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Some of the seized relief materials found at the party office Kolkata: A row erupted on the city’s southern fringes on Friday after political workers, locals and police recovered a hoard of govt-marked disaster relief materials and public distribution supplies, allegedly illegally stockpiled inside a local Trinamool office in the Panchasayar area. The premises are currently at the centre of a bitter territorial dispute between Trinamool and CPM.According to police sources, the seized items include a cache of oxygen cylinders, domestic stoves, tarpaulins, heavy-duty relief tents, and official civic infrastructure buckets stamped with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) insignia. A…

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: Teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continued to rewrite IPL history on Friday with yet another breathtaking knock, smashing 96 off just 47 balls against Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 2 of IPL 2026 in New Chandigarh.The 15-year-old Rajasthan Royals opener once again missed out on a deserved hundred, falling agonisingly short for the second consecutive knockout game. Just two days earlier, he had blasted 97 off 29 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Eliminator at the same venue.But even without reaching three figures, Sooryavanshi still managed to script multiple records during his latest batting…

First merit list released Mumbai: The first merit list for first-year junior college (FYJC) admissions in the city, released on Friday, reflected a marginal decline of up to 2% in cut-offs across colleges. With the FYJC admission schedule advanced by nearly a month compared to last year, several students may have missed the initial application window, city college principals said. The slight dip in opening cut-offs also comes at a time when the state recorded a seven-year low pass percentage of 90.75% in SSC. In the Mumbai region, of the 2,11,660 registered aspirants, 1,33,323 students were allotted seats in the…

Rain lashed parts of Bengaluru from evening on May 29, bringing traffic to a stop Bengaluru: Ahead of the likely advance of southwest monsoon over Karnataka, intense premonsoon thundershowers swept across central and southwest Bengaluru Friday evening, flooding major roads and junctions, uprooting trees, and throwing traffic out of gear.According to India Meteorological Department (IMD), Bengaluru city saw 46mm of rainfall while HAL airport area received 20.8mm till 8.30 pm. IMD officials said rain is likely to intensify in the coming days as monsoon strengthens over southern peninsula and is expected to advance further.The evening downpour inundated several low-lying stretches…

Hyderabad: Former minister T Harish Rao alleged that the state govt was quietly reducing its paddy procurement target from 90 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) to 75 LMT. He said that if the govt continues on this path, it may soon declare that procurement has been completed while thousands of farmers are still waiting to sell their produce.He questioned how the govt could claim that Telangana had produced a record 1.41 crore metric tonnes of paddy while limiting procurement to just 75 LMT.“The govt claims it will purchase every grain produced by farmers. If that is true, why has it reduced…

Chennai: Condemning Karnataka deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar over his recent remarks on the Mekedatu dam issue, Tamil Nadu energy and law minister R Nirmalkumar cautioned him against “stoking controversies for political mileage” over the interstate water dispute. Terming the remarks unwarranted, the minister warned that such rhetoric would only lead to unnecessary law-and-order problems and severely affect the livelihoods of people in both states.“We strongly condemn Shivakumar for acting against rules and violating the existing legal framework governing interstate water issues. He has been doing this purely for political reasons,” Nirmalkumar said. Emphasising that all steps on the…

Bhubaneswar: CBSE’s move to implement the three-language policy is a significant step towards strengthening Indian languages, protecting linguistic diversity, and promoting national integration, ABVP national general secretary Virendra Singh Solanki said on Friday at the opening of the organisation’s three-day national executive council meeting in Bhubaneswar. Solanki said ABVP supports the policy and urged that it be seen not through linguistic elitism but as a measure for educational empowerment, wider promotion of Indian languages, and national unity. Solanki said ABVP considers the initiative an important instrument for improving education quality and reinforcing national integration, and the council will also work…

By V Ritheka SreeCoimbatore: Coimbatore district agriculture joint director M Tamilselvi has appealed to adi dravida farmers to make use of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) micro-irrigation scheme for 2026-27, pointing out that the category recorded poor participation last year.A target has been fixed to implement micro-irrigation facilities in 1,000 hectares in the district. Of this, 850 hectares have been allocated for general category farmers and 150 hectares for adi dravida farmers.Under the scheme, small and marginal farmers are eligible for 100% subsidy, while other farmers can avail 75% subsidy for installing micro-irrigation systems.Tamilselvi highlighted the importance of…

Jeep safari at Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve Guwahati: Kaziranga National Park has registered its best-ever year for tourism, with footfall rising by over 15% over 2024-25 to touch 4.68 lakh visitors in 2025-26, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Friday.The Unesco World Heritage Site is globally renowned for its “big five” — the one-horned rhinoceros, Royal Bengal tiger, Asian elephant, wild water buffalo, and Eastern Swamp deer — a unique set of iconic species that coexist in the same habitat.Sarma wrote on X that one of the most encouraging trends has been the rise in international visitors. “Foreign…

The department of pre-university education in Karnataka will begin the statewide rollout in govt PU colleges first, and later extend it to aided colleges once the system stabilises Mangaluru: The lecturers will no longer have to call out students’ names during attendance roll calls as face recognition-based attendance is set to become mandatory in state govt pre-university colleges by the end of June.The department of pre-university education (DPUE) will begin the statewide rollout in govt PU colleges first, and later extend it to aided colleges once the system stabilises.Bharath S, director of DPUE, Bengaluru, said that the move is intended…