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Bhopal/Dindori (MP) Sep 9 (PTI) Two political party workers from Madhya Pradesh's Dindori were among six persons arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl from Haryana, police said on Thursday.

The Bhopal police have arrested Dindori district's BJP office-bearer Manish Nayak and JD-U's Dindori district president Dinesh Avadhiya, Amit Soni, a petrol pump owner, and two women in the case, he said.

Kanpur: Amid an outbreak of dengue cases in various districts, Dr MK Saraogi said that Single Donor Platelet (SDP) machines can help dengue patients get early access to platelets.

Every hospital has single donor platelet (SDP) machine nowadays. This machine makes easier to donate platelet for the donor at the fastest time.

Lauding the efforts of the UP government Dr Sarogi said: "A donor can donate the platelets at a faster pace with the help of this advanced machine."

Pune, Sep 9 (PTI) A six-year-old girl was allegedly abducted from the Pune railway station area and sexually assaulted by a rickshaw driver on early Thursday morning, police said.

Sagar Mandhare (39), the accused, was arrested within a few hours of the crime, they added.

"The girl was sleeping with her parents on a footpath when the accused took her away in his rickshaw around 1 am," said an official of the Bundgarden police station.

After her parents realized that she was missing, they filed a complaint, he said.

Kolkata, Sep 9 (PTI) The West Bengal government has decided to revise the family pension of its employees and raise the monthly income ceiling from Rs 3,600 to Rs 9,000.

The move comes in the wake of recommendations by the 6th Pay Commission.

The question of raising the Income ceiling of mother/father and unmarried/widowed/divorced daughter beyond 25 years has been under consideration of the government for sometime past.

Mainpuri (UP), Sep 10 (PTI) A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man in a village here, police said on Friday.

The incident took place on Thursday and the 25-year-old accused has been arrested.

The medical examination of the girl has confirmed rape.

Kolkata, Sep 10 (PTI) The BJP on Friday nominated party leader Priyanka Tibrewal for the September 30 by-poll for Bhabanipur assembly seat against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Tibrewal, a lawyer by profession, is one of the petitioners in the post-poll violence cases against the TMC government in the Calcutta High Court.

The party also announced the names of Milan Ghosh and Sujit Das for Samserganj and Jangipur seats respectively.

The results will be declared on October 3.

Kolkata, Sep 10 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday filed her nomination papers for the September 30 Bhabanipur assembly by-poll.

The TMC supremo will be pitted against BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal and Left Front's Srijib Biswas.

The result will be declared on October 3.

Banerjee, who lost the election in Nandigram, has to win this by-poll to retain the chief minister's post.

Banerjee is a resident of Bhabanipur and had won the seat twice in 2011 and 2016.

NEW DELHI, September 9. /TASS/: The leaders of BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) emphasized the importance of using science-based methods to figure out the origins of the coronavirus, according to the New Delhi Declaration adopted at the 13th BRICS summit on Thursday.

NEW DELHI, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing farmers' protests outside the main government office in the northern Indian state of Haryana entered the third day on Thursday, officials said.

The protesting farmers are on a sit-in protest outside the mini-secretariat (government building housing major offices) in Haryana's Karnal district, demanding action against a government official who ordered the baton charging against farmers on Aug. 28 in Haryana. The video of the official ordering police officers to "smash heads of farmers" went viral on the social media.

Kanpur: The country's top three higher education institutions in the sixth edition of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was announced today by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. 

In the overall category, IIT-K has achieved the fifth rank with 76.50 points.

The number of Indian institutes registered for the NIRF ranking 2020 increased by 20 per cent as compared to the year 2019.

In the year 2020, as many as 3,800 institutes participated in NIRF Rankings. In 2021, the number remained at a total of 6000.