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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulp News Update for Thursday, September the 27th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09The long arm of the law has finally caught up with the man who built a multi-million
00:14dollar empire by selling fake degrees worldwide.
00:17Shoaib Shaikh, the owner and chief executive officer of Pakistan-based IT firm Xact, was
00:24arrested by the country's Federal Investigation Agency on Wednesday.
00:29The arrest came months after a district court in Islamabad convicted Shaikh and 22 aides
00:35in the $140 million fake degree scandal and sentenced them to 20 years each.
00:41Gulp News' sister publication Express and Gulp News had exposed the global online degree
00:46scam in June 2014.
00:49India's top court ruled today that adultery is no longer a crime.
00:54It declared a colonial-era law that punished the offence with jail time unconstitutional
01:00and discriminatory against women.
01:02Thinking of adultery from a point of view of criminality is a retrograde step, the five
01:07judge bench of the Supreme Court said.
01:10Women could not file a complaint under the archaic law nor be held liable for adultery
01:15themselves.
01:16Actress and former Miss India Tanushree Dutta has accused actor Nana Patekar of misconduct
01:22on the sets of the 2009 film Horn OK Please.
01:26At the time of the incident, Dutta had spoken out against Patekar for making inappropriate
01:31advances during the shoot of a song.
01:34The revelation could put the wheels of the hashtag MeToo movement in motion in India.
01:40The movement hasn't gathered much momentum in Bollywood because actresses have generally
01:45shied away from speaking out about the industry's dark underbelly.
01:49And finally, the weather.
01:51Today's high across the UAE will be 39 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.
01:56That's all for now.
01:57Thanks for watching.
01:58We will be back with the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest updates
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