HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A trio of thieves was caught on camera stealing a customer’s Dodge Charger Hellcat from a well-known dealership in Houston. The River Oaks Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership shared surveillance video with ABC13 of the incident, which happened on Tuesday. According to the dealership, the thieves pulled up in a Mercedes, drove into the service department and waited two hours until the showroom closed before taking off in the Hellcat. The dealership’s president, Alan Helfman, thinks even the Mercedes the thieves drove in was stolen. “They took the front license plate off. They put paper plates on…
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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Thursday passed a unanimous resolution to pay homage to Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of the country’s nuclear bomb, who passed away last week. The house also paid tribute to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Pervez Malik and comedy legend Umer Sharif. Initially, two separate resolutions were moved in the house, one by the opposition and the other by the government, but Speaker Asad Qaiser asked Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Khan to club both resolutions. Then the house passed it unanimously. The resolution said the house expressed deep grief on the…
Anchorperson Reham Khan apologised to PTI leader Zulfi Bukhari on Friday after losing a defamation case brought by the latter against her in the United Kingdom. In 2019, Khan had made several allegations of corruption and nepotism against Bukhari, claiming that he, in connivance with Prime Minister Imran Khan, was involved in a “corrupt plan” to sell Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) owned Roosevelt Hotel in New York and later to purchase it at a lower market price. Bukhari had objected to these allegations and served a libel case against her, seeking a retraction, damages and cost of legal fees. During…
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday launched the Kisan Portal — a special category for farmers in the Pakistan Citizen Portal — saying it would give a voice to small farmers who were “voiceless” in front of powerful people. Addressing the launch ceremony in Islamabad, he noted that 90 per cent of farmers had small landholdings but their problems never reached those in power. “He works hard and has no voice in front of the powerful. If a corrupt policeman comes in the area, the farmer suffers the most.” Talking about the situation of farmers in the country, the premier…
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Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as the president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed on Thursday, despite Western accusations that the polls were neither free nor fair. The controversial vote extending Assad’s stranglehold on power was the second since the start of a decade-long civil conflict that has killed more than 388,000 people, displaced millions and battered the country’s infrastructure. The parliamentary speaker announced on Thursday that Assad garnered 95.1 per cent of the votes cast, trouncing two virtually unknown challengers. Standing against him were former state minister Abdallah Salloum Abdallah and Mahmud Merhi, a member of the…
KARACHI: Over 100,000 people, who received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, have not reported back to the government-run adult vaccination centres for their second vaccine dose, leaving them very vulnerable to the disease, health department officials stated on Thursday. According to health department sources, a total of 405,673 people have been scheduled for the second vaccine dose till date since the vaccination process started in February this year. Of them, 300,949 have got the second dose whereas 104,724 have not returned for their second dose. These individuals included health workers. “We got contact details of all absent individuals and…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — After first denying Houston and Harris County millions of dollars in federal aid, the state reversed course this week saying it would ask the federal government to allocate $750 million to the county for flood mitigation projects following Hurricane Harvey. Bipartisan outrage over the initial decision to leave the city and county out of receiving any of the $1 billion in federal funds available caused backlash as the city and county urged residents to call the Texas General Land Office and voice their concerns. “The way they presented it last week, it was as if Harvey…
There are many aspects of Bill Gates and Melinda Gates’ marriage that we will likely never understand as they separate after 27 years together, a development announced earlier this week by the ex-couple on Twitter. But one particularly unusual detail about the tech billionaire’s union gained interest today after a 1997 Time profile resurfaced in which his relationship with longtime ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad was discussed in some depth, including the extent to which they remained involved after his marriage to Melinda. Per the article, Gates and Winblad continued to spend a long weekend on the beach together once a year even after he married Melinda in 1994 — and it…
Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt is ‘heartbroken’ over domestic abuse allegation from Angelina Jolie after Maddox gave testimony amid a contentious custody battle. The Maleficent actress Jolie has reportedly filed paperwork indicating that she and her kids are willing to offer testimony and ‘proof and authority’ in support of her allegations. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star was upset after it leaked that Angelina Jolie will provide proof of domestic abuse in the couple’s contentious custody battle. An alleged altercation between son Maddox, 19, and Brad, 57, in 2016 was said to have been the final straw for Jolie, 45, who filed paperwork.…
