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Raj Kundra opens up about his 63-day jail ordeal, weight loss and Shilpa Shetty’s unwavering support. Businessman-turned-actor Raj Kundra has opened up about one of the most difficult phases of his life, recalling his 2021 arrest in the pornography case, his 63 days in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail and the unwavering support he received from his wife, actor Shilpa Shetty. In a recent conversation with ABP News, Kundra also spoke about the hardships he faced in prison, the impact of media reports about his marriage and how the experience eventually gave him what he described as a fresh start.Raj Kundra…
India imports for nearly 89% of domestic crude oil needs | Photo Credit: The Hindu iIndia’s crude oil import bill surged more than 41% year-on-year to $13.7 billion in July, according to provisional data released by the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC), as elevated global oil prices amid persistent uncertainty in West Asia pushed up the cost of shipments.The country’s crude oil imports rose 13.3% in volume terms to 21.4 million metric tonnes (MMT) in July, compared with 18.9 MMT in the same month last year. However, the sharp increase in international crude prices resulted in a significantly higher…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. File | Photo Credit: AP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed into law a measure that would introduce a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants as part of a government peace effort with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.The measure was published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday (August 18, 2026). It will only come into force after Turkey’s National Security Council confirms that the group has fully dissolved itself and disarmed.Parliament approved the bill overwhelmingly last week. It would suspend certain prison sentences for convicted PKK members and postpone ongoing investigations and trials…
Image for representational purposes only, | Photo Credit: Getty Images BRICS countries on Tuesday (August 18, 2026) opposed what they described as “unilateral, punitive, discriminatory and protectionist” climate measures, including the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAMs), while calling for a significant increase in international funding to help developing countries adapt to climate change.The positions were contained in the joint statement adopted at the 12th BRICS Environment Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi, held under India’s chairship. The Ministers specifically said that carbon border measures such as CBAMs could “undermine developing countries’ efforts to address climate change and build resilience”.The…
Trump posts on Truth Social claiming the Strait of Hormuz as ‘New US territory’ TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump is expanding his cartographic project to “Make America Bigger Again.”The latest addition to the Trump atlas arrived Tuesday on Truth Social, where the MAGA supremo posted a map depicting the Strait of Hormuz under the words “NEW US TERRITORY.” This followed his declaration last week that the strait would be made US territory “pretty soon.” Iran, presumably, was not consulted, though it did issue a statement best summarised as “lol, no.”Trump has previously floated Canada as the 51st…
Mumbai: As many as 2 crore voters – a fifth of the 9.8 crore electors in the state – will not be included in the draft list of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state because their enumeration forms were uncollectable, which deemed them ineligible. The final data on enumeration forms collected in SIR’s house-to-house survey was provided on Tuesday.The state’s four densely populated metros – Mumbai City, Mumbai Suburban, Pune and Thane – have reported the highest number of uncollectable forms accounting for 46.7% of the total. Pune reported the highest number of uncollectible forms (28.7 lakh) followed…
Former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain was arrested in a corruption case. NEW DELHI: Former Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain was among six people arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Tuesday in connection with an alleged corruption case involving the tendering process for sewage treatment plant projects of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), news agency PTI reported.The other five arrested are former DJB CEO Udit Prakash Rai, former contractual consultant Ankit Srivastava, and private persons Nagendra Yadav, Raja Kumar Kurra and Pankaj Verma.AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal alleged that Satyendar Jain was arrested at the behest…
Pillar crashed on 10-year-old-boy-Dhanush In a tragic turn of events stemming from superstition, a 10-year-old boy lost his life Tuesday morning after a hastily constructed concrete pillar collapsed on him while he was playing on a makeshift swing outside a Nandini Dairy outlet in Tumakuru district.The victim, A Dhanush, a class IV student at a govt school, is survived by his agriculturist-father, Anand Murthy, mother and an elder brother studying in high school.The incident occurred outside the Nandini milk outlet situated in a private building near the primary school at Beligehalli-Chikkanayakanahalli.The shop had been operating at the location for over…
Chennai: We The Leaders founder K Annamalai on Tuesday condemned the TVK govt over the arrest of a volunteer associated with his organisation for responding to allegedly abusive remarks by a TVK functionary.In a post on X, Annamalai said the TVK functionary had abused the volunteer’s family. “The fact that a We The Leaders volunteer has been booked and arrested for responding to a TVK functionary who criticised his family in abusive language is worrying. More than 25 people with differing views have been booked in the past month over their disagreements with or criticism of TVK members on social…
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