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New Delhi, July 29: In an attempt to strengthen its ongoing outreach among Muslim Pasmanda communities, the BJP on Sunday appointed former Aligarh Muslim University vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor as one of its vice presidents. Mr Mansoor was instrumental in steering the AMU, one of the hotbeds of anti-NRC and CAA protests, on a "middle path", and later closely working with the RSS on its project to

Imphal, July 29: A delegation of 21 MPs from the opposition bloc INDIA reached here on Saturday to assess the ground situation in ethnic strife-torn Manipur. The team of opposition MPs will visit several relief camps to meet victims of the ethnic clashes that broke in the northeastern state on May 3. The MPs reached Imphal by a commercial flight from Delhi. After their arrival here, the delegation

A shocking incident has been reported from Indian state of West Bengal wherein a couple sold their 8-month-old son to buy an iPhone 14, which they wanted to use to create Instagram Reels while travelling across the state. According to a Times of India report, the couple, Jaydev and Sathi Ghosh, live in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district. Police apprehended Sathi after the crime came to light

Bengaluru, July 28: A Bharatiya Janata Party worker has been taken into custody by the High Ground Police Station after she tweeted an abusive comment against female family members of Karnataka chief minister amidst saffron party’s attempt to give communal tinge to Udupi college washroom video case. BJP worker Shakuntala Nataraj was detained for questioning after Congress worker Hanumantharaya

Mumbai, Jul 28: Police have arrested a 47-year-old professor for allegedly sexually harassing a woman doctor on a Delhi-Mumbai flight, an official said on Friday. The incident took place on Wednesday, he said. The 24-year-old victim and the accused were seated next to each other on the flight, which took off at 5.30 am from Delhi, the police official said. “In her complaint, the woman doctor said

Singapore has hanged a 45-year-old citizen who was caught with 31 grams of heroin, the first time the city-state has executed a woman in nearly two decades. Saridewi Binte Djamani was hanged on Friday, July 28, after being convicted of trafficking “not less than 30.72 grams” of the drug in 2018, the Central Narcotics Bureau said in a statement. Singapore's laws mandate the death penalty for anyone

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has launched a campaign to raise awareness about rights of pilgrims arriving from abroad in the kingdom to perform Umrah or lesser pilgrimage in Makkah, and visit the Prophet’s Masjid in Madinah. The campaign focuses on compliance with the rules governing the contractual relationship between the licensed service providers and overseas Umrah pilgrims. The

Bengaluru, July 28: Police in northern Bengaluru arrested a gym instructor for abetting the suicide of a former Miss Andhra last week. On July 21, 25-year-old Vidyashri B R allegedly hanged herself at her home in Kempapura near Chikkabanavar. She lived with her mother Triveni R and her younger brother Manoj B R. Her father passed away six years ago. An MCA graduate, Vidyashri worked for Blue

Udupi, July 27: Khushbu Sundar, a BJP leader and member of the National Commission for Women, who visited a paramedical college in Udupi on Thursday in connection with the alleged washroom video case, rubbished the rumours of hidden cameras. The development comes a day after Udupi district police filed suo motu cases against three girl students of the college over the alleged recording of a video

Bengaluru, July 27: Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Thursday appeared to question the need for a visit of the National Commission for Women member and BJP leader Khushbu Sundar to Udupi to inquire into alleged "washroom filming case" at a paramedical college at a time when the NCW has "not gone" to Manipur, where many women were gang-raped and paraded naked recently. "Is this incident in