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Earthquake of 4.1 magnitude jolts Gujarat, no casualties
Ahmedabad: An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude shook Gujarat’s Kutch district in the wee hours of Saturday, January 17 causing panic among locals, though no casualties were reported, officials said. The quake was…
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15 arrested in Rs 3.9 crore Bhu Bharathi, Dharani scam in Telangana
Hyderabad: The Warangal police on Friday, January 16, said it unearthed a major scam worth Rs 3.90 crore related to the Dharani and Bhu Bharathi portals. As many as 15 people have…
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US judges order release of three detained Indians
Washington: US federal judges in California have ordered immigration authorities to release three Indian citizens, saying they were detained without hearings or proper notice after earlier being allowed to live in the…
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Hyderabad man killed by stepbrother after quarrel over cigarette
Hyderabad: A man killed his 30-year-old stepbrother after a quarrel over a cigarette on Thursday, January 15, in Hyderabad. In the incident that took place in Nacharam, he threw his stepbrother from…
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Indian businessman jailed in US for illegal export of aviation parts to Russia
Washington: A Delhi-based businessman has been sentenced to 30 months in US federal prison for conspiring to illegally export controlled aviation components from Oregon to Russia, violating American export control laws, the…
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Iran sees no new protests as cleric urges executions, threatens Trump
Dubai: As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly…
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Trump repeats claim of stopping India-Pakistan conflict
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump has again claimed that he stopped the fighting between India and Pakistan and saved millions of lives, describing it as an “honour”. Addressing an event in…
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Kurdish-led forces to pull back from disputed zone in Syria
Deir Hafer The leader of Kurdish-led forces in Syria announced Friday that they will withdraw from a contested area in northern Syria, potentially heading off a major clash with government forces. The…
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Machado says Venezuela is at ‘threshold of freedom’
Washington: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said that her country has reached the “threshold of freedom,” declaring that a transition toward democracy has already begun following recent political developments and US…
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Ukrainian, US teams to hold next round of talks on January 17
Kyiv: Ukrainian and US teams will hold another round of negotiations on Saturday, January 17, in Miami, Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Olga Stefanishyna announced. The delegations are expected to refine agreements…
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Thank you, Trump tells Iran for halting execution of political prisoners
Washington: President Donald Trump took the unusual step on Friday, January 16, of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions of what he said were meant to be hundreds…
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Ashurkhana attacked in Hyderabad in retaliation for temple vandalism
Hyderabad: Police registered a case after a group of people allegedly attacked the Ashurkhana Shehzada Qasim in Hyderabad’s Mangalhath on Wednesday, January 14, night, with special teams being deployed on the ground…
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Syed Jaleel Ahmed, legal luminary and social pillar, passes away
Hyderabad grieves the loss of one of its most distinguished legal minds and community stalwarts, Senior Supreme Court and High Court advocate Syed Jaleel Ahmed, who succumbed to a brief illness on…
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Jamaat-e-Islami expresses concern over Hyderabad’s Puranapul violence
Hyderabad: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Greater Hyderabad, has voiced deep concern regarding the recent violence in the Puranapul area, where temple vandalism led to communal clashes. The organization emphasized that such incidents “severely disturb”…
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BJP-led Mahayuti set to win 25 out of 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra
Mumbai: Breaking the nearly three-decade-old dominance of the undivided Shiv Sena, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday, January 16, emerged as the single largest party in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)…
