India

Mumbai, May 8 (PTI) State Bank of India (SBI) has raised its home loan rates that are linked to repo rate by up to 30 basis points, a move which may be followed by other lenders.

The country's largest lender has also hiked effective interest rates on personal loans against property by 30 basis points.

Maharajganj (UP), May 8 (PTI) An 8-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Kolhi area here, police said on Friday.

The incident took place on Thursday when the girl was playing outside her house. The accused -- Vikram, who lives nearby, took her to his place on some pretext and allegedly raped her, they said.

The girl later narrated the incident to her family members, who registered a complaint in this regard with police.

The accused was arrested by the police and the girl has been sent for medical check-up, police said.

Chitrakoot (UP), May 8 (PTI) Five persons were on Friday arrested for their alleged involvement in looting Rs 50,000 from a petrol pump of a BJP MP in Uttar Pradesh, police said.

The accused -- Virendra Yadav, Virendra Dhobi, Bacchilal, Direndra and Tejram -- were arrested on Friday and over Rs 57,000 were recovered from them, Superintendent of Police Ankit Mittal told PTI.

Police have also recovered a country-made pistol and a number of cartridges from them, he said.

Mangaluru, May 8 (PTI) Hundreds of migrant workers belonging to northern states on Friday staged a protest in front of the central railway station here demanding that arrangements be made for them to return to home towns.

The crowding of workers at the railway station is learnt to be prompted by a social media post which went viral giving false information that free special trains have been arranged for workers, sources said.

Badaun (UP), May 8 (PTI) A drunk man killed his two-year-old daughter by smashing her into the ground after an argument with his wife in Bisauli area here, police said on Friday.

On Thursday, Sukhpal reached his home in an inebriated state and had an altercation with his wife. In a fit of rage, he threw his daughter on the ground, they said.

Sambhal (UP), May 8 (PTI) A man was arrested in a village here on Friday for allegedly killing his two minor daughters and burying their bodies, police said.

The accused buried Pooja (6) and Jaya Prakanti (5) in Vamanpuri village of the Bahjoi area on May 6, claiming they had died of some disease, Circle officer (CO) Chandausi Ashok Kumar said.

Aurangabad, May 8 (PTI) Aurangabad MP Imtiaz Jaleel of All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Friday termed as "murder" the death of 16 migrant workers, who were run over by a goods train in Maharashtra.

He also demanded that criminal cases be filed against the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the Railway Ministry and the Maharashtra government for "ignoring the plight of thousands of stranded workers".

Mumbai, May 8 (PTI) Air India employee unions have moved the Bombay High Court against the airline's decision to slash allowances, which form a major part of salary, by ten per cent because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Air India Aircraft Engineers Association, All India Service Engineers Association and Indian Pilots Guild filed a writ petition in the high court earlier this week against the national carrier and its subsidiary Air India Engineering Services Ltd.

Bhadohi (UP), May 8 (PTI) A 22-year-old woman was allegedly killed for dowry in a village of Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi district on Friday, an official said.

Police have booked 11 people, including the woman's husband, said SHO Aurai Ramji Yadav.

After the incident took place in Mahdepur village, the woman's in-laws took her to a hospital but she died during treatment, the station house officer said.

A family member of the deceased woman alleged that her in-laws killed her for failing to fulfil their demand for a car in dowry.

Jaipur, May 8 (PTI) A meagre stipend of little over Rs 230 per day has left MBBS interns in government medical colleges of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh fuming with the budding doctors launching a social media campaign demanding a hike in the allowance.

Despite facing a slew of hardships due to the coronavirus pandemic and working for more than 10 hours daily to screen and survey people in remote areas, the interns have launched the #WeDemandStipendIncrement and #Rajasthan_Intern_Stipend_Badhao campaigns on microblogging site Twitter.