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These areas of Chennai to face power cut on Wednesday | Chennai News

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CHENNAI: Power supply will be suspended in and around Kovilambakkkam, Ramapuram, Mugalivakkam, Adyar, Pallavaram, Kilkattalai, Perumbakkam, Alandur, Mangadu and Avadi from 9am to 2pm on Wednesday for maintenance work.Kovilambakkam: Om Sakthi Nagar, Subhiksha Avenue, Susila Nagar, Periyar Salai, Vadakkupattu Main Road, Thiruvengadam Nagar, Tiruvallur Street, Navins, Vishranthi, Selvaganapathy Nagar, and Sathya Nagar.Ramapuram: Royala Nagar, Gandhi…

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New surcharge on property transactions likely as govt eyes revenue boost for civic bodies | Ranchi News

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Ranchi: Buying properties in urban local bodies across Jharkhand is set to get pricier. In a bid to boost revenue, the state govt has proposed a new levy on property transactions.The draft Jharkhand Municipal Land/Building Transfer Surcharge Rules 2026, which has been put in the public domain by the state urban development and housing department,…

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Ram Temple donation row: Trust deploys new cash-counting team, introduces two-shift system under SBI supervision | India News

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NEW DELHI: The Ram Temple trust in Ayodhya has deployed a new team to count cash offerings from donation boxes and introduced a two-shift system under the supervision of the State Bank of India (SBI), even as an investigation continues into allegations of donation theft.The responsibility for counting the money collected from donation boxes installed…

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West Bengal govt to mandate Bengali in official communications from September 1 | Kolkata News

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Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced the directive following a letter from Union home minister Amit Shah KOLKATA: The West Bengal government will make Bengali mandatory for all official communications from September 1, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced in the Assembly on Monday,The CM was reportedly reading out a letter from Union home minister Amit Shah…

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1 dead, several injured after BEST bus crashes into divider near Mumbai | Mumbai News

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The accident involving BEST bus Route No. 501 was reported at 9.14am, with an update issued at 9.55am. MUMBAI:A 65-year-old man died and several others were injured after a BEST bus crashed into a roadside divider on the Sion-Panvel Highway near Vishwakarma Hospital in Mankhurd on Monday.According to preliminary information, the accident involving BEST bus…

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Delhi’s history of defiance: How Anna Hazare, Nirbhaya, anti-CAA movement and farmers’ stir set stage for CJP protest | Delhi News

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Police personnel detain a protestor during CJP protest, in New Delhi on Monday. NEW DELHI: As Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters attempted to march towards Parliament on Monday, triggering clashes with police and detentions, the scenes brought back memories of some of Delhi’s most defining public protests over the past 15 years, when thousands took…

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