intermittent showers and cool winds kept temperatures in check across the city on Wednesday, offering residents continued relief from the intense heat experienced earlier this month.The city recorded a minimum temperature of 21°C and a maximum of 36.1°C, according to the IMD.Data showed that the Gurgaon automatic weather station (AWS) recorded a minimum temperature of 21°C, while the Gurgaon KVK…

Guwahati: Assam Police on Tuesday night busted two separate sex rackets in different districts of the state, leading to the arrest of several persons and the rescue of multiple victims during the operations.The first incident took place in Kamrup (Metropolitan) district, where a team from Geetanagar Police Station raided an alleged prostitution racket operating inside a spa in the city’s Geetanagar area on Tuesday night. Police said eight women working there were rescued.A police officer from Geetanagar said the raid was conducted based on specific intelligence. “We carried out the operation at Geetanagar’s Uday Path. The accused were running the…

Kanpur: The crime branch busted a gang of fraudsters operating in the name of a matrimonial company and detained 24 people. The gang was running through three call centres in Kidwainagar and Naubasta.Late on Tuesday night, police raided the call centres and detained 23 women and a man. During questioning, it was found that the accused used AI tools to create fake profiles of prospective brides and sent them to the victims to extort money under pretexts of registration, profile verification, meetings, and dowry. The alleged mastermind of the gang, Ranjeesh Kumar Gaur, is a resident of Bhilai, Chhattisgarh.Police commissioner…

Ludhiana: A sudden fire gutted a cotton shanty and destroyed two school buses in Haibowal’s Pavitar Nagar on Tuesday afternoon, triggering widespread panic. Fanned by strong winds, the blaze quickly spread from the slum workshop—where cotton was stored for quilts—to the parked vehicles.Bystanders successfully moved another bus and a car before the flames could consume them. Fire crews responded at 3 p.m., deploying two tenders to extinguish the inferno. No injuries or casualties were reported, though the shanty and its entire inventory were completely destroyed.Police and fire officials have launched a joint investigation to determine whether a short circuit or…

Noida: A prank on a factory worker in an industrial unit in Greater Noida’s Rabupura has left him battling for his life. The worker, Sameer, suffered serious internal injuries on Tuesday morning after two of his co-workers inserted a compressed air pipe into his rectum.His condition remains critical. Police have arrested the two accused, Dilshad and Zeeshan.The incident took place at Surya Global Flexi Film Company, located in Sector 29 of Yamuna City. According to police and company officials, the three — who are from the same place in Uttarakhand and lived together in Greater Noida — were on duty.Sameer…

Former Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan from Congress Pune: Senior functionaries in the Congress and NCP (SP) in Maharashtra, who expressed fears that the BJP may attempt to split their parties, said none of their MPs or MLAs would defect.The opposition has claimed that the BJP and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are executing ‘Operation Tiger’ to engineer a second split within former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s party. Speculation about the breakup became real on Tuesday night when six MPs of Uddhav’s party rushed to Delhi. These rebel MPs are likely to form a separate group after breaking ties with Uddhav’s…