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New Delhi: GIA, the Group of Intellectuals and Academicians have recommended a CBI probe into the Kathua rape incident. An 8- year- old girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district in January 2018. The GIA submitted a report today to Minister of State in PMO …

NEW DELHI: With the controversial new legislation seeking to criminalise instant triple talaq (talaq-e-biddat) stuck in Parliament because of Opposition obstruction, the government is considering taking the ordinance route to promulgate it. While the Muslim Women Protection of Rights in Marriage Act was cleared in the Lok Sabha, the Opposition blocked …

Aligarh: Scores of students at Aligarh Muslim University were injured Wednesday afternoon after armed activists from the Hindu Yuva Vahini descended on the campus with police backing to violently demand that a portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah – which has been hanging inside the students’ union hall for 80 years …

Campaigning is intensifying for the 12th of next month’s Karnataka Assembly elections. BJP National President held a roadshow in Davangere today, during which he sought votes for his party candidates.   Union Minister Sadanand Gowda campaigned in Bengaluru and asked voters to elect BJP to end, what he called, a …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, water conservation must be a social and collective responsibility. Sharing his thoughts in the 43rd edition of Mann Ki Baat programme on All India Radio today, Mr Modi said, water conservation has been a way of life for our forefathers and they devised newer …

New Delhi, April.24 (PMI): Casting Couch was not confined to cinema field alone but also exists in Parliament, former Rajya Sabha member Renuka Chowdhary. Reacting on Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan’s controversial statement on Casting Couch in film industry, Renuka called upon the people to launch a movement against Casting Couch. …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan at Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day tomorrow.   The scheme will focus on training, building infrastructure, stepping up initiatives for e-governance under the e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project.   During the occasion, …

Hyderabad,  Telangana State BJP has severely condemned the “abusive” language used by cine hero and TDP MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lodged a complaint with the police here today. A delegation of party leaders led by BJP MLC and Greater Hyderabad party president N Ramchender Rao …

In a horrifying incident, a 60-year-old man raped his teenage granddaughter on April 11. The Nalasopara police have confirmed the accused’s arrest lastweek.   The accused who was the 14-year-old victim’s maternal grandfather, lived in the same house as her, and her mother. He allegedly waited till his daughter left …

A 24-year-old man was arrested for allegedly having raped his neighbour’s nine-year-old daughterat least three at his residence in Shastrinagar area in Gujarat’s Rajkot in the last fortnight, the police said on Monday. The accused, identified as Kamlesh alias Murli Bharvad, was booked on charges of rape and unnatural sex …