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Kanpur: Strangely enough rats are damaging the Khapra Mohal bridge here. According to PWD officials, this bridge is getting washed away due to rats. It is situated near Central railway station, where huge rats are causing heavy damage to this bridge by gnawing on it.

The Khapra Mohal bridge built on the Cantt station site remains in the discussion because the bridge has been eaten by the rats. The bridge collapsed as soon as it rained.

There has been a stir due to the sudden collapse of a part of the bridge. Thousands of people move daily through this bridge.

Kanpur: There was panic when a crocodile came out of the water on the Ganga barrage here on Thursday morning.

On the information of the local people, the forest department team reached the spot and tied it with the help of a stick and rope and brought it to the Allen Forest zoo.

Regional Forest Officer Dilip Kumar Gupta said that at around 8:30 in the morning, local people had informed about the 40-Kg crocodile on the premises of Jal Sansthan.

Upon this, the staff was immediately sent to the spot and the crocodile was sooner caught.

 Kanpur: A house was gutted in a cylinder explosion on Wednesday afternoon.

The sound was so loud that it was heard far and the villagers were horrified.

A villager was also hit in the accident. He has suffered burns.

The fire broke out at Majra Kapoor Farm of Katri Domanpur in Maharajpur in the afternoon due to the leakage of a gas cylinder in Nanku's kutcha house.

The whole of the house started burning with smoke. The fire got terrifying.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Assailants on Tuesday fatally shot a local Hindu man and injured his brother in a shooting that police blamed on militants fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir.

Police said militants fired at two brothers belonging to minority community of Kashmiri Hindus inside an apple orchard in southern Shopian district.

The two were taken to a hospital with critical gunshot wounds where one died, police said in a statement.

Reinforcement of soldiers and police cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to nab the attackers.

Kanpur: The DBS College principal formed a committee to conduct the probe into the scuffle that broke out between the College NCC in charge and Steno, in Govind Nagar. The packets of laddoos were found to be insufficient.

Reacting to the matter the College principal Anil Kumar Mishra said that there took place some scuffle on the issue of sweets distribution between the NCC in charge and steno. The probe panel would submit a report on Wednesday.

It is alleged that the students who favour the NCC in charge beat up Steno and other teachers and employees.

Kolkata, Aug 15 (PTI) Paying homage to the people who fought for India's Independence, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said Indians must uphold the dignity of the country's democratic values.

Banerjee said Indians should preserve the sacred legacy of their fore fathers who got the Independence.

Kannur: There were a total of eight wells around the Nana Saheb Peshwa Palace complex in Bitthoor. As many as 7 wells have been destroyed.

The remaining historical well, which contains memories of history, exists near Nana Rao Peshwa Memorial Park in Nanarao Peshwa Palace.

Wells were very deep. In this one particular well, there is a big round iron griddle which never allows the water sources to dry up.

Hence this well is always filled with water. It is said that Narang, the horse of Rani Laxmibai used to drink water from this well.

New Delhi, Aug 15 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday set an ambitious target of making India a developed nation by 2047 and made a renewed pitch for cutting import dependence and boosting domestic manufacturing.

Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 76th Independence Day, Modi coined 'Panch Pran' or lifeblood resolves for the nation when it celebrates its 100th year of independence in 2047.

New Delhi, Aug 15 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday asserted that free education and healthcare are not freebies and said if people are given access to them, India can become the top country in the world.

Kejriwal was speaking at the Delhi government's Independence Day event at Chhatrasal Stadium here.

Hyderabad, Aug 15 (PTI) Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday launched a broadside against the NDA government at the Centre, alleging that it is hurting federal values, weakening the states financially and also centralising powers.

In his Independence Day address after hoisting the national flag at the historic Golconda Fort here, he said the makers of the nation's Constitution put in place a federal structure as they wanted the Centre and states together to lead the march of progress.