Gurmeet Ram Rahim and 4 others were sentenced to life by a special CBI court in Panchkula, as per Indian Express. This was for the 2002 Ranjit Singh murder case. The other 4 are Krishan Singh, Jasbir Singh, Avtar Singh, and Sabdil who all were fined Rs 50,000 each. Ram Rahim has been lodged in …
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Cristelle Hart Singh is a lady with a kind heart. For more than 20 years, the Anglo-Swiss national has been involved in social work in Kochi, mainly among children who are victims of sexual abuse, as per The New Indian Express. She began by working with a Mumbai NGO. There she worked with street kids. “I fell in love with …
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Several demonstrators marched down Rome’s famous Via Veneto and clashed with the cops while protesting Italy’s new “Green Pass” vaccination requirement for employees to be able to enter offices, as per AP. It is mandatory from October 15 onwards in both public and private workplaces. Both employees and employers risk fines if there’s no compliance. The passes indicate that a …
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Two men who were rescued after being lost at sea for 29 days when their tracker stopped working said ‘it was a nice break’ from reality. Livae Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni from Mono Island on September 3. They were in a small 60-horsepower motorboat, as per The Guardian. But that became a battle to survive when the tracker did not …
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There is an auto driver in Tirupati who is a nature lover and also an environmentalist. As per The New Indian Express, Kompala Babu’s auto is a reflection of his love and concern for the environment. The 58-year-old hails from Kesineni Gunta in Tirupati city and he has kept plant saplings in his auto with an aim to promote greenery …
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Income Tax Department officials were at the premises linked to actor Sonu Sood in Mumbai and some other places regarding an alleged tax evasion probe, according to official sources, as per PTI. They said it was being done in at least 6 locations in Mumbai and Lucknow. TOI There was no clarity if it was happening at Sood’s residence too. …
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Crime against women in cities is down by 21.1% in the year 2020 when compared to 2019, according to the latest report of the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), as per IANS. 2020 saw 35,331 cases while the tally in 2019 was 44,783. The report also stated that most of the cases were under ‘Cruelty by Husband or his Relatives’ …
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A 17-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu allegedly took her own life and this is the 3rd death linked to the NEET exam in less than a week, as per NDTV. She was a daily wager’s daughter and she had taken NEET 2021 or the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test exam for admission to undergraduate medical courses. The teenager was worried …
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Orda is a tribal village in Odisha. It comes under the Gobara panchayat in the Cuttack district. Because it cannot be plotted on a digital device, the health department sent a vaccination team to administer the COVID vaccine to the villagers. But the tribals fled to the forests in order to avoid being vaccinated. Local community members are not in …
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Anthill Creation is an NGO based in Bengaluru. Their mission in life is to build playgrounds for children from scrap, as per The New Indian Express. The leader of the team is IIT Kharagpur alumnus Pooja Rai and the members put their technical knowledge to good use to provide underprivileged kids with the room to explore and enjoy their childhood. …
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