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Warning: This story contains details of alleged murders. When Lavanya Chappa was allegedly murdered by her husband, her two children, aged 13 and seven, were in the house. “The last thing the boy said [to his grandfather] was ‘please come and take me’… in our language,” family friend Sri Lakshmi Thukral said. “[The family] are…

Actor Sam Neill is being remembered by Hollywood greats and prominent figures as a “legend” and a “deeply soulful and beautiful man”, as tributes flow following the news of his sudden death yesterday at the age of 78. Neill, who is best known for his roles in hit blockbusters such as Jurassic Park and The…

It feels like an ordinary, legitimate online shopping experience. A typical e-commerce layout, health warnings and a wide variety of tobacco products are for sale, but the price and the form of payment reveal this website is a black-market business. Australia’s illicit tobacco market is now proliferating online, with dozens of websites promoting cheap tobacco…

JAMMU: A court in Jammu remanded Monday three arrested publishers to 10 days’ police custody in a case linked to two books allegedly carrying separatist and anti-national content that were supplied to govt school libraries in J&K.Inderpaul of Jammu-based Oberoi Book Service and Amardeep Singh and Girish Arora of Noida-based Dominant Publishers were taken into…

Melinda Kee thought her financial ordeal was almost over. But more than 12 months since she lodged a financial complaint to try to recover nearly $400,000 of her retirement savings, she’s still fighting for compensation. In November 2023, Ms Kee was advised by a financial adviser to switch her super from a retail fund into…

File photo: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah SRINAGAR: J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah’s remarks referring to US President Donald Trump in his speech on Sunday while seeking restoration of statehood to J&K and his response on Monday to a tweet falsely attributed to Trump hasn’t gone down well with BJP, which accused him…

A University of Melbourne professor says an “antisemitic” campus protest that saw participants invade his office left him intimidated and subject to tough new security measures. In 2024, protesters, some masked and wearing keffiyehs, entered physics professor Steven Prawer’s office as part of a demonstration against the war, refusing to leave until police were called….

Mehbooba Mufti offers rose petals in tribute to martyrs at her party office (Picture credit: AP) SRINAGAR: The lieutenant governor’s administration on Monday imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar to prevent political figures from assembling at the Martyrs’ Graveyard in old Srinagar.CM Omar Abdullah and National Conference functionaries, including his father Farooq Abdullah, paid homage…

Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained key evidence in their ongoing investigations into fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during pitched protests against a federal immigration enforcement crackdown in the state earlier this year. “Through the cooperation of our federal partners we have obtained the hard drives of previously withheld evidence…

Samir Raghbat says his oversized puffer jacket was all that stood between him and death when two men tried to “kill him” on his way to a mosque. Warning: This story contains images of injuries sustained during an assault and may distress some readers. The men allegedly attacked the 43-year-old on June 24, punching, kicking,…