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This is the first story in a three-part series about a man who has lived in Vancouver’s Stanley Park for the last three decades. 

arrested and three more arrest warrants have been issued for suspects in a gold heist at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport's cargo facility in April 2023, AFP reported. Termed as "the greatest gold heist in Canadian history" by officials, little of the stolen 6,600 gold bars worth Can$20 million ($15 million) has been recovered, it added. Further, Can$ 2.5 million in foreign banknotes was also stolen in the same heist.

RBI) draft norms around stricter Know Your Customer (KYC) rules for payment aggregators could slow the onboarding of online merchants by as much as 90%, industry insiders said. The new rules will be applicable to existing players across online payment platforms, such as Razorpay, Cashfree, and PayU, card payment companies, such as Pine Labs, Innoviti Payments, and MSwipe, and QR code deployers, such as PhonePe, BharatPe and Google Pay.

Japan's iconic and prestigious Shinkansen or high-speed bullet trains face the rarest of rare delay. The reason behind it is not either human or technical glitch. The peculiar incident disrupted the renowned punctuality of Japan's bullet trains when an unexpected passenger, a snake, made its presence known aboard a high-speed train. While Japan's railway system is famed for its efficiency and precision, the uninvited reptilian guest managed to cause a rare 17-minute delay as it traversed through a passenger carriage.

Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The IEDs, planted inside steel containers of five-kg, 10-kg and 20-kg capacity, were found hidden inside a cave hideout during a joint search operation by the police, CRPF and Rashtriya Rifles in the forest area of Sanai-Gursai in the Mendhar sub-division, the officials said. They said the bomb disposal squad later destroyed all the three IEDs in a controlled explosion, scuttling terrorists' plan to carry out blasts in the Union Territory.

Gaza's largest fertility clinic in December, the explosion blasted the lids off five liquid nitrogen tanks stored in a corner of the embryology unit. As the ultra-cold liquid evaporated, the temperature inside the tanks rose, destroying more than 4,000 embryos plus 1,000 more specimens of sperm and unfertilized eggs stored at Gaza City's Al Basma IVF centre.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath's son Nakul couldn't have expected more odds against him than in this Lok Sabha election, where he is fighting to retain the Chhindwara seat that he had inherited from his father in 2019. The BJP is leaving no stone unturned to corner the lone winner from the Congress camp in the state in the previous general election and his lackadaisical performance in the past five years has aggravated the challenge. Though the BJP has fielded a seemingly lightweight candidate, Vivek Bunty Sahu, who had lost to Kamal Nath in the last two assembly polls, the party is banking on the support of Congress defectors, including one sitting MLA and a former MLA, the Ayodhya Ram temple issue and its own sweep in the 2023 state polls. Nakul Nath is the richest candidate in the first phase of 2024 Lok Sabha polls, with assets worth Rs 716 crore, has largely been an absentee MP, according to locals. His father remains his biggest strength as he did not make much of an impact inside or outside Parliament in the past five years. Locals said the exodus to the BJP from the Congress in Chhindwara was as much on account of the rising graph of the saffron party and the Ram temple issue as it was due to Kamal Nath promoting his son.

PlayStation developer portal, have been making rounds among a wider circle of third-party developers, as reported by Insider Gaming. Previously dubbed 'Trinity' by Key to Gaming, the PS5 Pro aims to revolutionize gaming experiences with enhanced performance and stunning visuals. Promising consistent frame rates at 4K resolution and introducing a 'performance mode' tailored for 8K resolution, along with cutting-edge ray tracing features, the specifications hinted at 30 WGP and 18000mts memory.

MUMBAI, NEW DELHI : Indus Towers expects Vodafone Idea to clear all its pending dues in one go, the top executive of the tower provider said on Tuesday, a day after the country's third-largest telecom operator said that the proceeds of the ₹18,000-crore follow-on public offer (FPO) would not be used for paying vendor or government dues. "We are pleased to see the positive developments on Vodafone Idea’s fundraise and expect that VI will clear over-dues of Indus in its entirety. We remain committed to supporting all our customers in their growth plans and are best positioned to do the same for VI," Indus Towers' managing director and chief executive Prachur Sah told Mint in response to queries.

At a party last Thursday for Salman Rushdie’s new memoir “Knife," there were none of the usual stacks of books for guests. Graydon Carter, who was hosting the party with his digital publication Air Mail, had received his copy only that morning and hadn’t read it yet. Rushdie’s literary agent, Andrew Wylie, let a reporter hold the hardcover for a few seconds.

The stock price for Donald Trump’s social media company is sliding again

Congress National General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's husband, Robert Vadra, has hinted about a political debut in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Stating that while he has attempted to stay away from politics he has not ruled out entering the electoral fray if the party feels he can bring about a change. If given a chance, he said he would pick Moradabad and Haryana to contest from. «I have stayed away from politics, but different political parties wanted to pull me into politics and used tactics to trouble me for being connected to the Gandhi family. I have always been treated as a political tool and a soft target or hard target whenever there is an election,» Vadra said, speaking to on Tuesday. The son-in-law of Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi said he felt he could give such critics a better response politically as an MP.

Donald Trump began his day as a criminal defendant lashing out at the judge and prosecutors, casting himself as a victim and angrily posting on social media. In other words: a familiar routine.

stock price for Donald Trump's social media company slid again Monday, pushing it more than 66% below its peak set late last month. Trump Media & Technology Group closed down 18.4% at $26.61 as more of the euphoria that surrounded the stock fades. It's a sharp comedown since nearing $80 after the owner of Truth Social merged with a shell company to get its stock trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol «DJT,» for Trump's initials.

S Jaishankar on Monday said that the government was sparing no efforts in getting the 17 Indians released. Speaking at a press conference in Bengaluru, he said that when he talked to his Iranian counterpart he seemed «responsive» and that he wanted the embassy officials to get in touch with the crew members soon. «Narendra Modi's guarantees are for both inside the country and outside,» he said, adding the Indian government would be there for any Indian who was in trouble outside the country.

generative artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI's Sora and others inside its widely used video editing software, the U.S. software maker said on Monday. Adobe's Premiere Pro app is widely used in the television and film industries. The San Jose, California, company is planning this year to add AI-based features to the software, such as the ability to fill in parts of a scene with AI-generated objects or remove distractions from a scene without any tedious manual work from a video editor.

BRS) leader K Kavitha's CBI custody till April 23 in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. The CBI produced the accused before the court on the expiry of her three-day police custody granted earlier by a judge. Kavitha, 46, was arrested from Tihar Jail, where she was lodged after her arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's killer Amir Sarfaraz shot dead in Pak's Lahore Hooda had also attended the last rites of Sarabjit's sister Dalbir Kaur who died in 2022. On Sunday, a group of unidentified gunmen shot bullets into Tamba's chest in Sanat Nagar, Lahore. The assailants came on a motorcycle to Tamba's residence and started gunfire.

Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar on Sunday, officials said. Labourers feared being trapped after a two-storey house collapsed in the Jansath police station area of Muzaffarnagar. The district administration and police are engaged in rescue work. SP Muzaffarnagar, Abhishek Singh says, «It was reported at 5:30 in the evening that this complex fell. We have two lintel structures and we are removing the above lintel structure...We have rescued 15 people as of now and we are more than hopeful that we will rescue the other people who are inside this. The operations are on. It was a two-floor complex.»

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New Delhi: Amir Sarfaraz Tamba, an accused in the murder of Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan Sarabjit Singh and a close associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit founder Hafiz Sayeed, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Lahore on Sunday, official sources said. Tamba was attacked by motorcycle-borne assailants in the Islampura area of Lahore in Pakistan and was rushed in critical condition to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, the sources said. Singh, 49, died of cardiac arrest in Jinnah Hospital Lahore in the wee hours of May 2, 2013, after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by inmates including Tamba, inside the high-security Kot Lakhpat jail. Tamba, whose father's name is Sarfaraz Javed, was born in Lahore in 1979 and was a close associate of the LeT founder.