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2,800 new vehicles hit Bengaluru roads every day as GST cuts and festive demand drive sales
The transport department is a key revenue generator for Karnataka. It aims to collect Rs 15,000 crore in the 2025-26 financial year.
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Swiss monitor flags Delhi AQI of 700+ as unresolved pollution complaints spark protests
This alarming deterioration marks a dramatic escalation of the capital's annual winter pollution crisis, which has worsened since Diwali due to a toxic combination of post-festival pollution, farm fires in neighbouring states and low wind activity trapping pollutants over the city.
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Punjab stubble burning: Season total down 83% from 2023, but cases set to rise now
The day’s numbers contributed to a season total of 2,933 incidents up to November 5, a figure that stands in stark contrast to the 4,755 cases reported by the same date last year and 17,403 in 2023, as per the data. This represents a reduction of nearly 40% compared to 2024 and a dramatic 83% decrease from the 2023 tally.
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Pollution peak soon! Punjab’s farm-fire smoke set to smother Delhi from today
Environmental experts warn that with the onset of north-westerly winds over the next few days, smoke from Punjab and Haryana’s stubble fires could worsen the situation further. The delayed harvesting season in Punjab and Haryana this year has postponed the peak burning period.
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Caught on cam: Reality show dancer run over near Bengaluru after speeding truck hits car he bought just a day ago
Dancer Sudheendra Death: Police identified the truck driver as Vedakumar and suspect that he might have been drowsy at the time of the collision.
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Chhattisgarh train accident kills 11: Did loco pilot cross ‘danger’ signal? Railways orders detailed inquiry
Officials said the Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur train collision happened between Gatora and Bilaspur stations, when the passenger train slammed into the rear of a stationary goods train.
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Delhi’s airpocalypse: How capital’s anti-pollution strategy is failing on every front
Reports indicate that high-profile measures such as cloud seeding, smog towers, the odd-even vehicle scheme and water sprinkling are beleaguered by systemic failures in implementation and scale.
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Bengaluru surgeon proposed to other women after killing dermatologist wife - 'I killed her for you'
Dr Mahendra Reddy GS, the primary accused, is alleged to have administered an anaesthetic to his 29-year-old wife, Dr Kruthila Reddy, also a dermatologist, on April 24, leading to her death.
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51 mm per year: Delhi sinking fast - Study says 1.7 million exposed to land subsidence
The study, titled “Building Damage Risk in Sinking Indian Megacities,” utilised satellite radar observations between 2015 and 2023 to analyse urban areas across the country. It found Delhi exhibited a maximum subsidence rate of 51.0 millimetres per year — the highest recorded.
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India's killer bus rides: Five horror crashes leave 75 dead in just one month - Who is accountable?
Each tragedy has once again exposed how unsafe India’s passenger transport system remains, with overloaded vehicles, reckless driving, and poor enforcement turning highways into death traps.
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Vizag earthquake scare: Residents report tremors, but where is the official data?
As of Tuesday morning, the National Center for Seismology (NCS), India’s official nodal agency for earthquake monitoring, had not issued any statement regarding the reported event.
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Telangana RTC bus crash: Overloaded tipper, packed bus, no divider, rash driving - a deadly mix that killed 19
Initial findings indicate that the tipper lorry was carrying nearly 40 to 50 tonnes of gravel, more than double its permitted limit of 20 tonnes, while the bus was packed with over 70 passengers, far exceeding its 51-seat capacity.
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Killer AQI: Why cloud seeding fails when Delhi needs it most - 'It may actually worsen pollution'
Light drizzles, particularly under cooler temperatures, can actually worsen pollution by encouraging fine particles to clump together, forming new aerosols that raise PM levels again.
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Delhi 'health emergency': Top doctor sounds alarm - 'Toxic air deadlier than Covid, causing heart attacks, strokes & cancer'
Dr Randeep Guleria noted that various global organisations now consider air pollution a major risk factor for heart attacks, heart failure, stroke and cancer. Long-term exposure has also been linked to neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.
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Goa holiday horror: UP family assaulted by North Goa restaurant manager, bouncers over leftover drinks
An FIR has been registered against Ajay Kavtikar, manager of Romeo Lane Restaurant, Junaid Ali and bouncers in connection with assault and outrage of modesty.
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Delhi braces for ‘severe’ AQI this week: What’s driving the worsening air quality?
Delhi AQI: Experts have warned that pollution levels are expected to worsen further, with Delhi likely to slip into the ‘severe’ category for the first time this season on Tuesday.
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‘Leave Delhi until ...’: Leading lung expert’s stark warning as toxic air poses immediate danger
The impact is not limited to those with pre-existing conditions. Dr Khilnani described a new wave of patients who presented with chest tightness, cough and airway inflammation without fever.
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Watch: Karnataka BJP leader’s son slaps toll booth staff over free pass - ‘Do you know who I am?’
In a video that went viral on social media, the BJP leader Vijugouda Patil's son Samarthgouda and his friends were seen assaulting and abusing the toll booth staffer.
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Darjeeling's Mahakal Temple enforces new dress code, bans mini skirts - 'At times it gets awkward'
To make the rule easier for visitors, the committee has arranged rental ghagras and long skirts at the temple’s donation counter.
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‘I love Muhammad’: How spelling error on Aligarh temple walls led police to real culprits- 'They wanted to frame Muslim men'
According to SSP Neeraj Jadon, the men carried out the graffiti as part of a plan to frame their Muslim neighbours due to an ongoing property dispute.
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5 days of planning, 3 hours of terror: Inside story of Rohit Arya's Mumbai studio hostage drama
The carefully constructed plan swung into action when Arya initiated the hostage situation. He then moved to control the narrative externally, distributing a video statement to media outlets. In the clip, he explicitly stated that his actions were deliberate.
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Mumbai hostage scare: ‘I’ll set the place on fire’ - What Rohit Arya said in his final video?
The slightest wrong move from your end will trigger me to set this whole place on fire and die in it, he said.
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Gujarat's horrific hit-and-run video: Teacher drags bikers for 1.5 km, killing one | Watch
Gujarat hit-and-run: The car, driven by a teacher, struck the motorcycle. Instead of stopping, the teacher continued to drive, with the motorcycle and its riders becoming trapped on the front of the vehicle.
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‘Count 20 bullets as one’: Doctor claims UP cops forced post-mortem cover-up to fake encounter
This forensic observation appears to directly contradict standard police accounts of encounters, which often claim that criminals opened fire first and were killed in subsequent "retaliatory action".
