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BSWML shifts auto-tipper attendance to 5:30–6:30 am from August 25, hoping to curb black spots and improve cleanliness after Bengaluru’s poor national ranking.Bengaluru’s mornings are set to get a little earlier. From August 25, the city’s auto tippers will begin their attendance marking between 5:30 am and 6:30 am, an hour earlier than the existing schedule. The Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Limited (BSWML) says the shift is designed to match the routines of working residents, allowing them to hand over garbage before leaving home while discouraging indiscriminate dumping that leads to black spots across neighborhoods.Also Read:Bengaluru’s garment sector faces alarming…

Former South Africa women’s team captain Dane van Niekerk has announced her return to international cricket after reversing her retirement decision. The 32-year-old, who stepped away from the game in March 2023, is now in contention for this year’s World Cup in the subcontinent. Retirement U-Turn After Time Away Van Niekerk had retired following her omission from the 2023 T20 World Cup squad, having failed to meet Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) fitness standards. She last featured for South Africa in September 2021 and missed the 2022 T20 World Cup due to a broken ankle.On Monday, she confirmed her comeback via…

Summary A unique Michael Jordan/Kobe Bryant card sold for a record-breaking $12.932 million USD The “dual Logoman” autographed patch card is now the most expensive sports card ever sold The buyer was a group including Kevin O’Leary In a historic moment for the sports card market, a one-of-a-kind card featuring basketball legends Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant has sold for a record-breaking $12.932 million USD at a Heritage Auctions event. The sale shatters the previous record and crowns a new king in the world of sports collectibles. The card at the center of the auction was a 2007-08 Upper Deck…

Ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections slated later this year, the ruling BJP Monday appointed its 49-year MLA Ameet Satam as the new Mumbai party president.Satam is the third-term BJP legislator from Mumbai’s Andheri West constituency. Known for his aggressive politics, Satam belongs to the Maratha community. With Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and his once estranged cousin Raj Thackeray, the MNS chief, making “Marathi asmita” (Marathi pride) their main plank for the upcoming local body polls, the BJP has chosen its key Marathi face to lead the Mumbai party unit in the BMC polls. Story continues…

With some Opposition parties, including of the INDIA bloc, deciding against participating in the Joint Committee of Parliament being set up to look into the three contentious Bills seeking removal of jailed ministers, the Congress Monday appeared to be on the horns of a dilemma.The opinion in the party is divided, with the majority against joining the panel. However, sources said, the party is yet to take a final decision. The Left parties too are weighing their options. The Left has not received a formal letter from the government seeking names of MPs to be nominated to the committee, and…

AMID THE contentious ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar, data on deleted voters published on August 18 by the Election Commission of India (ECI) shows that Patna, Madhubani and East Champaran, the three districts with the most voter deletions, women outnumber men, and voters aged 18-40 years form more than a third of the deletions.A polling-booth level analysis of the data shows that these three districts saw a total 10.63 lakh deletions, accounting for 16.35% of the total 65 lakh deletions across 38 districts in the state. These three districts are among the four most…

It has been over a month since he suddenly quit, and Jagdeep Dhankhar has assiduously kept away from anything “Vice Presidential”. He hardly ever steps inside the office complex attached to his allotted residence, a 15-acre enclave where he has been living since April 2024, or used the Vice-Presidential carcade since his resignation on July 21.This complete absence from the public eye, with calls and text messages drawing no response either, has triggered much speculation over Dhankhar’s whereabouts. Introducing Justice (retired) B Sudershan Reddy, the Opposition’s V-P nominee, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said recently: “There is a big story…

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga was once seen as a sideshow in Bolivia’s presidential races, his pleas for free markets and small government falling on deaf ears in a country dominated by budget-busting populism.Now, after three failed presidential bids, the collapse of Bolivia’s long-ruling leftist party and a brazen campaign promising to rescue the nation from its worst economic crisis in decades, Bolivia’s most right-wing candidate is one of two men headed to an unprecedented runoff election to lead this landlocked nation of 12 million.In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, Quiroga vowed to reshape Bolivia’s…

Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Every major television show probably has strict rules for how actors ought to behave while they’re on set filming, but Jessica Alba recently claimed that life on the “Beverly Hills 90210” set could get a little extra severe. While appearing on “Hot Ones,” the actor alleged that she was not allowed to look into the eyes of any of her co-stars when she guest-starred on two episodes of the teen drama back in 1998. “You’re not allowed to make eye contact with any one of the cast members,…

20th Century Fox Sporting six claws, a healing factor, and a deadly berserker rage, there are few superheroes as legendary as Wolverine. Originally created by Len Wein and John Romita Sr. for 1974’s “The Incredible Hulk” #180-181, Wolverine later joined the X-Men — a powerful team of mutant heroes sworn to protect a world that fears and hates them – and became one of Marvel Comics’ most popular and recognizable superheroes. Wolverine made the leap from page to screen in 20th Century Fox’s 2000 action film “X-Men,” the first big…