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Peechi Dam in Thrissur to open four spillway shutters on August 31

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 16:08
District Collector has warned residents along the Manali and Karuvannur rivers to remain vigilant as the water level in the rivers could rise by up to 30 cm from the present level following the release of water from the dam
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Penguin drops Sonia Gandhi memoir; Congress alleges publisher caved to the Centre

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 16:00
Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging has been dropped by Penguin India just two months before its scheduled release. While the publisher says it remained willing to publish the book, Congress has alleged that it caved to pressure from the BJP over sections on Narendra Modi, the RSS and India-China relations.
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G. Vijaya Raghavan, P.P. Balan among four members appointed to Kerala State Planning Board

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 15:58
The other two members are environmentalist Sridhar Radhakrishnan and New Delhi-based Varun Santhosh
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Will send team to Nepal if MEA gives permission: West Bengal CM

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 15:57
The State Government manages to contact two of the 39 people from West Bengal missing in Nepal flash floods
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Nepal floods: ‘Bodies buried in slush, families refusing food’, Khalsa Aid volunteers witness devastation

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 15:55
From mud-swallowed homes and makeshift mortuaries to grieving families waiting for news, volunteers describe the devastation in Nuwakot, Rasuwa and Dhading as they provide food, clothes and medical aid.
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Karnataka: Medical college hospital gets ₹5.5 crore ICMR grant for rare skin disorder research

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 15:55
The ₹5,50,08,874 grant, awarded for four years, will support the ADAPT-EB project — Developing Accessible Diagnostics and Affordable Precision Therapies for Epidermolysis Bullosa in the Indian population.
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Chennai Corporation Council meeting | Unlikely allies as parties unite against State govt. over lack of ward funds

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 15:53
Ward 141 councillor A. Raja Anbazhagan said councillors should consider resigning before the next Council meeting if the ward development funds were not released
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Popularise ‘button paal’ system among residents of Kodaikanal, Udhagamandalam: Madras High Court directs Aavin

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 07:44
Justices N. Sathish Kumar and K. Rajasekar issue the direction after being told that automatic milk vending machines were inaugurated in the two hill stations on August 16 and 17
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Congress chief Kharge must get justice, we demand FIR: Rahul Gandhi on rally venue ‘purification’ in Uttarakhand

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 07:43
The LoP in Lok Sabha said the incident in Haldwani “shows the BJP-RSS’ mindset”
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Suresh Gopi backtracks on Thrissur AIIMS remark again, says ‘never promised’ it during poll campaign

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 07:43
Union Minister insists Kerala government must take the initiative, as his earlier AIIMS comments trigger fresh questions
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Sandhya Devanathan exits Meta after a decade; to join OpenAI as VP South East Asia, Australia

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 07:42
Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant and is all set to join OpenAI as Vice President for South East Asia and Australia
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Nepal flash floods: Three bodies recovered from Gandak river in U.P.'s Kushinagar

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 07:37
The information about the recovered bodies had been shared with authorities in the neighbouring districts of Nepal to help establish their identities
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Congress leader Chenthi Anil arrested for waylaying Keralam CM Satheesan; suspended from party

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 07:34
Anil taken into custody in the early hours of Saturday. The CM’s convoy was allegedly blocked in Sreekaryam police station limits in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday evening
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Guntur’s plastic challenge: Ban on single-use items, but used water bottles pile up in drains

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 07:22
The GMC has initiated measures to enforce the ban on prohibited single-use plastic items, with public health officials and sanitary inspectors conducting field-level monitoring and imposing fines through the ‘Swachh App’
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Maratha Activist Manoj Jarange begins fast over kunbi certificates

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 07:21
Manoj Jarange began his 11th hunger strike at Antarwali Sarati in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, demanding Kunbi certificates for all 58 lakh applicants whose records have been verified
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Three-storey building collapses at Swaminarayan temple premises in Prayagraj

Sat, 08/29/2026 - 07:20
Swaminarayan temple 'kothari', Kamlesh Bhagat, stated that a construction project was under way behind the collapsed structure, and a pit dug for this purpose had been filled with water for an extended period
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