SOT, Cyberabad busted 3 interstate online IPL Cricket betting rackets and seized nearly 1.84 crores in cash and bank accounts. Also seized 36-mobile phones, 3-laptops, 1-Tab, 1-Jio router, arrested 7-bookies and booked 3-criminal cases, one each in RGIA PS, Rajendranagar PS and Narsingi PS. HyderabadMay : (Press media of india): …
Read More »India’s Karnataka votes in crucial challenge to ruling BJP
11-05-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: People in the southern Indian state of Karnataka are voting in an election where pre-poll surveys show the opposition Congress party favored over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Hindu nationalist party. Wednesday’s votes for 224 state legislature seats will be counted on May …
Read More »1,000 days imprisoned in China for unknown reason
11-05-2023 BEIJING: “One thousand days is a shockingly long time in detention,” says Nick Coyle. He is speaking about his partner, Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who remains in a Chinese prison. The details of the charges against her are still a secret and she has not been sentenced. Like Ms …
Read More »Jewish groups condemn $150m Nazi-linked jewel sale
11-05-2023 JERUSALEM: Jewish groups have condemned the multi-million dollar sale of jewels belonging to a billionaire whose husband made his fortune in Nazi Germany. Heidi Horten was an Austrian heiress whose German husband, Helmut Horten, had been a Nazi party member. He took over Jewish firms as their owners left …
Read More »Canada ‘will not be intimidated’ by China: PM Trudeau
11-05-2023 OTTAWA: Canada “will not be intimidated” by China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said, after the Chinese government said it is expelling a Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move linked to allegations Beijing sought to intimidate a Canadian legislator and his family. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trudeau said …
Read More »UK’s Supreme Court rules in favour of Shell Nigeria
11-05-2023 LONDON: The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that it was too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell subsidiaries over a 2011 offshore oil spill. On December 20, 2011, an estimated 40,000 barrels of crude oil leaked when a tanker was loaded at Shell’s …
Read More »‘Bodies found in Kenya have missing organs’
11-05-2023 NAIROBI: Investigators have revealed to the court that 21 bodies found in the latest exhumation have missing organs. They are expecting more bodies to be found in the coming days. It has also raised doubts that there may be forced removal of the organs from the bodies reportedly linked …
Read More »France calls on EU to list Wagner as ‘terrorists’
11-05-2023 PARIS: The French parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the European Union to formally label Russia’s mercenary Wagner force a “terror group” as reports emerged that the United Kingdom also appears poised to designate the group a “terror organization”. The resolution on Tuesday, which is non-binding and largely …
Read More »Trump ordered to pay $5 million against sexual defamation
11-05-2023 NEW YORK: A federal jury in New York reached a significant verdict on Tuesday, holding former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and forcibly touching writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, as well as defaming her last year by accusing her of fabricating the incident. The jury …
Read More »Women face political barriers ahead of Turkey elections
11-05-2023 ISTANBUL: A nondescript apartment in Istanbul’s business district is the nerve centre of a drive to propel more women into Turkish politics. But with some 60 million voters due to cast their ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, the mood at the office of Ben Secerim, or …
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