India

Basti (UP), Oct 4 (PTI) A doctor was arrested for allegedly raping a woman here, police said on Tuesday.

The woman filed a complaint with the police stating that the doctor, posted at a hospital in the Basti Sadar Kotwali area, befriended her on social media and asked her to visit him, they said.

When she visited the hospital, the doctor took her to his hostel room where he and his two colleagues, who are also doctors, raped her, police said quoting the complainant.

New Delhi, Oct 4 (PTI) Four persons allegedly linked to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) were arrested by Delhi Police under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, officials said on Tuesday.

This is the first arrest of any PFI member in the national capital after the outfit was banned by the Centre on September 28. Earlier, Delhi Police had conducted raids at PFI units spread across six districts of the city and detained 33 people allegedly linked with the group.

Jammu, Oct 4 (PTI) A 23-year-old man working as a domestic help was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly murdering Jammu and Kashmir Director General (Prisons) Hemant K Lohia here, police said.

Yasir Lohar's arrest from a field in Kanhachak area followed a major all-night manhunt, police said in a statement, adding that his interrogation was underway.

The 1992-batch IPS officer was found dead on Monday night at his friend's house on the outskirts of Jammu, with burn injuries on his body and his throat slit.

NEW DELHI, Oct 2 (NNN-PTI) – Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, yesterday, launched 5G services in the country. Users will be able to enjoy 5G services in a couple of weeks.

The 5G network will not only offer faster Internet speed to users, but also help offer support to the federal and state governments, in areas such as disaster management and agriculture, among others.

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people overturned and fell into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, most of them women and children, officials said Sunday.

The wagon was carrying around 40 people returning from a ceremony at a nearby local Hindu temple Saturday night, said police Superintendent Tej Swaroop Singh. He said most of the deaths were due to drowning.

Kanpur: Screaming and wailing enveloped Kortha village of Narwal Tehsil here. When six dead bodies were kept at the house courtyard. It was a heart wrenching scene.

As many as 26 people had lost their lives in the village simultaneously. A tractor trolley returning from Mundan overturned near a place, about two and a half km from the village.

The Mundan ceremony of Abhi, son of Raju Nishad of the village, was on Saturday at Chandrika Devi temple.

Kanpur: As many as three people have been so far arrested in the case related to the girls' obscene videos taken in a hostel here. This arrest has taken place a day after the hostel staffer was caught filming them showering.

The staffer, who allegedly made videos of several girl students, was arrested on September 29 and the police have recovered evidence from the seized phone of the accused.

We have evidence of videos on the phone as per primary investigation, said Anand Prakash Tiwari, joint commissioner here.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, is set to choose a person who is not a member of its dominant Nehru-Gandhi family as its next president as it struggles to recover before key upcoming elections.

Kanpur: A man, employed as a sweeper in a private hostel here, has been arrested for filming videos of girl students. It is they who accused him of making their obscene videos.

The incident took place in a hostel located in the Tulsi Nagar area here where medical aspirants are staying.

The accused allegedly made videos of girls showering. The girl students filed a police complaint leading to the arrest of the man allegedly involved in the despicable act.

According to the complaint, the hostel staffer made several obscene videos of the girls in the hostel.

NEW DELHI, Sept 29 (NNN-PTI) – India appointed Anil Chauhan as the new chief of defence staff (CDS), who shall also function as secretary to the Indian government’s Department of Military Affairs.

He will soon assume the charge of his new posting, said an official today.

Chauhan will be the country’s second CDS after Bipin Rawat, who died in an air crash, around 10 months ago. Since then, the post had been lying vacant.

Chauhan was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1981, and retired in May 2021, as the officer commanding-in-chief of the Eastern Army Command.