Day: July 13, 2020

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Accusations of serial assault spark new #MeToo wave in Egypt

11:59 pm July 13, 2020

Cairo: Their accounts are similar. The girls and women describe meeting the young man — a former student at Egypt’s most elite university — in person and online, followed by deceit, then escalating sexual harassment, assault, blackmail, or rape. Some were minors when the alleged crimes took place. In all, more than 100 accusers have […]

Indian newspapers from 1966 recovered from melting French glacier

11:55 pm July 13, 2020

London: Indian newspaper copies with headlines such as “India’s First Woman Prime Minister”, referring to Indira Gandhi’s election win in 1966, have been recovered from the melting French glacier of Bossons on the Mont Blanc mountain range in western Europe, 54 years after an Air India plane crashed there. The newspapers belong to the residue of an Air India plane that crashed into Europe’s […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

I-T raids in Delhi, Jaipur against Rajasthan-based business groups

11:50 pm July 13, 2020

New Delhi: Amid a full-blown crisis in the ruling Congress in Rajasthan, the Income Tax Department on Monday carried out searches at business establishments, including a popular jewellery chain, linked to party leaders for alleged tax evasion. Though there was no official statement on the development, sources in the Income Tax Department said that searches were carried out in four cities — Delhi, Jaipur, Kota and […]

Gold smuggling accused Swapna, PWC booked by police over complaint of fake degree

11:44 pm July 13, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: Prime accused in the gold smuggling case Swapna Suresh and two firms, including PricewaterHouseCoopers, were on Monday booked on charges of cheating and forgery by Kerala police over alleged fake degree certificate submitted by her to secure a job in the state IT department, from which she has been removed now. The consulting agency […]

Rape accused escapes from police post in Jammu

11:40 pm July 13, 2020

Jammu: A rape accused escaped from custody here on Monday, prompting a massive police search, an official said. Pankaj Gupta (35) was held on Sunday, following registration of a rape case against him at police post Tallab Tillo, he said. Gupta escaped by pushing a policeman and scaling the boundary wall of the police post, […]

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