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Bharat Taxi services launched by CM Bhajan Lal Sharma from OTS in Jaipur, Rajasthan on 25 July 2026 Jaipur: Chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma Saturday launched Bharat Taxi, a govt-backed, driver-owned cooperative ride-hailing service, by flagging off its operations at HCM RIPA in Jaipur. The CM said Bharat Taxi is a cooperation-based ownership model, through which ‘Sarathis’ are now also becoming owners.The platform, which recently rolled out its customer mobile application in Jaipur, claims to offer rides at fares 10%-15% lower than those charged by app-based aggregators such as Ola and Uber. It also said it would not levy surge…
Nagpur: The camouflage fatigues are gone. The rifles have been replaced by challan books. The enemy is no longer across the border but on the city’s streets — littering, illegal dumping, public spitting, and other civic violations.Yet, for the 132 retired Army personnel who form the backbone of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s Nuisance Detection Squad (NDS), the mission remains the same: service to the nation.As the country marks Kargil Vijay Diwas, TOI spoke to three NDS members whose military careers took them to some of India’s most sensitive frontiers. Two fought in the 1999 Kargil War, while their commander guarded…
Ranchi: Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd (JBVNL) on Saturday equipped its field workers in the capital with a new proximity-warning safety device to prevent accidents during high-voltage repair work.“The compact gadget emits an audible alert and visual signal whenever a technician approaches a live wire. This will help the workers be alert if they are getting too close to a live wire, thus preventing any untoward accident,” said Manmohan Kumar, general manager of the Ranchi Electric Supply Area.Kumar said the equipment acts as a vital fail-safe during technical glitches where power lines may remain charged despite a shutdown. CJP Jantar…
Varanasi: A play school teacher allegedly branded the private part of a five-year-old nursery student with a hot knife after he urinated in his pants on Friday.Lalpur-Pandeypur police station in-charge Atul Singh said on Saturday that an FIR has been registered against the school authorities and the teacher in this connection. However, the medical report from DDU District Hospital did not mention a burn injury, he said. Police are investigating the matter.In his complaint, the child’s father stated that his son studies in a nursery at a play school in the Akatha area under the Lalpur-Pandeypur police station. He said…
Thiruvananthapuram: Decomposed body of a 80-year-old woman was found inside her estate quarters in Kulathupuzha, nearly four days after her death, with police alleging that her son neither informed relatives nor neighbours and instead continued performing rituals inside the house.The deceased, Chinnathamma, was found lying on a cot in a bedroom of Quarter in RPL 2F Colony at Koovakkad on Friday evening. Police said the body had begun decomposing and suspect the woman had died three to four days earlier. Exact cause of death, however, will be known only after postmortem report is received.According to police, the incident came to…
Kolkata: Bengal’s stringent, new anti-gang law made its debut on Saturday, with the administration using it to register seven FIRs at Hare Street and Entally Police Stations as it doubled down on Friday’s protest march in the city against the Centre for repeated paper leaks and other grievances.Seventy people — none of them students — had been identified in connection with Friday’s violence, CM Suvendu Adhikari said in the assembly on Friday and proceeded to name five of them: “They will get such severe punishment that their next three generations will remember it.”The Kolkata leg of Friday’s nationwide students’ protest…
CROSS ROADSThe face of Islamist radicalization in Jammu & Kashmir has changed over the past two decades, capitalizing on accelerating developments and trends in the realm of communication technologies that have rendered information and digital content almost ubiquitously accessible. These processes have transformed some of the channels through which radicalization of the individual and broader communities as a whole can take place, in particular raising the dangers of self-radicalization. Whilst this raises new concerns for intelligence and security services, especially concerning the early detection of at-risk individuals, it cannot be deduced that the ultimate character of radicalization, namely its social…
Kick streamer Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, became the centre of attention after videos showed him being briefly detained by police following a fight outside a Miami nightclub. The incident happened on July 25 and quickly spread across social media. Videos appeared to show Peters fighting with another man before security guards restrained him and police arrived. Many people online believed he had been arrested, but there is no official confirmation of that. Public records also showed no criminal case filed against him as of July 25.Kick streamer Clavicular briefly detained after Miami nightclub brawl caught on cameraThe…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress said its agitation over the NEET paper leak would continue as it demanded criminal action against Union Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan after his resignation from the post on Saturday. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis defended Pradhan, praising his education reforms, including the National Education Policy.Congress state-chief Harshwardhan Sapkal made serious allegations against Pradhan after stating that “152 examination paper leaks were reported during Pradhan’s tenure; they were part of an organised racket designed to benefit a particular class and BJP affiliates in exams for their admission while facilitating corrupt financial gains over several years.”Sapkal alleged that during…
New Delhi: On Saturday a special judge took charge of the designated court to deal with criminal cases arising from paper leaks as well as the use of other unfair means in public examinations, court sources said.They said special Judge Anu Grover Baliga took charge of a specially designated Fast Track Court to try offences under Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 and connected offences, in the Rouse Avenue District Court Complex. Source link