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Residents gather outside their flood-affected homes amid mud and debris following floods, in Sivasagar district Guwahati: Nearly 43,000 flood-hit families in Sivasagar have received the state govt’s Rs 15,000 interim assistance.Assam minister Pijush Hazarika on Thursday reviewed post-flood rehabilitation in the upper Assam district and directed officials to expedite payments to all eligible families. Several thousand families are still awaiting assistance.Sivasagar had Assam’s largest flood-affected population as of Wednesday night, with 57,243 people affected. At the peak of the floods in July, the figure approached four lakh.Acting on chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s directions, Hazarika chaired a review meeting at…

KSRTC to operate dedicated buses every Saturday and Sunday between Shivamogga and Jog Falls Shivamogga: To cater to the influx of tourists and commuters visiting Jog Falls during the monsoon season, the Shivamogga division of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has launched a special weekend package bus service.The dedicated buses will operate every Saturday and Sunday. The journey begins from the Shivamogga main bus terminal at 8am and covers Siganduru, Varadamoola, Ikkeri and Keladi before reaching Jog Falls at 2pm. The bus will leave Jog Falls at 5pm and return to the Shivamogga bus stand by 7.30pm, officials said.Speaking…

The Bombay high court upheld Tarun Tejpal’s conviction in a 2013 sexual assault case PANAJI: The Bombay high court has granted former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal four weeks to surrender, after considering his request for additional time following his conviction in the 2013 sexual assault case.The court had earlier granted him two weeks to surrender after overturning the trial court’s acquittal and sentencing him to 10 years in prison.The surrender period has now been extended to four weeks.The case dates back to 2013, when a former junior colleague accused Tejpal of sexually assaulting her inside a lift at a luxury…

Around 10 densely populated residential pockets — most of them villages and colonies that have long remained outside the formal waste collection system — are set to be brought under segregated waste collection in Chandigarh Chandigarh: Nine years after rolling out door-to-door waste segregation, Chandigarh is finally plugging one of the biggest gaps in its garbage collection network. Around 10 densely populated residential pockets — most of them villages and colonies that have long remained outside the formal waste collection system — are set to be brought under segregated waste collection, a move civic officials hope will strengthen the city’s…

The Lucknow-Kanpur expressway, completed in June 2025, began failing seventeen days after its July 2026 inauguration LUCKNOW: For eleven months, the Lucknow-Kanpur expressway sat finished and empty. The six-lane, access-controlled corridor was ready for traffic by June 2025, its 63 km of bitumen laid, its 21 Variable Message Signs and 63 PTZ cameras installed, its Rs 4,200-crore price tag fully spent.And then it waited — for a ribbon-cutting, for a ministerial calendar to align, for the optics of an inauguration to be worked out.Defence minister Rajnath Singh, Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath finally…

A medicine carton tied around a road accident victim’s fractured leg at Manjhaul sub-divisional hospital in Begusarai Patna: A viral video showing a road accident victim’s fractured leg tied with pieces of a medicine carton instead of a plaster has triggered outrage and raised fresh questions about emergency care at Manjhaul sub-divisional hospital in Begusarai district. While hospital authorities defended the procedure as a medically accepted temporary measure, the incident has prompted an official inquiry.The patient, Kunal Kumar of Maheshwara village under Nawkothi police station, was injured in a motorcycle accident near Harsain Bridge on the evening of Aug 3.…

Nagpur: The city witnessed two politically charged protests on Wednesday as the NCP (Ajit Pawar) and Youth Congress separately took to the streets.At Variety Square, the city unit of NCP (Ajit) staged a demonstration against MPCC president Harshwardhan Sapkal over his alleged objectionable remarks against deputy CM and party’s national president Sunetra Pawar. Led by city president Anil Ahirkar, the protest featured a symbolic display of Mahatma Gandhi’s iconic three monkeys carrying the message “Bura Mat Bolo” (Do Not Speak Evil), with Sapkal’s photograph affixed to the installation.Protesters raised slogans condemning Sapkal and asserting that they would not tolerate insults…

Sadar police station in Chatra Hazaribag: A doctor and a home guard jawan have been booked for allegedly extorting money from newly selected home guard recruits during their medical examination in Chatra district, officials said on Thursday.The FIR was lodged at Chatra Sadar police station on Wednesday on the directions of deputy commissioner-cum-chairman of Home Guard Recruitment Committee, Ravi Anand. The complaint was filed by Kanhachatti circle officer-cum-in charge BDO of Chatra Sadar block, Manoj Kumar Gope.Those named in the FIR are Dr Avshesh Tripathi, a member of the medical examination team, and home guard jawan Ayush Kumar Singh. They…

citizens’ group urges the government to strengthen existing public transport options (File photo) THANE: A citizens’ and experts’ collective, Wake Up Thanekar, has urged the state government to consider strengthening the existing public transport focusing on electric buses, dedicated bus lanes and smart traffic management as a comparatively cheaper and more effective alternative to the proposed Rs 12,200-crore Thane Ring Metro and provide faster relief from the city’s worsening traffic congestion.In a representation to deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde and Thane Municipal commissioner Saurabh Rao, the group proposed a 10-point mobility plan.The group claimed its alternative could be implemented for…

Have you noticed how a simple conversation about coffee can turn into a highly political, complex and polarising debate? Something that will test your understanding of geopolitics, environmental stress, economics, even gut health and cholesterol.There was a time when a cup of coffee usually came with three possibilities: black, cappuccino or filter kaapi. But clearly, that is no longer enough. And if your host or a social acquaintance asks you, “How do you like your coffee?”, you’d rather not make the mistake of saying “normal”. Because, as far as the trendy beans are concerned, there is no such thing as…