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US authorities has discovered the longest smuggling tunnel by the on the Southwest border, which stretches more than three-quarters of a mile from an industrial site in Tijuana, Mexico, to the San Diego area. The tunnel, discovered Wednesday, featured an extensive rail cart system, forced air ventilation, high voltage electrical cables and panels, an elevator at the tunnel entrance and a drainage system. While there were no arrests, no drugs found at the site and no confirmed exit point in the U.S., the length — more than 14 football fields…

A 19 year old girl was brutally raped in Nagpur, after an iron rod was inserted in her private parts. The incident took place on January 21, said the police.   The accused had stuffed a piece of cloth in her mouth and raped her after she fell unconscious. The accused was working as a supervisor in a spinning mill where the woman was employed as a labourer, the police said.   The woman, her brother, the accused and another girl lived in rented accommodations in Pardi.   Inspector Sunil Chavan…

Nazeem Bano was on her duty of collecting information for economic census, when she was allegedly manhandled by a mob, who mistook her for a CAA, NRC surveyor.   Bano on Wednesday was on her job, when a mob of people approached her, snatched her phone, and deleted apps containing data of over 10,000 houses.   Speaking to the press, Bano said, “They snatched my phone, and deleted mobile application containing data entry of about 1, 000 households”.

On the upcoming execution of the four men convicted in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case of 2012, senior lawyer Indira Jaising had tweeted that Asha Devi, the mother of the gang-rape and murder victim, should follow the example of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi who had “forgiven” Nalini. Nalini was one of the people sentenced to death for participating in the conspiracy to assassinate former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.    In 1999, Sonia Gandhi asked then President K.R. Narayanan to grant clemency to Nalini, citing the fact that…

A 19 month old toddler received a medal on Thursday, on behalf of his firefighter dad who lost his life in the Australia bushfire. Geoffrey Keaton’s son was dressed in a fire fighter outfit with a pacifier in his mouth as New South Wales (NSW) Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons pinned the medal to his chest.   His 32-year old father had been awarded the posthumous Commendation for Bravery and Services after he and his colleague died while fighting the bushfire last month in Australia.   “Today the NSW…

The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu today said that ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam’ has been the guiding light for the Indian family system since time immemorial and our ethos and socio-cultural fabric are woven around this perceptive phrase. Inaugurating the International Conference of Global Mothers-2019, “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam –Family System and Role of Mother”, in New Delhi today, the Vice President expressed happiness over the theme of the Conference saying that the conference is a celebration of motherhood. “The entire world is indebted to mothers and this is the reason that in…

Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic and CSR arm of Infosys, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, for five years to strengthen research activities in Orientology, the study of Ancient cultures of the Asian sub-continent.   The proposed grant of INR 9.13 crores will be utilized to train scholars in Orientology and prepare a bibliography of relevant academic texts in the field. The grant will also help to create a centralized information cell through descriptive cataloguing of manuscripts, collection and publishing of inscriptions and…

Mosaic India and the S M Sehgal Foundation have celebrated The Mosaic Company Foundation annual awards ceremony that honors outstanding research in plant nutrition. Mosaic and Sehgal Foundation are long-term partners and have been working together on a project ‘Krishi Jyoti’ (farm enlightenment) in districts Nuh, Haryana and Alwar, Rajasthan since 2008 to enhance farm productivity and empower farmers.   The Mosaic Company Foundation Annual Awards recognize individuals who demonstrate truly exceptional ability and originality of thought for contributions to the field of plant nutrition. In its fifth year now, The Mosaic…

Azim Premji, Chairman of Azim Premji Foundation has announced that he has increased his commitment to philanthropy, by irrevocably renouncing more of his personal assets and earmarking them to the Endowment, which supports the Foundation’s philanthropic activities. He has done this by additionally earmarking all economic benefits for philanthropic purposes, in approximately 34% of the shares in Wipro Limited (current market value ~INR 52,750 Crores/ USD 7.5 Bn), held by certain entities controlled by him. This action is in addition to his earlier donations to philanthropy, which included Wipro’s shares,…

Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) in collaboration with NASSCOM Foundation has launched a Center of Excellence (CoE) for training Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in Bangalore. The CoE will train a minimum of 100 PwDs, making them industry ready over the next 12 months, with a target of placing at least 50% of them in companies already sensitized for hiring them. This is the partnership’s third center after setting up one each in Noida and Delhi.   As part of the training program, these 100 trainees will be skilled in a variety…