A court in Gujarat on Wednesday sentenced Patidar quota leader Hardik Patel and his aides, Lalji Patel and A.K. Patel, to two-year imprisonment in a rioting case. The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader and his aides were found guilty of rioting, arson, damage to property and unlawful assembly when they attacked BJP legislator Rushikesh Patel’s office in Visnagar on […]
» Read moreA suicide bomber struck outside a crowded polling station in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, killing 31 people as Pakistanis cast ballots on Wednesday in a general election meant to lead to the nation’s third consecutive civilian government. The attack in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan, also wounded 35 people and several were reported to be in critical condition, […]
» Read moreAlmost 22 years after she was adopted by a Spanish couple, a 23-year-old woman returned to meet her biological mother. On Saturday, she had an emotional meeting with her mother in Pune, who cried and hugged her, gave her gifts, and even apologised for being unable to care for her. Zeenat alias Mireia, was adopted by Antich Marti Raman, 56, […]
» Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi today gifted cows to around 200 households in Rwanda, where PM Modi is on a two-day state visit. The cows were gifted under the Rwandan government’s ‘Girinka’ social protection scheme. The cows gifted were sourced from Rwanda itself. Modi’s three-nation tour of Africa. Rwanda – one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies – is his first stop and […]
» Read moreCricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni has become the highest individual tax payer in Jharkhand for the 2017-18 fiscal, officials in the Income Tax department said on Tuesday. Dhoni, the Indian wicket-keeper batsman paid ₹12.17 crore income tax in 2017-18, the officials said. They said that Dhoni had paid ₹10.93 crore tax in 2016-17, but he was not the highest tax payer […]
» Read moreThe Oshiwara police on Saturday booked TV actor Siddharth Shukla for rash driving after his BMW crashed into three other vehicles and perched itself on the divider near the police station. Police said Shukla, who was driving a BMW X5, rammed his car into an Innova and then onto an Alto and Mahindra Kwid after he lost control of his […]
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