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Pitches used to attract men were ‘Playboy Service,’ and ‘cheap loan services’; they were asked for registration fee, hotel tariffs, with lure of eventual payout. “Impregnate a childless woman and get paid in lakhs” — this offer trapped several men from across India before they could realise that they were being scammed. Police in Bihar’s Nawada district have now busted the gang. The offer was seemingly straightforward, promising financial reward in exchange for having sex with childless women and impregnating them, along with offering fake jobs and cheap loans. Hundreds of men from across the country fell prey to the…

Earlier this week, Carney remarked that sovereignty of Greenland, Denmark should be respected, however, he made no mention of Trump’s past threats to Canada. After United States President Donald Trump’s military action on Venezuela — in which American forces “captured” the country’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife to put them on trial in New York — and his continued threats to Denmark over Greenland, Trump’s past remarks on his desire to annex Canada have made a fear-inducing comeback in the country. Among viral arguments around Trump’s threat to “make Canada the 51st state of the US”, is a column…

Asked about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s cryptic remarks hinting that Putin could be next after Maduro’s seizure, Trump gave a direct reply. US President Donald Trump on Friday played down suggestions that Washington could launch a dramatic operation against Russian President Vladimir Putin similar to the raid that led to the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, saying such a move was “not necessary” even as he voiced deep disappointment over the Ukraine war. Asked about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s cryptic remarks hinting that Putin could be next after Maduro’s seizure, Trump told reporters, “I don’t think it’s going to be…

The strikes caused major power outages, while European leaders condemned the escalation of aggression amidst worsening US-Russia relations. At least four people were killed and 25 were injured in Kyiv as Russia on Friday bombed Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles in a large-scale overnight attack. Over the last four years of war-torn situations, this was the second time that the country used a powerful, new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine, in what is being seen as a warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies and the West. Russia’s move comes just a few days after relations between Moscow and…

Soon after the murder, the police started looking for Mukesh, whose car was found abandoned on the Betwa river bridge, with its fog lights on and the door open. The mystery surrounding the murder of Anita Chaudhary, Jhansi’s first woman auto-rickshaw driver, ended on Saturday after police arrested the prime accused, unearthing a tale of love and betrayal. Anita Choudhary, 45, was found dead, her body soaked in blood near the Station Road in Jhansi under the Navabad police station limits, around 2.30 am on Monday. She had left home for work at around 9.30 pm on Sunday, January 4,…

Earlier on Thursday as well, Ajit Pawar had signalled that the rival NCP factions could permanently come together after the ongoing municipal elections. Days ahead of the civic body polls in Maharashtra, the state’s deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar said that workers of both the factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the one with him and the other one with this uncle Sharad Pawar, want to reunite and that the tensions within the Pawar clan have been resolved. “The workers of both parties want to unite. The two NCPs are together now. All tensions in our family have ended,”.…

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied bail to student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 Delhi riots. Days after the Supreme Court denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, two main accused in the 2020 Delhi riots case, the Ministry of External Affairs reacted to newly sworn-in New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s hand-written note to Khalid and said that “expressing personal prejudices do not behove those in office”. In the note addressed to Khalid, Mamdani had written, “I think of your words on bitterness often, and the importance of not letting…

Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem said in a post on X, “The world’s criminals are on notice.” The United States said on Friday that it seized another tanker in the Caribbean Sea that left Venezuela and tried to evade the US forces by breaking an American naval blockade aimed at preventing sanctioned oil from leaving Venezuela. This is the fifth ship the US has seized in the recent weeks. Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem said in a post on X, “The world’s criminals are on notice. Early this morning, the @USCG executed a boarding and seizure of the Motor Tanker…

The bus was travelling from Shimla to Kupvi via Rajgarh when it went off the road near Haripurdhar village and plunged nearly 500 feet into the gorge. 14 people have been killed and over 20 others injured after a private bus fell into a 500-feet deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh. The incident took place on Friday afternoon in the Sirmaur district. The bus was travelling from Shimla to Kupvi via Rajgarh when it went off the road near Haripurdhar village and plunged nearly 500 feet into the gorge. The vehicle landed upside down at the site of the accident, which…

I-PAC said that the agency have extended full cooperation and engage with the process in complete accordance with the law. A day after Enforcement Directorate conducted raids at the residence of I-PAC head Pratik Jain, the political consultancy firm raised “serious concerns” over the raids, calling the move an “unsettling precedent”. “Officials from the Enforcement Directorate carried out searches at the I-PAC office and at the residence of our Director, Pratik Jain, in Kolkata. It was a difficult and unfortunate day for a professional organisation like I-PAC. We believe this raises serious concerns and sets an unsettling precedent,” I-PAC’s statement…