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Minor Girl Raped by Principal, 2 Teachers and 6 Students in Bihar

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July 11 A minor girl from Bihar has claimed that she was raped by the principal and two teachers of her school for months. She said 15 students also gang-raped her inside the school premises. The girl's ordeal continued for six months, but the Class 9 student reported the matter to police on July 06. The Saran Police has arrested the principal, a teacher and two students of the private school who were allegedly involved in this incident. Hunt is on to nab the other accused named in the FIR filed by the girl, police said. The girl, in her complaint has said that she was first raped by a student of her school in December 2017. The accused filmed the act and started blackmailing her. Later, other students also raped her. When she reported the matter to school principal, he and ...

Brother Kills Brother for Bread in Mumbai

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July 08 A teenager was allegedly killed by his elder brother for refusing to get bread for dinner from a shop located near their house in Mahim. The Incident took place on Wednesday when the elder brother, Imran Sayed, 24, an electrician, reached his home at Mumbai after work at around 9.30 pm on Wednesday to find that there was no bread for dinner, reports said. He then asked his younger brother, 18-year-old Irfan, to go to a nearby shop and get bread for him. Irfan refused to step out of the house and retorted that Imran should get the bread himself. This led to an argument between the two, which soon turned ugly with Imran beating up Irfan. “Their parents, who were also at home, tried to stop the duo. But Imran didn’t relent and kept hitting his brother,” a Police offi...

Army Colonel Involved in the Murder of Journalist Gauri Lankesh

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July 06 In a major breakthrough in the investigation to the murder of Bangalore based journalist Gauri Lankesh, the SIT probing the case suspects that four top-level leaders of a pro-Hindutva outfit were the ones who conceived the plot to kill her and other rationalists. The outfit is asserted to be the extremist cult known as the Sannatan Sanstha. According to a News story by Mirror Now, after questioning the accused, it has been revealed that the six accused in the case were the executors of the murder plot and investigators have launched a hunt for four more persons connected to the murder. “There is a suspicion that a retired Army Colonel, who became a member of a pro-Hindutva outfit is one of the four men who hatched the plot,” reports said.The SIT is in the process of gather...

Minor Girl Raped by Six Men in UP, 4 Year old Raped in Sleep in MP

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July 05 A 12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped for three days by six youths after being abducted by them in Muzzafarnagar area of Uttar Pradesh. A case has been registered on Wednesday against the six accused, five of them being minor, aged between 14 and 16 years, SHO Anil Kapervan said, adding that the sixth accused is still not identified. The girl has been sent for medical examination, he said. All the accused are absconding. Earlier on Wednesday, the victim along with her maternal grandmother had protested outside the district magistrate's office here, demanding lodging of the complaint against the accused. They claimed that police had refused to lodge the FIR. According to the complaint lodged by victim's maternal grandmother, the girl was abducted by the accused...

Army will Leave Kashmir if Situation Remains Peaceful

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July 05 Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said decades of militancy had shattered the education system in Jammu Kashmir and this is one of factors behind stone-pelting protests in the state. The Army General said that Kashmiris were being "fed with misinformation that India was anti-Muslim and those who eat beef were being killed". He said the Kashmiri people try to shield militants. They pelt stones as it is easily available. Stone-pelting is not something new. He added that unemployment is a factor for this, but it is not unique to Kashmir. There is unemployment in other parts of the country as well. Youngsters there don't pelt stones. Education there (Kashmir) is shattered. Most of the schooling is done through madarassas, which cannot get you good jobs. “If Kashmir i...

Karnataka Government Keep its Promise, Announces 34,000 cr loan waivers to Farmers

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July 05 Keeping up the promise Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy coming to the succor of the farming community on Thursday announced waiver of all default crop loans benefiting farmers to the tune of Rs.34,000 crore. Presenting his maiden budget in the Legislative Assembly, Mr Kumaraswamy said crop loans made upto December 31, 2017 would be waived up in the first stage. He said the loan amount would be restricted to Rs.two lakhs As an encouragement to the non defaulting farmers, the Chief Minister has decided to credit the repaid loan amount or Rs.25,000 or whichever is less to each of the farmer’s account. The BJP which fell short of 111 Mark in the state was unable to form the Government after which congress and JD (S) joined hands with Congress to form the Government in...

Students of Central University of Kashmir Did not Stand up for Indian National Anthem

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July 05 The Central University of Kashmir is involved in the latest news debates. Recently a video footage of the university figured over the Internet. It has been found that the students of the university are sitting when the national anthem of India was being played. The incident happened on July 4th during the annual convocation of the university. Most of the students of the university were present in the ceremony. While the Indian National Anthem was played around, it is seen, almost all the attendees in the program stood to pay tribute to the national anthem. But some students did not stand up. As long as the national anthem is going on, they were sitting. In November last year a same type of incident happened at Rajouri's Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University. The national ant...

Militants Planning to Set up Training camps in South Kashmir

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July 04 A report Published in a Punjab based Newspaper claimed Militants are planning to set up Training camps in the forests of South Kashmir to provide training to Kashmiri Militants. According to the report, the Intelligence has inputs provided to the Government Forces, the Camps have not been established but since it is now difficult for newly recruited youth to cross the border for training.buy grifulvin online buy grifulvin no prescription Therefore, the training is being started in a militant training camp in the forests of South Kashmir. After the death of Burhan Wani on July 08, 2016, the recruitment of local youth is escalating. On average, One hundred have been recruited since 2016. In the last year the army had killed large number of Militants including top commanders...

5 Amarnath Pilgrims Die, Landslides Block Mughal Road

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July 04 Rayees Shah Three pilgrims died and many injured due to landslides during pilgrimage to holy Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas. Two pilgrims also died due to cardiac arrest today, reports said. Meanwhile the traffic on Srinagar-Leh  Highway was disrupted for some time on Tuesday evening due to landslides at various places along highway triggered by heavy  rains , reports said. They said that due to incessant rains that lashed valley on Tuesday evening , landslide occurred at Sumbal Bala , Aku Gund and Bajri Nallah along Sgr-Leh highway due to which the road remained blocked for hours . Hundreds of vehicles remained stranded on both sides on the highway.

Flood Situation in Assam Turns Grim- 32 Dead- Indian Media Neglects

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July 02 The flood situation in Assam continues to be grim as the death toll has reached 32 and at least 63,000 people have been affected across five districts of Assam with the MeT department having predicted more rain in the coming days. Lakhimpur District is the worst-hit with nearly 32,000 being affected, followed by Charaideo with around 29,000 flood-hit people, local reports revealed. The Indian home minister Rajnath Singh has assured the Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal of full assistance from the Centre to tide over the situation. The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) has in its latest report said that 63,300 people are at present affected by the floods in five Assam districts of Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Charaideo and Karimganj. The  North Easter...