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Dewatering pumps clear floodwaters from a waterlogged street in Rukminigaon Guwahati: Rain-triggered waterlogging inundated homes and roads across Guwahati on Sunday, forcing evacuations and disrupting traffic and businesses.The city received 25.9 mm of rain. Beltola, Rukminigaon, Hatigaon and Anil Nagar were among the worst-hit areas, with roads submerged even after the rain stopped. Residents blamed inadequate drainage and clogged drains.“It is frustrating that every spell of rain brings the same problem. People must stop disposing of plastic, polythene and garbage in the open, as the city’s drainage system is highly vulnerable to blockages. The district administration must look into the…

CM Samrat Choudhary plants a sapling at his official residence in Patna on Sunday Patna: CM Samrat Choudhary released an 11-point pledge for environmental protection on Bihar Prithvi Diwas-2026 on Sunday, urging residents to turn conservation into a mass movement and incorporate the commitments into their daily lives.Marking the day, Choudhary also planted saplings at his official residence, Lok Sevak Awas. He planted Kalpataru and Rudraksh saplings and appealed to people across the state to participate actively in protecting nature.The pledge calls on every person to plant at least one sapling each year and protect and nurture it until it…

Students protest at the Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium in Ranchi on Sunday Ranchi: Jharkhand’s capital is bracing for a major showdown on Monday after protesting job aspirants decided to go ahead with their planned assembly gherao, rejecting govt appeals to call off the agitation despite a third round of talks on Sunday.The deadlock persisted over two key demands — a CBI probe into alleged recruitment irregularities and cancellation of JSSC-CGL 2024 examination.In a dramatic development, all three remaining JPSC members resigned on Sunday night ahead of their scheduled CID questioning on Monday over alleged irregularities in the 14th JPSC Civil…

The education department, which described the question as misleading, ordered both the suspension of the teacher and a departmental inquiry Thiruvananthapuram: A teacher has been suspended for preparing a controversial question that allegedly glorified Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar at a Freedom Quiz conducted for lower primary school students in Kasaragod.Gurupasad, a teacher at Pallathadukka Aided Upper Primary School, was suspended following an order from the director of general education. The education department, which described the question as misleading, ordered both the suspension of the teacher and a departmental inquiry.The controversy erupted over a question included in the Freedom Quiz…

Anxious Kukurjan locals await return of Indian tea grower Kolkata: Bangladeshi nationals abducted an Indian small tea grower from near the border in Jalpaiguri on Saturday, apparently in retaliation for the BSF’s arrest of a Bangladeshi intruder two days earlier.At least 15 Bangladeshi nationals crossed into Indian territory in the Tasarpara area under Kukurjan gram panchayat in Rajganj block and dragged Dipankar Gope into Bangladesh while he was tending his tea garden, located within 150 yards of the border fence and under the jurisdiction of the BSF’s Chaulhati outpost.Videos surfaced on social media showing Bangladeshi residents stating that Gope would…

New York City The City of New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Wetlands Strategy In the 1990s, New York chose wetlands over conventional storm sewers on Staten Island; the Bluebelt strategy saved taxpayers $80 million in infrastructure costs. Instead of laying miles of underground concrete pipes, the city preserved and restored natural streams, ponds, and freshwater marshes to direct rainwater safely into surrounding bays.The financial and environmental success of the Staten Island Bluebelt model provided the blueprint for water management across New York City. The city’s overarching framework, outlined in the New York City Wetlands Strategy and the PlaNYC 2011…

Shakeel Noorani is in police custody till Aug 12 Mumbai: Producer-director Shakeel Noorani (73) was arrested on Saturday from a Mahabaleshwar farmhouse after being on the run for 40 days for allegedly raping an aspiring actress repeatedly over the last four years, threatening to release videos of the assault and inducing a miscarriage.Malwani police produced him before a court, which remanded in police custody till Aug 12.Sections 64(2)(M) (rape), 123 (causing hurt by means of poison), 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 88 (causing miscarriage) of BNS have been invoked against him.In her complaint, the woman said, Noorani, who is also a…

Deceased Amandeep Singh Jagade Chikkaballapur: A 31-year-old runner died after collapsing during Monsoon Marathon at Nandi Hills Sunday morning. He is suspected to have suffered a cardiac arrest.Amandeep Singh Jagade, a Punjab native, was living in Bengaluru and working for a private company at Manyata Tech Park.The marathon, organised at Nandi Hills, featured 10km and 21km categories and drew more than 4,500 participants. Amandeep was taking part in the 21km run when he collapsed while descending the hill around 9.10am, after completing about half the route.He was immediately taken to Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Hospital…

River Baitarani in full spate in Jajpur district Bhubaneswar: Heavy rain triggered by a low-pressure system over the past two days has created a flood-like situation in several pockets of north Odisha, which was limping back to normal after a major flood a few days ago, as rivers Baitarani and Salandi, along with some branch rivers, continue to swell and inundate low-lying areas. While two people from Jajpur and Kendrapada districts were swept away in floodwaters over the last two days, crops were damaged and road communication was cut off in Bhadrak and Jajpur districts.Sunakar Malla was swept away in…

The arrested individual has been identified as Yumsen Kangkan Dibrugarh: Security forces have intensified vigil in the sensitive Arunachal-bordering Tinsukia district ahead of Independence Day, with the 20 Assam Rifles on Sunday apprehending a self-styled “captain” of the NSCN (K-YA) from Jagun.The arrested individual has been identified as Yumsen Kangkan, a resident of Fangchon village under Namtok police station in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. Acting on specific intelligence inputs, troops of the 20 Assam Rifles launched an operation in the Jagun area and apprehended Kangkan, who holds the self-styled rank of captain in the outfit.A pistol, a mobile phone,…