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London sides with Ottawa in diplomatic row with India | India News – Times of India

LONDON: The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) issued on Wednesday a statement siding with Canada in the diplomatic firestorm that has erupted between Ottawa and New Delhi, saying India’s “cooperation with Canada’s legal process was the right next step”.The FCDO issued a strongly worded statement “on the ongoing Canadian investigation linked to the govt of India”.The heading, in big bold letters, read: “Canadian investigation linked to the Govt of India.”The statement quoted an FCDO spokesperson as saying: “We are in contact with our Canadian partners about the serious developments outlined in the independent investigations in Canada. The UK has full confidence in Canada’s judicial system. Respect for sovereignty and the rule of law is essential…”The diplomatic row ha...

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Saudi cartoonist gets 23-year prison sentence: rights group

Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images A Saudi artist has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison over political cartoons that allegedly insulted the Gulf kingdom's leadership, his sister and a rights group said this week.The case against Mohammed al-Hazza, 48, adds to concerns about freedom of expression under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as Saudi Arabia — the world's largest crude oil exporter — seeks to open up to tourists and investors after years of isolation.The father of five was arrested in February 2018 in Saudi Arabia during "a violent raid" in which security forces entered his home and ransacked his studio, the London-based Sanad Human Rights Organisation said in a statement.A court document says the charges against him concern "offensive cartoons"...

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Honour killing case: SC cuts death to life term – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday awarded 20-year jail term without remission to a man for strangulating his nine-month pregnant daughter to death for marrying a lower caste person against his wish in 2013 and commuted the death sentence given by trial court and Bombay HC, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.A bench of Justices Gavai, Aravind Kumar and Viswanathan convicted him for the offence but granted him life saying the case did come in rarest of rare category.Interestingly it was his wife and mother of his daughter whose testimony proved to be decisive as she deposed that her husband was angry with deceased as she married out of their caste.The top court took a sympathetic view after noting the satisfactory conduct of the convict in jail. It said the nature of crime should not be only r...

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It’s Hooda vs Selja again before election of Haryana CLP – Times of India

CHANDIGARH: After a week-long lull, lobbying is back in Haryana Congress with 31 of the total 37 newly-elected party MLAs going into a huddle at the residence of former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Delhi Wednesday, two days ahead of the legislature party's meeting to pick its new leader, reports Manvir Saini. Five MLAs close to Hooda's bete noire, Sirsa LS MP Selja, stayed away from the meeting.Political observers say Congress is likely to go for a non-Jat candidate as CLP leader as projecting Hooda, a Jat, cost the party dear in the assembly polls with BJP successfully consolidating non-Jat votes and winning back a section of Dalits at many places.According to reports, the anti-Hooda section is rooting for Panchkula MLA Chander Mohan for the CLP leader's post. The legislator from Bishnoi c...

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‘Turns out Trump was right’: FBI ‘quietly’ updates crime data, reveals increase – Times of India

During the September 10 presidential debate, Trump was fact-checked by ABC News moderator David Muir, who noted that the “FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.” In 2021, the FBI moved to a new system of collecting crime data — the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and retired its Summary Reporting System (SRS). When Donald Trump said during the debate that crime incidents increased in the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, he was fact-checked. MAGA supporters Wednesday said the FBI quietly adjusted its 2022 figures in recent weeks -- after the debate and the new numbers show Trump was right. First reported by RealClearInvestigations (RCI), the new numbers show that the raw number of violent crime incidents — including murders, assaults and rapes...

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Entertainment

‘Salman Khan’s close friendship identified as the main motive behind Baba Siddique’s murder,’ says Mumbai Crime Branch on Lawrence Bishnoi gang | Hindi Movie News – Times of India

The Mumbai Crime Branch has revealed a disturbing motive behind the recent murder of prominent politician Baba Siddique. According to their investigation, Siddique’s close association with Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who has been on the Bishnoi gang's hit list due to his involvement in the blackbuck poaching case, played a crucial role in his killing. Sources have indicated that Siddique's murder is seen as a direct message from the gang to those emotionally or financially supporting the actor.A senior police officer confirmed to mid-day that the Bishnoi gang has been targeting individuals close to Salman Khan.The officer also connected Siddique's murder to the recent shooting outside Punjabi singer AP Dhillon's house in Canada, where the gang claimed responsibility. Dhillon had colla...

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DMK neta’s son found dead, family blames sand mafia – Times of India

VELLORE: A DMK functionary's son, reported missing since Saturday, was found dead on a neighbour's farmland at Pernampet in Tamil Nadu's Vellore on Tuesday. His feet were entangled in an iron wire and there were injuries to the head.Family claimed that this comes in the wake of complaints that the deceased, S Prasanth, and his father K Srinivasan, had lodged with police and the collectorate about large-scale illegal sand mining near their farm.Srinivasan, a functionary of Pernampet's DMK unit, is a govt contractor from Pandalathotti.His family had lodged a 'missing person' complaint with the Pernampet police on Saturday. When they found his body on Tuesday, his relatives, friends and others gathered in large numbers and prevented a police team from recovering it. They blocked the road link...

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Re-elect me Delhi CM for continuation of our govt.’s welfare schemes: Kejriwal

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi CM Atishi engrossed in a discussion at the launch of the party’s outreach programme for the upcoming Assembly poll in New Delhi on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday launched a public outreach programme under which party workers will go door to door with a copy of a letter written by him explaining why he and other leaders were put in jail.He also urged people to re-elect him as the Chief Minister in the Assembly poll scheduled for February next year, claiming that if the BJP comes to power, it will stop the AAP government’s various welfare initiatives, especially those linked to electricity and water.Mr. Kejriwal had quit as the Chief Mini...

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Business

Diaspora key to India’s 2047 development goal, says President Murmu in Mauritania

Nouakchott (Mauritania), Oct 16 (PTI): Emphasising India's goal of becoming a developed nation by 2047, President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday acknowledged the crucial role of the Indian diaspora in achieving this vision while addressing the community members in the Mauritanian capital. The president arrived here earlier in the day on the second leg of her three-nation visit to Africa. It is the first visit to Mauritania by an Indian leader at the highest level since the African nation won independence in 1960. "We are rapidly moving towards our goal of making India a ‘Developed India’ by the year 2047, and our diaspora family is a very important factor in this process," Murmu said at a community reception organised here. Expressing gratitude to the host nation, she said, "I express my grat...

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Opinion

Letters to The Editor — October 17, 2024

Fraying ties The question that India has to ask itself is this: why has Canada come out with such startling allegations about our ‘fundamental error’ in violating its sovereignty in the matter of the Nijjar killing? The Prime Minister of Canada has eschewed diplomatic euphemisms and done plain-speaking about Indian machinations. India owes Canada a suitable reply instead of outright repudiation, casual dismissal, and expulsions of Canadian diplomats. Stout denial cannot be our foreign policy. Had there been a reversal of roles, there is no doubt that the Indian media would have gone to town with righteous indignation. Our credibility is at stake. R. Thomas Paul, Bengaluru The row is definitely getting murkier. However, it is a sort of an odd compliment to the power of the Indian diaspora —...