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Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar reveals that even his children fight with him for Bengaluru’s crippling congestion, as the city wrestles between road expansion and mass transit solutions.Bengaluru’s endless traffic nightmare has now entered the Deputy Chief Minister’s own household. D.K. Shivakumar candidly admitted during a council discussion that his children often confront him over the city’s choking congestion, sometimes even arguing that daily travel feels like a punishment.Also Read:Bengaluru: Hebbal flyover ramp to open before August 15; promises traffic reliefDrawing comparisons with New Delhi, Shivakumar said Bengaluru’s road network has barely changed since Kempegowda’s time, while vehicle numbers have…

Australian cricket is mourning the loss of Bob Simpson, the legendary former Test captain and Australia’s first full-time coach, who died in Sydney at 89. Simpson’s career was defined by leadership, dedication, and a lasting influence on the sport both on and off the field. Emerging as a cricket prodigy, Simpson debuted for New South Wales at 16. Over two decades, he played 62 Tests from 1957–1978, amassing 4,869 runs at an average of 46.81 and taking 71 wickets. Widely celebrated for his slip fielding acumen, Simpson’s total first-class record 21,029 runs and 349 wickets with legspin underscored his all-round…

As the row over alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants in various states grows in the run-up to the West Bengal Assembly polls, the issue seems to have also stirred up Kolkata’s famed sporting arena with a section of football fans now using the stadium space to highlight it.Last Saturday, during a match between Mohun Bagan Super Giant and Diamond Harbour FC in the current Durand Cup tournament, several supporters of Mohun Bagan unfurled a large banner at the stands of the Salt Lake stadium, which showed lines from a Tagore song: “Bangalir pon, Bangalir asha, Bangalir kaj, Bangalir bhasha –…

The Australia vs South Africa 3rd T20I promises to be a thrilling series decider at Cazaly’s Stadium in Cairns, marking the first-ever international T20 match at this venue. With the series level at 1-1 after South Africa’s stunning comeback in Darwin, all eyes will be on this high-stakes clash where fantasy cricket enthusiasts will be looking for the best AUS vs SA Dream11 prediction to maximize their winnings. South Africa’s Stunning Revival South Africa’s campaign looked shaky after the opening game loss, but Dewald Brevis turned the tide with a breathtaking 41-ball century in Darwin. The young prodigy’s 125* not…

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping told him he would not “move on” Taiwan as long as the U.S. president remained in office.Trump, speaking in a Fox News interview on his way to a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss a ceasefire more than three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, argued that world leaders — including Xi — would never attempt such an undertaking while he was president.“I don’t believe there’s any way it’s going to happen as long as I’m here,” Trump said. “He’ll never do it as long as you’re president,…

Amid the Election Commission’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar, the poll body had set 5 pm on August 16 as the deadline for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav to surrender his allegedly fake Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC). A row had erupted when Yadav had in a press conference on August 2 and said that a search conducted with his EPIC number was yielding the result “no records found” in the draft electoral rolls prepared as part of the SIR. The Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) for Digha Assembly constituency issued several notices…

Amidst the din from Parliament to courts as the government and Opposition fight it out over alleged electoral discrepancies, Mohit Kumar’s small achievement raised barely a ripple.On Thursday, the 27-year-old officially took oath as the sarpanch of Buana Lakhu village in Panipat, after a long legal battle all the way to the Supreme Court. A rare recount of EVMs held on the premises of the apex court finally led to the overturning of the 2022 result, as per which Kumar had lost to his rival Kuldeep Singh. “I fought from district courts to the Supreme Court. Villagers and others advised…

ChennaiAug 16, 2025 07:00 IST First published on: Aug 16, 2025 at 07:00 IST Share La Ganesan, a veteran organiser for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and one of BJP’s longest-serving leaders in Tamil Nadu, who went on to serve as Governor in three states, died on Friday in Chennai. He was 80. The Governor of Nagaland since February 2023, Ganesan was admitted to Apollo Hospitals on August 8 after a brief illness. His condition worsened over the following week, hospital officials said. Born on February 16, 1945, in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, into a Brahmin family, Ila Ganesan — as he…

Dimension Films It’s raunchy, it’s hilarious, and it’s dead-on when it comes to certain horror movie tropes. “Scary Movie” is also a very direct parody of “Scream” that manages to carve out its own space in pop culture, with memorable original characters like Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) and Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris). The film was so successful it spawned a whole series of sequels, and then a cottage industry of imitators (Setzer and Friedberg, we’re looking at you). After years of dormancy after the “Naked Gun” series of films ended,…

The Warrens are set to make their final bow. After spawning three sequels and an entire cinematic universe about the many cursed objects that reside in the couple’s occult museum, the final “Conjuring” film is coming out this September. If you want a recap of all of the cases the infamous couple has explored on the silver screen since the first movie freaked out audiences around the globe, then check out the video posted above. The fictionalized adventures of real-life demonologists Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) have been pretty…