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Pakistan court sentences ex-PM Imran Khan to 14 years in land graft case, ARY News reports

ISLAMABAD, Jan 17 (Reuters) – A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, local broadcaster ARY News reported. The verdict in the case, the largest in terms of financial wrongdoing faced by Khan, was delivered by an anti-graft court in a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where Khan has been jailed since August 2023. The former cricket star, 72, had been indicted on charges that he and his wife were gifted land by a real estate developer during his premiership from 2018 to 2022 in exchange

Congress moves Supreme Court to oppose pleas against 1991 places of worship law

New Delhi, Jan 16 (PTI) The Congress has filed an intervention application in the Supreme Court to oppose the pleas challenging the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, saying they are “motivated and malicious attempt to undermine established principles of secularism”. In the application, filed through Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal, the party defended the law as a reflection of the country’s secular ethos and a product of the popular mandate. The plea emphasised that the 1991, which seeks to preserve the status quo of religious structures as they existed on August 15, 1947, was enacted with broad support

Uttarakhand CM Dhami leads roadshow for BJP in Rudrapur for local body elections

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], January 16 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami participated in a roadshow in Rudrapur on Thursday, rallying support for BJP candidates contesting the local body elections. The event commenced at Galla Mandi and concluded at the Transit Camp Football Ground in Udham Singh Nagar. In a similar vein, CM Dhami held a roadshow in Haldwani city, urging citizens to vote for Gajraj Singh Bisht as mayor and other BJP candidates for councillors. During the roadshow, a large number of people welcomed CM Dhami with flowers and garlands. Wherever CM Dhami’s roadshow passed, people were seen raising

India docks 2 satellites in space, a milestone for its scientific ambitions

JAMMU, India, January 16, 2025 (AP) — India docked two satellites in space on Thursday to become the fourth nation in the world to achieve the mission, officials said, in an ambitious milestone in its expansion of space technology. The Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO, maneuvered back together the two satellites, weighing 220 kilograms (485 pounds) each, during a “precision” space docking experiment, known as SpaDeX, the space agency said. It called the operation as a “historic moment.” In December, the satellites, Chaser and Target, blasted off on a single rocket from the Sriharikota launch site. “India docked its

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