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New Delhi, Oct 24 (PTI) A 20-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a minor girl in central Delhi's Ranjeet Nagar area, police said.

The accused has been identified as Suraj, a resident of Raghubir Nagar, they said.

He was arrested from Kalanaur, Rohtak district, Haryana. He was previously arrested under the POCSO Act for allegedly harassing a minor under Khyala police station limits, police said.

Mangaluru, Oct 24 (PTI): A pub here was raided by the City Crime Branch police on Saturday night following complaints from the public about the nuisance caused by loud music.

Police sources said the people in the neighbourhood complained that a few customers of the pub were behaving in an indecent manner with students walking on the streets.

It was alleged that the pub was open beyond the stipulated hours.

NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Facebook in India has been selective in curbing hate speech, misinformation and inflammatory posts, particularly anti-Muslim content, according to leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press, even as the internet giant’s own employees cast doubt over the its motivations and interests.

Kanpur: IIT-Kanpur has formed the Bright Minds Scholarships programme for at least 10 students within the top 100 all India rankings of JEE Advanced 2021.

The scholarships will be awarded to 10 students whose parents gross yearly income is less than Rs 20 lakh, as has been reported.

They will study at the IIT Kanpur from the 2021-22 academic session onwards.

'The scholarships are being established with support from the institute's alumnus Lokvir Kapoor.

Kanpur: Is a serious disease spreading? The dread of Covid-19 is still not over. In such a grim situation there remains a possibility of another deadly infection.

For it, a team of experts from Delhi has reached here and samples of those who came in contact with the one patient have been sent for thorough examination.

Official sources asserted that the patient is an Air Force Station personnel. He is admitted to an Air Force Hospital.

The first patient of Zika virus has been found in Kanpur. The health department sent the patient's samples to Pune for testing.

NEW DELHI, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- India's COVID-19 tally rose to 34,159,562 on Saturday as 16,326 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.

Besides, as many as 666 deaths due to the pandemic since Friday morning took the total death toll to 453,708.

Most deaths were reported from the southern state of Kerala. "More than 70 percent cases (deaths) were due to comorbidities," according to the data released by the federal health ministry.

New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) A court here has come down heavily on the Delhi Police Commissioner for non-submission of a report in a 2020 riots case and sought an explanation from him as to why appropriate action as per law be not taken against him.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Arun Kumar Garg on September 25, had imposed a cost of Rs 5,000 on the police, after noting that the investigating officer and prosecutor sought adjournment in a very casual manner and had directed the police commissioner to conduct an inquiry.

Mumbai, Oct 22 (PTI) A city-based lawyer on Friday filed a criminal complaint against lyricist Javed Akhtar before a magistrate court here over his alleged remark against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) made during a television interview.

The complaint against Akhtar was filed before the metropolitan magistrate court in Mulund for the offence under section 499 (defamation), 500 (punishment for defamation).

Akhtar, 76, in a recent interview had drawn parallels between the Taliban and Hindu extremists.

New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said there are a lot of non-tariff barriers that need to be addressed and wherever India will face an unfair treatment at trade front, it will take reciprocal action.

Non-tariff barriers to trade are restrictive practices which create impediments in smooth flow of imports and exports.

New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) The Congress on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of misleading the country on vaccinations when only 21 per cent of the country's population was fully vaccinated.

The opposition party asked the prime minister to bring out a white paper on how his government intends to vaccinate all adults by year-end, a promise made by him earlier.