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Hospitals in the Iranian capital, Tehran, are overflowing with corpses, earthmovers clearing bodies from the streets, and families being forced to pay for the bullets that killed their children — this is the picture Iranians living in India say they are receiving from loved ones back home.Abgine Khaki, a native of Tehran who now lives…
Representatives of Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA said Tuesday they had appealed the US-forced sale of its prized Houston-based subsidiary Citgo to pay off creditors.Citgo is in the crosshairs of creditors seeking the settlement of debts in excess of $20 billion that cash-strapped Caracas has been unable or unwilling to pay.In late November, a Delaware…
CUTTACK: Criticising parents for forcing women to marry against their will, Orissa high court has observed that consent is paramount in such cases and urged sensitisation to end parental imposition. The observation came while upholding a 21-year-old woman’s right to live independently, ruling that her choice must prevail over parental or societal pressure.Disposing of a…
Iran has imposed sweeping restrictions on communication, shutting down internet services and telephone lines across large parts of the country as protests against economic hardship intensified on Thursday. There are also concerns that authorities may attempt to interfere with satellite signals to prevent footage of the unrest from reaching the outside world.Amid the clampdown, exiled…
KOCHI: ED deputy director P Radhakrishnan, who investigated the 2020 diplomatic-channel gold smuggling case in which the then principal secretary to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan was implicated, has been asked to go on premature retirement with five years of service remaining. Sources said Union govt issued the order a week ago with President’s approval. Radhakrishnan…
LUCKNOW: Police have initiated attachment proceedings against absconding KGMU resident doctor Rameezuddin, accused of sexual exploitation, forced religious conversion and miscarriage by two women colleagues. Investigations have indicated he may have targeted more women, particularly those from the medical fraternity. Notices for attachment were pasted on Wednesday at three properties linked to him – a…
Google’s Gemini 3 has once again emerged as a formidable rival of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. The Google chatbot has managed to deliver superior results across reasoning, coding and multimodal benchmarking. As per industry analysts, Gemini 3 has consistently outperformed ChatGPT in MMLU reasoning tasks, programming accuracy and multimodal comprehension, making Google has the new leader…
PALGHAR: An alleged ragging incident at a private medical college hostel in Maharashtra’s Palghar district has led to police action and the suspension of a hostel warden and a teacher, after a female student was reportedly forced to perform namaz, according to news agency PTI. The incident occurred on Sunday night at the institute located…
Indonesian-American model, Manohara Odelia (Picture from her Instagram account) Indonesian-American model, Manohara Odelia, has accused the Malaysian royal family of coercing her into marrying Prince Tengku Fakhry.In a social media post on Instagram, Odelia said her relationship with the prince was neither romantic nor consensual. The 33-year-old model claimed the relationship was not legal, as…
Silchar: A 17-year-old schoolgirl in Assam’s Cachar district tried to die by suicide after videos of her ‘forced’ sexual acts with a 19-year-old youth were allegedly leaked on social media by the latter, who subjected her to continuous sexual torture and multiple threats of acid attacks.According to the FIR filed by the girl’s family on…
