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BHOPAL: A man beat his 13-year-old daughter to death in Shahdol district on Monday evening after being prodded by his neighbours who provoked him making allegations about her character. After investigations police arrested accused on Tuesday. Incident took place at Hathidol village of the district. Police said accused Ramdhani Rathore, 40, returned home from work […]

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday formed a 5-member committee headed by senior registrar of J&K high court to evaluate the ground situation in the state in the aftermath of the floods. The apex court has directed the committee to file report within two weeks before it and also before J&K high court. The

GUWAHATI: At least 55 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in flash floods and mudslides in the northeast after days of heavy rain, local authorities said Wednesday. The chief minister of Meghalaya, where 35 people have died, said the floods were the worst in recent memory, and bad weather was hampering the

CHENNAI: Madras high court has ordered a CBI probe into the alleged custodial torture and rape of a woman, who was picked up by Udumalpet police on August 11 in connection with a murder case. Justice V Ramasubramanian, passing orders on a writ petition filed by Girija (name changed), daughter of the torture victim, also

A man and his two accomplices murdered a doctor in Odisha’s Sonepur district because he suspected the doctor’s injection killed his nephew, police have said. Durbadala Mishra, additional district medical officer (ADMO) of Sonepur district headquarters hospital, was found lying in a pool of blood in front of his house on Sunday night with his

Issuing elaborate guidelines on deaths in police encounter, the Supreme Court ruled that in all cases of encounter deaths there shall be mandatory registration of FIRs and investigation by CID or any other independent agency. A bench led by Chief Justice R M Lodha also said that no officer shall be given out of turn

A man has been acquitted of the charge of raping a 13-year-old girl by a Delhi court after she resiled from her statement. Additional Sessions Judge Rajneesh Kumar Gupta absolved West Delhi resident Kalu of the offences under sections 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and section 4 (penetrative sexual assault) of Protection of Children from

BEIJING:  A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced to life in prison the country’s most prominent advocate for the rights of Muslim Uighur people, his lawyer said, the latest sign of Beijing’s determination to suppress dissent. Economics professor Ilham Tohti stood trial on separatism charges in the western region of Xinjiang last week. His case has provoked

The number of Ebola infections will triple to 20,000 by November, soaring by the thousands every week if efforts are not significantly stepped up to stop the outbreak, the WHO warned on Tuesday. “Without drastic improvements in control measures, the numbers of cases of and deaths from Ebola are expected to continue increasing from hundreds

In controversial comments, Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress MP and nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Monday questioned whether the student protests in Jadavpur University were due to banning of drugs and liquor inside the campus. “Is this protest due to the banning of drugs, liquor and charas?” he said in a Facebook post. The