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Bhadohi (UP), Aug 11 (PTI) A 14-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by a youth in this district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday.

The accused has been nabbed and the girl sent for medical examination, they said.

The girl, belonging to a village in Aurai police station area, had left her home to buy something on July 20 but did not return home till late in the evening.

New Delhi, Aug 11 (PTI) Noting that financial support in old age is a necessity, NGOs for elderly have said that with an increasingly longer life span, income generation through a second job and gainful engagement post-retirement has become the need of the hour.

Reacting to a recent report titled 'Quality of Life for Elderly Index', prepared by the Institute for Competitiveness, the NGOs welcomed the focus on the 'quality of life of the elderly' looking at major aspects like financial and social wellbeing.

Kanpur: Was it a dowry death as the father claimed? Was the husband in a fit of anger  killed his wife after heated arguments? 

According to the reports, a man killed his wife with a spade in Kanpur Dehat district. It was later he approached the police station to tell the police to pick her body.

Bhognipur Circle Officer said the accused Ram Kumar, a street vendor came to the police station to ask the police to collect his 23-year-old wife Uma's body from the house.

Ghaziabad, Aug 11 (PTI) Scores of members and functionaries of the 'Ghaziabad Christian Fellowship Voice of Community' on Wednesday handed over a memorandum addressed to the municipal commissioner demanding land for graveyard.

The members, under the aegis of Chakrapani Yadav, the national general secretary of Pragtisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) stated in the memorandum that the bodies of Christians are being ferried to Delhi for burial for want of land in the district.

New Delhi, Aug 9 (PTI) A Delhi court on Monday directed the Unnao rape survivor, who has been provided security by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), to step out only when necessary until the case is over and inform her personal security officers before going out.

District and Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma issued the directions on an application filed by the rape survivor in which she alleged harassment by the personal security officers.

New Delhi, Aug 9 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking directions for disclosure of data regarding clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines.

A bench of justices L Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose issued notice on the plea, and asked the Centre and others to respond to it within four weeks.

Mumbai, Aug 10 (PTI) A 45-year-old self-proclaimed godman has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman who contacted him seeking help with her family problems in the western suburb of Kandivali here, police said on Tuesday.

Based on a complaint lodged by the 37-year-old victim, the police arrested Pranav Shukla alias Pranavanand Maharaj on Sunday, an official said.

Kanpur: Moving on the road from Nai Chungi to the Lal Bangla of the Jajmau area, there wasn't much crowd of the usual shoppers. It used to be abundantly intensed in the evening hours but the scene on Wednesday was different. 

Not much traffic either as the vehicles were passing effortlessly on the clear road.

Was it due to rainy days? One responded that it was not so. Since the people did not have adequate money with them, they are avoiding going to the market.

When their pockets are empty so the shops look not to be overcrowded. 

NEW DELHI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Two people have died and at least 12 were injured after a landslide in the mountainous Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday saw boulders tumbling onto a highway, hitting several vehicles, Indian officials said.

At least 25 people are still trapped, Abid Hussain Sadiq, a government official in the Kinnaur district where the incident happened, told Reuters.

"We are in the middle of rescue operations," he said. "We expect the rescue operations to continue through the night, if not longer."

NEW DELHI, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- India's COVID-19 tally surpassed the 32-million mark, rising to 32,036,511 on Wednesday, as 38,353 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.

Besides, as many as 497 deaths due to the pandemic since Tuesday morning took the death toll to 429,179.

There are still 386,351 active COVID-19 cases in the country with a fall of 2,157 active cases during the past 24 hours.