Priti Patel approves extradition of world’s most wanted billionaire
The diamond tycoon is accused of money laundering and fraud over allegations that he embezzled more than $1 billion
16 April 2021 • 6:47pm
Mr Modi wearing a £10,000 ostrich hide jacket when confronted in the street by a Telegraph reporter in 2019
Credit: Eddie Mulholland
The world’s most wanted billionaire Nirav Modi has had his extradition to India approved by Priti Patel.
The Home Secretary ordered the extradition of the diamond tycoon after a British judge ruled there was sufficient evidence to send him back to India for trial.
He has been accused of money laundering and fraud over allegations that he embezzled more than $1 billion (£700 million) from the Punjab National Bank (PNB).
Grandson convicted of murdering grandmother with knife, dish
April 11, 2021
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PERRY, Ga. (AP) A 33-year-old Georgia man has been convicted of murdering his grandmother in 2018 after striking her with a Crock-Pot and stabbing her in the chest with a kitchen knife.
Jared Randall Carter was convicted Friday in the June 2018 death of 81-year-old Valeria Jean Mann of Warner Robins.
The Telegraph of Macon reports a Houston County jury deliberated for more than two hours before convicting Carter. He will be sentenced later, facing between 30 years and life in prison.
Witnesses testified that Carter and Mann had a contentious relationship after Carter came south from his hometown of New York to live with Mann.
Vaccination count now near 140,000
Ron DeBrock, ronald.debrock@thetelegraph.com
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WOOD RIVER Nearly 140,000 COVID-19 vaccinations now have been administered in Madison County, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
The IDPH on Monday reported a total of 138,848 COVID-19 vaccinations so far have been administered in Madison County.
That included 79,954 first doses and 58,894 or 22.27% of the county’s population now fully vaccinated.
The Madison County Health Department has said the actual numbers for both vaccination categories are higher than the IDPH figures.
The county this week is expanding COVID-19 vaccinations opportunities. In addition to its vaccination clinic at the Gateway Convention Center in Collinsville, the health department is planning vaccinations:
Five contested council races await Alton voters
Dylan Suttles, dylan.suttles@thetelegraph.com
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ALTON On April 6, voters will have five contested races for alderman positions.
Incumbent Brian Campbell is running unopposed for 1st Ward Alderman. In the 6th Ward, incumbent Alderwoman Stephanie Elliott is running unopposed. Contested races include:
2nd Ward
Incumbent Alderwoman Carolyn MacAfee is challenged by Steve Potter for 2nd Ward Alderman.
MacAfee is a retired computer programmer from Owens Illinois Mold Shop who also served as a pricing clerk for Boeing and was the store manager for the Casual Corner clothing store. She is a high school graduate and completed two years at Lewis and Clark Community College.
If you’re way woke, this might be music to your ears.
As indicated by internal documents acquired by The Telegraph, following Black Lives Matter protests, Oxford University is feeling pressure to clean up its act.
Amid the sweep: a decolonizing of curriculum.
And one professor at the world’s oldest English-speaking university has purportedly proposed removing a “colonialist” clunker: Western musical notation.
As it turns out, it would help purge “white hegemony” from the school.
The teacher allegedly asserted that Oxford’s currently-offered classical repertoire which includes works by Beethoven and Mozart is too concentrated on “white European music from the slave period.”