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Sewerage work underway at Jadiyo Ka Rasta in Jaipur’s Chaura Rasta Saturday Jaipur: Residents of Walled City, already grappling with overflowing sewers and poor drainage, are now facing fresh hardship as a road at Jadiyo Ka Rasta near Chaura Rasta has remained dug up for nearly six weeks after drainage work, making movement difficult during the monsoon.The road was excavated to lay new drains and the drainage work has since been completed. However, the stretch has not been restored, leaving it muddy, uneven and slippery. Residents, commuters and shopkeepers say the damaged road has become a daily hazard, particularly for…

Nagpur: More than 24 hours after power supply was disrupted to several civic installations, including around 20 traffic signals, CCTV cameras and other Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) facilities, and later restored, neither Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) nor NMC can conclusively explain what triggered the outages.The outages began on Friday morning, particularly affecting traffic signals equipped with smart meters. CCTV cameras and some public gardens, playgrounds and even Ambazari Ghat were also affected, raising questions over whether the incident was caused by a technical glitch or an operational error during remote meter management.Speaking to TOI, DCP (Traffic) Aditya…

Varanasi: A special Pocso court in Varanasi on Saturday sentenced 27-year-old Vijay Sonkar, a vegetable vendor from the Assi area, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 for raping a 17-year-old speech-and hearing-impaired minor girl in 2021. The court also directed that 70% of the fine be paid to the victim as compensation.According to Special Public Prosecutor Santosh Kumar Singh, the accused allegedly lured the girl to his tin-shed house near a vegetable shop, raped her, and recorded a video that later surfaced online. The case was registered at Bhelupur police station after the survivor’s uncle filed…

Kolkata: An 85-year-old man died after he fell off the seventh-floor corridor window of a 15-storey residential building inside a housing complex at Belgachhia Milk Colony on Saturday afternoon. Arun Kumar Basu lived on the seventh floor.Security guards and residents of the building found him lying on a path road inside the complex around 2 pm. Police did not find any suicide note. Source link

Srinagar, Jul 18: The opening day of the third edition of the Chinar Book Festival witnessed enthusiastic participation from children, students and visitors, with creative activities, storytelling sessions and cultural performances setting the tone for the nine-day literary celebration at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) on Saturday.The Children’s Corner remained a major attraction as young participants showcased their creativity in a drawing competition themed “Sare Jahan Se Accha – India’s Journey from ISRO to ISS.” The competition encouraged children to depict India’s achievements in space exploration through art.Adding to the festive atmosphere, a storytelling session titled “Tales Under the…

SRIHARIKOTA: A sudden hold in the final five minutes of the countdown briefly froze the celebration waiting to erupt at Sriharikota. Then, after a tense 35-minute delay and a restart of the launch sequence, Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 roared off the first launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here at 12.05 pm Saturday, becoming India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket to reach low Earth orbit.Skyroot Aerospace’s maiden orbital mission, named Mission Aagaman, not only successfully placed its six payloads into the targeted 450-km low Earth orbit at an inclination of 60 degrees, it made India the third country to achieve…

MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday came out in support of activist Sonam Wangchuk and the students’ agitation, accusing the Centre of displaying “indifference” towards the ongoing protest and failing to engage with the demonstrators despite the agitation continuing for nearly three weeks.Addressing a press conference, Pawar said the future of thousands of students was at stake and urged the Union government to arrive at an appropriate solution instead of remaining a “mute spectator”.”The protesters have been demanding that the Centre find a suitable resolution, but the government is merely watching from the sidelines. As…

Bengaluru: A four-year-old racehorse was euthanised after suffering a fractured left foreleg during the Bangalore Summer Derby at Bangalore Turf Club (BTC) last Sunday. According to the club’s incident report, the horse was “humanely euthanised”. It is the first reported euthanasia of the racing season at BTC, which began in May.Knotty Cruise stumbled and fell shortly after crossing the 300-metre mark, throwing apprentice jockey Sachin from the saddle. An ambulance was immediately rushed onto the track, and a green screen was erected around the horse while veterinary doctors examined it. Finding the injuries irreparable, the medical team anaesthetised the horse…

Hyderabad: A 65-year-old farmer was hacked to death by a butcher at Rebbena in Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district on Friday. After killing the victim, the accused allegedly severed his head before fleeing the scene. Police arrested the accused later that day, and he was remanded in judicial custody on Saturday.The victim, M Somaiah, was a farmer from Parasnambal village in Asifabad mandal. On Thursday, Somaiah and his wife, Karunabai, visited their younger daughter’s house in Nambala village in Rebbena mandal. “My elder daughter, who works as a labourer in Hyderabad, was visiting my younger daughter. We went there to see…

Chennai: A pawn shop owner in Tiruvallur district was cheated of ₹1.91 crore by two men who sold him fake jewellery by claiming it was gold.In his complaint, Iman alias Poovarasan, 31, who runs a pawn shop at Pullarambakkam near Tiruvallur, said two men came to his shop in a car on July 14 and sold 5 kg of gold jewellery at a discount of 5% to 10%. He bought a portion of the jewellery for ₹1.91 crore.When he took the jewellery to a private room to verify its authenticity, he discovered that the ornaments were fake. By the time…