Surinder Kaur was pronounced dead on the scene after she was hit by a vehicle on Oldbury Road in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, on November 13, 2022, the BBC reported, citing police. In addition to the jail-term, Arjun Dosanjh (26) and Jacek Wiatrowski (51) were banned from driving for eight years by the Wolverhampton Crown Court last week.
A 17-year-old Indian national died and three others were injured when a bus travelling from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur collided with a motorcycle and burst into flames. The bus, with 28 passengers onboard, was travelling along the northbound side of the North-South Expressway on January 13 at about 3.50 am, according to a Channel News Asia report.
Gupta's lawyers, while also claiming that their 52-year-old client is facing human rights violations, had sought material, or evidence, relating to the charges against him in a ‘Motion to Compel Production of Discovery’ filed on January 4 in the US District Court, Southern District of New York.
Following the ruling Awami League's (AL) win in the January 7 Bangladesh general elections, incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took the oath of office on Wednesday for her historic fourth-consecutive term. The oath to Hasina and other newly-elected MPs was administered by Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury,
The World Bank has forecast a bleak outlook for the global economy with growth expected to slow down for a third year in a row in 2024, according to its Global Economic Prospects report released on Tuesday. The report projects the world economic growth to come down further to 2.4 per cent in 2024, before edging up to 2.7 perc ent in 2025 -- well below the 3.1 percent average growth seen in the 2010s.
The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip exceeded 23,000, the Gaza-based Health Ministry said. The Ministry said on Monday in a press statement that the Israeli army killed 249 Palestinians and wounded 510 others during the past 24 hours, Xinhua news agency reported.
