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Ticketing blunder: Spicejet slapped with Rs 30,000 penalty over rerouting error; senior citizen compensated for ‘mental harassment’ – Times of India

A consumer commission in Mumbai has ordered budget airline SpiceJet to pay Rs 25,000 as compensation and Rs 5,000 towards litigation costs to a senior citizen who suffered mental agony and financial loss after being issued an incorrect ticket during a rerouted journey in December 2020, reported news agency PTI.The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission,…

Russia sends US citizen Joseph Tater to psychiatric hospital before assault trial

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A US citizen awaiting trial in Moscow has been forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital, Russian state media reported Sunday. Joseph Tater, 46, was arrested in August 2024 after being accused of assaulting a police officer during a confrontation with staff at an upmarket hotel in the Russian capital. A Moscow court agreed to admit…

Iran Releases French Citizen After 2 Years in Detention, Officials Say

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A French citizen who spent over two years in detention in Iran on spying charges was released this week, the French government said on Thursday. President Emmanuel Macron of France had earlier denounced Iran’s detention of the man, Olivier Grondeau, 34, and two other French citizens as “disgraceful and arbitrary.” Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s foreign minister,…

Super Bowl or Senior Citizen Bowl? Older coaches are having a moment in the NFL

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The college all-star game played Saturday in Mobile, Ala., is called the Senior Bowl, but the game between the Chiefs and Eagles a week from Sunday in New Orleans could be called the Senior Citizen Bowl. While the Sean McVay effect remains real (see the hirings of 38-year-old Ben Johnson and 39-year-old Liam Coen), coaches…

Citizen Scientists Reclaim Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Zone

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Every year when winter finally loosens its grip on northern Japan, Tomoko Kobayashi begins what has become an annual rite for her and a small band of collaborators. They head out with measuring devices to keep tabs on an invisible threat that still pollutes the mountains and forests around their homes: radioactivity. In her car,…

Italy releases Iranian citizen held on a US warrant over drone attack in Jordan

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ROME: Italy on Sunday released an Iranian citizen wanted by the U.S. over a drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans a year ago, after the Italian justice minister asked a court to revoke his arrest. Mohammad Abedini has already returned to Iran, Iranian state TV said on Sunday afternoon. He was scheduled to…

Russia jails US citizen for 15 years, says leaked biotechnology secrets

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Eugene Spector, a US citizen jailed for a total of 15 years this week after a Moscow court convicted him of espionage, was found guilty of passing biotechnology secrets to the United States, Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday. Russian state news agencies reported on Tuesday that Spector, who was born in Russia and…