COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s wicket-keeper batsman Kusal Mendis was arrested Sunday after his vehicle collided with a cyclist, killing him. The 25-year-old batsman was driving an SUV at Panadura before dawn when the incident happened, police said. Mendis has been named in the 16-player squad for a two-match home Test series ...
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TEHRAN: Two Australians detained in Iran were named as a travel-blogging couple who were arrested while making an overland trip from their home country to Britain. Perth-based Jolie King and Mark Firkin had been documenting their journey on social media for the past two years but went silent after posting ...
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KOLKATA: A Indian Bengali television actor has alleged that she was “thrown out” of a cab and threatened by her Uber driver in Kolkata on Wednesday when she was going for a shoot. The driver has been arrested. Swastika Dutta, a popular actor in Bengali serials, has narrated her ordeal ...
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COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police arrested their own chief and the former defence secretary for failing to prevent attacks on churches and luxury hotels that killed more than 250 people in April, a police spokesperson said. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara and former secretary ...
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MUMBAI: Former Indian women’s cricket team coach Tushar Arothe was arrested, in Indian district Vadodara, in connection with Indian Premier League (IPL) betting charges along with 18 others. The Detection of Crime branch officials arrested Arothe with the betting racket during a raid in his café. DCB arrested 19 persons ...
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BOLLYWOOD film producer Prerna Arora has reportedly been arrested for her alleged involvement in a fraud of Rs 16 crore. She was taken into custody on the night of December 7 by Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch, Mumbai Police. Multiple passports and PAN cards were also recovered ...
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BOLLYWOOD: Indian Singer Mika Singh was arrested in UAE for allegedly sending “indecent pictures” to a teenaged Brazilian model, according to a media report on Thursday. Singh, who was here to perform at a party, was arrested in UAE after the model lodged a complaint that the singer has sent ...
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LONDON: French “spiderman” climber Alain Robert scaled one of London’s tallest buildings without ropes – only to get arrested at the top. The 56-year-old took an hour to clamber up the 230 metre (755 ft) Heron Tower in the city’s financial district. Police kept crowds back as he worked his ...
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DHAKA: Bangladesh police arrested a prominent critic of the government who recently helped the country’s embattled opposition parties forge an alliance amid fears that dissent is being stifled in the South Asian nation. Police said Moinul Hosein, a top lawyer and a publisher of an English daily, was detained from ...
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MADRID: One of Spain’s most-wanted drug traffickers was arrested after seeming to taunt police by appearing in a music video, a police spokesman told AFP. Francisco Tejon, leader of the “Los Castanas” clan, was “arrested today at La Linea de la Concepcion,” a southern city near the border with Gibraltar, ...
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