India

Simdega (Jharkhand), Feb 27 (PTI) A Simdega court has sentenced a man to 20-years in jail for raping a 17-year-old girl in Simdega district in 2018.

Additional District Judge Madhuresh Kumar Verma on Wednesday sentenced 42-year-old Vinod Gupta after finding him guilty of raping the girl under Pocso Act and various IPC sections.

New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) Seven more fatalities have been recorded at three hospitals, taking the total death toll in the northeast Delhi communal violence over the amended citizenship law to 34 on Thursday, according to senior officials.

Till Wednesday night, the total count of casualties had stood at 27, 25 of those at GTB Hospital in Dilshad Garden.

Hyderabad, Feb 27 (PTI): A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three people in Karimnagar district over the past three days, police said on Thursday.

One among the three is suspected to be a minor, while others are in the age group of 20-21, they said.

Thane, Feb 27 (PTI) A district court here sentenced a 31-year-old man to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district.

In an order issued on Wednesday, district judge R R Vaishnav sentenced Kasim Ansari to seven years of rigorous imprisonment under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and fined him Rs 3,000.

Mumbai, Feb 27 (PTI) Alleging that "Gujarat model" has been replicated in Delhi which has witnessed large-scale communal violence over the CAA, the NCP on Thursday called for Union Home Minister Amit Shah's resignation.

The responsibility of maintaining law and order in Delhi is with the Union home ministry.

New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday attacked the government over the transfer of Delhi High Court Judge S Muralidhar, saying the Centre's attempts to "muzzle" justice and "break people's faith in an upright judiciary are deplorable"

Delhi HC Judge S Muralidhar was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court, days after the Supreme Court collegium made the recommendation

Kanpur: It is cloudy weather with intervals of sun today. The minimum temperature of 14 degrees Celsius gives sufficient chill all around. The denizens have not been able to perceive whether to discard woollen sweater or not?

However, they had not completely avoided putting off the woollen clothes. In the morning and the evening, there is still required need for winter wears. One said, " It was hard to wean away with woollen outfits in fluctuating weather conditions."

NEW DELHI, Feb 27 (NNN-PTI) – The death toll in the communal violence in the Indian capital rose to 27 and more than 200 were injured on Wednesday evening.

While 25 deaths have been confirmed at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, the other two deaths were reported at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital.

“The death toll has risen to 27 as three more succumbed during medical treatment,” Dr Sunil Kumar, of Guru Teg Bahadur hospital told media.

The dead include a policeman and a junior-level official of Intelligence Bureau.

Palakkad (Kerala), Feb 26 (PTI) A 24-year-old man was arrested here on charges of making derogatory remarks against those protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh after a compliant was filed against him, police said on Wednesday.

Attappadi resident Sreejith Raveendran was nabbed after the Democratic Youth Federation of India, CPI-M's youth wing, filed the complaint, they said.

New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) Seasoned diplomat Jawed Ashraf was on Wednesday appointed India's next Ambassador to France.

Ashraf, a 1991-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is presently serving as Indian High Commissioner to Singapore.