Fix our roads or lose 1k votes

Residents said the road connects Gunjur with Mahadevapura, Marathahalli and other parts of the city, with several schools located nearby. They added that the poor condition of the stretch poses a particular risk to women and children Bengaluru: A year after a group of techies took to the streets to fill potholes on a bad…

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Sunrise at twilight

By 2036, the specialised senior-care market could reach $35 bn a year Meet Anuradha Jagannathan, 79, who has made Athulya Senior Care’s facility in Maduravoyal, Chennai, her home since 2023, after her husband’s death. Her three sons live in the US, but she never wanted to move in with them. What she values most is…

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Telangana ranks 7th in Q1 capex spending

Hyderabad: Telangana ranked seventh among 20 major states in capital expenditure (capex) spending during the first quarter of FY27, utilising 13.9% of its annual allocation, according to an SBI Research report. The performance was above the 20-state average of 10.5%, even though capital expenditure accounts for ₹47,267 crore, or 14.6% of Telangana’s ₹3.24 lakh crore…

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Filmmaker Raja Sen passes away at 70

Kolkata: Raja Sen, the cinematic custodian who treated the lens not merely as a tool of capture but as a bridge to the soul of Bengal, succumbed to a cardiac arrest at a city hospital on Sunday. Across a remarkable career spanning feature films, telefilms, and documentaries, Sen emerged as a visionary bestowed with three…

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Young Batim woman helps save Goa’s fading salt pans

Panaji: Ageing cultivators, an acute shortage of labour, falling returns and neglected salt pans have pushed ‘agarkars’, one of Goa’s oldest traditional farmers, to the brink. Determined to preserve Batim’s centuries-old salt-making tradition, Mazel Fernandes, 32, has spearheaded efforts to support struggling salt cultivators by documenting their challenges, meeting farmers door-to-door and securing govt assistance…

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FDCA cracks down on food adulteration, seizes ghee and oils worth Rs 35 lakh

Officials from the state Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) inspect and seize suspected adulterated ghee and edible oils during a crackdown on food adulteration. Gandhinagar: Intensifying its drive against food adulteration, the state food and drug control administration (FDCA) seized suspected adulterated ghee and edible oils worth over Rs 35 lakh during raids in…

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Haryana man dies in Mandi road accident

Kullu: A 26-year-old Haryana youth was killed and four others seriously injured after their car crashed into two parked trucks and a passing tempo on the Kiratpur-Manali four-lane highway near Alsu Chowk in Mandi’s Sundernagar on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Akash, a resident of Jhajjar district…

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