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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

A fire broke out at the Secretariat here on Monday but it was immediately extinguished, officials said. The fire broke out following a suspected short circuit in the AC unit of the information department, fire and rescue department officials said, adding, there were no casualties nor any major damage to property. Government officials said it

On Monday, the CBI told a special court that it would not file further final reports for the time being in any coal blocks allocation scam case as the Supreme Court has restrained it from doing so. Special Public Prosecutor R S Cheema told Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar that the agency was ready with

The CBI today sought more time in a Delhi court to give clarifications on queries posed to it in connection with a closure report filed in coal block allocation case in which an FIR was lodged against top industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others. Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) R S Cheema told Special CBI Judge

Armed with the multi-crore Saradha financial scam issue, the Congress and CPM launched attack on the TMC at two separate events here on Sunday. Congress leaders, holding a convention at Ashutosh College’s Memorial Hall said they would move Supreme Court against state law minister Chandrima Bhattacharya for “contempt of court”. “We have seen how the

Intensifying its probe into the multi-crore chit fund scam in Orissa, the CBI on Sunday night arrested Manoj Dash, owner of Oriya TV channel Kamyab TV, and Madhu Mohanty, owner of Oriya daily Odisha Bhaskar, over their alleged link with chit fund firm Artha Tatwa. Mohanty allegedly took Rs 65 lakh from Artha Tatwa chief

Besides the local population, the Army too has been hit by the floods in Jammu and Kashmir. With the Badami Bagh Cantonment, the headquarters of Srinagar-based 15 Corps, submerged, the ordnance depots, family quarters, vehicles and offices have been damaged. Moreover, landslides on the Jammu-Srinagar-Leh highway and other arterial roads have affected the Army’s crucial