Two days after it was cleared by the Union Cabinet, an ordinance on sexual violence against women under which rape that leads to death of the victim can now attract death penalty was today promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee.
The President has given his assent to the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance 2013, a Home Ministry spokesperson said.
Six persons were arrested from Abids here on charge of trying to circulate fake euro notes with a face value of about Rs seven crore, police said.
Accused Syed Subhan, a tailor from Guntur district, who resides in Mumbai, along with his five associates, were looking for prospective customers to sell the counterfeit euro currency for a sum ranging between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh when they were nabbed, Abids Inspector Guru Raghvendra said.
Two persons were today booked for raping a girl for two days in Basti Khanuwali area of the district, police said.
On the complaint made by victim’s family and the Sarpanch of Kotwal village, a probe was carried out by a police team, after which a case was registered against the two alleged persons, SSP Varinder Pal Singh said.
Accused Ashwani was arrested, while efforts were being made to catch Rafi, the police official said.
According to the complaint, the girl had an affair with a youth and she went to meet him near Satiawala village on on
January 30.
The final day of the Kingfisher Ultra Fashion Week, 2013, here was stopped by the city police after the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) protested against the alleged use of Lord Ganesh’s images on “revealing” dresses.
VHP district secretary G Radhakrishna and its regional vice-president Thota Peda Venkateswara Rao lodged a complaint
at the Three Town police station today against the display of images that allegedly hurt the religious sentiments of the community.
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, has undergone two successful operations to attach a titanium plate and cochlear implant, doctors said today.
Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital said a titanium plate and cochlear implant were successfully attached in two operations yesterday.
Malala was attacked by the Taliban in October after campaigning for girls’ rights to education.
A bullet was removed from her head by surgeons in Pakistan, before she was flown to the UK for specialised treatment.
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta today defended the administration’s response to last year’s terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that claimed the life of the US ambassador to Libya.
“This is not 911. You cannot just simply call and expect within two minutes to have a team in place. It takes time. That’s the nature of it. Our people are there. They are in position to move, but we’ve got to have good intelligence that gives us a heads up that something is going to happen,” the Defence Secretary told CNN in an interview.
Hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference on Sunday expressed surprise over Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s support for the Valley’s only all-girls rock band, saying there is no room to nourish western culture and immoral values in the state.
“Kashmir is a place of sufis and saints and there is no room to nourish western type of culture and immoral values,” Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said in a statement.
About 75 per cent voter turnout was recorded on Sunday in the elections of 1,161 village panchayats in Gujarat, a top officer said.
“As per the information received, an average 75 per cent voting has been registered for 1,161 village panchayats in 22 districts which went to poll today,” Incharge state election commissioner PS Shah said.
Counting is scheduled to be held on Tuesday.
A headless body of a farmer was found in a farm in Nela village near here this afternoon, police said.
Heera Lal (55) was brutally murdered by some unidentified persons who beheaded him, In-charge of Goverdhan Vilas police station Attaurrahaman said.
Enraged over the gruesome killing, the family members refused to hand over the body for post mortem.
They also refused to perform the final rites till the head was recovered. Efforts were being made to trace the head, the police official said.
Three car occupants were critically injured after a speeding truck of a civic agency rammed into their vehicle here, police said Sunday.
The garbage truck of a city municipal corporation jumped a red light and hit the car Saturday night in central Delhi’s Daryaganj area, police said. The truck driver fled from the spot.
The car was dragged a few metres by the truck after the collision, police said.
Car driver Farhaan and his friends Waqar and Harsh were injured. Farhaan and Waqar are in a hospital in a critical condition, a police officer said.
—IANS
Online activists in Saudi Arabia are calling for harsher punishments for child abuse after reports that a prominent cleric received only a light sentence after confessing to the beating death of his 5-year-old daughter.
The social media campaign gaining momentum today is the latest attempt to use the Internet to pressure the kingdom’s
ultraconservative rulers.
Saudi media reports say Fayhan al-Ghamdi, a frequent guest on Islamic TV programs, was arrested in November on
charges of killing the girl. The reports said he questioned the child’s virginity.
Issues like fundamentalists’ protest against author Salman Rushdie’s visit made real concerns of underdevelopment and poverty faced by Muslims in Bengal take a back seat, economist Amartya Sen said here today.
Lot of people who are enormously disadvantaged, have reasons to complain about other things. Here, I’m not only
talking about the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes…even in Bengal, if you look at Muslim groups in terms of the even-handedness of progress, they have not been as privileged,” Sen said.
BJP’s national vice president Kalrajv Mishra today said the building of a Ram temple in Ayodhya was “a permanent issue” for the party.
Construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya is BJP’s firm commitment. It is not an election issue for us, but a
permanent one,” he said.
The issue will remain alive till a Ram Temple is built,” he said.
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s statement on saffron terrorism was an “attack on Indian-ness and an act of treason,” he alleged.
Starting his Maharashtra tour from this town in Marathwada region, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray Sunday criticised the Congress-led government for its apathy towards the drought situation in the region.
Addressing thousands at a rally, Thackeray dared Congress president Sonia Gandhi to come to drought-hit Marathwada region and address the situation. He also demanded that all the farmers’ debts and other bills be waived off until the drought situation eases.
Little-known Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell was the only million-dollar buy in a low-key IPL players’ auction where franchises opted to put their money on unheralded names instead of established stars, most of whom went unsold here today.
The 24-year-old Maxwell stole the thunder grabbing a whopping USD one million (Rs 5.3 crore) deal with Mumbai Indians, while among the Indians, all-rounder Abhishek Nayar, and pacers R P Singh and Jaydev Unadkat invited unexpectedly high bids in the auction where only 37 of the 108 players in the fray managed to find buyers.
President Pranab Mukherjee Sunday gave his approval to an ordinance that awards stricter punishment for sexual crimes against women, including death sentence in rare instances. Women’s groups are, however, planning a protest against the ordinance, which they term as a “big joke”.
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, was passed by the cabinet Friday. It is based largely on former Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Verma’s 631-page report.
Actress Kajol, who with husband Ajay Devgn has been actively involved in social work, says getting associated with causes is part of social responsibility and it is their way to return something to the society.
The 38-year-old, along with her actor husband, is supporting Coca Cola-NDTV’s Support My School campaign and has donated Rs.10 lakh.
BJP appears to have come under pressure from Sangh Parivar on the choice of Narendra Modi as its next Prime Ministerial candidate, with VHP demanding announcement of the Gujarat Chief Minister’s name.
However, NDA allies like JD-U have indicated that his name is not acceptable to them. After a meeting with top RSS and BJP leaders last week, VHP leader Ashok Singhal today openly said Modi should be declared the PM candidate by the party.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy would leave for Delhi tomorrow to meet the central leadership and is expected to hold a discussion on the Telangana demand.
Reddy is leaving for the national capital by a morning flight, official sources said tonight.
The Chief Minister might take up the Telangana issue with the top leaders of the Congress and the Centre.
–Agencies
According to a report published in renowned Hindi newspaper ‘Patrika’ the International President of right wing VHP, Praveen Togadia has made unacceptable remarks against Muslims. The VHP leader, known for his tirade against the minorities said that “if I become Prime Minister, I will revoke voting right of Muslims”. He further says that: “I will not let Muslims stay on any constitutional post.
Hadith:
Abu Hurairah (RadiyAllahu Anhu) reported: Messenger of Allah (Sallellahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said:
“Hasten to do good deeds before you are overtaken by one of the seven afflictions.”
Then (giving a warning) he said:”
1. “Are you waiting for poverty which will make you unmindful of devotion,
2. Or prosperity which will make you corrupt,
3. Or a disease which will disable you,
4. Or senility which will make you mentally unstable,
5. Or sudden death which will take you all of a sudden,
6. Or Ad-Dajjal who is the worst expected,
Berlin will be hosting a series of exhibitions, lectures, art installations and events throughout the year to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s ascent to power.
A new exhibit, ‘Berlin 1933 – Road to dictatorship’ opened at the Topography of Terror open-air documentation center in Berlin this week.
Most of the city’s events began on January 30 and will end on November 9, CNN reports.
British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan this weekend as part of moves to prevent a Taliban resurgence when foreign troops leave, and to promote regional peace and stability.
Cameron will dine with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan”s President Asif Ali Zardari at his country retreat Chequers in Buckinghamshire, southeast England, on Sunday, reports the Daily Times.
Cameron will then hold the first in-depth top-level talks with both leaders and their key officials on Monday.
The chief minister of Pakistan”s Punjab province, Shahbaz Sharif, has accused former dictator General (retired) Pervez Musharraf of lying about the Kargil operation.
Sharif said Musharraf is responsible for the destruction of Pakistan and history will never forgive him. He added that Musharraf”s decisions wreaked destruction to Pakistan in the form of suicide attacks and terrorism, reports The Nation.
Sharif said that Pakistan was isolated in the world on Kargil war due to Musharraf. He called for a commission to investigate the Kargil issue to unearth the facts. (ANI)
Google”s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has described China as the most “sophisticated and prolific” hacker of foreign companies in his upcoming book, according to leaked extracts.