India

Hardoi (UP), Sep 16 (PTI) A 20-year-old Dalit man was allegedly burnt alive over his relationship with a woman from another caste, a killing that his relatives said also led to his mother's death.

According to the police, the suspected case of honour killing occurred at Bhadesa area of Hardoi district on Saturday.

Abhishek alias Monu was beaten up, kept hostage in a house and set ablaze, Superintendent of Police Alok Priyadarshi said.

Bhubaneswar, Sep 16 (PTI) A Malaysian cargo ship which had been stranded near Odisha's Chilika Lake since August 7 was finally towed into deep sea on Sunday night, a district official said.

A special tug boat from Singapore and a 15-member team from Malaysia successfully towed the stranded ship into the deep sea after several hours of effort, the official said.

NEW DELHI, Sept 16 (NNN-PTI) – India’s official carrier, “Air India,” decided to launch special low-fat meals for its crew members, with effect from midnight Sunday, in an attempt to make them more health conscious.

The initiative to revise the in-flight food menu for the crew was taken, after considering the “health factor” of the crew members.

The low-fat meal for the crew will be devised on day-wise basis, in order to provide light and healthy meals for the staff members along with a homely feeling.

Kanpur: Addressing the public at Central Park in Shastri Nagar here on Monday afternoon, the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said there was no place of the intruders in the country. They will be sent back. In this regard, a process has been initiated. On the matter of metro in the city, he mentioned that it would soon run. He even made an appeal to the denizens to avoid the use of polythene. They must make efforts to make the city free of polythene.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Anuj Kapoor took over his father’s booming auto parts business in 2012, hoping to elevate the company from selling to suppliers to selling directly to carmakers.

Seven years later, he’s had to lay off half his workers as drooping sales caused his profit to plummet by at least 80%.

Confidence in the Indian economy is giving way to uncertainty as growth in the labor-intensive manufacturing sector has come to a near standstill, braking to 0.6% in the last quarter from 12.1% in the same period a year earlier.

New Delhi, Sep 14 (PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced a new scheme -- Remission of Duties or Taxes on Export Product (RoDTEP) -- to incentivise exporters at an estimated cost of Rs 50,000 crore to the exchequer.

The announcement comes in the backdrop of India's merchandise exports declining by 6.05 per cent to USD 26.13 billion in August compared to the year-ago month.

Barmer, Sep 14 (PTI) A minor girl was allegedly raped by three men in Rajasthan's Barmer district, police said on Saturday.

The accused have been identified as Ankit Kumar, Sachin Patel and Sunny Patel, all residents of Ahmedabad. Ankit and Sachin were arrested on Saturday, Circle Officer Vijay Singh Charan said.

The girl, aged around 15, also hails from Gujarat and her family had recently shifted to Barmer, he said.

Raipur, Sep 14 (PTI) Three naxals were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district on Saturday evening, police said.

The gun-battle took place around 6 pm in a forest near Tadmetla-Mukram nullah under Chintalnar police station area when a team of police's District Reserve Guard was out on patrolling, Deputy Inspector General (anti-naxal operations) Sundarraj P told PTI.

On getting information that naxals had dug up a road near Tadmetla, security forces had launched the operation in the area, he said.

Patna, Sep 14 (PTI) Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM on Saturday charged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with having failed to fulfil his promise of uplifting the state's minorities, and demanded a "white paper" on their representation in various government jobs.

The party's Bihar unit president Akhtarul Iman also flayed the JD(U) chief for tying up with the BJP after returning to power for his third consecutive term in 2015, when the state's minorities had extended him their whole- hearted support for keeping the saffron party out of power.

New Delhi, Sep 14 (PTI) A 24-year-old woman was allegedly burnt to death by her husband in west Delhi's Raghubir Nagar area, police said on Saturday.

Poonam succumbed to her injuries in Safdarjung Hospital on Friday at around 11:30 PM after being burnt on Monday by her husband who "doused her with kerosene", they said.

Earlier, she was admitted to Guru Gobind Singh Hospital.