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Kolkata’s ‘rainbow’ flyovers big safety risk? Congress leader writes to minister

Ashutosh Chatterjee, general [redacted]ary of Congress’s West Bengal unit, earlier wrote to Paul, the state minister for Urban Development and Municipal Affairs, and Smita Pandey, commissioner and ...Read story

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13 children rescued from Bengaluru begging racket, suspects claim family ties

The Bengaluru police Monday arrested four people from Bihar and Maharashtra for allegedly forcing 13 children to beg at traffic signals across Bengaluru. Authorities have rescued the children and ...Read story

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FASTag at Delhi Airport: Can payment system be used to restrict entry?

NHAI officials said they had received complaints that only vehicles with active FASTag were being allowed into Terminal 3’s arrivals lane, while others were being diverted to the multi-level car ...Read story

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Mumbai housing society wins 24-year battle, MHADA ordered to refund Rs 1.22 crore

The commission was hearing a housing society’s complaint against MHADA and the Mumbai Housing and Area Development Board over disputed construction costs, additional charges linked to a 2002 land ...Read story

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Bengaluru pub face-off: Andhra Pradesh government weighs action against IAS officer

IAS officer Vikas Marmat has been booked for an alleged altercation at a pub in Bengaluru. The issue has led the rival YSRCP to accuse the Naidu government of "shielding" him ...Read story

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Shut for 2 years, Mumbai’s Sion bridge reopens this weekend

The decision to rebuild the bridge followed a structural audit in 2019, which flagged its precarious condition ...Read story

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Delhi High Court issues notice to FSSAI in PIL against non-dairy paneer analogues

The PIL, filed by a law student and a practising advocate, sought stricter food safety enforcement and clear labelling when dairy analogues or non-dairy substitutes are sold as paneer in restaurants ...Read story

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Mumbai’s groundwater under threat amid drought: Seawater could contaminate water sources

The groundwater study identified Fort, Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mulund East and Mahim among the areas where saline groundwater was encountered.Read story

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From plague-hit Bombay to pay-per-use toilets: Tracing the history of Mumbai’s urinals

Now that the Mumbai civic body has proposed a few for urinals and a hike in toilet charges, the city faces a familiar question: who should pay for a basic public service? But first, let's see how urin ...Read story

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Bengaluru teen hacked to death with machete over property dispute; uncle held

Mohan was arrested after he walked into a police station and allegedly confessed to murdering his nephew, Krishna, a 15-year-old Class 10 student.Read story

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Divorce case nearly 300 km away, Madras High Court comes to Chennai woman’s aid

The high court was hearing a woman's plea to transfer her husband's divorce case from the Sub Court at Thuraiyur to the Sub Court at Tambaram, citing the difficulty of travelling with her three-year-old daughter.Read story

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Flawed clauses, financial risks: Karnataka cancels 8 Bengaluru flyover tenders

A government-appointed sub-committee flagged 13 common issues in the tender documents, including unclear maintenance payments, weak delay penalties, and the removal of arbitration clauses.Read story

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Aadhaar now mandatory to avail Delhi government’s power subsidy

The Delhi government has made Aadhaar-based identification mandatory for consumers claiming electricity subsidies as beneficiary numbers hit 55 lakh and allocation reached Rs 4,037 crore.Read story

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Delhi Protest Live Updates: ‘Tihar is a possibility’, says CJP legal head as Ashutosh Ranka, Saurav Das arrested

The three are expected to appear before a magistrate on Wednesday morning, with judicial custody in Tihar Jail possible, Singh said ...Read story

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Traffic from Pune and Mumbai to Bengaluru diverted as protest blocks NH-48 in Karnataka

Traffic on the Mumbai-Bengaluru NH-48 remains disrupted due to a sugarcane price protest at Karnataka's Kognoli toll plaza, forcing Maharashtra police to divert vehicles through alternative routes in ...Read story

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Traffic from Pune and Mumbai to Bengaluru diverted as protest blocks NH-48 in Karnataka

Traffic on the Mumbai-Bengaluru NH-48 remains disrupted due to a sugarcane price protest at Karnataka's Kognoli toll plaza, forcing Maharashtra police to divert vehicles through alternative routes in ...Read story

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2.5-metre slip nearly cost Mumbai airport metro Rs 250 crore. A fix is near

A consultant missed the extra height needed for overhead wires on the airport-bound line. The airport operator now says it won’t hit flight paths, but AAI’s written nod is still pending.Read story

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For Delhi voters facing SIR notices, relief comes knocking on the door

Mohammad Suhail rides his scooter through the narrow lanes of Sarai Kale Khan village in South East Delhi, stops outside house number T 112 and calls out, “Nasir bhai”. He knows these lanes well. He ...Read story

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India hosts first BIMSTEC Home Ministers’ meeting, Delhi Declaration adopted

The meeting, preceded by a senior officials’ gathering led by the Union Home Secretary, was attended by delegations from all seven BIMSTEC member states – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, ...Read story

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Man killed in Delhi bar brawl after beer-spill on manager’s wife

A group of friends had gathered for a drink at a nightclub in North Delhi’s Inderlok when one of them accidentally spilled beer on the wife of the club’s manager. An argument followed, and within ...Read story

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