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Kolkata: The KP has launched a crackdown on a vehicle identity-theft racket operating in the city following the detection of multiple cases where criminals forged registration numbers to evade traffic fines and engage in illegal activities.In the sixth such incident this year, the Survey Park PS registered a case based on a written complaint by a 28-year-old resident of Salkia.The complainant found the fraud after receiving a notification for a traffic violation at Jora Bridge, an area he had not visited. An unknown person was riding a two-wheeler with a forged number plate similar to his. Police suspect the accused…

NAIRA MANZOORI grew up in Kashmir, and like many North Indians, I believed I understood the pulse of Indian cities. Traffic would be loud. Roads would be restless. People would hurry as though time were a creditor waiting at the door. Crossing the street would require nerve, timing, and perhaps the quiet intervention of fate. I mistook this pattern for the country itself. Then I travelled to South India and found myself wondering whether I had stepped into a gentler version of the same story.What struck me first was the silence. Not emptiness, but restraint. The roads were full of…

NEW DELHI: India’s private space sector will soon take wings as spacetech startup Skyroot Aerospace is just days ahead from becoming the country’s first private player to launch an orbital-class rocket, fully designed and developed by it, from Indian soil.After sending India’s first private single-stage suborbital rocket Vikram-S at a peak altitude of 89.5 km in 2022, the Hyderabad-based company is all geared up to launch the country’s first orbital launch vehicle, Vikram-1, on Saturday.Vikram-1, named in honour of Dr Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India’s space programme, is scheduled to lift off at 11.30 am from the first launch…

Mumbai: High drama was witnessed in the BMC general body on Thursday after the BJP-led house sought to accord urgent status to a proposal to widen a road in Ghatkopar (West), triggering a confrontation over voting procedure that ended with the opposition staging a walkout.The urgent proposal pertained to revising the regular road line of Khot Lane in Ghatkopar (West) from 6 metres to 9 metres under the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888, and the Development Control and Promotion Regulations, 2034. The proposal covers multiple land parcels in Ghatkopar-Kirol village.Before the proposal could be taken up, however, opposition members demanded…

New Delhi: The city saw the warmest July day and night in two years. The maximum temperature rose to 39.2 degrees celsius, four degrees above normal, while the minimum temperature settled at 30.2 degrees, three notches above normal Thursday. The heat index or the ‘feels-like’ temperature stood at 48 degrees celsius at 2.30 pm.Higher maximum and minimum temperatures in July were last recorded in 2024 at 39.3 degrees celsius and 30.4 degrees celsius, respectively, according to IMD. Hot and humid conditions are likely to continue till Saturday. There are chances of rain from Saturday evening to July 22. IMD explains…

Volunteers painted Judicial Layout railway underpass in various shades of green to reflect the character of the area Bengaluru: Around 150 employees of a multinational company, collaborating with the Bengaluru North City Corporation, spent Thursday afternoon cleaning and painting the walls of the Judicial Layout railway underpass in north Bengaluru as part of a special beautification drive under the corporation’s Safe Footpaths campaign.Led by Arun Pai of Project Walkaluru, the volunteers painted the underpass in various shades of green to reflect the character of the area, which is surrounded by the GKVK campus and greenery off Airport Road.“We had great…

Hyd man critically injured in targetting stabbing at Utah mall Hyderabad: A Hyderabad man was critically injured after he was allegedly attacked for his religion, and stabbed 15 times at a shoppig mall in the US on July 13. According to local media reports, Syed Sohail Uddin was attacked while working at a kiosk in the Valley Fair Mall in Utah and suffered grave injuries all over his body. A GoFudme page set up by his cowoker to raise funds for his treatment stated that Sohail has undergone multiple surgeries on his hands, heart and lungs and continues to be…

Chennai: A 32-year-old meat shop worker was beaten to death by his friends near Somangalam in Kancheepuram district on Wednesday night.The victim, Rajesh of Sethuputtu near Somangalam, was married and had two children. Police said Thangam and Anandajothi, who lived in the same locality, took him in a car on Wednesday night to consume alcohol.When Rajesh failed to return home, his family began searching for him. On Thursday morning, Thangam and Anandajothi surrendered at the Somangalam police station and confessed to killing him. They told police that the three consumed alcohol at a vacant site along the Somangalam-Sethuputtu Road. An…

Mahant of Ahmedabad’s Shri Jagannathji Temple, Shri Dilip Das Maharaj, with an elephant decked up for the city’s 149th rath yatra on Thursday, July 16 Ahmedabad: During last year’s rath yatra, a young male elephant grabbed headlines for running amok and injuring one person. This year, organisers exercised extreme caution to make sure the procession’s stars — 18 temple elephants — literally decked to their teeth, went along undisturbed by distractions and loud noises.And that’s what happened. Bedecked in grand drapes, trunks painted in psychedelic colours, the giants ambled along on their route peacefully. DJs’ systems fell silent and cops…

Prayagraj: A 30-year-old woman was allegedly stabbed by her husband with a kitchen knife in front of their children following a domestic dispute in Prayagraj’s Thatheri Bazaar area on Thursday. The accused later surrendered before the police.The victim, identified as Sashi Gupta, was rushed to SRN Hospital, where she is undergoing treatment. Doctors said her condition is stable.DCP (City) Maneesh Shandilya said Sashi had been married to Abhishek Gupta for about 12 years, and the couple had been facing frequent domestic disputes.According to the officer, Abhishek allegedly attacked his wife with a kitchen knife, leaving her seriously injured. After the…