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After a 25-year gap, families in Muthamma settlement in Idukki get their title deeds

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After a 25-year gap, families in Muthamma settlement in Idukki get their title deeds

Residents of Muthamma settlement with Devikulam MLA F. Raja and village officials at Chinnakkanal village office on Thursday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT After a 25-year gap, residents of Chinnakkanal village in Idukki have received title deeds for their land. According to officials, 236 families in the Muthamma settlement under Chinnakkanal village were granted the deeds.Chinnakkanal village officer V. Santhosh Kumar stated that while 70 families had previously received their titles during a title deed fest held ahead of the Assembly election, a total of 236 families were eligible. The remaining distributions were delayed following the election notification. “The title deeds, under the 1963 rules, were distributed to the families on Thursday (June 11, 2026),” the official said.According to authorities, there were no legal complications surrounding the issuance of title deeds in the area. The State government took over the land from the Tata Company roughly 50 years ago, and the land is under survey number 121 of Chinnakkanal village. Officials noted that the distributed title deeds covered a total of 30 acres of land.“The titles were issued for land holdings ranging from two cents to 60 cents. The families in the area have been eagerly waiting to get their title deeds for several years. In Chinnakkanal village, titles are being distributed after a long gap of 25 years,” an official added.The title deed preparation process was led by the village officer and special village officer Gulsari Lal. Devikulam MLA F. Raja inaugurated the title deed distribution for the residents of the settlement on Thursday. Published - June 11, 2026 07:57 pm IST

‘Sooryavanshi forced us to pick him’: Agarkar on teen sensations India selection

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‘Sooryavanshi forced us to pick him’: Agarkar on teen sensations India selection

Air India is not exerting any pressure or giving any deadline to the families of AI 171 crash victims to accept its final compensation offer and the families are “entirely free” to wait until the final investigation report is released before deciding on whether to accept the compensation, the Tata group airline is learnt to have written in its response to Radhika Mishra, the daughter of former Gujarat chief minister and one of the crash victims Vijay Rupani.Mishra had written to Tata Sons and Air India Chairman N Chandrasekaran, objecting to the airline asking victims’ kin to forgo their right to sue the airline and other stakeholders if they wished to take the final compensation offer. In her email to Chandrasekaran, Mishra opposed the legal waiver requirement, saying that the investigation into the deadly aviation disaster in Ahmedabad was not yet complete, but the airline was asking families to permanently waive present and future claims even before all the facts were known, it is learnt. The crash had claimed a total of 260 lives–229 of the 230 passengers on board the Boeing 787-8 aircraft, 12 flight and cabin crew personnel, and 19 persons on the ground. It was the worst aviation disaster involving an Indian airline in four decades. In its response, Air India said that the final compensation offers were made as there were a number of families that wanted to receive the compensation instead of waiting for the final investigation report, according to sources in the know. It also said that the waiver requirement was in line with the approach taken by airlines globally in such circumstances for the settlement to be indeed final. The airline has also been maintaining that it is following international norms and the compensation being offered is fair and as per the law. Air India initiated the final compensation process in October. As part of the exercise, the airline asked families willing to accept the final compensation to give an undertaking that they will not make any future legal claims against the airline or anyone else, including the original equipment manufacturers—Boeing, General Electric, Honeywell—and other stakeholders like the Ahmedabad airport and Indian government agencies. Before Mishra, a few other victims’ families and their lawyers had opposed the legal waiver clause a few months ago. “There is one matter we would respectfully clarify at the outset: there is absolutely no deadline or pressure on any family or individual to accept our offer within a set timeframe. It is for this reason that our offer of final compensation did not set out any timetable for acceptance. Families are entirely free to wait until the investigation report has been released, as some have chosen to do,” the airline wrote in its response to Mishra, it is learnt. “However, it is also worth pointing out that the investigation is independently conducted by the AAIB (Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau), and therefore Air India is not aware of when the report will be released. In light of the numerous requests that we received, and conscious of our own obligations, we felt that it would not be fair to families who wish to proceed with final compensation if we were to put the process on hold indefinitely,” Air India is learnt to have said. While the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recommends that the final investigation reports on aircraft accidents be released, if possible, within one year of the occurrence, it is unlikely that the final findings of the probe into the AI 171 crash will be released by its first anniversary on June 12. An interim report or a status report, however, could be released by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB). Aircraft accident investigations can be extremely complex and long-drawn exercises, sometimes taking years for the causes to be ascertained.Story continues below this ad “We fully understand your apprehension in relation to the wording in the Receipt, Discharge & Indemnity

Eviction of Malayidamthuruth Dalit families: Kerala HC grants govt two more weeks to resolve impasse

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Eviction of Malayidamthuruth Dalit families: Kerala HC grants govt two more weeks to resolve impasse

The Kerala High Court | Photo Credit: R.K. Nithin The Kerala High Court on Thursday granted two more weeks to the State government to resolve the impasse over the eviction of seven families from a Dalit settlement at Malayidamthuruth near Kizhakkambalam.It further restrained the Munsiff Court, Perumbavur, from passing orders till June 16 on their eviction from the 2.5 acres of land, the ownership of which has been claimed by a private individual. The munsiff court had on June 1 directed their eviction. This followed the two weeks’ time the High Court had on May 25 granted the State government to evict the families in the wake of efforts under way to peacefully resolve the matter.The Munsiff had earlier permitted the court Amin (bailiff) and the Advocate Commissioner to complete the eviction and file a report by June 9.The advocate commission appointed to execute the eviction order of the munsiff court had to return without executing the order on 15 occasions.The United Democratic Front government had intervened in the matter a week ago by promising to join the legal dispute and rehabilitate the residents in case of a setback from the court. The government also assured the residents that there would not be any police action in the name of eviction. The assurance came even as the CPI(M) intensified its agitation against the eviction move.The eviction process started after multiple court orders ruled in favour of the private individual’s claim.The affected families, meanwhile, claim that they have been living on ‘government land’ for generations. Published - June 04, 2026 02:59 pm IST

State releases action plan to combat snakebite envenomation

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GUWAHATIThe families of 14 abducted Kuki-Zo people in Manipur’s hill districts renewed their appeal for their safe release, as the deadline set by an apex Naga organisation for the State government to track their missing community members expired on Sunday (May 17, 2026) evening.More than 40 Kuki-Zo and Naga people, including women and minors, were held captives by suspected extremists after three church leaders belonging to the Thadou tribe were ambushed and killed by unknown gunmen on May 13. The captors released 28 hostages — 14 each from both communities — on May 15.Kuki-Zo organisations said 14 more of their community members, including three minor students, remain in captivity. According to a Liangmai (Naga) women’s union in Kangpokpi district, six Nagas continue to be held hostage.“We address you today not with the language of politics, conflict or adversaries but with the raw, heartfelt cry of mothers, fathers, wives, and children. We are the families of the 13 individuals from Taphou Kuki village and one from Hengbung village who are still in custody since May 13,” the families wrote in the joint appeal on Sunday.They said most of the captives did not take part in the conflict and that many of those detained could be suffering from failing health, psychological trauma, and severe distress.“Every passing hour inflicts profound, agonising torment on our family,” the families said, adding that mothers, fathers, and children were living in a state of unbearable grief, praying daily for the safety of their loved ones.Recalling a “history of peace, mutual respect, and brotherhood” between Kuki and Naga villagers of Senapati district, the families said: “Our boys are not activists or combatants, and they have absolutely nothing to do with the wider conflict or the political storms surrounding us.”Four hill districts — the Kuki-dominated Churachandpur and Kangpokpi, and the Naga-majority Senapati and Ukhrul — have been tense since the conflict between the two tribal Christian communities began in February following a late night brawl. More than half a dozen people have been killed and scores of houses have been torched since then.Kuki-Zo organisations imposed a 48-hour shutdown on May 13 following the killing of the church leaders, which was extended by another 48 hours due to the hostage crisis. The shutdown has hit goods transport on two arterial highways linking the Imphal Valley to the rest of the country.The United Naga Council (UNC), which set a 2 p.m. deadline on Saturday (May 16, 2026) for the Manipur government to secure the release of Nagas missing since May 13, extended it to 6 p.m. on Sunday after receiving a letter from the State Home Department that extensive search operations were in progress. “Even after these deferments, the six Naga innocent civilians are still being held hostage by the Kuki militants, as reports have been received that the State machineries have not been able to trace and rescue them, even after well past the deadlines. Given the situation, we are constrained to launch an inter-district economic blockade along the National Highways in the Naga areas in Manipur with immediate effect until the safe rescue and release of the Naga hostages are duly carried out,” the UNC said in a statement. Published - May 17, 2026 08:15 pm IST

Compensation given to families of lightning strike victims

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Compensation given to families of lightning strike victims

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Families sue OpenAI over Canadian mass shooter's use of ChatGPT

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Families sue OpenAI over Canadian mass shooter's use of ChatGPT

A woman mourns at a makeshift memorial for the victims of a deadly mass shooting that took place in the town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. A lawsuit filed Wednesday claims that OpenAI was negligent for failing to report the shooter to authorities after her account was flagged for "gun violence activity and planning." Paige Taylor White/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paige Taylor White/AFP via Getty Images Families of those injured and killed in a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia are suing OpenAI for negligence and providing a dangerously defective...

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