India

Aurangabad, Feb 5 (PTI) A 50-year-old Dalit woman was set ablaze by a man when she tried to resist his move to enter her house in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district, officials said on Wednesday.

The woman, who suffered about 95 per cent burns in the incident that took place in Andhari village of Sillod tehsil on Sunday midnight, was battling for life at a government hospital here.

LUCKNOW /India/, February 5. /TASS/: The Russian-Indian joint venture for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles is ready to start manufacturing them, a commercial proposal for the Indian Defense Ministry is being prepared, Deputy Director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Drozhzhov told reporters on Wednesday at the DefExpo 2020 international defense exhibition in Lucknow, India.

Lucknow, Feb 5 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated the DefExpo, India's biennial military exhibition that seeks to showcase the potential of the country to become a global defence manufacturing hub.

Delegates from 70 countries and 172 foreign military manufacturers will attend the five-day mega exhibition, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said. As many as 856 Indian defence firms will also showcase their products at the event.

LUCKNOW /India/, February 5. /TASS/: The portfolio of orders for Russian arms supplies to India has exceeded $15 bln over the past three years, Deputy Director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Drozhzhov told reporters on Wednesday at the DefExpo 2020 international defense exhibition in Lucknow, India.

"The order portfolio has exceeded $15 bln over the past three years. If we talk about the volume of contracted products, that is, since 1991, this volume has amounted to about $70 bln," he said.

New Delhi, Feb 5 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking to use the "useless" budget presented by a "clueless" Nirmala Sitharaman to dump the entire blame on her and sack her.

"Dear PM, The economy has imploded and you must be racking your brains on how to avoid the blame. Use the useless budget presented by clueless Nirmala Ji. Sack her and dump the entire blame on her. Problem solved," he said on Twitter.

MUMBAI, Feb 5 (NNN-XINHUA) – Human trafficking of women and children, reached alarming proportion in India’s western state of Maharashtra, with 28,316; 29,279 and 33,964 of them missing, in 2016; 2017 and 2018, respectively, media quoted figures from the National Crime Records Bureau as reporting.

Kanpur: Speaking at Special Interest Group meeting organized at IIT here, Prof M Agrawal, deputy director, of the Institute defined its important role as a knowledge partner in the Bundelkhand Defence Corridor project. He also asked for fresh inventions in the defence sector.

More than 40 projects related with defence are continuing presently at the institute here. 

As the IIT-K & Technopark@iitk jointly organized the meet, its in charge Prof Avinash Agarwal invited industries to establish the R & D branches in Technopark@iitk. 

Dehradun, Feb 4 (PTI) A POCSO court here has sentenced a man to 20 years imprisonment and three minors to two and a half years in jail for raping their junior student at a boarding school in 2018.

Special POCSO judge Rama Pandey sentenced a total of eight people in the sensational case on Monday. The school principal Jitendra Kumar Sharma was sentenced to three years in prison, director Lata Gupta and administrative officer Deepak Malhotra and his wife Tannu to nine years in prison each.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Feb 3 (PTI) A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Monday.

The 22-year-old man allegedly took the girl to sugarcane fields in Dholri village in Titawi area and raped her on Sunday, the police said.

She was later found crying in the fields by the villagers who took the girl to her home and informed the police, they said.

A case has been registered against the accused and the minor sent for medical examination, the police said.

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (PTI) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday said there was no need to seek the recall of Governor Arif Mohammed Khan just because he had a different opinion on CAA as the state Assembly dropped an opposition UDF resolution pressing the demand.

The assembly accepted the decision of its Business Advisory Committee (BAC) not to discuss the notice for the resolution moved by Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala, asking the President to recall the Governor over his stand on the Citizenship Amendment Act.