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Consensual sex between adults who don’t marry is rape
Chattisgarh: The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that consensual sex between adults, with mere promises of tying the marital knot but not doing so, as rape. In a significant verdict, the court upheld a trial court order convicting a doctor
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Columbia Asia launches app to boost its health services
PUCHONG: Columbia Asia Hospital, one of the largest and fastest- growing healthcare companies in Asia launched its official mobile app aimed to enhance their service offerings to patients. The patient focused application enables functions such as booking and managing of
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India Polls: Tamil Nadu to elect 38 MPs
CHENNAI: People in Tamil Nadu are voting in the Indian polls today. The southern tip state contributes 38 MPs in Lok Sabha. The vote counting would be held on May 23. While national parties such as the Bharatiya Janata Party
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Netanyahu returns to power with Likud and ally having 35 seats each
TEL AVIV: Incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was returned to power in the general election yesterday as his party- Likud, won 35 out of the 36 seats that it contested. The loss of one seat also means that Likud
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‘Malaysia spurned our olive branch on 1MDB probe’
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian government under the former administration had turned down the assistance offered by the Swiss government into the 1MDB scandal, said the Swiss envoy. Michael Winzap said his government had asked for Malaysia’s cooperation in its own
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Iran’s Sadaf Khadem wins title in France but wanted at home for defying Islamic dress code
ROYAN: An Iranian woman, Sadaf Khadem who became the country’s first female boxer to win an international fight, intends to stay in France, her spokesperson said Wednesday, adding an arrest warrant had been issued against her in Iran. Sadaf Khadem
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Najib Trial: Ex – premier’s cheques recipients revealed
KUALA LUMPUR: Ambank’s cheque processing centre senior manager Badron Hisham Mohd confirmed that a series of cheques from Ambank and AmIslamic that was cashed. The cheques is believed to be from from former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak. Under Najib’s
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India Polls: Focus on Maharashtra – 48 MP seats at stake
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra sends the second highest number of MPs to the Lok Sabha (48) after Uttar Pradesh (80) and is polling in four phases. The state’s politics have traditionally been dominated by the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party and the Bharatiya
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Najib trial: MACC probed Najib’s documents post GE14
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Anti – Corruption Commission had probed into former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the weeks after the 14th general election that saw Najib falling out of power. This was confirmed by Bank Negara’s Financial Intelligence
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Aircraft disposal allows AirAsia to focus on digital business
KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia Group Bhd’s decision to sell 25 of its aircraft to US-based global private investment firm Castlelake LP, is part of the group’s plan to focus on its digital business. Chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes said
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