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New Year’s in Bengaluru: Parties must end by 1am; check rules

Representative Image BENGALURU: City police have warned hotels, pubs, other commercial establishments, and event organisers not to allow crowds beyond the holding capacity at their venues and all parties must end by 1 am for New Year’s Eve (NYE) and New Year celebrations.Speaking to TOI, city police commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh said: “If their venue...

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Hands tied, face covered: Why did a gangster’s Pune civic polls nomination bid fail?

Image Credit: TOI PUNE: Arrested gangster Bandu, alias Suryakant Andekar, went to the Bhavani Peth ward office on Saturday to file nomination for the PMC polls but could not complete the process in the absence of requisite papers.His daughter-in-law, Sonali, and sister-in-law Laxmi, also went to the same ward office. They, too, could not submit...

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Hounded after wife’s suicide, Bengaluru man drives 1000 km to kill self

BENGALURU: Shocked by his wife’s suicide two days ago, hounded by public sentiment and charged with dowry harassment and abetment to suicide, a 30-year-old Bengaluru resident died by suicide in a Nagpur hotel early Saturday after undertaking a 1,000km circuitous road journey along with his family members.Suraj Shivanna, a franchise owner of an online delivery...

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‘Nothing will happen to me’: BJP corporator’s husband accused of assault; detained after viral video

Image Credit: X BHOPAL: The husband of a BJP corporator was booked for threatening a woman after a video went viral on social media in Satna district on Saturday late night.In her statement given to the police on Saturday late night, she said that the corporator’s husband threatened and misbehaved with her.“In her statement, she...

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Maharashtra: SIT probe finds China link to kidney racket

Representative image CHANDRAPUR: The SIT probing illegal sale of a farmer’s kidney in Chandrapur, Maharashtra, has uncovered a direct operational link to China. Fresh disclosures indicate that a Chinese surgeon, Dr Chiang, conducted transplant procedures in Cambodia and supplied harvested organs to clients in his home country.The revelations, based on statements of two key accus-ed...

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Yamuna sand mining: Mid-river digs to illegal ramps, NGT panel finds major violations

GHAZIABAD: A National Green Tribunal-ordered inspection of the Yamuna floodplains lying between Delhi and Ghaziabad has found largescale violations by miners, corroborating a TOI report on Nov 30 last year about an embankment being built across the river to illegally dredge sand.The joint committee report, submitted to NGT after surprise inspections on both Delhi and...

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Noida: Cloth found in woman’s abdomen 15 months after C-section; FIR against 6 doctors

NOIDA: A criminal case was registered against three doctors for medical negligence after a foreign object was found inside a woman’s abdomen more than a year after she underwent a delivery procedure at a private hospital in Greater Noida.The complaint, filed by the woman’s husband earlier this week, also names the chief medical officer and...

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Old & bold: When 70+ go skydiving & bungee jumping

The Kotharis have travelled to 14 countries in four years From Vadodara and Ahmedabad, a small band of 70-plus Indians is rewriting the script of retirement – skydiving, scuba diving, bungee jumping, even trekking across Antarctica’s frozen expanse.Gautam Kothari, 74, has lost vision in one eye. His wife Beena, 72, cannot walk long distances. Together,...

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