A 40-year-old priest in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, died by suicide on Tuesday after reportedly becoming frustrated when he did not receive a vision of Goddess Kali despite 24 hours of continuous worship. Amit Sharma, a resident of the city’s Gaay Ghat area, invoked the deity before slitting his throat with a cutter in the courtyard of his rented home. Moments …
A long-standing dispute over money escalated into a violent shooting near the taxi stand at gate number 2 of the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, on Wednesday evening. According to the statement given by Rajesh to the police, he was sitting with his friends in the parking lot near GMCH-32. Sunny and Rajesh had an ongoing legal dispute, …
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