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Mumbai commuters started their week being stuck in traffic once again. The infamous Western Express Highway (WEH), which prominently connects the entire western suburban areas till Mira Road, was jam-packed almost the entire day. Other areas, including Andheri Subway, P D’Mello Road, Tulsi Pipe Road, Aarey Road, Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road, and Eastern Express Highway (EEH), also experienced slow traffic movement due to congestion.

Commuters took to social media to express their frustration about the traffic situation here on Monday. One of the users said, "You call it Monday, we call it weekly excess traffic on the WEH. We are not the same, bro. No matter how early you leave, you’ll arrive later than usual."

As part of the trial runs for the trans-shipment of cargo to the North Eastern states using Chattogram and Mongla ports to further boost connectivity between the two sides, CJ Darcl Logistics, a leading logistic solutions provider in India, flagged off cargo ships to the region.

Cargo ships are scheduled to follow Kolkata - Chattogram Sheol & Tamabil- Chattogram -Kolkata route as part of the trial run. They were flagged off on September 3. This is part of a bilateral agreement signed in October 2018 for the transit of goods from India via Chattogram and Mongla ports in Bangladesh (ACMP).

The cargo, Steel TMT bars, for the container ships are for Tata Steel Ltd.

IT solutions company Happiest Minds Technologies on Monday announced the expansion of Noida campus to take its capacity to 450 seats in the National Capital Region (NCR).

The launch follows the announcement of Happiest Minds' new office space acquisition of a 1,600-seater property in Bengaluru in July this year, and the expansion is planned in newer locations such as Bhubaneswar later this year.

"Happiest Minds Technologies...Has today (on Monday) announced the expansion of its Noida facility increasing its delivery capacity and leveraging the area's diverse high-technology talent pool," a company statement said.

Uttarakhand’s new Waqf Board chairman Shadaab Shams wants the Pushkar Singh Dhami government to follow Uttar Pradesh’s example and conduct a survey of the state’s unregistered madrasas.  

Shams, a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who was elected unopposed to the position last week, told a news portal in an interview that the Waqf Board will make an official representation before the state government soon to identify madrasas that are not affiliated to it or the Uttarakhand Madarsa Board (UMB) — the regulatory body for institutions of Islamic learning. 

​There is no different Bengal, there is only one Bengal called West Bengal, said Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee in Jalpaiguri on Sunday, responding to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders’ demand for a “separate Bengal” for the past six months.

Moreover, Ananta Maharaj Rajbongshi, who has a major influence over Rajbongshi voters in North Bengal, said recently that the Home Ministry had told him that “there will be a division”.

According to experts, the comment in Jalpaiguri assumes political significance. The TMC is putting heavy emphasis on North Bengal after their bad performance in the Bengal elections in 2021 and is now targetting tea garden workers.