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T’puram: A stage production inspired by cinematic storytelling will be presented for theatre audiences in the city on Saturday at the Ganesh Auditorium in Thycaud. Titled “Ast Geron”, the play is based on the life of Russian-American writer Elena O Labedeva. The production is scripted, directed and choreographed by Adrija Panicker, a theatre artist and dancer.The story explores themes of love, sacrifice and emotional struggle, with a focus on relationships beyond gender. “This is a fantasy. Dance theatre in Kerala usually deals with socially relevant or contemporary issues. This production discusses love, sacrifice and the struggles two people undergo for…

Kolkata: The city police arrested another person in the Kankulia violence case reported last Sunday, in which two persons were injured after shots were fired, bombs hurled, personal property and vehicles vandalised. Sambhu Sikari alias Patla (34), a resident of AT Chatterjee Road in the Lake area, was arrested on Thursday, taking the number of arrests in the case to 20.The arrested individuals were aged between 18 and 38, said cops. “While some accused are residents of the Rabindra Sarobar Police Station area, a few are from Lake and Tiljala areas, while others are from the Kasba Police Station area,”…

Srinagar, Feb 06: The Jammu and Kashmir government is developing hamlets within Dal Lake as eco-friendly settlements under an in-situ conservation model, instead of relocating families, the Assembly was informed on Friday. So far, 1,808 families have been successfully rehabilitated at Rakh Arth Colony, receiving free land and compensation for their properties.In response to an assembly question by MLA Zadibal Tanvir Sadiq regarding Dal dwellers’ rehabilitation, the Housing and Urban Development Department said that Rakhi-e-Arth and Mir Behri Dal are not neglected areas and emphasized that residents are considered an integral part of the lake ecosystem.A High-Level Committee (HLC) headed…

Thane: A sessions court convicted a Bangladeshi couple of illegally entering and residing in India without valid documents and ordered their deportation after they completed their sentence of one year and 10 days of simple imprisonment.Riyaz Almin Mulla (24) and his wife, Soniya alias Sathi Riyaj Mulla (22), were arrested by Shil-Diaghar police on Jan 26, 2025, after a tip-off about foreign nationals living under false identities in the Uttar Shivgaon area. Acting on the information, a police team set up a naka-bandi and intercepted an autorickshaw carrying the couple. When questioned, they gave vague details about their residence and…

NEW DELHI: India’s winter air pollution crisis showed no signs of easing in Jan and NCR dominated the pollution rankings. Nearly half of the country’s monitored cities have recorded PM2.5 levels above the national safety standards. According to an analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), Ghaziabad has emerged as India’s most polluted city in Jan, followed by Delhi, then Noida, Gurgaon and Greater Noida.With a staggering monthly average PM2.5 concentration of 184 g/m³ – three times over the national limit – Ghaziabad, which is consistently among the most polluted pockets of NCR, breached daily…

Bengaluru: An accidental fire that erupted in a pile of garbage near labourers’ sheds close to Hosa Lake at Kudlu Gate early Friday gutted around 13 makeshift shelters and a mini goods vehicle. Segregated waste stored in the area was also destroyed. Officials confirmed that no casualties were reported.Police said labourers from West Bengal and Assam were staying in sheds built on land owned by four persons, a property currently locked in a court dispute. The residents were living in two partitions, one of which was used by scrap collectors to sort dry waste. Preliminary investigation indicates the fire began…

Hyderabad: Civic agencies involved in garbage collection, fogging operations, stray dog catching, and road sweeping will no longer be able to shirk their duties, as the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to track the movement of all its operational vehicles through GPS.GHMC has proposed equipping nearly 5,000 vehicles, including Solid Waste Management (SWM) vehicles, dog-catching vans, fogging vehicles, anti-larva operation vehicles, and mechanical road sweeping machines, with GPS tracking systems.The initiative will be implemented across all 300 wards in Greater Hyderabad. To roll out the system, the civic body has invited bids for the implementation and maintenance of…

Chennai: Mitsubishi Electric India has commissioned a Rs 2,100-crore air conditioner and compressor manufacturing facility in Chennai, as the Japanese major steps up expansion in the country’s fast-growing cooling market and targets sustained double-digit growth in its air-conditioning business.Spread over 210,000 sq m, the facility was inaugurated virtually by Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Friday. The plant will have an annual capacity of 300,000 indoor and outdoor room air conditioners and 650,000 compressors, and is expected to generate over 2,100 direct and indirect jobs. “We expect our air-conditioning business in India to grow at a double-digit average…

Ahmedabad: A phone call promising govt benefits turned into financial loss for women in Rajpar village of Surendranagar district. Pregnant and lactating women enrolled under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) were targeted by callers posing as govt officials. Exploiting the victims’ trust and limited digital awareness, the cyberscamsters attempted to extract OTPs from beneficiaries. While most women refused, two lost money from their bank accounts.Around 30 women beneficiaries linked to a local anganwadi centre got calls from the fraudsters under the guise of verifying pending payments under the maternity benefit scheme. The callers told the women that their…

Prayagraj: Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital (KNMH) successfully performed its first-ever Trans-Arterial Chemoembolization (TACE) procedure on a two-year-old girl suffering from hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer in children. The procedure, carried out on Monday, marked a significant advancement in paediatric oncology and interventional radiology services at the hospital.TACE is a modern, minimally invasive cancer treatment in which high-dose chemotherapy drugs are delivered directly to the tumour through a targeted blood vessel. The procedure was performed by a multidisciplinary team led by head of the department of Interventional Radiology Dr Daksh Chandra along with consultant in Medical Oncology Dr Manas…