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A District Court jury in Sydney has found Balesh Dhankhar, who led the Overseas Friends of the BJP in New South Wales, Australia, guilty of sexually assaulting five women after lying to them and paralysing them with drugs. Dubbed by the Australian media as “one of the worst rapists in Sydney’s recent history”, Dhankhar’s position […]
Settling down in the US is a prospect that continues to lure families from Gujarat. The desire to earn and spend in the greenback spurs even families of moderate means to risking their life to give it a try. The most recent case being that of the Chaudhury family from Mehsana. Nearly a month after […]
Following their disappearance at a lake east of the Paynetown Marina in the US, two Indian students’ bodies have been found, reported media outlets. Two Indiana students went missing in Lake Monroe last Saturday afternoon, according to the USA Today newspaper, and their bodies were found late Tuesday morning. Around 11:20 a.m. (local time), the […]
Twitter has eliminated the legacy blue tick from all accounts a few days ago. With the introduction of Twitter Blue, a paid subscription service, only users who have subscribed will be able to access some brand-new features and have a blue checkmark in front of their names. Due to this trend, numerous famous people and […]
Two sanitation workers, identified as Gopal Padhar (24) and Bijal Padhar (32), died of asphyxiation while cleaning a sewage line in Dholka town, Ahmedabad district, on Saturday evening. The police reported the incident on Sunday. According to the authorities, the workers fell unconscious after entering the sewage line to clean it. They were rushed to […]
A special IAF aircraft carrying the radical preacher Amritpal Singh from Punjab landed at Dibrugarh airport and was brought to the Dibrugarh Central Jail, situated 15km away from the airport, by road under heavy security cover in Assam on Sunday, according to officials. Amritpal was brought aboard the special flight from Bathinda after his arrest […]
After being in hiding for more than a month, the fugitive preacher Amritpal Singh surrendered this morning in Moga, Punjab. Amritpal Singh, who the government accuses of being a Khalistani-Pakistan agent, addressed a gathering at a Gurdwara in the Moga district’s Rode village before turning himself in. According to officials, he was taken into custody […]
The 8th Additional Sessions Judge, Surat, Robin P. Mogera, in his April 20 order dismissing Rahul Gandhi’s appeal seeking suspension of his conviction and sentence in the defamation case relied on a crucial Supreme Court order. The apex court order which gave relief to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, Naranbhai Bhikhabhai Kachhadiya, who was not, unlike Rahul […]
‘The government’s attitude of scaring me by any means won’t work because I have my people with me,’ said Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik, moments after Delhi Police released the 20-25 Khap leaders who had been held earlier in the day from outside Malik’s house. Around 250 […]
A 24-year-old Bengaluru software engineer, who previously wrote about feeling “lonely” and “overwhelmed” in life, didn’t find true happiness in a sparkling package of Rs 58 lakhs. As other people shared their experiences, the note became popular on social media. The original note was posted on the Grapevine app. Later, a user by the name […]
Ahmedabad-based artist Sima Patel’s interpretation of womanhood is set to take center stage for her upcoming art exhibition—NAARITVA on April 23, 2023. The exhibition will feature her latest collection of paintings, which will showcase the strength, beauty and diversity of women. She spoke to Vibes of India about her art and various aspects of womanhood. […]
It has been reported by Newshub that a significant dairy delegation from India may have been involved in a diplomatic incident. At a business conference in Canterbury attended by a government minister and representatives of an Indian company, a woman reported that she had been improperly touched. Police are investigating the incident. The woman said […]
A senior US official recently praised India’s press freedom and the role that journalists play in promoting democracy in the most populous country on earth. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu said that “there is nothing that’s kept secret there. You have India as a democracy in part because […]
The French Gallery at the Alliance Francaise (AF) Ahmedabad was packed with the city’s glitterati and expatriate crowd on Friday for the opening of Wakaliwood, Slum Cinema Studio, a photographic exhibition by Frederic Noy. Speaking on the occasion, AF Ahmedabad President Pavan Bakeri compared Noy with Henri Cartier-Bresson, another great French photojournalist, who played a major role […]
Despite massive employee layoffs, Google did not reduce the pay of Sundar Pichai, its CEO. Pichai’s extravagant salary package also included stock awards worth nearly $218 million, according to the most recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Notably, Google recently let rid of close to 12,000 employees as a cost-cutting strategy. […]
Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp’s parent company, Meta, paid CEO Mark Zuckerberg about $2.3 million in 2022 for his personal private jet travel. In the company’s 2023 SEC filings, Meta said that Zuckerberg received $27.1 million in so-called “all other compensation” in 2023, which included $14.8 million for what the business said as “costs related to […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has asked the former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik to provide information regarding an alleged insurance scam in the Union territory, officials said on Friday. Malik, who served his mandates as governor of several states to completion, will be questioned by the CBI for the second time […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was disqualified as MP after a conviction in a defamation case, moved out all his belongings from his official residence on Friday, with sources saying he will hand over the 12, Tughlaq Lane bungalow to the Lok Sabha secretariat today. After being found guilty and handed a two-year prison sentence […]
India has recorded 12,193 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of active cases up to 67,556, according to the Union Health Ministry on Saturday. According to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am, the number of people who have died due to the viral disease has increased to […]
Foreign travel packages will be more expensive to book beginning July 1, 2023. The tax collected at source (TCS) rate for overseas remittances under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) has been increased from 5 per cent to 20 per cent in Budget 2023. As a result, TCS on remittances for booking overseas travel packages will […]
