£25,000 reward for missing hotelier
london: The family of an Indian-origin British hotelier feared kidnapped while on a business trip to Punjab has offered a reward of 25,000 pounds to trace his whereabouts. 54-year-old Ranjit Singh Power’s family in Britain fear he may have been kidnapped after he failed to stay in contact with them and did not catch his return flight from Amritsar on May 14.
‘Dead’ American wakes up on way to mortuary
Washington: A man in the Milwaukee city of US, who was pronounced dead after collapsing, began to move his limbs and breathe just before he was about to be transported to the morgue. Police found that the 46-year-old man from Wisconsin State had collapsed last week at his apartment and called for paramedics.
175 grave robbers arrested in China Beijing: Chinese police apprehended 175 tomb raiders in the “biggest operation” and recovered 1,168 cultural relics worth $80 million, officials said on Tuesday. Described as the biggest swoop of its kind since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, the Ministry of Public Security valued the looted artifacts at more than 500 million yuan ($80 million).
Most Iranians want peace, says Rouhani
Tehran: An overwhelming majority of Iranians want peace with the rest of the world, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, defending the nuclear negotiations under way with major powers. “Despite a small minority that speak loudly, the vast majority of the population are in favour of peace, reconciliation and constructive agreement with the world,” Rouhani said during a televised speech in Shahriyar, west of Tehran.
Pak SC rejects petition against death penalty
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking abolition of the death penalty saying that the “right to life and liberty is not absolute” in the country’s Constitution.