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latest world news A girl in Satkhira district of Bangladesh has been revealed suffering symptoms like the 'tree-man disease'. Mukta , 12, is suffering from a illness in which the skin deteriorates to give way to debilitate growths of the same kind to the bark of a tree. Mukta's father Ibrahim Hossain, a grocery shop holder, told India Today, "There was a minute boil in Mukta's right hand three years ago which little by little spread to the entire arm and resulted in the bump of the arm making it look like a tangled tree. From the hand it is now moving towards her body slowly. In the last nine years I have got her treated at different places. Seeing no progress, I have come to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. I ask for blessings from all for my daughter's recovery." Dr Samantalal Sen, chief of Burn and Plastic Unit, told India Today, "At this stage it is not easy to say what kind of illness it is. Initially we were thinking it a skin...

Latest Delhi news A woman who ages 54 years was strangled by her servant  whom she had appointed 2 weeks ago and four unknown people accompanied him and looted the cash and jewelry worth Rs. 10 lakh from Delhi, police said. Police said the crime occurred around noon on Tuesday on the second floor of the '21 National Park' housing society in the Amar Colony area. Police said investigation into the robbery-cum-murder exposed that deceased Sarita Jain had taken on Roshan as a servant two weeks ago. Roshan allegedly facilitated a welcoming entry of four people who held her hostage and her other servant Rajan. "They tied up Rajan and Sarita. They later strangulated her and decamped with cash and jewellery. The woman's son was away from the house at that time. The police confirmation of the accused servant was not got done by the family," Deputy Commissioner of Police Romil Baaniya said. He said a manhunt has been launched to take Roshan into custo...

Latest world news A military transport aircraft gone down in southern US state of Mississippi's Delta region on Monday, killing at least 16 inhabitants on board, officials said. "A KC-130 military refueling tanker gone down about 85 miles (135 kilometers) north of state capital Jackson", Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks told the Reuters. Banks said that a helicopter were looking for others in the dark around the crash site in a soybean field on Monday, more than five hours after the KC-130 refueling tanker spiraled to the ground into a soybean field. The crash was reported about 4 p.m. local time and remains from the aircraft was scattered in a radius of about 5 miles (8 kilometers). An powerful fire fed by jet fuel hampered firefighters, Banks said, causing them to turn to unmanned devices in an attempt to control the flames. "We were driven away by quite a few high-intensity explosions," he said. CRASH PICTURES SHOW leftovers OF PLA...

'Munna Bhai’ Style Cheating Lands Law Student In Jail Naveen said that he was encouraged by the characters in Bollywood movie "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S" and intended to crack the entrance exam with such strategy, the police officer said. NEW DELHI:  Drawing encouragement from the Bollywood blockbuster Munna Bhai M.B.B.S, a Delhi University student attempted to cheat in the law entrance exam in Delhi, but was trapped, the police said on Monday. Police said the student, recognized as Naveen, was under arrest from Atma Ram Sanatan Dharm (ARSD) College soon after he was caught cheating by the superintendent around 4 pm on Sunday. The 21-year-old, a native of Sonepat in Haryana, used WhatsApp on his mobile handset to try to cheat in the entrance exam to the Faculty of Law's LLB course . According to a senior police officer, invigilator Jagvir Singh suspected Naveen's tricks. When he asked Naveen what he was hiding, the student tried to run away from th...

Alcoholic mother killed by drunk son BENGALURU: A fight between an alcoholic lady and her child ended with the latter killing her at their home near  Byappanahalli , east Bengaluru late Sunday night. Police detained  Prabhakar Nagaraj , 25, and seized the wooden log he used to kill  Saraswatamma Nagaraj , a resident of Bandehalli. Upset at his wife's drinking habit,  Saraswatamma 's husband Nagaraj, a daily-wage worker, had been living individually, police said. Disturbed by her husband's drinking, Prabhakar 's wife had returned to her parents, they added. According to neighbours, the child and mother duo would consume alcohol every day and clash with each other. It was no different on Sunday night. "We never had an idea that the fight would end in murder. Not knowing that he had killed his mother, Prabhakar slept in the hall. His mother, who sustained serious head injures, died on the bed," neighbours said. Her death came to light when N...

preschool owner commits suicide A preschool owner aged 34yrs decided to commit suicide and dicided to hand himself in the school in northeast Delhi's Harsh Vihar, after informing his family unit through a WhatsApp message of his choice to end his life, New Delhi . Police said Vikas Kumar, who was going through monetary crisis that provoked him to hang himself and end his life in his school on the ground floor of his residence yesterday morning. Mr Kumar had taken a loan of  Rs.  five lakh. He had lent the total to his cousin, who was not returning the cash. Mr Kumar was under stress to pay back the credit but was incapable to do so, police said. Police said they were investigating  whether Mr Kumar had typed the WhatsApp message himself. The phone has been sent for further examination. A suicide note was also recovered from the spot stating that he had communicated his family about his choice. His body was discovered by the help of their family membe...

Aadhaar-PAN linking must from July 1, govt notifies rules NEW DELHI: The government has forced taxpayers to link existing Aadhaar numbers with PAN cards as of July 1. By amending the income tax rules and notifying it, the government has made the  Aadhaar  12-digit biometric quote or the identification of the inscription a necessity at the time of application of the permanent account number (PAN). Finance Minister Arun Jaitley through an amendment to the tax proposals in the Finance Act for 2017-18 had made Aadhaar mandatory to file income tax returns and provided the linkage of PAN with Aadhaar to control tax evasion Through the use of multiple PAN cards. The revenue department said that "to each person to whom PAN has been assigned on July 1, 2017 and who, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of section 139AA, must indicate his / her number  Aadhaar , El Director general of income tax (systems) or DGIT (systems) ". In addition, it en...