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Mumbai’s weeknight dance socials are reviving jive and other dance forms, fostering community and joy beyond polished performances. These beginner-friendly gatherings offer a wholesome atmosphere for participants to connect, de-stress, and dance for the sheer love of it, cutting across age groups and backgrounds. As the city unwinds after long workdays, Mumbai’s dance floors are coming alive again, pulsing with old-school jive and new-age joy. Held on weeknights, twice or thrice a month at different venues, these gatherings are less about polished performances and more about community, meeting new people, letting one’s hair down and dancing simply for the love…

Police felicitate businessman assaulted for stopping harassment of women in Mehrauli NEW DELHI: Delhi Police felicitated a businessman who was brutally assaulted by four men on Monday in Mehrauli after he objected to their harassment of women.Police also recorded statements of three women who confirmed that they were being harassed by the accused.DCP (South) Ankit Chauhan visited the house of the victim, Mukesh Singh, and felicitated him with a memento and a certificate for stopping the accused from harassing those women.”Despite being outnumbered and fully aware of the serious personal risk involved, Mukesh fearlessly confronted the offenders and stood firmly…

Farmer to babus: No cash for ‘bribe’, take my radish BENGALURU: A farmer’s protest using freshly harvested radish to allege bribery demand by revenue officials turned heads outside the Madhugiri taluk office in Tumakuru district Thursday, spotlighting delays in implementing civic works at the grassroots level.Prasanna Kumar, a farmer from Dodderi Jakkenahalli, staged the protest after officials allegedly failed to act on a Lokayukta order to build an approach road to his farmland in a month. After waiting for nearly two more months, he rode to the office with radish piled on his scooter and a handheld megaphone. He alleged…

Hyderabad: Cyber crime police on Wednesday registered a cheating case after a woman from Somajiguda alleged she lost 42.7 lakh to a gang operating a KBC (Kaun Banega Crorepati) lottery fraud.The 40-year-old victim approached the Hyderabad Cyber Crime police on Wednesday and submitted a written complaint detailing the fraud. Police said the fraudsters contacted the victim on WhatsApp, claimed she had won 1.3 crore in a KBC lucky draw and demanded successive payments towards processing charges, taxes and security deposits.Police said the fraudsters sent fake promotional posters featuring actors Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan and a counterfeit SBI cheque showing…

Chennai: Murugappa Group’s engineering flagship, Tube Investments of India (TII), plans to invest an additional Rs 500 crore – Rs 750 crore in its electric vehicle subsidiary, TI Clean Mobility, as it looks to scale up operations and move towards break-even despite initial delays and losses.The company has already invested about Rs 750 crore in the EV business. “We are at a stage where manufacturing capacity has been established, and we are beginning to see green shoots across many of the new products we have launched. Now is the time to double down on the EV business,” said Vellayan Subbiah,…

Ahmedabad: A student of the Central University of Gujarat faced a caste-based attack on its hostel premises recently, alleged the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC). They further alleged that the student’s complaints registered with senior university authorities more than a week ago have received no response. The victim is an FYBA student of social management living in Sabarmati Hostel on the university’s Kundhela campus in Vadodara, the GPCC members said. “In his complaint given to the varsity, he alleged that at 11pm on Jan 26, a group of over 30 students gathered outside his hostel room, assaulted him and hurled…

Prayagraj: The UP fire department managed fire incidents at the ongoing Magh Mela, ensuring the safety and security of pilgrims, devotees and kalpwasis, and upholding the state govt’s motto of a ‘Safe and secure Magh Mela’, officials said. With state-of-the-art equipment and swift response teams, the fire department tackled 25 fire incidents during the 32-day-long event, including six major ones, officials said.Expressway Propylene Gas Crisis, New Labour Codes, Delhi’s 807 Gone Missing And MoreHowever, a 26-year-old youth died of burn injuries at Swaroop Rani Nehru (SRN) Hospital after sustaining serious burn injuries at the Magh Mela. The fire broke out…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has recorded a steady rise in gross enrolment ratio (GER) of girls at the secondary level over the last three academic years, but the dropout rate continues to remain high, 12.6% in 2024-25, well above the national figure of 9.6%, according to govt data.In response to a query by MP Sumitra Balmik on the increase in GER of girls and OBC students, minister of state for education Jayant Chaudhary informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that Odisha’s GER for girls at the secondary level increased from 80.8% in 2022-23 to 82.6% in 2023-24 and further to 85% in…

Salem: Governor R N Ravi on Thursday presented gold medals and degree certificates to students at the 24th convocation ceremony of Periyar University in Salem.The governor presented gold medals and degree certificates to 358 students who completed their doctoral studies and 110 who topped in postgraduation and under-graduation. A total of 468 students received their degree certificates from the governor on the stage. C Anandharamakrishnan , director of CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, was the chief guest at the event. (Photos: AM Shudhagar) Source link

Gurgaon: A 68-year-old man was killed after a truck hit his electric scooter on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway near Ravi Hotel on Wednesday.The truck involved in the collision was identified and seized from the spot. However, the driver fled immediately after the accident and remains absconding, an officer said. “A case was registered under sections 281 (rash driving) and 106 (death by negligence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Teams have been formed to trace and arrest the truck driver,” he added.The accident took place around 3.30pm when the deceased, identified as Narendra Yadav, a resident of Kherki Daula, was travelling towards…