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With each passing year, the economic and financial dynamics of terrorism have rapidly evolved and diversified. From offshore financial centres to cryptocurrency, crowdfunding to social media platforms, terror outfits have adapted and innovated with alarming efficiency to raise and manage their funds. As India hosts the No Money for Terror summit, it’s evident that “following the money” is essential to counter terrorism. There is nearly universal consensus that terrorist funding is poorly understood and therefore extremely difficult to control. Despite years of analysis and research, the amount of information on the channels of funding remains woefully inadequate. The International Monetary Fund estimates that the amount of money laundered globally each year to be between 2 per cent and 5 per cent of the world’s GDP, which is $800 billion. Even if just a small proportion of these laundered funds are used to carry out terrorist activities, the damage can be enormous. India has had to

New Delhi: The Delhi police on Saturday recovered heavy and sharp cutting tools from Aftab Ameen Poonawala’s rented flat, which they suspect may have been used to chop Shraddha Walkar’s body. Aftab has started confessing the truth after strict interrogation, and helped the police find the vital evidence from his Chhatarpur flat, police officials said. Police teams also recovered a heavy black polythene bag from the vicinity of Aftab’s Gurugram workplace on Friday. Recovery of weapon key to further probe Aftab has confessed that he found out online that while dismembering a dead body, blood can fall up to a few feet, so he kept a distance of several feet around the place where the dead body was cut into 35 pieces, police said. He also removed all blood stains with a special kind of acid. The investigation so far has revealed. Forensics teams claimed that the blood stains on his clothes on the day of the murder would still be there. But both their clothes have not been found so far.

It has become a very common practice to see civilians celebrating different festivals like Raksha Bandhan and Diwali with the soldiers of the Indian Army. However, taking things to a new level, a couple recently decided to celebrate their wedding with the armed forces. This warm gesture was recently made by a couple from Kerala who not only invited the soldiers to their wedding but also sent a special note along with the card. Through the invite, the couple expressed their gratitude toward the soldiers. As shared by the Indian Army on Instagram, the wedding invite was from a couple named Rahul and Karthika, who got married on 10 November. The couple wanted the special presence and blessings of the Indian Army soldiers on their big day. The post shows a yellow-coloured card which has every detail of the wedding including the names of the bride, the groom and their family members. However, what caught users’ attention was the sweet handwritten note on the left side of the card. Statin

As the winter season is approaching, getting up early in the morning will unquestionably turn into one of the most difficult tasks. But, for those who are not morning people, leaving their beds is an everyday battle. The weekends are even more challenging as the body gets tired after a week-long work schedule and requires more sleep to feel refreshed. In this context, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra shared a video of a lazy dog in his latest Twitter post. The caption of the video says, “Me trying to get out of bed every morning.” Well, not EVERY morning..but weekends, yes, that definitely looks familiar! pic.twitter.com/SpOwve7LrX — anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) November 19, 2022 In the clip, a Labrador can be seen looking really sleepy and confused as it struggles to reach the floor with its front legs. During this, the adorable animal yawned a couple of times before finally placing its legs on the floor. Wait, there’s more. As soon as the dog almost succeeded in stand

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Donyi Polo, Arunachal Pradesh’s first greenfield airport on Saturday (19 November). In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “A new dawn of development for the Northeast! Launching connectivity and energy infrastructure projects in Arunachal Pradesh.” A new dawn of development for the Northeast! Launching connectivity & energy infrastructure projects in Arunachal Pradesh. https://t.co/kmPtgspIwr — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 19, 2022 Developed over a region of 690 acres and built at a cost of over Rs 640 crore, the Donyi Polo airport in Itanagar’s Hollongi is capable of day operations in every weather. According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the airport’s name is an age-old indigenous reverence to the sun (Donyi) and moon (Polo) that represents the traditions and rich cultural heritage of Arunachal Pradesh. “The airport terminal is a modern building, which promotes energy efficiency, renewable energy and re

Kutch : The horrifying murder of Shraddha Walkar has made it to the Gujarat election campaign. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma warned the crowd at a rally in Gujarat’s Kutch that if there was no strong leader in the country, Aftab Ameen Poonawala would be born in every city and that we would not be able to protect our society. Sarma was advocating for Prime Minister Narendra Modi by saying that the nation should grant him a third term in office when he recounted the gruesome details of the murder case and referred to it as “love jihad”, which is a conspiracy theory that Muslim men seduce Hindu women in order to coerce them into converting to Islam. Addressing a rally in Kutch, Sarma said, “Aftab brought Shraddha  behen  (sister) from Mumbai and cut her up into 35 pieces in the name of love jihad. And where did he keep the dead body? In the fridge. And while the body was in the fridge, he brought another woman home and started dating her.” “If the country doesn’t have a pow

New Delhi : On Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released an old video of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister Satyendar Jain receiving a massage in a Tihar jail cell. The video comes just several days after the Superintendent of Tihar Jail, Ajit Kumar, was suspended for alleged VIP treatment of the minister. #WATCH | CCTV video emerges of jailed Delhi minister and AAP leader Satyendar Jain getting a massage inside Tihar jail. pic.twitter.com/MnmigOppnd — ANI (@ANI) November 19, 2022 Reportedly, it is an old video and the jail authorities have already taken action against concerned officers and jail staff members. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), earlier alleged that Jain, who is arrested in connection with an alleged money laundering case, was being given VIP treatment inside the Tihar jail, including facilities such as head, back, and foot massages. The Delhi minister was arrested on May 30. The probing agency also submitted evidence related to his ‘luxurious life’ in

India remembers its only female Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, on her birth anniversary today. Known as the ‘Iron Lady of India’, Gandhi was famous for her decisive and forceful personality. The daughter of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi managed to step out of her father’s long shadow and etch her own mark in history. From the 1971 Indo-Pak War to Operation Bluestar, the Congress leader oversaw several tumultuous events in her decades-long political career. She was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by her bodyguards in retaliation for Operation Bluestar. Years later, she remains a towering figure in Indian politics. On the occasion of her birth anniversary, let’s take a look at some of the major decisions taken by Indira Gandhi during her tenure as Prime Minister: Nationalisation of banks: Indira Gandhi was immensely popular for her efforts to eradicate poverty. To empower the agricultural sector and make it easier for farmers to take loans, she nationalis

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first greenfield airport in Arunachal Pradesh — the Donyi Polo Airport, in Hollangi, Itanagar– on Saturday. He had laid the foundation stone for the airport in February 2019. “Tomorrow, 19th November, is a special day for Arunachal Pradesh and the Northeast. The Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar will be inaugurated. This is the 1st greenfield airport in the state. Commerce and connectivity will gain immensely from this project,” PM Modi said in a tweet on Friday. Marking the rapid development in the northeastern region, the new airport is a reminder of the revolution in the aviation sector in the Northeast. In Arunachal Pradesh, the Prime Minister will also dedicate the Kameng Hydro Power Station to the nation. Citing the rapid progress in development in the Northeastern region, PM Modi tweeted, “In Itanagar tomorrow, I will also dedicate the Kameng Hydro Power Station to the nation. This project is going to transform the energ

Lucknow: In a major breakthrough in the Nidhi Gupta murder case, in which her Muslim boyfriend Sufiyan had allegedly thrown her off the 4th floor of an apartment building to her death after she had refused to convert to Islam, the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday finally nabbed the accused, but only after an encounter. Sufiyan was arrested only after he caught a police bullet in the leg. Earlier, the Lucknow Police had announced a bounty of Rs 25,000 on Sufiyan’s head. The case After the grisly murder of Shraddha Walkar allegedly by her live-in partner Aftab Ameen Poonawala in Delhi after she asked him to marry her, another 19-year-old Hindu girl in Lucknow was allegedly thrown off the fourth floor of a building by her Muslim boyfriend after refusing to convert to Islam. The accused Sufiyan and victim Nidhi Gupta (19) lived in the same locality in Sector H, Basant Vihar, under the Dubagga police station limits. Nidhi was a trained beautician and the two were allegedly in a relations

The murder of Shraddha Walker by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawala continues to throw up chilling details. Investigations reveal that the 28-year-old accused had planned to kill the woman a week before 18 May and that he has shown no remorse since his arrest. The Delhi Police are building a case based on Aftab’s confessions even as the search for the murder weapon – a one-foot saw that he used to cut up Shraddha’s body into more than 30 pieces – is still missing. Also read: Shraddha Walkar murder: What digital safety do dating apps offer and how can you stay safe online? 10 hours to cut the body It has now been revealed that after strangling Shraddha to death, Atab googled ways to get rid of the body and what chopper should be used. “I was scared as I knew that if I dumped the body somewhere, I might be caught. I browsed Google all night to search for ways to dispose of the body and not arouse any suspicion. I also searched the internet on what kind of chopper would I have

Mumbai : A 43-year-old man jumped from the sixth floor of the Mantralaya building, the headquarters of the Maharashtra government on Thursday. The man was saved by the safety nets. He was rescued and taken to GT hospital for treatment as he sustained fractures on his chin and an injury to his right eye as he hit plywood when he jumped. #WATCH | Man jumps from the 6th floor of Mantralaya (the administrative headquarters of Maharashtra govt in Mumbai), lands in safety net installed in the building; man rescued, police investigation underway Details awaited. pic.twitter.com/thfCABXoaS — ANI (@ANI) November 17, 2022 Reportedly, the man, identified as Bapu Mokashe, an electrical engineer from Maharashtra's Beed, claimed that his girlfriend was raped and later, died by suicide in the year 2018. Since then, he had been consistently following up on the case to seek justice, however, failed to get any response. He alleged that the police did not conduct a fair investigation into t

On 11 November, the Supreme Court, in a surprise move, ordered the premature release of the remaining convicts serving life imprisonment in connection with the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. After the court’s order, Nalini Sriharan, R P Ravichandran, Santhan, Murugan, Robert Payas and Jayakumar walked out of jail amid much anger from the Congress party. Almost a week later, the matter has taken a turn with the Centre now seeking a review of the Supreme Court’s order for the premature release of the six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The central government said the order granting remission to the convicts, who had assassinated the former prime minister, was passed without affording it adequate opportunity for hearing despite it being a necessary party to the case. The government said the convicts did not formally implead the Centre as a party which resulted in its non-participation in the case. “Thus absence of any assistance by the Union of India, due to proced

The G20 — a summit of 20 largest economies featuring more than 80 per cent of global GDP, 75 per cent of international trade and 60 per cent of the world population — saw its agenda in Bali, Indonesia, almost getting derailed due to the deep division among member states caused by the war in Ukraine. The fact that a joint statement was finally hammered out owes in no small measure to the role played by India. Western nations were adamant that a strong condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine be built into the outcome document while Russia was against “politicisation” of the summit, denouncing what it called the West’s “hybrid war”. Hosts Indonesia was left pleading for collaboration. Days of wrangling leading to the Bali summit made positions even more entrenched. With Beijing coming out against explicit rebuke of Moscow, it seemed G20 would fail for the first time since its inception to issue a joint statement. It is here that India played a crucial part. Led by suggestions from

New Delhi: A Bengaluru-based woman has filed a police complaint against bike-taxi service aggregator Rapido and one of its drivers, alleging he “misbehaved with her” during a ride earlier this month, a Deccan Herald report said. According to her complaint, the driver groped her & touched her private part during a ride on 30 October. The incident happened on Bengaluru’s Hennur Road. The complaint mentions the name of the driver and his vehicle number, the report added. According to the report, while the police have opened a case of sexual harassment against the driver and Rapido, they have also raised doubts about the veracity of the complaint saying that it was filed with “malicious intent.” They also plan to take action against the woman, the report added. “She did not travel in the mentioned vehicle. The ride was cancelled. We have verified the trip history. The ride that she is talking about did not take place,” a police officer told Deccan Herald. He added that the wom

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore has been drawing flak for insulting and making outrageous remarks against Shraddha Walkar who was murdered and chopped in 35 pieces by her live-in partner Aftab Amin Poonawala. What did Kaushal Kishore say on Shraddha murder case? Talking to News18 , Union Minister Kaushal Kishore said that girls are responsible for leaving parents for live-in relationship. “There has to be a proper registration to stay in live-in relationship. If parents are not happy with the choice of partner, then the girls should first go to court and get married and then stay together,” Kishore said. Such kind of incidents are taking place mostly with “educated girls”. “They should be blamed as they call themselves adult and consider that they are big enough to take such major decisions,” he added. ‘Live-in relations encourage crime’ “Live-in relationship is a wrong practice and is leading to crime. These ‘educated’ girls are