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Jodhpur: Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu returned to Jodhpur jail on Wednesday after being released on a 17-day parole. The parole was granted for 17 days, starting from December 18 last month. The self-styled godman, who had been under treatment in Pune, has been serving a life imprisonment sentence at Jodhpur Central Jail in a sexual…
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An independence-era Syrian flag and an Islamic black-and-white flag bearing the Shahada (the creed stating a belief in one god and the acceptance that Mohammed was God’s prophet) hang above a stall at the covered Hamidiya market in the old city of Damascus on January 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Saudi Arabia on Wednesday…
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Protesters surround a suspected sympathiser of ousted ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, near the house of her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ‘Bangabandhu’ the first president of independent Bangladesh, in Dhaka on August 15, 2024, to mark the anniversary of his assassination. | Photo Credit: AFP Mob killings in Bangladesh surged after the August revolution last year that…
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New Orleans: A US citizen drove a white Ford pickup truck flying an Islamic State flag into throngs of people celebrating the New Year in the French Quarter, the Louisiana city’s most iconic tourist district, around 3:15 am (0915 GMT), according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He crashed the vehicle, then opened fire and…
Gurugram: A crime branch team of the Gurugram Police arrested a notorious criminal and his two companions after a gunfight on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, police said. The suspects have been identified as Arif (28), Arif alias Mandal (27), a resident of Palwal and Rashid alias Yusuf alias Kake (33), a resident…
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Gurugram: A crime branch team of the Gurugram Police arrested a notorious criminal and his two companions after a gunfight on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, police said. The suspects have been identified as Arif (28), Arif alias Mandal (27), a resident of Palwal and Rashid alias Yusuf alias Kake (33), a resident…
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Patients being rushed out of the block of Government Ramanathapuram Medical College Hospital where a fire broke out on Wednesday night. | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar A fire broke out in a panel room on the second floor of a block of Government Ramanathapuram Medical College Hospital on Wednesday night, prompting immediate shifting of patients…
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Investigators in New Orleans on Wednesday found two homemade bombs in the wake of a deadly truck attack. New Orleans: Investigators in New Orleans on Wednesday found two homemade bombs in the wake of a deadly truck attack in the city’s French Quarter, and those devices have been “rendered safe,” an FBI official said. “As…
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Rich tradition: People attending a Carnatic concert at the Sri Kothandaramar temple. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM For the past 35 years now, irrespective of rain or fog, residents of Washermenpet have attended Carnatic classical concerts at the Sri Kothandaramar temple on Perambalu Street during the Margazhi season. “There have always been Tamil songs…
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BJP leader C. T. Ravi, arrested over his controversial remarks towards Karnataka Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar, is brought to a hospital for medical check-up in Belagavi on December 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Irony died a thousand deaths when the BJP’s State president B.Y. Vijayendra said that men in his party were “not wearing bangles”…