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The fourth AUS v IND Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Australia’s Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) has broken a decades-old record. The Boxing Day Test between Australia and India has drawn a crowd to the tune of 373,691 across five days of the game . With the figures, the fourth game of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy surpassed the previous record of 350,534 set in 1937. As per Cricket Australia, 51,371 arrived for the first session of the final day of the Boxing Day Test to break the record. In the latter session, the number increased to a final tally of 74,362, taking the five-day total to 373,691 in attendance at the MCG. The tally has now become the largest, surpassing the previous numbers when Sir Donald Bradman-led Australia played England in January 1937 at the same venue, which was played over six days. A day-wise breakdown showed that 87,242 attended the AUS v IND game on the first day followed by 85,147 on the second day. As many as 83,073 attended the third day of the...

Two brothers in Darbhanga, Bihar, are accused of a 99.21 crore in Indian rupees (INR). They used fake IDs with photos of Seema Haider and her husband, Sachin, to carry out the scam. The fraudsters, Vipin Jha and Ashutosh Jha, were arrested in a joint operation by the police from Arunachal Pradesh and Darbhanga. The strange part of this scam is that the accused brothers used the photos of Seema Haider and her husband, Sachin, on their company’s fake IDs. The brothers worked as accountants for a company named Siddhivinayak Trade Merchant, owned by Rahul Jain, based in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. Read More: Seema Haider: NCRC seeks repatriation of four children from India The fraud was discovered when the police found that the brothers, along with the company owner, Sachin Jain, had embezzled INR99.21 crore while filing GST returns. To make the scam more confusing, they used fake IDs with the pictures of Seema Haider and Sachin on their company’s trademark, which misled the author...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN: Punjab police have arrested an Indian national for staying illegally in Mandi Bahauddin city, ARY News reported on Saturday. The police conducted a raid, on a tip-off, in Moong area within the remit of Saddar police station. The suspect, identified as Badal Singh, who failed to provide a valid visa or any permit for staying in Pakistan. During the investigation, he was revealed to belong to Nagla Khatkari area of Aligarh in India. Police produced Badal Singh before the local court after registering a case against him. The judge sent the Indian national to jail for 14 days on judicial remand. Earlier, yesterday the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) foiled a human smuggling bid at Karachi airport, detaining four passengers with links to an Indian agent. Read More: Kulbhushan Jadhav- The Indian Spy in Pakistan FIA immigration has taken a human smuggler among four passengers into custody who were trying to travel to Poland via Azerbaijan illegally. The suspects ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Mohammad Khan has responded to DG ISPR’s today press conference, ARY News reported. Speaking in ARY News programme “Aiteraz Hai”, Ali Muhammad stated that Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry did not reveal anything new. The PTI leader said that the demands made by the DG ISPR have been ongoing since May 9, and PTI has been calling for a judicial commission to investigate the events of the May 9 riots. He questioned why a judicial inquiry has not been conducted into the allegations surrounding May 9. The PTI leader stressed that any investigation should be conducted by a senior judge, preferably from the Supreme Court or High Court. He argued that appointing a junior judge for the inquiry would be inappropriate. Khan also mentioned the issue of military installations being attacked, asking who was responsible for ordering such actions. Furthermore, Khan pointed out the inconsistency in the government’s approach to negotiati...

ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) announced the Gaza million march in the federal capital on December 29 to express solidarity with Palestinians who are facing oppression by Israel. JI has been granted permission to hold the million march at Jinnah Avenue in New Blue Area following the negotiations with the district administration. Two rounds of talks were held between JI and district administrations as JI wanted to conduct the million march in the city’s centre while the administration had been pressing to hold the show at Sangjani, Tirnol. The development came as today a Palestinian TV channel said five of its journalists were martyred Thursday in an Israeli strike on their vehicle in Gaza. A missile hit the journalists’ broadcast truck as it was parked in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to a statement from their employer, Al-Quds Today. The channel identified the five staffers as Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna an...

‘Baby John,’ starring Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan, has failed to make a mark at the Box Office on its opening day. To Read Lifestyle Stories in Urdu – Click Here Made with a Reported budget of INR180 crore, the film managed to earn just INR12.5 crore on its opening day on December 25 while ‘Pushpa 2’ minted INR19.75 crore – its 21st day of the film’s release, as per Indian media outlets. According to Indian Box Office experts, despite the presence of an ensemble cast and the much-anticipated cameo by Bollywood star Salman Khan, the film failed to bring the audience to the cinemas. Experts said that ‘Baby John’ collection was much lower than his film ‘Kalank’ as it was outperformed by ‘Pushpa 2’ on Christmas Day. While Varun Dhawan’s ‘Kalank’ grossed INR21 crore on the first day, it collapsed in the later days. Read more: Wamiqa Gabbi shares hilarious pictures with all ‘Baby Johns’ Directed by Kalees, ‘Baby John’ is seen as another major collaboration between Hindi and South In...

At least 10 people were killed, including five journalists, and more than a dozen wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza early on Thursday, medics with the Gaza health authorities said. Five people were killed and 20 wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, the medics reported. They warned the death toll could rise as many people remained trapped under the rubble. In a separate incident, five journalists were killed when their vehicle was struck in the vicinity of Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat in central Gaza, the enclave’s health authorities said. The journalists worked for the Al-Quds Al-Youm television channel. Palestinian media and local reporters said the vehicle was marked as a media van and was used by journalists to report from inside the hospital and Nuseirat camp. The Israeli army said its air force attacked the vehicle in a “targeted manner”, adding members of the Islamic Jihad militant group were inside. On Wednesday, Palestinian grou...