BENGALURU: A former officer of Oriental Insurance Company has been sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for siphoning off ₹5.3 crore to claim winnings from a fraudulent lottery. A special CBI court in Dharwad also imposed a fine of ₹52 lakh on the convict....

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MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday announced that the state government will set up a special corpus fund to cover high-cost medical treatments — including organ transplants — that exceed ₹5 lakh. Chairing a meeting of the State Health...

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AHMEDABAD: An inter-caste marriage in Dehgam turned violent after a woman was allegedly kidnapped by her maternal relatives in broad daylight, sparking outrage after a video of the incident went viral. Police registered an FIR on Sunday, but the woman remains missing....

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LONDON: A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of rape after a British Sikh woman was physically attacked and raped in Oldbury last week, West Midlands Police confirmed. The assault is being treated as “racially motivated.” The victim, in her 20s, reported...

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WASHINGTON/BEIJING: The United States and China have reached a preliminary agreement on the future of TikTok, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday, raising hopes of resolving years of dispute over the app’s Chinese ownership. Bessent confirmed that the two...

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WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS: The Trump administration will not proceed with new tariffs on Chinese goods linked to Russian oil purchases unless European nations impose steep duties of their own, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday. “We expect the Europeans to do...

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