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Chennai: Chennai’s first pedestrian plaza, the 1.4-km stretch in Pondy Bazaar, is losing ground. The plaza was built under the Chennai Smart City Mission in 2019 at a cost of 40 crore. However, now, broken pavements, unchecked encroachments and poor upkeep have turned the once safe, walkable stretch into a compromised public space. Several uneven…

Chennai: A study of curved metro station designs by construction team of Southern Railway is underway to fix safety flaws at Adambakkam MRTS station. Trains have not been halting there since the MRTS extension from Velachery to St Thomas Mount railway station was commissioned on Mar 14. This was owing to concerns over a wide…

DIGHA/KOLKATA: Actor Rahul Arunoday Banerjee (43), a popular face in the Bengali film, OTT and television industry, died on Sunday while shooting for a series called ‘Bhole Baba Paar Karega’ off the Talsari beach in Odisha, around 8km from Digha.Subhashis Mondal, director of the series, said, “The shoot had ended and most of the cast…

Astrologer Ashok Kharat (File photo) NAGPUR: Amid the uproar across Maharashtra over the rape-accused astrologer Ashok Kharat case, a sharp exchange erupted on Sunday between Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar and Maharashtra revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule. Wadettiwar voiced concerns that Kharat’s life could be at risk in custody, while Bawankule countered that anyone with evidence should…

Astrologer Ashok Kharat’s police custody has been extended until April 1. Investigators need to analyze his phone data and probe his properties NASHIK/NAGPUR: A magistrate court on Sunday extended astrologer Ashok Kharat’s remand in police custody till April 1 in a rape case after the investigating officer cited an ongoing probe and the need for…

VARANASI: Swift action by the Bengaluru-Varanasi IndiGo flight crew averted a major tragedy by stopping a 30-year-old passenger, who claimed to be “possessed”, from opening the emergency exit door after takeoff and before landing.The passenger, Mohammad Adnan from Mau, was detained by CISF after the flight landed at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in Varanasi…

Shabbir Ahmed Lone (File photo) NEW DELHI: Delhi Police special cell has arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Shabbir Ahmed Lone from near Bangladesh border, sources said. Lone was running a Lashkar cell from his hideout near Dhaka. The operation, monitored closely by police commissioner Satish Golcha, was the result of a cat-and-mouse chase of two months. A…

Brigadier K Joshi (retd) was shot dead in a road rage incident involving two groups of men in separate cars on Rajpur Road in Dehradun. DEHRADUN: K Joshi (70), a retired brigadier, was allegedly shot dead during a road rage incident between two groups travelling in separate cars on Rajpur Road in Dehradun on Monday…

LUCKNOW: At a time when divorce parties are emerging as a new hot invite, a 25-year-old man from Basti celebrated the personal milestone with a unique thanksgiving for the local deity.Making the most of the auspicious occasion of Navratri, the newly-divorced man undertook a 9-km ‘dandawat yatra’ to a local temple to mark the end…

AI-generated image for representation purpose A Tennessee woman spent months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes in another state. According to a CNN report, the woman, identified as 50-year-old Angela Lipps, said she had never been to North Dakota, the state where the alleged crimes took…