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Moving is never easy. It takes time to find a reliable moving company. But even after that, you can deal with missing items or unforeseen fees that can make your moving trip a living nightmare. In one such instance, a Bengaluru man recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to share his nightmarish incident which led to the "most horrific 48 hours" of his life. In an X thread, the user, Ankit Mayank, shared he shifted his house on August 14th, for which he hired a movers and packers company, Halef International Pvt Ltd. He claimed that the firm's 7-member team allegedly stole items and cash worth lakhs.  "THE MOST HORRIFIC 48 HOURS OF MY LIFE! I had to shift my house on 14th August, for which I had hired a movers & packers company 'Halef International Pvt Ltd' But that turned out to be the worst decision & the biggest nightmare of my life," the man wrote while sharing a video of his messy house.  THE MOST HORRIFIC 48 HOURS OF MY LIFE❗ I had to sh...

In a significant organisational reshuffle ahead of the assembly polls, the Congress on Friday appointed Tariq Hameed Karra as president of its Jammu and Kashmir unit and Keshav Mahto Kamlesh as chief of the Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee. While Mr Karra replaces Vikar Rasool Wani in Jammu and Kashmir, Mr Kamlesh takes over from Rajesh Thakur. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge also appointed two working presidents for Jammu and Kashmir - Tara Chand and Raman Bhalla - as the party gets battle-ready for assembly polls in the Union Territory, the dates of which were announced by the Election Commission on Friday. Mr Kharge has also appointed Mr Wani as a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC) with immediate effect. Mr Karra has been relieved from his current position as permanent invitee to the CWC, the party said in a statement. "The party appreciates the contributions of the outgoing Pradesh Congress Committee president Vikar Rasool Wani," the sta...

Excessive duty hours pose risks to the physical and mental health of medics and also compromise patient safety, an NMC taskforce said while recommending that resident doctors work no more than 74 hours a week and get a day off every week. Ensuring seven to eight hours of sleep daily for medical students is crucial for their mental and physical health and requests for leave should be judiciously considered and not unreasonably declined, the National Task Force on Mental Health and Wellbeing of Medical Students said in its report. Collaborative planning of duty hours by heads of departments, faculty, senior residents and residents needs to be done and, if there is an increased clinical workload, the hospital or medical college should hire more senior residents and medical officers, it said. "It is imperative to recognise that postgraduates and interns primarily serve educational purposes rather than filling gaps in healthcare staffing," it added. Strict implementation of Na...

Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has expressed displeasure with the state police's handling of the rape-murder of a young doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College. He has also called an emergency meeting with Vice Chancellors of the state's universities and will also hold a meeting with protesters tomorrow. "The Governor has expressed his displeasure on complicity and alleged connivance of the police in matters of crime, particularly campus crimes," read a statement from the Governor's House. Such a crime "shames the whole of Bengal, shames India.. and humanity," he said in a video message. Bengal, he said, "has to see reason". "We have seen incidents women being attacked on street, disrobing... Flogging on the street... public flogging. All this is repeatedly happening on the streets of Bengal," added the Governor, who has been at loggerheads with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her government in the past. "Is this t...

The parents of a British Indian medical student who was stabbed to death with her friend in Nottingham last year said on Tuesday that the attack could have been avoided if the attacker's mental health condition had been managed appropriately by the medics treating him. Grace O'Malley Kumar, 19, was returning to her university with her friend Barnaby Webber, also 19, when accosted by knife-wielding Valdo Calocane. A review by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which regulates healthcare services in England, highlighted "a series of errors, omissions and misjudgements" by mental health services involving Calocane. “I think I can categorically say that if this man had been treated and had taken his treatment, this whole attack would have been avoided,” Dr Sanjoy Kumar, the father of Grace, told the BBC. He has joined the affected families to demand a “statutory public inquiry led by a judge” to help change things for the better. "We have to concentrate on Notti...

Five people including a child were killed after the car they were travelling in fell into the roadside Sone canal in the Dawood Nagar area of Aurangabad district on Tuesday. Sub-Divisional Police Officer of Dawood Nagar, Rishi Raj, said, "The incident took place near Chaman Bigha village on the Barun-Dawood Nagar canal road. Prima facie it appears the driver lost control of the speeding car and the vehicle fell into the canal." Upon receiving information from the local villagers, police reached the spot of the incident and found that five people in the car had died. Subsequently, the bodies of the those dead were recovered by the police. Block Development Officer (BDO) Mohd Zafar Imam, Circle Officer (CO) Shailendra Kumar Yadav, and Station House Officer (SHO) Fahim Azad Khan reached the spot with their team. According to SHO Fahim Azad Khan, "Prima facie information has been received that four of the dead are residents of Rajiv Nagar in Patna and the driver is a re...

Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Monday that a campaign was being run in India and outside to project that minorities were not safe in the country and accused some parties and organisations of defaming the nation through overseas media. Speaking at a programme of the BJP's Minority Morcha, he said minorities from neighbouring countries had found refuge in India over the decades, be it from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, and also referred to Tibetan refugees from China and pro-democracy activists from Myanmar. If any disturbance occurs in the neighbourhood, everyone thinks India is safe and comes here, he said at the "Dr Kalam Startup Youth Award Ceremony" in memory of former president APJ Abdul Kalam. "At such a time there are some parties and organisations in our country ... They go to western countries and use their media to defame (India) and say it is not safe for minorities," Mr Rijiju said, asking members of the morcha to...