Category: What’s Happening
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July 9 in history
1401: Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000. 1850: American President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk. 1746: First French landing in India at Pondicherry. 1875: The Bombay Stock Exchange established, with its construction under the shade of a large banyan tree. 1893: Daniel Williams performs first successful open heart…
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Suhail Shergill of Scotiabank arrested for luring 15-year-old girl
TORONTO: Suhail Shergill, 31, of Toronto, has been arrested for luring a 15-year-old girl through social media and sexually assaulting her. The accused is a technology director with Scotiabank as per his online profile. Shergill was arrested on July 4 by Toronto Police from the area of Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue West. He has…
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Love jihad: Hindu woman finds that her husband is Muslim
Yet another story related to love jihad – where Muslim men are accused of trapping Hindu girls into marriage – in India is making the headlines. A woman in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh says she discovered after six years of her marriage that her husband is Muslim. “After six years of marriage, I discovered that…
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Self-proclaimed Lord Shiva hanged in Japan
Japan on Friday executed doomsday cult guru Shoko Asahara, 63, and six cult followers for killing dozens of people. The cult leader, who claimed himself to be reincarnation of Hindu god Lord Shiva, founded the Aum Shinrikyo cult in 1984. His cult was behind the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway system that killed…