Shunned, destitute and pushed into prostitution in some cases, Sri Lanka’s Tamil widows have returned to northern Jaffna since the end of the separatist war only to discover they are not welcome even in their homeland.
Now, six years after the war ended, the women who fled the fighting on the peninsula in their thousands are pinning their hopes on the nation’s new president for a better future for their families.
A liquor store owner here has been shot at allegedly by a gangster, injuring him seriously, police said today.
The gangster, identified as one Raj Bahadur, along with another gangster Karan Gujjar, had fired a shot late last night on Krishan Kumar, who runs a liquor enclosure at Azad Chowk and is a resident of Mohalla Khasapura in Rewari, area SHO said.
While Krishan was subsequently admitted to a private hospital at Gurgaon, a case under attempt to murder and the Arms Act has been registered against the duo.
Raj is being interrogated by the police, the SHO said.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today said his government has adopted “zero tolerance” policy towards corruption and asked the State Accounts Services (SAS) officers to ensure that “every penny” of the public money was utilised for the right purpose.
The Centre is planning to bring a legislation on setting up of Skill Development University in the country, during the upcoming session of Parliament, Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy said here today.
“We have decided that in the upcoming Parliament session we will bring out a Skill University Bill. If this legislation passes in the Parliament, then Centre wants Skill University to be set up in states including Bihar, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh besides couple of more states,” Rudy told reporters.
As many as 51 cases of rape and 208 cases of harassment have been registered in the district till May this year.
According to district police data, as many as 51 rape cases have been registered in various parts of the district. Cases of harassment against woman stood at 208 till May 31, 2015, they said.
Twelve cases of chain-snatching were also reported during this period, they added.
Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for being silent on Lalit Modi row and other controversies, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh today alleged that he was helping the former IPL chief in ED cases against him.
Expressing confidence, Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy today said that BJP will sweep the forthcoming elections in Bihar and will form a majority government.
“As far as Bihar is concerned, We are sweeping the state elections and BJP for the first time will form a majority government. We will definitely form a government. The BJP is on a strong foot,” Rudy, who is the Union Minister of State for Skill Development told reporters here.
Six Nigerians have been arrested by the city police for allegedly cheating several people by luring them with throwaway price offers of expensive cars and mobiles phones through online ads.
“We have arrested six Nigerians for cheating people. They used to lure people to buy expensive cars and mobile phones at a throwaway prices via placing ads on OLX and Quikr.Com,” Police Commissioner M N Reddi told reporters here today.
India will set up the Malviya Commonwealth Chair for cross border teacher education that will focus on curriculum development, student assessment, pre-service and in-service teacher training.
The announcement in this regard was made by Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani at the 19th Conference of the Commonwealth Education Ministers held at Nassau, the Bahamas from June 22 to 26.
The conference which deliberated upon Quality Education for Equitable Development was attended by the education ministers of 38 Commonwealth countries.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi today received the credentials of Indian Ambassador Sanjay Bhattacharyya and 10 other new envoys.
The new ambassadors include those of Zambia, Ukraine, Cyprus, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, Vatican, Pakistan, Panama and Brunei, according to the Presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef.
The President welcomed the ambassadors and said that Egypt is keen on enhancing the bilateral relationships with their countries, Youssef said.
An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, following what was meant to be a routine cargo mission to the International Space Station.
“The vehicle has broken up,” said NASA commentator George Diller, after NASA television broadcast images of the white rocket falling to pieces.
“At this point it is not clear to the launch team exactly what happened.”
Chairman of Joint Action Committee for Rural Development, Mr. J.V.S. Parathasarathi demanded the Government of Telangana to make outsourcing and contract employees permanent and provide them 43% fitment, health card and other facilities, otherwise JAC will organize Mahapadyatra near CM’s camp at Yadagiri Gutta. He was addressing a press conference yesterday. He told that along with regular employees, contact employees also participated in Telangana Movement. They were expecting that their jobs would be made permanent but the Govt. of Telangana did not pay any attention to their problems.
A journalist was seriously injured in an attack by about half-a-dozen persons in Anand Puri Colony in Krishna Nagar area, police said today.
The incident took place yesterday evening when Arun Chaturvedi, who edits a Hindi weekly, objected to dumping of waste on roadside.
He was attacked with spade and iron rod allegedly by dairy farm owner Madan and his four brothers.
He was rushed to the district hospital in an unconscious state. Later, he was referred to S N Medical College in Agra, police said.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Monday is scheduled to inaugurate the metro rail service in Chennai.
She will be inaugurating the first stretch of 10 kilometres through video conferencing from the secretariat. (ANI)
Turkish police on Sunday fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of people determined to have an annual Lesbian, Gay, Transexual and Bisexual pride (LGBT) march at Istanbul’s iconic Taksim square.
The square and Istiklal street, one of Istanbul’s busiest touristic streets, were decorated with rainbow colours symbolising the LGBT community colours and was readied for the parade days before Sunday.
Heavy overnight rain in different parts of Uttar Pradesh has brought down the temperature in the state.
The rains are largely due to a depression over north India. The monsoon has finally hit the state, the Met Office said here.
While the rain gave relief from the scorching heat, water logging in different parts here created problems for the daily commuters and office-goers.
Met director J.P. Gupta said the weather would continue to be same over next few days after which the monsoon will take a break for sometime.
The campaign launched by SCs, STs, BCs and Muslim Front for 12% reservation for the Muslims gained support from Chairman of Telangana Joint Action Committee, Prof. Kodanda Ram, Chairman of Telangana Resource Center, Mr. M. Veda Kumar, Capt. Pandu Rangareddy, Dr. Chiranjeevi, Mr. Zaheeruddin Ali Khan, Maulana Syed Taiq Qadri and others.
A 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped in a moving car by two persons, police said today.
The woman, in a complaint filed at Sector-55 police station yesterday, alleged that Momin and Imran raped her in a moving car on the way to Agra on June 23, after which Imran took her to Lahawas village in Mewat district and kept her confined for four days and raped her again, police said.
She also complained that Asaruddin and Ismail, whom she knew, convinced her to visit Agra for sightseeing with the duo.
A Class 12 student has alleged that she was abducted and gang-raped by three youths for two days in East Delhi.
Police said the girl, in her complaint, alleged that she befriended one of the accused on a social networking site. She also claimed that the accused tried to sell her off, but she managed to escape from their “clutches”.
“The 17-year-old, who lives with her parents in Mandawali area, befriended one Sameer on Facebook sometime ago,” said a senior police official, adding that she had only alleged kidnapping when she first approached police on June 21.
YSR Congress today claimed that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is “constantly on the move fearing notices from the law enforcing agencies” over the cash-for-vote case.
Seeking from Naidu answers to three questions on the cash-for-vote issue, YSR Congress leader and party spokesperson Ambati Rambabu sought to know “whether or not the voice recorded in the phone belongs to him, if the Rs 50 lakh bribe has his sanction and if he is the boss, whom MLA (Telangana MLA) A Revanth Reddy has referred to.”
A video was uploaded on the website showing a Muslim youth beaten brutally by the Bajrang Dal goons after which communal tension in Muzaffarnagar mounted.
The Muslim youth, Riyaz sat at the place where the cow was allegedly being slaughtered.
In the video, Riyaz was shown being paraded by the group of Bajrang Dal goons who were repeatedly heard shouting ‘gau hatya kar raha tha. yehi anjam hoga gau hatya karne walon ka (He was slaughtering cow, this will be the treatment of those who attempt to slaughter cows).
Kalyan Singh, Governor of Rajasthan while addressing a gathering on the life of Bhamasha who was a close aide of Maharana Pratap told that Maharana Pratap was a really great hero and suffix “great” should be added to his name dropping it from Akbar’s. He further told that Akbar did not do any service to the country.
Bhamasha had donated a lot of money to help Rana Pratap to rebuild his army to fight against the Moghals.
Out-of-favour Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal believes that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has brought an end to mystery spinners and their varieties, which left many batsmen bamboozled over a consistent period of time.
The 37-year-old ace spinner, who has claimed 178 Test and 184 ODI wickets, struggled to find a place in the national squad after being cleared to bowl again by the ICC.
Superstar Salman Khan, an avid painter, has gifted Kareena Kapoor Khan a self-made portrait of a couple, presumably him and the actress in their “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” avatars.
The monochrome painting shows a couple in love. The woman is sporting a red bindi in the still picture, which the 49-year-old actor had posted on his Twitter page, a few days back.
Now, the film’s official Twitter account, alongside the same photo, has revealed that it is a gift from the “Dabangg” star to his co-star.
A BJP worker was allegedly molested by a party leader and his four associates here, police said today.
The woman in her complaint alleged that BJP leader Anup Tiwari molested her on June 20 in his car on the pretext of dropping her home, Station Incharge of Railbazar police station Shravan Yadav said.
The woman complained about the incident to local party authorities and the next day Anup and his four associates reached party office and molested the complainant and tried to strip her too, he said.