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He then pushed her into a canal believing her to be dead. The victim was rescued by locals who spotted her in the canal. She is undergoing treatment at a local hospital, said police on Wednesday.The accused was married and a father of two children. He took this step as the woman had decided to end her relationship with him after her marriage was fixed with another person, said the police spokesman.“The police launched a hunt for the man after the woman confirmed the identity of her culprit as Gash-u-Zama Khan, 32, and arrested him along with his elder brother…

The 35-year-old assistant professor was hacked to death on Tuesday, allegedly by armed robbers who barged into his house.Three of his family members were also critically injured.The main accused Shahbaz was arrested later in the evening on Tuesday but he snatched the firearm of an inspector while he was being taken to court and was shot dead in the encounter.According to reports, neighbours found the family, including assistant Professor Alok Gupta, lying in a pool of blood. His wife Sonam, father Sudheer Gupta and brother Prashant were among the injured.In a police complaint, Sonam said, “I was asleep in my…

New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Meta-owned WhatsApp is apparently testing a version of its iOS app that is also optimised for Apple iPad.WhatsApp for iPad is currently under testing which can now be installed via the TestFlight app for all beta testers who can already use the beta app on their mobile devices, reports WABetaInfo.The version 23.19.1.71 of WhatsApp’s TestFlight app includes the new iPad.To set up WhatsApp on your iPad, you’ll need to have the beta iOS version of the app installed on your iPhone and iPad.“Once this is done, you need to use WhatsApp on your iPhone and…

A senior customs official said that the accused was held based on profiling, adding that both the accused arrived at Chandigarh Airport from Dubai.”We checked their luggage which led to the detection of 12 gold biscuits weighing 1400 grams valued at Rs 83 lakhs. They were smuggling it in a cigarette pack,” said the official.The recovered gold was confiscated under the provisions of Section 110 of the Customs Act, and the passengers were subsequently arrested under Section 104 of the Customs Act.Further investigation into the matter is on.–IANSatk/shb

The Red Sand Boa is a rare non-poisonous snake and is used to make medicines, cosmetics and in black magic, hence, is in demand globally.The STF officials said one Red Sand Boa snake fetches several lakh rupees internationally.They said this snake is protected under Schedule IV of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, and was included in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species in 2021.Those arrested on Tuesday were identified as two Gorakhpur residents — Om Prakash Singh and Mohd Saifudeen, a Varanasi resident Ram Shankar Maurya and an Azamgarh resident Raja Ram Yadav.–IANSamita/dpb

The Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll poll released this week found the US president trailing behind GOP candidates, Donald Trump, Haley and Tim Scott but ahead of Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.When asked about a hypothetical matchup between Haley and Biden in 2024, 41 per cent of respondents said they would back her, in comparison to 37 per cent who said they would support the current president.Twenty-one per cent of respondents said they didn’t know or were unsure who they would support — Biden or Haley.“No question that President Joe Biden is showing lagging national poll numbers and…

The incident occurred in the Gulaharia Bazaar area of Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur on Monday evening but the FIR was lodged on Tuesday after which two persons were detained.The victim, Yashoda Devi, was trying to protect her 15-year-old son, Vikki, who had been attacked by Balwant Singh and hisdaughter, Khushboo, the police said.According to police, Singh and one Prakash Sharma had got into a fist fight. Vikki, who was standing nearby, started filming the exchange of blows on his cell phone. Singh became enraged and attacked Vikki instead.When Yashoda Devi intervened, Singh attacked her with a brick.She suffered a blow on…

The incident, which had taken place in a village under the limits of Akbarpur police station of the district late on Sunday night, came to light after police lodged FIR under sections 376 of IPC and section 5/6 of the POCSO Act on the complaint of the girl’s mother on Tuesday.Both children have been sent to the district hospital and medical report has confirmed rape.The five-year-old girl’s mother said her daughter had gone out to play when the incident took place.Akbarpur Kotwali police station inspector Satish Singh said police were treating this case with caution.“If a child below seven years…

The children were identified as Yug (6), and Yogesh Shukla (4).Their grandmother Uttama Devi (70), who tried to save them, was also severely injured in the attack on Tuesday and is undergoing treatment at the district hospital.Sadar circle officer Shilpa Verma said that the two children were going to a government ration shop in Madnapur village with their grandmother when the incident took place.”Villagers tried to smoke away the bees, but it was too late,” said Verma.The children were taken to a private hospital, but the doctors declared them dead.The children’s parents were inconsolable and the villagers were shocked and…

Ellison, while addressing the keynote at Oracle’s flagship ‘CloudWorld’ event here, said that to build artificial intelligence (AI) for a better future, it will come with associated risks like all new technologies.“Generative AI raised concerns about governments who talked about regulating it. Even the Hollywood Writers’ strike is partially based on them being concerned about their jobs.. who’s going to write their next script, is it going to be the guy you know or some computer you don’t.”Everyone wants to know what comes next.. what I think comes next is a worldwide race to build what comes next,” the tech…