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  • Man sets textile shop on fire over unpaid salary

    Man sets textile shop on fire over unpaid salary

    A Dubai salesman has been sentenced to two years in prison for setting a textile shop on fire, causing losses of nearly Dh1 million to the owner.

    As per reports, the 27-year-old salesman from Afghanistan was fined Dh985,000 fine. He will be expelled after he has served his sentence.

    He reportedly wanted to take revenge from the owner, who did not pay his salary for a year. In December last year, the defendant went to the shop and unlocked the shop using a cutter. He accused the owner didn’t pay his salary for one year. He expected to find some cash inside the shop, but couldn’t find any.

    The suspect told Dubai Police that he found a lighter inside the shop and decided to set the textile shop on fire in vengeance.

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    The shop’s owner testified that he checked the CCTV footage in the area and saw the defendant braking into the shop. “I was alerted about the fire and discovered that the defendant was responsible. He damaged the lock and the glass door before setting the shop on fire,” the 40-year-old Pakistani owner said.

    Dubai Public Prosecution charged the defendant with setting fire to a property and causing damages worth Dh985,000. The verdict will be subject to appeal within 15 days.

  • VIDEO: Flight returns after bat seen flying in business class cabin

    VIDEO: Flight returns after bat seen flying in business class cabin

    An Air India flight from New Delhi to New York City had to return back to New Delhi shortly after takeoff as a bat started flying around the cabin in business class of the plane.

    Once the plane was back at the Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, the staff contacted the wildlife department.

     “On arrival, it was learnt that crew members saw a bat inside the cabin,” the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials told news agency ANI.

     “Wildlife staff were called to catch and take away the bat. The aircraft landed safely at around 3:55 am and later it was declared Aircraft on Grounded (AoG).”

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    The plane reportedly underwent a complete fumigation, after which the bat’s body was found from the business class cabin.

    “The probable reason/cause may be loading vehicles like those for catering,” an Air India official told Business Today. “All the time rats/bats come from their vehicle.”

  • Bride dies during her wedding ceremony, sister marries groom

    Bride dies during her wedding ceremony, sister marries groom

    A young bride fell ill, fainted and died during her wedding ceremony forcing the families to solemnize the marriage between the groom and a sister of the bride.

    As per reports, the incident happened earlier this week in Samaspur, India.

    After exchanging garlands and other wedding rituals, the couple was preparing for the final ceremony of ‘pheras’ when Surabhi suddenly fell unconscious beside her groom, Manjesh Kumar.

    The family instantly called a doctor who declared her dead telling them she suffered a severe  cardiac arrest.

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    The wedding celebrations immediately turned into mourning.

    Surabhi’s brother Saurabh said: “We did not know what to do in the situation. Both the families sat together and someone suggested that my younger sister Nisha should be married to the groom. The families discussed the matter and both agreed.”

    Surabhi’s body was kept in another room and the marriage of Manjesh and Nisha was then celebrated. After the wedding, when the guests left with the bride, Surabhi’s last rites were held,” he said.

    Surabhi’s uncle Ajab Singh, said, “It was a tough call for our family. One daughter lay dead in one room and another daughter’s wedding was being solemnized in the other room.”

    “We have never witnessed such mixed emotions. The grief over her death and the happiness of the wedding have yet to sink in,” he added.

  • ‘Mouse plague’ in Australia: Mice crawl into beds and bite residents

    ‘Mouse plague’ in Australia: Mice crawl into beds and bite residents

    Farmers in Australia are facing several problems due to a severe mice plague in the country. They allegedly have to put the legs of their beds in buckets of water to stop the mice from biting them while they are asleep.

    Millions of mice are running riot in the eastern part of the country and are causing a serious destruction to farms by eating crops and attacking grain silos.

    As per reports, livestock farmers have to scoop hundreds of dead mice they have managed to either drown in buckets or poison.

    Kodi Brady, a farm owner said, “It does play massive impacts on your mental health. I don’t sleep because I’m paranoid, you know, you can hear them in your walls and your roof.”

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    Brady has been laying bait for mice for the last six months and despite efforts to seal his house, the rodents remain in large number.

    “Your social and emotional wellbeing is shot and you are absolutely buggered,” he said.

    The region has been fighting a mice plague for numerous months after heavy rains in recent years relieved the country’s worst drought in 50 years. The wet weather not only helped produce the country’s largest ever grain crop but also provided plenty food to mice.

    Mice – believed to have arrived in Australia along with the first European settlers – are well suited to the country’s often harsh climate.

    They can survive long periods of dry weather and when the weather turns, they thrive and rapidly reproduce as food and water gets available.

    BBC News interviewed three farmers who spoke about living through the worst mouse plague in memory.

    Warning: This video contains graphic content.

  • Man fined for hurting woman’s feelings

    Man fined for hurting woman’s feelings

    The court in the United Arab Emirates has ordered a young man to pay a woman Dh20,000 (Rs 840560) in compensation for hurting her feelings via text messages.

    According to details, the young woman registered a lawsuit demanding the defendant pay her Dh100,000 as compensation for text messages he sent, in which he alleged her of having a relationship with many men and of sending him her pictures with an objective to seduce him.

    The complainant indicated that she got a message from the man’s phone alleging her of befriending men, pointing out that a criminal judgment had been issued against him which required a fine.

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    She accused the man of insulting her after the judgment and asked the court for compensation for all damages she suffered.

    The defendant demanded that the case be rejected, claiming the complainant was trying to get him charged because she wanted to negotiate the amount of Dh39,000 she owed him and that a verdict was issued relevant to this matter requesting the woman to return the amount to him.

    The court ruled that in the light of the evidence, the defendant had been convicted in the criminal case for insulting the plaintiff. It stated that the incident caused moral damage, hurting the petitioner’s feelings and her reputation and ordered the young man to pay her an amount of Dh20,000 in addition to legal fees and charges.

  • VIDEO: Car catches fire after driver uses hand sanitizer while smoking

    A car burst into flames in Maryland after a driver used hand sanitizer while smoking a cigarette.

    According to officials, the fire was caused by the “driver using hand sanitizer and smoking a cigarette,” which he cites as a “bad combo in an unventilated area like a car.” 

    Read more – Woman ‘destroys’ $26m lottery ticket in laundry

    The car is badly damaged and cannot be recovered, Fire control officials took the driver to a nearby hospital for treatment of minor burns and injuries. 

  • Woman ‘destroys’ $26m lottery ticket in laundry

    Woman ‘destroys’ $26m lottery ticket in laundry

    A woman in America claims that she destroyed her $26 million winning lottery ticket in the laundry.

    According to details, the woman mistakenly put the ticket in the pocket of her pants and sent it for laundry. She had bought the ticket at a store in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk back in November.

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    A store employee said that a woman came and told the workers that she had put the ticket in her pants and it was destroyed in the laundry.

    Her claim is being investigated by California Lottery officials, with the store’s manager saying that CCTV video showed the woman buying the ticket. She is also someone known to staff at the store.

    As per rules, someone who believes he or she is a winner, must complete a claim form.

    But Lottery spokeswoman Cathy Johnston said if someone has lost a ticket, they must also provide proof they owned it, such as a photograph of the front and back of it. Johnston said the claim will still be investigated.

  • Boy calls police after getting angry with barber over bad haircut

    Boy calls police after getting angry with barber over bad haircut

    A 10-year-old boy in China called the police after getting angry with the barber over a bad haircut.

    As per reports, the incident happened in Anshun, Guizhou in China where the boy called the police after he was not satisfied with his haircut.

    A video of the boy went viral that showed him repeatedly looking into the mirror and getting angry after the barber was done with his job.

    He started crying and kept moving his hands through his hair. The boy later contacted the police after being unhappy with his new hairstyle.

    The police discovered that the reason for calling them to the scene was not an emergency situation after reaching there.

    They later asked the elder sister of the boy to settle the matter with the barber. She promised the police officials that she would educate the boy to speak to his parents first and not to involve the police in such minor matters.

  • Israelis dance as third holiest mosque attacked

    Israelis dance as third holiest mosque attacked

    Israelis were seen dancing and singing in front of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem while a fire blazed on.

    More than twenty people including nine children and a Hamas commander were killed in Gaza Strip overnight – making it one of the bloodiest days of fighting in several years.

    While Israel continues to bomb Gaza and kill childern, this bloodbath has been the reality of Palestinians under apartheid.

    The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned escalating Israeli aggression and attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque. The meeting of the OIC Permanent Representatives was convened upon the request of the State of Palestine. During the meeting, Pakistan’s permanent representative at the UN also strongly condemned the Israeli aggression.

    Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday strongly condemned the attack on innocent Palestinians by the Israeli forces during the month of Ramzan.

    Last month Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on how Israel is an apartheid state.

    The report says: International criminal law has developed two crimes against humanity for situations of systematic discrimination and repression: apartheid and persecution. Crimes against humanity stand among the most odious crimes in international law.

    Tensions in Jerusalem have flared since Israeli riot police attacked Palestinian worshippers on the last Friday of Ramazan in the city’s worst disturbances since 2017.

    Nightly unrest since then at the Al-Aqsa compound has left hundreds of Palestinians wounded, drawing international calls for de-escalation and sharp rebukes from across the Muslim world. Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site of Islam.

  • Police arrest mother after 4-year-old daughter nearly dies from head lice

    Police arrest mother after 4-year-old daughter nearly dies from head lice

    A woman from Indiana, United Stated was detained and faces charges after her four-year-old child nearly died from a severe head lice infestation.

    As per reports, the girl was admitted to a US hospital last month due to the infection. The girl’s condition was serious as she could barely walk. Her 26-year-old mother Shyanna Nicole Singh claimed that she “didn’t notice the lice”.

    The girl needed four blood transfusions and the child’s blood had very low hemoglobin levels, with only 1.7 hemoglobin instead of the normal 12.

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    Meanwhile, the girl’s six-year-old sister was also infested with lice. While her haemoglobin levels were still low at 8.7 grams, it was not as serious as her younger sister’s.

    Staff at her school told that the elder sister had had lice for three days straight in March before she was absent for 31 days.

    The sisters have since been removed from their mother with child services placing them in the care and custody of their grandparents’.

    The girls’ grandmother told police she asked Singh how the lice got so bad, and the mum responded that “she didn’t notice, and that (she) was just in a fog,” according to an affidavit.