Daily Newsletter | Thursday, April 26, 2018
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| Asaram ‘Bapu Maharaj’: From ghetto boy to godman to jailbird |
| Just after Partition, Thaumal Harpalani moved from Berani village in Pakistan’s Sindh with his wife Menhgiba and son Asumal to Ahmedabad. What followed was the typical story of survival in a refugee ghetto. They lived in the Sardarnagar area, where most Sindhi refugee families were resettled. |
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| For raping 16-year-old, Asaram gets life in jail |
| A special court on Wednesday sentenced disgraced “godman” Asaram to life imprisonment till death for raping a teenage girl studying at his ashram, with the judge saying, “In my humble opinion, Asaram not only broke the faith of the complainant but also spoiled the image of saints among common men.” |
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| My 5-year ‘house arrest’ is over, says survivor |
| “They killed witnesses, disrupted my education, hounded my family but I knew what I had to do,” said the girl whose battle led to Asaram’s downfall. “Someone else committed the crime, but I was the one under virtual house arrest for five years,” the girl, who will turn turn 21 this July, told TOI on Wednesday, moments after she heard that Asaram had been found guilty of raping her in 2013. |
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| IPL: Dhoni, Rayudu star as CSK beat RCB to go top |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni completed the big run chase with a massive six as Chennai Super Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by five wickets to regain the top spot in the Indian Premier League standings on Wednesday. |
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| Saina, Srikanth, Sindhu advance at Asia Championships |
| After stupendous success at the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games, top Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth made positive starts to their campaign at the Badminton Asia Championships on Wednesday. |
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| CBI will list banking sector flaws to RBI |
| Having found major anomalies in the banking sector while investigating the Rs 13,578 crore Punjab National Bank fraud, CBI will soon send a detailed assessment report to the government and the RBI listing flaws in the banking industry and recommending corrective measures. |
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| New members registration with EPFO hits 4-month low in February |
| As many as 6,04,557 such members were registered in January 2018 and 5,57,633 in December 2017, the latest data by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) about all non-zero contributors or new members that are registered with the body every month showed. |
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| Watch: ‘Veere Di Wedding’ trailer |
| ‘Veere Di Wedding’, which is Kareena Kapoor Khan’s first film post pregnancy, prides itself on not being a chick flick. Now, the trailer of the comedy-drama has finally dropped and it definitely holds true to its tagline. |
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