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MEERUT: A court in Bulandshahr sentenced a 25-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old girl, and sent his father to three years in prison for kidnapping. The court of additional district judge Manoj Kumar Singh also imposed a fine of Rs 46,000 on the son and Rs 3,000…
JAMMU: Security forces on Thursday intensified the anti-terror operation launched in Billawar, in the upper reaches of J&K’s Kathua district, the previous evening. One SOG trooper suffered minor injuries in the ensuing gunfight and was hospitalised.Around 4 pm Wednesday, locals of Kahog village reported sighting an armed terror suspect in the forests of Dhanu Parole-Kamadh…
WASHINGTON: In a sweeping overhaul of America’s global footprint, President Donald Trump has authorised the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organisations, marking one of the most significant retreats from multilateralism in modern history.The move, announced on January 7 via a presidential memorandum, affects 31 United Nations entities and 35 non-UN groups, including…
Minneapolis was on edge Thursday after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown. This led to the protest in the city. Protesters clashed with law enforcement agents on Thursday as anger mounted over the shooting, AP reported. Minneapolis: ICE Vehicles Attacked, Protests Erupt…
A powerful storm hit Istanbul on Thursday, bringing strong winds, towering waves, and widespread disruption to sea transport, and it also affected several other provinces across western Turkiye.Several videos are going viral on social media, and one of them shows a Pegasus flight aborting landing at Istanbul Airport due to severe weather. The flight could…
Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez slammed the United States for the “false” claims about drugs, democracy, and human rights and said that these have been used as excuses for one real goal: “oil.“While addressing the Venezuelan Parliament, Rodriguez said they are open to energy relations where all parties benefit, where economic cooperation is clearly defined…
A local walks past a mural featuring oil pumps and wells in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) When US President Donald Trump floated the idea of Washington receiving millions of barrels of oil from Venezuela, it sounded like a throwback to an older energy playbook: pump more oil, cut fuel prices,…
Two killed and six others were injured in a shooting outside a Mormon church in Salt Lake City, where mourners were attending a memorial service, police said. The attacker remains at large, and authorities say they are reviewing surveillance footage to identify a suspect.The Salt Lake City police department, in a post on X, shared…
Renee Nicole Good lived a few blocks from where she died. She was 37, a US-born citizen, a poet, and a mother of three. On a winter morning in south Minneapolis, during a large federal immigration enforcement operation, she was shot and killed by an officer from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while seated…
MUMBAI: The 12 Congress corporators who were suspended from the party for supporting the BJP-led alliance in the Ambernath Municipal Council, along with former Congress Block President Pradeep Patil, formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday. The induction took place in the presence of BJP Maharashtra state president Ravindra Chavan, marking a significant…
