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Lahore, June 4: Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, which is probing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son and Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz in a multi-billion rupees money laundering case, on Saturday requested the court to allow their arrest for further investigation. The court, however, extended their pre-arrest bail until June 11. The FIA also filed an interim investigation

Bengaluru, June 4: Angered by his mother’s reluctance to get him a new mobile phone, a 26-year-old man in Bengaluru strangulated his mother to death, the police said. The accused, identified as Deepak, a resident of Mylasandra, was arrested on June 3. His mother Fathima Mary (45) and her family members lived by selling home-grown crops in local markets. Based on Deepak’s version, his younger

Mandya, June 4: Karnataka's historical town Srirangapatna has turned into a police fortress on Saturday against the backdrop of Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) "Srirangapatna Chalo" call to chant Hanuman Chalisa in Jamia Masjid. The district administration has clamped curfew from Friday evening till Sunday morning in the town. District Superintendent of Police Yathish N stated that

Kanpur, June 4: Thirty-six people have so far been arrested in connection with the violence that erupted in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur on Friday over insulting remarks on Prophet Muhammad by a BJP spokesperson, police said today. The arrests were made after police scoured video clips to identify the people involved in violence, officials said, adding that three First Information Reports or FIRs have

Kuwait City, June 4: An earthquake shook Kuwait early on Saturday morning. According to an official tweet from the Kuwait Fire Force, the quake measured 4.4 on the Richter scale. The tweet also said officials did not record any damage due to the incident. The UAE's National Center of Meteorology recorded the earthquake's magnitude as 5.5.

Twitter Inc said on Friday, June 3, the waiting period under the HSR Act for Elon Musk's $44-billion acquisition of the social media firm has expired. Completion of the deal is now subject to remaining customary closing conditions, including approval by Twitter stockholders and the receipt of applicable regulatory approvals, Twitter said. The HSR Act, or the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust

Mangaluru, June 3: Accusing the Syndicate of the Mangalore University of acting at the behest of BJP’s student ABVP, Mangalore University Students Coordination Committee (Vidyarthi Samanvaya Samithi or VSM) has warned of massive protest if the former fails to withdraw decision on banning headscarves of Muslim inside the classrooms. At a press conference, the VSM today demanded Mangalore University

Bengaluru, June 3: The Karnataka Congress has issued a whip to all its lawmakers asking them to vote for the party’s candidates in the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections. With this, the Congress has shown determination to go ahead with its general secretary Mansoor Ali Khan as the party’s second candidate, even as it has numbers to surely win one. Opposition Chief Whip Ajay Dharam Singh has asked all

Kalaburgi, June 3: As many as seven passengers of a private bus are suspected to have been charred to death in an accident that happened on the outskirts of the Kamalapura town in Kalaburagi district in the early hours of Friday. The bus caught fire after an accident between a tempo trax and a bus. The bus with 29 people, was going to Hyderabad from Goa. The injured have been admitted to various

New Delhi, June 2: The government has limited subsidy on cooking gas LPG for only 9 crore poor women and other beneficiaries who got free connections under the Ujjwala scheme and the remaining users including households will pay the market price. Oil Secretary Pankaj Jain at a news briefing said no subsidy is paid on cooking gas since June 2020 and the only subsidy that is provided is the one that