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Neighbours ‘sacrifice’ two-year-old boy as part of occult ritual to recover ‘hidden treasure’ Maharashtra police have arrested two men who choked a 2-year-old boy to death as part of a sacrifice to gain 'hidden treasures'. The boy's body was found in a haystack in one of the accused's home. The accused confessed to choking the boy to death as part of a 'black magic' ritual  Chandrapur:  Maharashtra police have managed to crack the murder of 2-year-old Yug Meshram whose body was found at a house in Maharashtra's Bramhapuri Tehsil on Wednesday. The boy had been missing since August 22 when he was last seen outside his house in village Khandala. On the day Yug was last seen playing with his brother outside his residence, his father registered a missing persons complaint with the Bramhapuri police. Posters with the boy's pictures were put up across the district by police officials and a search operation was launched. Even dispatching teams of...

Meet Iram Habib, a 30 year-old Kashmiri who is set to become Valley's first Muslim woman pilot Thirty-year-old Iram Habib, a resident of downtown Srinagar, is set to become the first Kashmiri Muslim woman to become a pilot. She is currently undergoing training in New Delhi.  Habib/ Photo courtesy: Twitter: @AdeebaJMIU |Photo Credit: Twitter New Delhi:  Iram Habib, a 30-year-old resident of downtown Srinagar has become the first Kashmiri Muslim woman to become a pilot. She is set to join a private airline in September. Earlier, Tanvi Raina, a Kashmiri Pandit became a pilot in Air India in 2016. In April 2017, Ayesh Aziz, 21 became the valley's first student pilot. According to a report in Times of India, Habib's father is a supplier of surgical instruments. Becoming a pilot was her childhood ambition and she gave up a short-term goal of getting a doctorate degree in forestry to become a pilot. Undergoing training in Delhi for getting a commercial pi...

Theresa May indicates she would fight a Boris Johnson leadership bid PM ‘in this for the long term’ and will focus on domestic issues at Tory conference Theresa May with school pupils in Gugulethu, near Cape Town, South Africa. Theresa May indicated she would seek to fight off any leadership challenge from Boris Johnson and suggested she would lead the Conservatives into the next general election as she repeated a promise to lead the party “for the long term”. The prime minister said she was in politics “to deliver for the British people” and told journalists on a trip to Africa she would highlight housing, healthcare and other non-Brexit domestic issues in a relaunch at next month’s party conference in Birmingham. When asked specifically if she would contest a leadership challenge from Johnson, the former foreign secretary, May said she hoped to fight on as prime minister: “I am in this for the long term. I am in this for delivering for the British people, a...

پردے پر پابندی مسلمان خواتین کو برابری کے درجے سے محروم کرنا ہے لندن پردے پر کینز میں حالیہ پابندی مسلم خواتین کو برابر کے شہری ہونے سے محروم کرنا ہے۔ یہ بات یونیورسٹی آف لیسٹر کی ڈاکٹر سعیدہ شاہ نے ایک آرٹیکل میں کہی ہے۔ انہوں نے کہا ہے کہ ریو اولمپکس ایک اور شہادت ہے کہ مسلمان خواتین کامیابی سے حصہ لے سکتی ہیں۔ 14خواتین نے ریو اولمپکس میں میڈل جیتے، اگرچہ11 خواتین نے روایتی حجاب نہیںپہن رکھا تھا، تین نے حجاب کے ساتھ حصہ لیا اور کامیابی حاصل کی، مسلمان خواتین کا لباس صرف ایک شناخت ہی نہیں بلکہ برابری اور اختیار کرنے کو اجاگر بھی کرتا ہے اور اس لیے پابندی ان کو برابری کے درجے سے محروم کرنے کی طرف ایک اور قدم ہے۔

درہ بولان کے حسین و دل نشیں تفریحی مقامات بین الاقوامی شہرت یافتہ کوہ پیما، سائمن مورو نے نانگا پربت کی چوٹی سَر کرنے کے بعد پاکستان کے بارے میں اپنے خیالات کا اظہار کچھ یوں کیا کہ ’’میں دنیا کا چپّہ چپّہ گھوم چکا ہوں، لیکن مَیں یہ بات پورے وثوق اور اعتماد سے کہہ سکتا ہوں کہ جتنے خوب صورت علاقے پاکستان میں ہیں، کم از کم اس دنیا کے اور کسی ملک میں نہیں۔ پاکستان دنیا کا وہ واحد ملک ہے، جہاں اتنی بڑی تعداد میں پہاڑی سلسلے ہیں، جن پر آج تک کسی انسان کے قدم ہی نہیں پڑے۔ عالمی میڈیا پاکستان کی بہت غلط تصویر کشی کرتا ہے، جب کہ حقیقت اس کے بالکل برعکس ہے۔ یہاں کے لوگ بہت اچھے، ملن سار اور کھلے دل کے مالک ہیں۔ پاکستان میں ہمیں صرف دوست ملے، کوئی ایسا شخص نہیں ملا، جسے ہم خطرناک کہیں اور مجھے یہاں کسی قسم کا کوئی مسئلہ پیش نہیں آیا۔‘‘ بلاشبہ، وطنِ عزیز فطرت کے تمام ہی حسین رنگوں سے مزّین ہے۔ قدرت نے اس خطّے کو متنّوع جغرافیہ اور انواع و اقسام کی آب و ہوا دی ہے۔ یہاں مختلف زبانیں بولنے والے لوگ بستے ہیں، جو ملک میں محبت و رواداری کو فروغ دیتے ہیں۔ پاکستان میں درجنوں ا...

School girl stripped and groped by three men in Bihar who shot the incident on camera In a recent incident emerging from Saharsa in Bihar, a schoolgirl was stripped of her clothes and groped by three miscreants who shot the incident on camera. One person has been arrested in this regard. In the video, the girl can be seen struggling to escape but this did not deter the accused Patna:  After a video of three men stripping and groping a school girl here in Saharsa went viral, police today arrested one man in connection with the matter. This is the second time such an incident has been reported from the state of Bihar in a single month. Prabhakar Tiwari, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) told news agency ANI that the video in question shows the girl and a male friend of hers being ill-treated by the accused men. He added that a case has been registered in this regard and a probe has been launched in the case after police managed to identify the victim. Earlier thi...

Member of UP’s 'Khoon Chuswa gang', doctor stole blood from sedated youngsters; arrested Police in Uttar Pradesh on Monday nabbed two members of a gang who sedated young boys to rob them of their blood which they then sold to a hospital. Locals called them the 'Khoon Chuswa gang'. Members of the gang lured youngsters and sedated them before extracting their blood (Representative Image)  Lucknow:  Uttar Pradesh police on Monday busted a gang of notorious men who robbed young boys of their blood after sedating them in the state's Basti district. Known amongst locals as the 'Khoon Chuswa gang', members of this vicious group were caught red-handed by the police. Local law enforcement officials have been on the lookout for members of this gang for some time now, reported Hindustan Times. On Monday, locals saw one of the accused, 33-year-old Akash luring a child to a clinic owned by one Dr Prabhakar Singh. Suspecting foul play, the locals alerted ...