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A grocery shop along Longly Road at Shevapet in Salem. | Photo Credit: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN Traders in Salem city have urged the Corporation to reduce the property tax fixed for commercial buildings and warned of strike if their demand is not met. The Salem Corporation’s annual tax revenue for the current fiscal is expected…
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The Nunna police of NTR Commissionerate arrested five persons on Sunday in connection to the alleged gang rape of a woman. Following the directions of Police Commissioner S. V. Rajasekhar Babu, the police arrested the five accused for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in Vambay Colony. The accused committed the crime under the influence of…
Armed Police Force (APF) officers work on transporting bodies to the pit at the Devghat mass burial site for victims of deadly flash floods and mudslides in Chitwan, Nepal. | Photo Credit: Reuters Four days after the flood in Nepal, the death toll in the disaster reached 788, and 2,502 people remained missing even as…
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Mother of three-year-old Palestinian child Tayyem Hamdan, who was killed in an Israeli strike according to medics at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, reacts during his funeral in the central Gaza Strip, on August 30, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza…
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Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez said on Saturday (August 29, 2026) that an energy agreement with the U.S. would remain in force for 25 years, target an increase in crude output to 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) and preserve the country’s sovereignty over its…
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Russia’s Defence Ministry on Sunday (August 30, 2026) said it was gearing up for large-scale attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a tit-for-tat response to strikes by Kyiv. “Russian forces have begun preparations for massive strikes against facilities in Ukraine’s energy sector in response to the ongoing attacks by the Kyiv regime on civilian infrastructure…
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Bombay High Court. File | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre The Bombay High Court on Saturday (August 29, 2026) cancelled the typing test for the recruitment of 1,362 clerk posts after candidates complained of technical glitches at examination centres across Maharashtra and ordered a fresh test. The decision followed protests by candidates who said server failures,…
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, accompanied by their ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence, pose after signing a joint defence agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, August 7, 2026. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Turkey will host Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for the first ministerial…
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Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Hyderabad As the Congress government completes 1,000 days in office, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy can point to several areas where his administration has sought to establish a distinct identity, from attracting investments and retaining Hyderabad’s position as an IT power house to putting…
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Slow-moving stormwater drain work at Bricklin Road, on August 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: PRINCE FREDERICK A couple of days ago, Lakshmanswamy, a resident of a gated community on Bricklin Road, received sage counsel from a cab driver, and he has committed that advice to heart. Lakshmanswamy had booked the cab from Ambattur, and at…