The winner of the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot in August has come forward to claim the prize. Under a new Florida law, the winner’s name remains anonymous for 90 days. It is unknown whether the winner took the lump sum or the annuity, and the estimated lump sum amount was not specified. The...
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Four children have drowned in two separate incidents in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur and Tirupattur districts. In Tiruvallur, a seven-year-old boy and his six-year-old sister fell into a pit while playing near a private rice mill under construction. In Tirupattur, two girls aged 10 and 13 drowned in a trench on their school premises.
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The judicial custody of Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal has been extended until October 4 by a special PMLA court in Mumbai. The court has also asked for a report from the jail CMO regarding Goyal’s health status and issues that have occurred since his remand. Goyal’s lawyers have submitted pleas for home-cooked food...
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Celebrated stand-up artist Trevor Noah recently announced that both shows at the Manpho Convention Centre in Bengaluru scheduled for September 27 and 28 were cancelled last minute due to ‘technical issues’. The show ended abruptly as the audience couldn’t hear anything because of bad acoustics.
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India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, has stated that it is not the government’s policy to carry out transnational killings. He also mentioned that if Canada has specific information regarding the assassination of Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, India is open to reviewing it. Jaishankar highlighted Canada’s permissive approach to extremist violence by anti-India...
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Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of Calcutta HC questioned whether the CBI could investigate a former Supreme Court judge who may have had an understanding with an accused in the Bengal primary teacher recruitment scam. The judge instructed the state to not obstruct the ongoing investigations by the CBI and ED and directed the immediate transfer...
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