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The plan follows the allotment of Toyota Innova Hycross hybrid vehicles to mayor Ritu Tawde (right) and additional municipal commissioners. Currently, the BMC chief Ashwini Bhide uses an EV (left). MUMBAI: Six new Toyota Innova Crysta vehicles, a fleet of old Mahindra Scorpio-N SUVs and a BJP leader who says he regularly travels by train have come together in the latest car controversy involving Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).The civic administration has proposed spending around Rs 1.5 crore to replace the Scorpio-N SUVs used by key elected office-bearers with six new Innova Crystas. The vehicles are proposed for the deputy…

Rourkela: A traffic inspector posted at the Regional Transport Office (RTO) in Sundargarh was arrested by Odisha vigilance officers on Monday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a truck owner.The accused, Mukesh Kumar Mishra, traffic inspector, allegedly sought the amount as a ‘monthly quota’ for June and July 2026 to allow the complainant’s two HYVA trucks to operate without hindrance in his jurisdiction. The truck owner approached the vigilance wing after failing to meet the demand.Acting on the complaint, vigilance officials laid a trap and caught Mishra while taking the bribe. The entire tainted amount…

COIMBATORE: In the wake of the deaths of five people after a speeding car hit a stationary tanker truck that was used for watering plants on the median of the Pollachi–Udumalpet stretch of National Highway 83 on Sunday, Coimbatore district superintendent of police A Pavan Kumar has taken steps to hold a meeting with National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officials to avoid such accidents.According to the locals who witnessed the crash, the tanker truck was stationed on the right side of the road near the median and workers were involved in watering the plants on the median. There was…

Himachal Pradesh minister Jagat Singh Negi flags off traders heading for Shipki village in Tibet Autonomous Region of China Amritsar: The first batch of 16 traders from Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district returned on Monday after completing the first round of traditional barter trade with China’s Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) following the reopening of the historic Shipki La route after the Covid-19 suspension.The traders had crossed into Shipki village in TAR on Aug 1 and returned with Chinese goods exchanged for Indian products. No Chinese traders crossed into India during the first trading cycle.Officials are yet to assess the total value…

(Representative image) India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh (Photo ANI). Uttar Pradesh shares borders with one international neighbour—Nepal—and eight Indian states, making 34 districts strategically important.For decades, the border districts of Uttar Pradesh occupied a paradoxical position within the state’s developmental landscape. These regions, serving as gateways to neighbouring states and to Nepal, should have been natural corridors of trade, cultural exchange and strategic connectivity. Instead, many of them remained economically peripheral, marked by inadequate infrastructure, poor road and rail linkages, limited industrial investment and weaker social indicators than the state’s more urbanised centres. Whether along the Indo-Nepal frontier in the…

Artists stage a street play in Sultanganj Bhagalpur: With lakhs of devotees arriving at Sultanganj for the month-long Shrawani Mela, the Bhagalpur district administration and the Information and Public Relations Department (IPRD) are organising street plays and folk performances along the pilgrimage route to spread awareness about public welfare schemes of the govt and key social issues.Through these performances, artists are informing pilgrims about various state govt schemes while also conveying messages on cleanliness, health, women’s empowerment, drug de-addiction, road safety, environmental protection, social harmony and water conservation.The programmes, being staged at resting camps and key points along the trek…

Jamshedpur: The search for 22-year-old Mir Tanveer Hasan, a fourth-year BTech student of the Metallurgical Engineering Department at NIT Jamshedpur, continued for the second consecutive day on Monday, but rescuers failed to trace him.Hasan went missing on Sunday afternoon while bathing at the Asangi check dam on the Kharkai river. He had gone to the river with two classmates, officials said. During the bath, he reportedly drifted into deeper waters and began drowning. His friends tried to rescue him immediately but could not reach him in time.RIT police first launched a search with the help of local divers on Sunday.…

Kerala chief minister V D Satheesan Thiruvananthapuram: Chief minister V D Satheesan on Monday said the overall rain situation in the state is under control, with only certain parts of Pathanamthitta continuing to face difficulties following heavy rainfall and flash floods.Speaking after a review meeting with district collectors and senior govt officials, Satheesan described Friday’s incident in Pathanamthitta as a “flash flood,” saying there had been no warning until late at night.“So far, 15 rain-related deaths have been confirmed, while seven people are missing,” he said. A total of 11,018 people have been evacuated and are being accommodated in 316…

Jalpaiguri: BJP supporters allegedly hurled eggs at their own party functionaries, including a mandal president, during a clash over attempts to bring Trinamool panchayat members to the Chhoto Salbari gram panchayat office in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi on Monday evening.The office had remained largely non-functional after the BJP came to govt in the state. Party seniors, led by mandal president Pabitra Adhikary, escorted Trinamool panchayat members to the office, saying the move was aimed at restoring civic services.Several people were injured before police intervened, rescued the BJP functionaries and escorted them away.The incident comes merely days after BJP state president Samik…

Road safety is not merely about traffic rules, speed limits, or signboards on a roadside. It is about a civic culture that values life, restraint, and responsibility. In a place where roads are often narrow, traffic density keeps rising, and road infrastructure remains uneven, driving sense becomes more than a personal virtue — it becomes a public necessity. Every reckless overtake, every ignored signal, every act of impatience on the road carries the potential to turn an ordinary journey into a tragedy. The tragedy of road accidents is that most of them are preventable. They are not always the result of…