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[00:00:09] Hello, this is your Daily Dose of News from Onmanorama. I'm your host, Kannan, and these are the major news stories of Friday, Jan 17, 2025.
[00:00:21] A Pakistani court has sentenced cricketer turned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years of imprisonment on charges that he and his wife were gifted land by a real estate developer during his premiership from 2018 to 2022 in exchange for illegal favours.
[00:00:40] The verdict in the case was delivered by an anti-graft court in a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the 72-year-old Khan has been jailed since August 2023. Khan's wife, Bushra Bibi, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Khan's party, Pakistan 30K Insaf, said that it will challenge the verdict in higher courts.
[00:01:06] Setting back Elon Musk's flagship rocket program, a SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter cores to avoid falling debris.
[00:01:22] SpaceX mission control lost contract with a newly upgraded Starship carrying its first test payload of MOC satellites but no crew eight minutes after liftoff from its South Texas rocket facilities. Musk said a preliminary assessment of the failure showed an internal leak of liquid oxygen fuel, built up pressure and led to the rocket's breakup.
[00:01:46] The failure came a day after Blue Origin, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Space Company, successfully launched its giant New Glenn rocket into the orbit for the first time. A day after Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed multiple times in a botched burglary attempt, police are yet to find the culprit.
[00:02:10] A man who was detained and brought to the bandhra police station has been released after police verified that he was not related to the crime. The actor was stabbed six times inside his home during an attempted burglary. A staff member was also injured in the scuffle. The actor was rushed to the Lilawati hospital at around 3.30 a.m. on Thursday and was immediately rushed into surgery.
[00:02:34] According to Mobile Police, the attacker is related to a member of the actor's staffers who allowed him entry into the house. Dragged down by IT major Infosys and private lender Axis Bank, Indian benchmark indices fell on Friday, snapping a three-day upswing.
[00:02:54] The 30-share BSA Sensex fell 423.49 points or 0.55% to settle at 76,619.33 points, while the Nifty declined 108.60 points or 0.47% to 23,203.20 points.
[00:03:17] Axis Bank lost over 5.2% after the lender's quarterly profit missed the market estimate due to slower loan growth and a rise in provisions for bad loans. Though Infosys paid quarterly revenue estimates, investors were worried that the growth was driven by a higher component of third-party items in its deal pipeline, which raised concerns over the quality of the results.
[00:03:43] In the sensational Sharon Raj murder case, in which the Niyatangara native was poisoned to death by his lover, the additional sessions court on Friday found the first accused, Grishma, and her uncle, Nirmala Kumar and Nair, the third accused, guilty. The court, however, acquitted Grishma's mother and second accused, Sindhu, for want of evidence.
[00:04:04] Grishma was found guilty of murder, causing her by means of poison, abduction with the intent to murder and providing false information about the crime. Both Sindhu and Nirmala Kumar and Nair were accused of destruction of evidence. The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment on Saturday. That brings us to the end of this episode. Thanks for listening to Daily News Dose, hosted and produced by me, Kannan.
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