A young Dalit girl was burnt alive in an Uttar Pradesh village in Unnao district late last night, police said.Eighteen-year-old
Moni was cycling to a vegetable market on Thursday when some
unidentified persons confronted her. They surrounded her and poured
petrol over her. Before she could react, they had set her ablaze.The girl up in flames ran for some 100 metres to save herself but finally collapsed and died on the spot. Senior
police officers, including IG (Zone) Sujit Kumar Pandey rushed to the
crime scene around midnight and spoke...
Misty Friday morning in Delhi
It was a misty Friday morning in the national capital with the minimum
temperature recorded at 15.5 degrees Celsius, four notches above the
season's average."The sky will be partly cloudy with mist in the
morning and generally cloudy towards afternoon/evening," an India
Meteorological Department official told IANS.The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 31 degrees Celsius.The humidity at 8.30. a.m., was 94 per cent and visibility...
70 years after Independence power reaches Elephanta Isle near Mumbai
Seventy years after Independence, a 7.5-km long
undersea cable has finally brought electricity to the world-famous
Gharapuri Isle, which houses the UNESCO World Heritage site Elephanta
Caves, about 10-km from Mumbai, a top official said here on Thursday.The
project to electrify the island, thronged daily by thousands of Indian
and foreign tourists, has cost a total of Rs 25 crore and was completed
in 15 months, said Maharashtra...
Explosion at US embassy in Montenegro
An unidentified attacker threw an explosive device at the US embassy in
Montenegro's capital city Podgorica, before blowing himself up with
another bomb, police said on Thursday.The attack took place around midnight on Wednesday, reports Xinhua news agency. "Immediately
before the suicide, the person threw an explosive device into the
compound of the embassy from an intersection near the sports centre in
Podgorica," the police said.It added that the explosive device was most likely a hand grenade. Identification of the assailant was underway.The
...
Maldives President turns down UN Secretary-General's mediation
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has turned down UN Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres' offer to mediate between him and the opposition in the
ongoing political crisis, Guterres's Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq
said.
"He offered to the President (Yameen) UN mediation but the
President conveyed that mediation was not wanted at this stage," Haq
said on Wednesday.
Asked about Maldives extending the state of
emergency that was set to expire...
PNB fraud favouring Nirav Modi started in 2008, arrested bank officials tell CBI
The practice of illegally issuing Letters of Understanding (LoUs) and
Foreign Letter of Credits (FLCs) and then rolling them over to favour
Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi groups started in 2008 and continued till
these were discovered in January this year, according to CBI officials. The
illicit activities resulting in fraud of Rs 11,300 crore occurred under
the nose of top Punjab National Bank officials but they claimed to be
unaware of the scam. The revelation came to the fore during
questioning by CBI officials of Rajesh Jindal, who was...
