A 53-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday night by Kumaraswamy Layout police on the charge of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
The accused, Dhanakoti, was well aware with the victim and her family. The girl’s parents were not at home.
According to the complaint filed by the victim, Dhanakoti touched her inappropriately, as he was talking to the victim.
The police have registered cases under Sections 354 and 376 of the IPC.
Minister of State ( MoS) in the Prime Minister’s Office ( PMO ) Dr. Jitendra Singh said Friday that the Varma Committee report on changes to be made in the pattern of conducting civil service examinations is with the government, which in turn, will give a final decision on it in a couple of days.
Singh said, “Now that the report has come, the government will plan and act accordingly. From your medium, I want to assure that the decision will be well thought out and a balanced one.”
The UPSC exam row generated heat in both houses of Parliament with a member tearing a paper and throwing it towards the Speaker in Lok Sabha and almost the entire opposition staging a walkout in the Upper House as government refused to set a time-line for resolving the issue.
Minister of state for parliamentary affairs Prakash Javadekar also came under sharp attack in Rajya Sabha from the opposition which demanded an apology from him after he allegedly “instigated” members of the treasury benches to protest when the issue was raised.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met U.S Secretary of State John Kerry at 7 Race Course Road here today.
The two of them reportedly discussed bilateral as well as global issues of mutual interest to the countries.
This visit is also significant as it will create the ground for Modi’s visit to the US in September this year.
Kerry is on a three day visit to India.
Kerry had earlier met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday for the fifth Indo- US Strategic Dialogue in which the two sides discussed transformative initiatives in key areas of security and energy.
In a major blow to victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, a US court has ruled that the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) cannot be sued for the ongoing contamination from the chemical plant.
Non-governmental organisation EarthRights International had filed the lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of residents of Bhopal saying land and water of the citizens are being contaminated by waste from the plant.
The Madras High Court has suggested that banks resort to e-auctioning of properties hypothecated to them.
While dismissing a petition filed by a borrower, who opposed e-auctioning of properties, justices M Jaichandren and R Mahadevan of the Madurai bench of the court said, “E-auctioning is a small step taken towards adopting modern technologies in implementing procedures provided by law.”
They stressed on the need to adapt to changes in the digital era.
A new study has found that the seeds of the Moreton Bay Chestnut tree contain a medicine called Celgosivir, which is commonly considered safe for people suffering from dengue virus.
A student hurt in an accident by an RTC bus at Shamsheergunj triggering a violent protest by locals. An angry mob pelted stones at buses. This is the second incident in Old City in a week.
Earlier this week, two isolated incidents triggered tension in parts of the Old City on Wednesday night leading to police deploying forces in sensitive areas across the city on Thursday to check any flare-up of the situation.
The situation brought under control.
Details awaited
The Rajya Sabha on Friday witnessed an uproar over the issue of the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examinations.
As the Upper House met today, members of the Opposition demanded a response from the government over the issue.
They said, as the government’s assured seven days’ time was over, it should respond to the problem of the agitating students.
Singer Hilary Duff says she has been having difficult time after she and her husband Mike Comrie decided to call it quits.
The 26-year-old singer is back with new music after years of hiatus, reported Ace Showbiz.
“I’m separated from my husband right now, which has been a very difficult thing to go through, but we have a lot of love for each other and we have this beautiful baby,” she said.
The mother of one also mentioned that she recorded a song about her estranged husband.
Noted playback singer Richa Sharma says she declines offers to sing for films now because she does not like the current trend of one song being recorded by more than one artiste.
Richa, who has given hits like ‘Sajda’ (‘My Name Is Khan’) and ‘Show Me Your Jalwa’ (‘Aaja Nachle’), says she is wary of singing in Bollywood as even established singers don’t have a say in the songs they record.
Auto maker VE Commercial Vehicles today reported 6.06 per cent growth by selling 3,341 units of its Eicher branded products in July.
The company, which is a 50:50 joint venture between the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors, had sold 3,150 units in the same month last year.
Domestic sales registered a marginal increase of 1.37 per cent to 2,955 units last month, as against 2,915 units in the same month a year ago, VE Commercial Vehicles, informed the BSE.
KCR is cheating Muslims in the name of 12 pc reservations. Chief Minister’s schemes and assurances are limited to promises itself. These views were expressed by ex-MP Nizamabad Madhu Goud. He was speaking at a press conference at the residence of T Jivan Reddy Jagtial MLA.
On the occasion he extended Eid greetings to Muslims and urged chief minister to fulfil all the promises made before elections. He demanded to provide Rs. 10 lakh exgratia and a house to the kin of Telangana martyrs. He also demanded to remove cases against OU students who were booked during Telangana movement.
It may be offering a world-class service to its commuters, but when it comes to spelling out names of places and stations on its signages and route maps, the Delhi Metro leaves a lot to be desired.
Many of these names have either been wrongly spelt out or are spelt out ‘differently’ at different places.
For instance, ‘Chelmsford Club’, located next to the Central Secretariat Metro Station is wrongly spelt as “Chams Ford Club” at its Gate No 1 that opens on Red Cross Road.
And, it is put out as ‘Chelms Ford Club’ on the wall signage and label boards at Gate No 2.
Russia faces the prospects of more economic sanctions and further isolation from the international community if it does not stop supporting separatist rebels in Ukraine, the White House has said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to use his influence with the Russian-backed separatists and prevent the transfer of heavy weapons from the Russian side to cross the border, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
As the Gaza conflict shows no immediate signs of let-up and the number of deaths, including of scores of children, mount to over 1,400, a concerned India is planning to send $1 million to a UN fund to provide aid to the suffering Palestinians fleeing the battle zone.
The $1 million would go towards providing medicines, food, constructing shelters for the Palestinians in Gaza whose land is being bombarded relentlessly in Israeli air and ground attacks, said an official source declining to be named.
Severely critical of the Indian cricket team’s poor show against England in the third Test, former captain Sunil Gavaskar said the old habit of getting complacent after a big win seems to have affected the side during the lost match.
India went down by 266 runs in the Southampton Test yesterday after the morale-lifting triumph in the second Test at Lord’s.
Lavishing praise on the England cricket team for their series-equalising win in the third Test against India, former captains Geoffrey Boycott and Ian Botham said the home side looked much stronger than the tourists in every department of the game.
Writing in ‘The Daily Telegraph’, Boycott hoped that the English team would continue to perform this well in the remaining two Tests as well.
“Now we want England to prove this was not a flashy one off. We want this kind of performance for the next two Test matches and win the series,” said Boycott.
An inventor in the UK has developed the world’s first synthetic biological leaf that absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant, and it could enable long-distance space travel.
The leaf, created by Royal College of Art student Julian Melchiorri, consists of chloroplasts suspended in a matrix made out of silk protein. “The material is extracted directly from the fibres of silk,” Melchiorri said.
Chiefs of various organisations including Mazhar Husain (COVA), K Prabhakar (DPF), Mohammed Turab (Interfaith Forum Cova), Br. Varghese (St. Gabriel Training Institute), Muneer Mujahed (Tahreek Khairul Umma), Aziz Ali Khan, (Awaz) and others strongly condemned the killings in UN School in Gaza.
Expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people, president COVA said that we strongly condemn Israeli attacks on Gaza. He demanded to immediately stop the barbarism. He appealed the people of the world to boycott Israel on every level and urged all countries to sever diplomatic ties with Israel.
Google has revealed that France tops the list of countries that have filed requests for removal of links from the engine’s search results under the European Union’s recent right to be forgotten rulingGoogle has received 17,500 requests involving around 58,000 URLs from France, CNET reported. Germany comes a close second with 16,500 requests referring to around 57,000 URLs followed by the United Kingdom that has made 12,000 requests concerning 44,000 URLs.
The revelations were made in a letter addressed to the EU by Google.
A new study has revealed that how massive, meat-eating, ground-dwelling dinosaurs evolved into agile flying birds after they started shrinking for over 50 million years.
The scientists from the University of Southampton demonstrated a detailed family tree of dinosaurs and their bird descendants, which maps out this unlikely transformation.
“These bird ancestors also evolved new adaptations, such as feathers, wishbones and wings, four times faster than other dinosaurs,” says co-author Darren Naish, Vertebrate Palaeontologist at the University of Southampton.
A housewife was allegedly set on fire by her husband and in-laws in Memari area of Burdwan district, police said Friday.
Arshad Sheikh of Dadpur village lodged an FIR alleging that his daughter Shakila Bibi was set on fire by her husband Saifuddin Mollah and in-laws on July 29 night.
Shakila was rushed to the Burdwan Medical College Hospital by her neighbours. She succumbed to her burn injuries last night, police said.
Sheikh also alleged that after marriage his daughter was physically and mentally tortured by her husband and in-laws.
Tourism companies in Ukraine are offering trips to the war torn Eastern part of the country wherein tourists can visit the area for 50 pounds.
Some commentators said that war was not something that should be taken advantage of and called these trips as bizarre.
According to the Daily Star, tourism officials are providing free flak jackets to travellers who would be driven around in armoured vehicles.
Advertisements say that visitors can see low risk areas, exploded vehicles, destroyed bridges and bombed-out vehicles.
U.S Secretary of State John Kerry has reached 7 Race Course Road to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi here today.
Kerry is on a three day visit to India.
Kerry had met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday for the fifth Indo- US Strategic Dialogue in which the two sides discussed transformative initiatives in key areas of security and energy.
He had also met Finance and Defence Minister Arun Jaitley along with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.