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Thane: Woman in live-in relationship found dead in flat, body cut into pieces
Thane: The body of a 36-year-old woman, chopped into several pieces, was found in a flat on the seventh floor of a building in the Mira-Bhayandar area of Thane district on Wednesday…
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Court slams Delhi Police for wrongly combining 27 complaints of 2020 riots in 1 FIR
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday pulled up police for improperly combining 27 complaints of separate incidents of rioting and arson during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots into a single First…
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Karnataka CM to launch free bus travel scheme for women on June 11
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday held a preliminary meeting regarding the inaugural programmes for the ‘Shakti’ and ‘Annabhagya’ schemes. The Chief Minister will launch the ‘Shakhi’ scheme, which provides for…
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Septuagenarian graduates with distinction; proves no age for learning
Riyadh: There is no age limit for learning, as proved by a 70-year-old woman from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), who recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree with distinction from Imam…
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Mumbai student rape & murder: Accused was not official security guard, say police
Mumbai: The 35-year-old security guard, who was the prime suspect in the rape and murder of an 18-year-old girl student of a government hostel in south Mumbai, was not officially appointed but…
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Eid e Soori: A ‘fishy’ Qutb Shahi tradition in Hyderabad
By Mohammed Rizwan Hyderabad: Mirag lagna or as Telugu-speaking people in the city call it “Mrigasira Karthi” is celebrated every year marking the end of summer and the start of the monsoon…
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Pak court grants protective bail to Khan in Toshakhana case until June 21
Lahore: A Pakistani court on Wednesday granted protective bail to former prime minister Imran Khan till June 21 after a fresh FIR was registered against him for committing forgery in selling the…
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Turkey: 16-yr-old boy jailed for drawing Hitler’s moustache on Erdogan poster
Ankara: The Turkish authorities have reportedly arrested a 16-year-old boy for drawing a Hitler-style moustache on an election campaign poster of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish media reported. The boy was accused…
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Karnataka’s free power scheme to cost Rs 13,000 crore annually
Bengaluru: The Gruha Jyothi scheme for free electricity, up to 200 units, to over 2.14 crore consumers in Karnataka, is set to be implemented from July and registration of households will start…
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Qatar’s Sheikh Jassim submits final take-it-or-leave-it bid to Manchester United
Doha: Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani, son of Qatar’s former prime minister, has made a fifth and final take-it-or-leave-it bid to purchase Manchester United Football Club. Sheikh Jassim is one…
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Saudi Arabia lifts temporary ban on import of livestock from Turkey
Riyadh: Ahead of Eid Al Adha, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has lifted the temporary ban on the import of livestock from Turkey, local media reported. According to the Arabic daily…
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Odisha train accident: AI, SIM card triangulation used to identify unclaimed bodies
New Delhi: The Railways is using an artificial intelligence-powered website and SIM card triangulation to identify the unclaimed bodies of the Odisha three train crash victims. Of the 288 people killed in…
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Deve Gowda praises rail minister as he plays politics of hide-and-seek
Bengaluru: Janata Dal (Secular) party president H D Deve Gowda seems to play the guessing game with apt as he lauded Union Rail Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s efforts following the June 2 Odisha…
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Conversion via gaming app: Police launch manhunt for main accused
Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad Police, Lucknow Police and several other agencies are searching for the main accused Shahnawaz Khan alias Baddo, who allegedly targeted minor children to convert them through an online gaming…
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Saudi: Students to have four weekly classes in space science
Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Education has approved the teaching of the subject “earth and space science” in four weekly classes to secondary school students starting from the next…
