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More wards, same workforce: GBA, corporations struggle to deliver on the ground

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More wards, same workforce: GBA, corporations struggle to deliver on the ground

ONE YEAR OF GBA Even as the five new corporations under the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) are close to completing a year since they were formed, old problems on the ground continue to haunt citizens, while they now seek a way out of new problems. The State government replaced the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Act,…

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Telangana SIR | BLOs do the heavy lifting; group hearings to be conducted locality wise

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Telangana SIR | BLOs do the heavy lifting; group hearings to be conducted locality wise

Each BLO has to hand over 1,000 notices, which makes the door-to-door visits difficult. Hence, they are calling the electors to come and collect the notices. | Photo Credit: Representational picture Two booth-level officers, a man and a woman, sit at a community hall tucked away to a corner at a locality in Hayathnagar. The…

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Theft from Madras Regiment armoury triggers high alert, online classes advised for cantonment schools

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Theft from Madras Regiment armoury triggers high alert, online classes advised for cantonment schools

The missing ammunition includes rounds meant for the AK-203 rifles and 9 mm pistols. The image is used for representative purposes only. | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES A theft of service weapons and ammunition from an Army establishment in Secunderabad has put the cantonment area on high alert, with schools advised to conduct classes online…

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Madras, a city that has always expanded its language to welcome words into its fold

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Madras, a city that has always expanded its language to welcome words into its fold

If you go down the rabbit hole of how words travel from one language to another, you just have to listen to this dialect of Tamil that is Madras bashai. It is built around loanwords as Chennai is formed not just of Tamil speakers; Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, English, and Dutch have all found their…

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What two districts can teach India about dealing with rural waste

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What two districts can teach India about dealing with rural waste

On April 30, 2025, Bibhash Bormedhi looked on as a tonne of waste left Majuli on a boat across the Brahmaputra river. This was a first for the world’s largest river island. “This was the first time the waste from Majuli crossed the Brahmaputra, instead of being dumped into the river,” Mr. Bormedhi, Project Manager…

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Kozhikode Aboobacker, composer and noted Mappilapattu veteran, passes away

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Kozhikode Aboobacker, composer and noted Mappilapattu veteran, passes away

Noted music composer, singer, and master tablist Kozhikode Aboobacker, affectionately known as ‘Avukkakka’, passed away on Tuesday (September 1, 2026). He was 80. ​Aboobacker, widely admired across South India for his prolific contributions to Mappilapattu, a traditional Muslim folk song style native to the Malabar region of Keralam, had been undergoing medical treatment following a…

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74-year-old man from Keralam’s Wayanad conquers Mt. Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe

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74-year-old man from Keralam’s Wayanad conquers Mt. Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe

T.J. Marce during his Mount Elbrus expedition in August 2026. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT For T.J. Marce, ageing has been less about slowing down and more about reaching new heights. The septuagenarian from Wayanad in Keralam has scaled two of the peaks in the Seven Summits in less than a year, adding a new…

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Software update for LPG agencies signals intent as e-KYC deadline extended to Sept 7

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Software update for LPG agencies signals intent as e-KYC deadline extended to Sept 7

Residents queue up at an LPG gas agency in Shaikpet with empty cylinders for e-KYC verification after receiving messages that their scheduled deliveries had been cancelled. File | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal A software update for cooking gas agencies on non-eKYC stocks and a communication late evening pushing back the August 31 deadline till September…

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Maharashtra draft electoral roll for all 288 Assembly constituencies out; check your name on the voter list

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Maharashtra draft electoral roll for all 288 Assembly constituencies out; check your name on the voter list

Image for representation only | Photo Credit: J. Allen Egenuse At least 2.08 crore voters, or 21.14% of Maharashtra’s pre-Special Intensive Revision electorate, have not been included in the draft electoral roll published on Monday (August 31) following the SIR exercise across all 288 Assembly constituencies in the State. Of the 9.78 crore voters on…

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‘Wholewheat’ label on McVitie’s Marie biscuits misleading, rules CCPA

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‘Wholewheat’ label on McVitie’s Marie biscuits misleading, rules CCPA

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a penalty of ₹1 lakh on Pladis India Pvt. Ltd., the maker of McVitie’s biscuits, for what it termed a misleading claim on its Whole Wheat Marie biscuits. The consumer protection body said the McVities Whole Wheat Marie Biscuits contained only 19.5% whole wheat flour (atta), while…

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