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  • After pigeons, India arrests Pakistani balloon

    Indian police in occupied Kashmir have taken into custody a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane-shaped balloon. According to Indian news agency ANI, the balloon landed in Sotra Chak village of Hiranagar on March 9.

    While the detention of balloon with the logo of Pakistan’s national carrier seems silly, the incident was not the first of its kind. Indian security personnel have taken several pigeons and balloons into custody for their alleged links with Pakistan. A Pakistani villager had last year appealed to India to release his pigeon which was being held for spying after it crossed the border between the nuclear rivals.

    Meanwhile, on Twitter:

  • Bride dies due to cardiac arrest after excessive crying

    Bride dies due to cardiac arrest after excessive crying

    Celebrations turned into mourning in Odisha, India after a newlywed bride died of a heart attack during her ‘bidaai‘ while leaving for her in-laws’ house.

    As per details, the cardiac arrest was caused due to excessive crying and emotional stress at the moment.

    The bride, identified as Gupteswari Sahoo aka Rosy, got married to Bisikesan on Friday in a village. As her parents were preparing to send her off to her in-laws after all  the wedding rites, Rosy kept on crying, fainted, and collapsed on the ground. Family members and friends present at the moment tried to regain her consciousness by massaging her hands and spraying water on her face.

    Read more – Locals rush to dig gold after discovering mountain ‘filled with gold’

    When she failed to gain conscious, Rosy was instantly taken to the nearest health centre where doctors declared her brought dead. Her body was handed over to her family after postmortem.

    A resident of Julunda village said Rosy was already depressed as she had lost her father a few months ago. It was her maternal uncle’s family and some social workers who had organised the wedding.

  • Locals rush to dig gold after discovering mountain ‘filled with gold’

    Locals rush to dig gold after discovering mountain ‘filled with gold’

    Villagers ran to dig gold from a mountain ‘filled with gold’ discovered in Congo’s South Kivu province, forcing authorities to ban mining in the area.  

    According to reports, the discovery of gold-rich ore in Luhihi brought masses of diggers to the site.

    A video of the event went viral on social media.

    “A video from the Republic of the Congo documents the biggest surprise for some villagers in this country, as an entire mountain filled with gold was discovered,” read the caption. “They dug the soil inside the gold deposits and take them to their homes in order to wash the dirt and extract the gold.”

    The video shows locals using shovels and other tools to dig the ground to extract the gold from the soil. Some were even seen using their bare hands.

    Another video shared on social media showed locals washing the dirt off the precious metal and collecting them in metal containers.

    What would you do if you found a mountain of gold? Let us know in the comments below.

  • Man pushes pregnant wife off cliff for insurance money

    Man pushes pregnant wife off cliff for insurance money

    Turkish police have arrested a man who pushed his pregnant wife off a cliff for insurance money two years ago.

    As per reports,  Hakan Aysal tried to claim his wife’s life insurance money. He took out loans in her name. The couple was on a holiday in Butterfly Valley in Mugla, Turkey when Aysal pushed his wife off a 1,000-foot cliff. The 40-year-old was subsequently arrested for the murder of his wife Semra Aysal and their unborn child. 

    According to prosecutors, Semra, 32, was seven months pregnant at the time of the incident, in 2018. Semra, along with the unborn child, died at the moment after the fall. 

    In the indictment prepared for the crime of “deliberate murder” against the husband, it stated he planned the ordeal in order to get the guarantee of £40,865 from insurance. The couple reportedly stayed on top of the cliff for three hours so that the husband could make sure no one was around.

    Aysal reportedly made the insurance claim shortly after his wife’s death, “but it was declined when news of the investigation was unveiled.”

    In a video interview, the court heard from the victim’s brother, Naim Yolcu, who said: “When we went to the Forensic Medicine Institute to get the body, Hakan was sitting in the car.

    “My family and I were destroyed, but Hakan did not even appear sad.”

    In a statement carried by The Sun, Aysal denied killing his wife, saying: “After taking a photo, my wife put the phone in her bag. Later she asked me to give her the phone. I got up and then heard my wife scream behind me when I walked a few steps away to get the phone from her bag. When I turned back, she was not there. I did not push my wife.” 

  • Dubai Princess Sheikha Latifa releases video from ‘villa jail’

    Dubai Princess Sheikha Latifa releases video from ‘villa jail’

    The BBC’s investigative news programme Panorama on Tuesday published a video it said was of Sheikha Latifa, one of the ruler of Dubai’s daughters, saying that she was being held against her will in a barricaded villa.

    According to a report of Reuters, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum drew international attention in 2018 when a human rights group released a video made by her in which she described an attempt to escape Dubai.

    Last March, a London High Court judge said he accepted as proved a series of allegations made by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum’s former wife, Princess Haya, in a legal battle, including that the sheikh ordered the abduction of Latifa. The sheikh’s lawyers rejected the allegations.

    “I am a hostage and this villa has been converted into a jail,” Latifa, 35, said in the video published by the BBC as part of a Panorama programme airing on Tuesday.

    “All the windows are barred shut, I can’t open any window.” She said she was making the video in the bathroom of the villa, the only room she could lock herself into.

    Reuters could not independently verify when or where the video was recorded.The Free Latifa campaign, which has lobbied for her release, said it had managed to smuggle a phone to Latifa.

    David Haigh, one of the campaign’s co-founders and her lawyer, called for Latifa’s immediate release and an end to “a horrendous period of parental and human rights abuse that has significantly damaged the reputation of the UAE.”

    The Dubai government’s media office referred questions about the video to Sheikh Mohammed’s law firm, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    David Pannick, a lawyer in London representing Sheikh Mohammed in the legal battle with Princess Haya, said: “As one of the lawyers in current legal proceedings, I cannot comment.”

    Appearing alert and speaking calmly, Latifa said in the video that there were police officers stationed outside and inside the villa. “I just want to be free,” she added.

    In December 2018, the UAE foreign ministry said Latifa was at home and living with her family, after rights groups called on authorities in the Gulf Arab state to disclose her whereabouts and condition.

    Later, BBC News shared a detailed report on the matter, check out the video below:

  • Lawyer accidentally turns on kitten filter during virtual case hearing

    Lawyer accidentally turns on kitten filter during virtual case hearing

    A Texas court hearing over Zoom went viral after a lawyer accidentally activated a cat filter and then couldn’t turn off.

    In the Zoom meeting, one of the lawyers, Rod Ponton, became a fluffy white kitten in a moment. Mr Ponton’s head appeared as a cat alongside the two men in suits.

    In the video, Judge Roy Ferguson asked the lawyer if he wanted to turn of the filter.

    “Can you hear me, judge?” Mr Ponton responded as a kitten.

    “I can hear you. I think it’s a filter,” the judge replied.

    “It is, and I don’t know how to remove it,” the lawyer said in response.

    Later, in a phone interview with The New York Times, the lawyer talking about the incident said: “If I can make the country chuckle for a moment in these difficult times they’re going through, I’m happy to let them do that at my expense.”

    Mr Ponton added that his secretary – whose computer he was using for the call – was “embarrassed” by the mistake.

    But the whole incident took less than a minute before he figured out how to deactivate the filter and return to business.

    “My older and less humorous face popped up, and we continued with the hearing,” he said.

    Judge Ferguson shared the video clip on Twitter with the caption: “These fun moments are a by-product of the legal profession’s dedication to ensuring that the justice system continues to function in these tough times. Everyone involved handled it with dignity, and the filter lawyer should incredible grace. True professionalism all around.”

  • 74-year-old man returns stolen handcuffs to police after 60 years

    74-year-old man returns stolen handcuffs to police after 60 years

    A 74-year-old man has written a heartfelt apology to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) while returning a pair of handcuffs that he had stolen more than 60 years ago.

    The elderly man reportedly from Vista in San Diego County has returned a pair of stolen handcuffs, $100 and an apology letter through a parcel to LAPD’s West Valley Station to teach his grandchildren that it is never too late to apologise for their mistakes.

    Photos of the interesting package were shared on social media by the police department, grabbing the attention of social media users.

    According to details, more than 60 years ago when the man was a teen, he was at a restaurant when he witnessed a fight involving an LAPD officer.

    He got his hands on the handcuffs after they flew off and slid toward him. He picked them up, took them home and kept them for all this time.

    “I have felt a little guilty each time I saw the handcuffs over the years but did nothing about it,” the man wrote in the letter.

    Recently, his grandsons aged 6 and 9 visited him and were playing with plastic handcuffs. That’s when the grandfather showed him the handcuffs he had and shared the story of how he got them.

    “They were aghast and asked me why I stole the handcuffs from a policeman. I, of course, had no good explanation and I told them it was the wrong thing to do and I wasn’t proud of it and then I danced around the subject,” read the letter.

    “The note is addressed to you but is partly intended for my grandsons,” the grandfather wrote.

    He later sent it back to the LAPD along with the donation and an apology letter. The letter was posted on social media by the police department, saying that it’s never too late to do the right thing.

    Netizens appreciated the act, finding it cute and sweet.

  • VIDEO: Couple dive 60 feet underwater to tie the knot

    VIDEO: Couple dive 60 feet underwater to tie the knot

    A couple tied the knot 60 feet underwater off the coast of Neelankarai in India on Monday. This is reportedly India’s first underwater traditional marriage.

    “We dived in at an auspicious time and exchanged our garlands along with tying the mangal sutra,” said the couple.

    The couple was wearing traditional dresses. The bride wore a sari while the groom wore a Veshti (dhoti). They performed the marriage rites underwater.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vGSuIBQ0WQ&feature=emb_title

    Both the groom, Chinnadurai, and bride Swetha are software engineers. Chinnadurai is a licensed scuba diver while Swetha has also been learning to dive since last month.

  • Exercise instructor unintentionally captures Myanmar coup in workout video

    Exercise instructor unintentionally captures Myanmar coup in workout video

    An aerobics instructor filming her exercise routine in front of Myanmar’s parliament has gone viral on social media after it unintentionally captured the first moments of a dramatic coup in the background.

    The video recorded in capital Naypyidaw shows a woman, reportedly named Khing Hnin Wai, do her workout as black SUVs drive up to a security checkpoint on the road leading to the Assembly of the Union complex behind her.

    As the upbeat song she is dancing to builds tempo, the convoy swells in sync with the music. As per details, the dancer is oblivious to what is happening behind her.

    According to The Guardian, Wai on Tuesday early morning clarified that video was real and that she had filmed many videos in the location before.

    She has been filming dance videos outside the assembly for 11 months, said Wai.

    Meanwhile, social media cannot get enough of the video and has been cracking jokes on it ever since it surfaced. The original clip shared on Twitter has received more than 12 million views till the filing of this story.

    https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1356359909525188608?s=20

    https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1356333329147113473?s=20

    People are also debating if the video is fake or real.

  • Wife stabs husband after finding pictures of him with ‘another woman’ without realizing images were of herself

    Wife stabs husband after finding pictures of him with ‘another woman’ without realizing images were of herself

    A jealous wife was arrested in Mexico for stabbing her husband after she failed to recognise herself in old photos on her husband’s cell phone thinking that he is with ‘another’ woman.

    The woman, identified by the police only as ‘Leonora R’ was arrested after law enforcement were summoned to a to report of a domestic dispute. The police said that when officers arrived at the scene, they found that Leonora’s husband, identified as ‘Juan N’, had been stabbed multiple times on his legs and arms.

    As per details, Leonora reportedly failed to instantly recognise herself because the woman in the images was younger, thinner, and wearing make-up. Juan told police he then explained to his wife that he had recently found the images in an old email and saved them to his phone, after which she realised that she was the woman in the pictures.

    Leonora was immediately taken into custody and remains behind bars pending charges, local media say.

    However the man was rushed to the hospital for his treatment of the wounds and is expected to recover soon.

    Police were notified after neighbors heard screaming and shouting inside the couple’s home