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Anju became friends on the social media platform Facebook a few months ago.  After Seema Haider, a woman from India crossed the border and is now in Pakistan Even as the Pakistani national Seema Haider remained in the discussion for illegally entering India through the Nepal border with her four children, another similar incident has come to the fore. Now, an Indian woman has crossed the border to meet her lover. A married Indian woman from Rajasthan’s Bhiwadi district has travelled to Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to meet a man she befriended and fell in love with on Facebook, police said on Sunday.  Nasrullah and Anju became friends on Facebook The woman, identified as Anju (34), had gone across the border leaving behind her two children and husband to meet the man named Nasrulla. Nasrullah, who works in the medical field and Anju became friends on Facebook a few months ago, ARY News reported. After reaching Lahore, she called her husband (Arvind) and t...

Gurvinder Nath was delivering pizza at around 2:10 am on July 9 in Mississauga's Britannia and Creditview roads, when unknown suspects confronted him and tried to steal his vehicle, CTV News channel reported.                         Multiple witnesses rushed him to a hospital where he died on July 14. Toronto: A 24-year-old Indian student, who worked as a food delivery partner in Canada, has been killed after he was violently assaulted during a deadly carjacking, according to media reports. Gurvinder Nath was delivering pizza at around 2:10 am on July 9 in Mississauga’s Britannia and Creditview roads, when unknown suspects confronted him and tried to steal his vehicle, CTV News channel reported. “Investigators do believe that there are multiple suspects involved and that the food order was placed as a means of luring the driver to this specific area,” Inspector Phil King of Peel Regional Police’s Homicide Bureau said, a...

Elon Musk tweeted, "And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds". Elon Musk.  Elon Musk on Sunday suggested his decision to change Twitter’s logo. He tweeted, saying: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds”. Reuters referred to Musk’s post on the site at 12.06 am ET (0406 GMT), and added, the social media platform’s billionaire owner added: “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make (it) go live worldwide tomorrow.” According to NDTV, the billionaire has had the name ‘X’ on his mind for some time now. Musk bought Twitter last year for $44 billion and merged the company into an entity called X Corp. While welcoming new CEO Linda Yaccarino in April, he had tweeted, “Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app”. NDTV recalled that in October, he had said, “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”. Musk’s remark, accordi...

Realtors in the city pointed out that land rates, registration charges, construction materials, and labour costs have increased since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Real estate is getting dearer.  HYDERABAD: Developers across the city are finding it increasingly difficult to purchase land and build low-margin mass housing projects as land rates have soared. As a result, sales in the affordable housing category have been hampered. Surprisingly, over the course of one year, both the supply and sales of such houses have decreased by 50 per cent in Hyderabad. According to Anarock Property Consultants, the number of affordable houses sold in the first half of the fiscal year (H1) 2022 was 1,460, but this figure dropped to 720 in H1 2023. Similarly, the new supply of affordable units saw a significant decline from 1,220 to 685 during the same period. A mere three years ago, purchasing a flat or an independent house in Hyderabad was not an unattainable dream for middle-class buyer...

Foreign fund outflows and crude oil prices hovering above USD 80 per barrel also weighed on equity markets. Image used for representational purpose only.  MUMBAI: Equity benchmark indices declined in early trade on Monday, extending corrections from their life-time peaks for the second consecutive session, dragged down by index heavyweight Reliance Industries after the company missed street estimates due to weak performance in oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business. Foreign fund outflows and crude oil prices hovering above USD 80 per barrel also weighed on equity markets as traders were awaiting the US Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision to be announced this week. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 87.24 points or 0.13 to 66,597.02. The broader NSE Nifty fell 10.65 points or 0.05 per cent to 19,734.35. From the Sensex pack, Kotak Mahindra tanked more than 3 per cent and Reliance tumbled close to 2 per cent in the initial trade. “RIL Q1 Results misses street estimates due to weak perf...

The cause of the crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. This photo provided by North Slope Borough shows an aerial view of a shallow lake where a helicopter crashed on Alaska's North Slope near Utqiagvik, Alaska, Thursday, July 20, 2023.  ANCHORAGE (Alaska): Alaska search and rescue divers recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three scientists on Sunday from the sunken wreckage of their aircraft, which went down in a shallow lake last week on the remote North Slope, authorities said. The cause of the crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. The only way to raise the wreckage will be to use another helicopter because it’s in the middle of one of the many lakes scattered across the vast tundra, said Clint Johnson, the chief of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska region. “In Alaska, here during the fire season, commercial helicopters are at a premium. So we are having challenges getting a heli...

According to police chargesheet, the accused Ramesh Chandra Katara (55) had clips of sexually assaulting the girls on his mobile phone.                                Rajasthan headmaster accused of raping students, making video clips  JAIPUR: Amidst the debate over the Ashok Gehlot government regarding women’s safety in Rajasthan, another shameful incident has come to the fore in the tribal Dungarpur district where a government school headmaster has been allegedly raping minor girls after showing them clips of pornography. According to police chargesheet, the accused Ramesh Chandra Katara (55) had clips of sexually assaulting the girls on his mobile phone. Nude video clips of exploiting girls have been found in his mobile and have been confirmed by the FSL report. He was caught when parents started complaining that the headmaster was calling the girls in school to his office on Sundays and holid...