FIR filed against ex-BJP MP Pratap Simha over ‘provocative’ speech during Ganesha procession | India News

In the grand procession of Lord Ganesha organized by the Hindu Jagarana Vedike and the Hindu Mahaganapati Pratishthapana Committee in T. Narasipura. NEW DELHI: Karnataka Police on Sunday registered an FIR against former BJP MP Pratap Simha and others over an alleged provocative speech made during a Ganesha idol procession in T Narasipura, Mysuru.The FIR…

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Australian couple spent $500,000 building their retirement home; it was constructed on the wrong block and later had to be moved 100 metres | World News

Couple had built their home on the neighbour’s block, PC: A Current Affair Melanie and David Moor spent more than $500,000 on what they expected to be their retirement home in Camperdown, south-west Victoria, only to discover that the house had been placed entirely on a neighbouring block. The couple had bought land in a…

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31 years ago, Ganesha ‘drank’ milk and India went viral: How a September 21, 1995 claim spread from temple to temple, crossed borders within hours and became a global story without social media | India News

People offering milk to Lord Ganesha Thirty-one years ago, on September 21, 1995, I came home from school to find that something was strangely different. My aunt, who would diligently wait for me every day and was always the one to serve me lunch, was missing. She was more than just the person who fed…

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Kasim Khan: ‘Broke into house, forced them into vehicles’: Imran Khan’s son alleges aunts, cousins ‘abducted’ in Pakistan

Pakistani Police has already arrested ex-PM Imran Khan’s sister in Lahore ahead of party’s planned march. (Reuters photo) Days before Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s planned September 27 protest march, former prime minister Imran Khan‘s son Kasim Khan has alleged that several members of his extended family have been detained and that their whereabouts have not been disclosed.In a…

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IIT-Bombay student suicide case: Institute apologises over earlier remarks; student affairs dean suspended | India News

IIT Bombay suspends Dean Suryanarayana Doolla MUMBAI: IIT-Bombay placed Prof Suryanarayana Doolla on immediate suspension from his deanship, following continued students’ protests on campus for the last three days. Prof Doolla was the dean of administrative affairs. He was accused of abetment of Sahil Wakode’s death by suicide. Wakode’s family also filed a case of…

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In 1959, Sebastian Scirpo started a Connecticut livestock auction in a rented chicken coop and made $7 on his first commission; 67 years later, his daughters run the state’s last remaining sale barn

Since her father died in 2002, Lisa Scirpo has been working to persuade farmers and dealers that the Middlesex Livestock Auction will continue as the only sale barn in Connecticut. Without it, Scirpo said farmers who want to bring animals to auction would have to travel to Massachusetts or Pennsylvania. But now, farmers in those…

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Kejriwal, Sisodia, Sanjay Singh get 4 weeks to reply in Delhi HC contempt case | India News

The Delhi High Court will hear a criminal contempt case against AAP leaders on November 16 NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday listed for hearing on November 16 a criminal contempt case against AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and others over allegedly “vilifying” social media posts targeting Justice Swarana Kanta…

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A Florida music hall that hosted Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles closed in 1968; after a four-year, $4.8 million renovation, St Petersburg has reopened it

A new mural by artist Egypt Hagan has been added to the property. St Petersburg’s historic Manhattan Casino reopened on Saturday, 58 years after it closed, following a four-year renovation of the 101-year-old building. According to St Pete Catalyst, the city has spent $4.8 million on the two-storey property, which will now operate as a…

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‘Method of disenfranchising Indians’: Kharge slams SIR, calls it a ‘Frankenstein monster’ | India News

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has lambasted the Election Commission’s electoral roll revision, labeling it a misguided ‘Frankenstein Monster’ that adversely affects its constituents Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday stepped up his attack on the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, describing the exercise as a “Frankenstein Monster” after several prominent political…

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