An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in Kolkata, a crime that sparked national outrage over the lack of safety for women. The woman’s body was found in a classroom at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Fellow doctors went on strike for weeks to demand justice and better security at public hospitals. Defendant Sanjay Roy had claimed in November that he was “completely innocent” and was being framed. His lawyers argued that there were significant discrepancies in the investigation and forensic reports.…
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Two judges from the Iranian Supreme Court were shot dead in Tehran on Saturday, and another judge was wounded, according to Iran’s judiciary’s Mizan news website. The attacker killed himself after opening fire at the judges outside the Supreme Court. Iranian media reported that a bodyguard of one of the judges was also wounded. The motive for the assassination is unclear. The judiciary identified the slain judges as Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, who were involved in cases related to “national security crimes, espionage, and terrorism.” The assailant was reportedly not involved in any cases before the Supreme Court. Authorities…
Impeached President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, attended a court hearing on Saturday to challenge investigators’ request to extend his detention on charges of insurrection. Yoon became the first sitting president in South Korea to be arrested on Wednesday, following a criminal probe into his brief declaration of martial law on December 3. On Friday, investigators requested a detention warrant to extend Yoon’s custody by up to 20 days. He has refused to cooperate with investigators and has been held in Seoul Detention Centre since his arrest. Supporters of Yoon gathered outside the court, but police broke up the…
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that his inauguration ceremony will be held inside the Capitol on January 19, 2025, due to severe cold, marking the first time in 40 years that a US presidential inauguration will take place indoors. “There is an Arctic blast sweeping the country. I don’t want to see people hurt or injured,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The inauguration, along with prayers and speeches, will now be held in the Capitol Rotunda. Trump said supporters could view the ceremony on screens inside the Capital One Arena, which holds 20,000 people. The change significantly reduces…
Date: January 18, 2025 TikTok has announced it will “go dark” in the United States on January 19 unless the government provides assurances that a new law calling for its ban won’t be used to penalize service providers. On Friday, the US Supreme Court upheld a law backed by President Joe Biden and Congress, requiring TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to either sell its US operations or cease operations by January 19. The unanimous ruling found the law does not violate free speech rights, confirming the government’s national security concerns over ByteDance’s ownership of the app. ByteDance has firmly rejected selling…
Date: January 18, 2025 Donald Trump’s family will likely be less formally involved in White House business in his second term compared to the first, but some will remain key to his political operation as unofficial advisors. Melania Trump Melania Trump, who met Trump at a party in 1998 and married him in 2005, returns as first lady to the White House, planning to make it her primary residence. This is a change from Trump’s first term, when she did not live in the White House for several months so their son Barron, then 10, could finish school in New…
Date: January 17, 2025 US President-elect Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed issues including TikTok, trade, and Taiwan in a phone call on Friday, just days before Trump takes office again promising tariffs that could ratchet up tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. Both leaders were upbeat about the call, with Trump calling it “a very good one” and Xi saying he and Trump both hoped for a positive start to US-China relations, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. It was the first phone call between the pair since Trump’s election in November. There is an array…
Date: January 18, 2025 Federal government’s spokesperson for the negotiation committee, Senator Irfan Siddiqui, disapproved of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) meeting with the top military leadership, stating that negotiations cannot be conducted simultaneously through multiple channels. “There is no point in peeking through small doors and windows now. If the door they had been striving to open for a year is now open, then they should abandon these minor efforts,” said Senator Siddiqui on Saturday, referring to the recent meeting between PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir. Siddiqui revealed that he was aware…
KARACHI: Police discovered the body of seven-year-old Mohammed Sarim in the underground water tank of his apartment building, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Central Zeeshan Shafiq Siddiqi reported on Saturday. The police officer noted that the child’s body had been sent for postmortem, and it seemed that Sarim had accidentally fallen into the tank. This tragic development follows Sarim’s disappearance on January 7 from North Karachi Sector 5, and an FIR was registered under Section 364-A (kidnapping or abducting a person under the age of 14) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Meanwhile, the child’s parents had previously claimed to have…
Date: January 18, 2025 LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan laughed upon hearing his conviction in the £190 million corruption case, his sister, Aleema Khan, stated on Saturday. Speaking to the media outside a Lahore court, Aleema said, “When the PTI founder heard the verdict, he laughed. We have entrusted our matter to Allah.” An accountability court convicted Imran and his wife Bushra Bibi in the £190 million case — also known as the Al-Qadir Trust case — sentencing the former prime minister to 14 years and his wife to seven years in prison. Imran, who has been in…
