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Indian national Upendra Aduru, 32, has been sentenced in a federal court to 12 years in jail for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, a US Attorney said Thursday. According to information presented to the court, from September 20, 2022, to October 6, 2022, Aduru, an Indian national in the United States on a student visa, communicated via social media with a detective posing as a thirteen-year-old girl. During the communication, Aduru repeatedly expressed his desire to engage in sexual activity with the purported thirteen-year-old and even sent the undercover detective several images of adult…

Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother Anmol Bishnoi had given a nine-minute “motivational” speech to the shooters who fired multiple shots at the Bollywood actor Salman’ Khans Mumbai home in April. According to the chargesheet filed by the Mumbai police’s crime branch, which NDTV accessed, Anmol Bishnoi had told the two shooters – Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal – that they would “script history” when they would attack the actor’s residence. The two motorbike-borne individuals, Gupta and Pal, had fired multiple shots outside Mr Khan’s home in Galaxy Apartment in Bandra on the morning of April 14. ALSO READ | Lawrence…

The Rajasthan Education department has suspended a female teacher Maneka Damor for asking tribal women not to apply sindoor and wear a Mangalsutra, officials said here. Officials said on Thursday that action had been taken against the teacher for violating the Rajasthan Conduct Rules and tarnishing the Education Department’s image. At a mega rally held on July 19 at the Mangarh Dham in Banswara, Ms Damor had said that tribal women should not follow what the Pandits say. “Tribal families do not apply sindoor, they do not wear Mangalsutra. Women and girls of the tribal society should focus on education.…

Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and the son of his former partner, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, were arrested in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department said. “The Justice Department has taken into custody two additional alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world,” the department said in a statement. Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of El Chapo, face multiple charges in the U.S. “for heading the Cartel’s criminal operations, including its deadly fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking networks,” the statement said. The arrest…

A US court on Thursday charged Sanjay Kumar from Bihar with selling and shipping tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of counterfeit oncology pharmaceuticals into the country. According to court documents, Sanjay Kumar, 43, and his co-conspirators allegedly arranged for the sale and shipment of fake, counterfeit versions of oncology pharmaceuticals, including Keytruda, to individuals in the United States. Genuine Keytruda is a cancer immunotherapy that is approved in the United States for 19 different indications, including to treat certain types of melanoma, lung cancer, head and neck cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, gastric cancer, cervical cancer, and breast cancer. Merck Sharp…

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday expressed grief over the sudden demise of JD(U) national general secretary and spokesman Rajib Ranjan. According to party sources, Mr Ranjan, 65, breathed his last at a hospital in Delhi shortly after he got admitted following difficulty in breathing. Sources said he suffered a cardiac arrest. In his condolence message, Mr Kumar, who heads the JD(U), described Mr Ranjan as “an able politician and a noted social activist”. Hailing from Nalanda district, to which the chief minister also belongs, the JD(U) leader had won the Islampur assembly constituency in 2010. Five years later,…

This year’s Union Budget, which has been at the receiving end of the opposition’s ire because of the alleged preferential treatment given to certain states – especially Andhra Pradesh and Bihar – is not discriminatory and a set formula is in place for the devolution of taxes, Finance Secretary TV Somanathan has said. Speaking exclusively to NDTV on Thursday, Mr Somanathan also said that the Agnipath scheme is just a variation of short service commissions, which have existed forever, and is financially prudent. As announced in the Budget, the new pension scheme will be tweaked to address the key issues…

State governments should not intrude into matters beyond their constitutional jurisdiction, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday criticising the Kerala government for appointing a secretary for “external cooperation”. Citing provisions in the Constitution, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that matters relating to foreign affairs are the “sole prerogative” of the central government. On July 15, the Kerala government issued an order giving K Vasuki, secretary in the labour and skills department, the additional charge of “the matters connected with external cooperation”. “The Constitution of India under the seventh schedule, list 1 (or the) Union list, item 10,…

In a dissenting verdict, Supreme Court judge Justice BV Nagarathna on Thursday said if the power to levy taxes on mineral resources are given to the states, there would be “breakdown of the federal system” as they would compete among themselves and jeopardise mineral development. Justice Nagarathna was the lone judge on the nine-judge constitution bench who did not concur with the majority verdict penned by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud which held that the legislative power to tax mineral rights vests with the states and the royalty paid on minerals is not a tax. Holding a contrary view, Justice Nagarathna,…

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday said it took the Union government nearly five decades to realise that an “internationally renowned” organisation like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was wrongly placed in the list of organisations banned for government employees. The HC’s remark came while a bench of Justices Sushruta Arvind Dharmadhikari and Gajendra Singh disposed of the writ petition of retired Central government employee Purushottam Gupta. Gupta had filed a petition in the High Court on September 19 last year challenging the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules as well as the office memorandums of the Centre that were preventing the…