India

New Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) Yunus, 38, has been making frantic rounds of hospitals and mortuaries for the last five days, hoping to find his 16-year-old son Yusuf.

A Class XI student, Yusuf left his home in northeast Delhi's Chand Bagh, which has been wracked by violence for days, on Sunday to go to an eatery and hasn't returned since.

Chandigarh, Feb 28 (PTI) A day after the opposition targeted the Congress-led government over the issue of questioning of some Kartarpur Sahib pilgrims, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh backed the Punjab Police's action and said it acted on the request of the Intelligence Bureau in the interest of national security.

"Had the Gurdaspur police failed to act, I would have taken strict action against them," Singh informed the House in the ongoing budget session here.

They took action in the interest of national security, he said.

New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday demanded a Supreme Court-supervised probe into the communal violence in parts of northeast Delhi and said that the Centre and the AAP government should pitch in together to compensate people for the loss suffered in the riots.

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said police should be given a free hand to control the law and order situation in the national capital.

Thane, Feb 27 (PTI) A teacher has been arrested by Navi Mumbai police for allegedly molesting over a dozen girl students on various occasions.

Lochan Parulekar, a computer teacher, was arrested on Wednesday under IPC section 354 (molestation), said an official of Turbhe police station.

As many as 14 girls had complained to the school authorities that Parulekar called them for extra classes on holidays and molested them.

New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) BJP ally and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday demanded an "impartial probe" into the Delhi violence, which claimed at least 34 lives, and said stringent action should be taken against the guilty irrespective of their caste and religion.

The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader said the visit of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval to riot-hit areas to interact with locals and review the security measures underlines the Union government's seriousness in the matter.

Mumbai, Feb 27 (PTI) A 25-year-old sweeper was arrested for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl at a wedding in Maharashtra's Yavatmal city, police said on Thursday.

The Lohara police arrested Akshay Chandekar after he was allegedly caught molesting the minor in a lawn of a hotel on Darwa road where the wedding was taking place on Wednesday night, an official said.

Machilipatnanm (AP), Feb 27 (PTI) A 10-year old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by an unidentified man and dumped in a serious condition in Nuzvid town in Krishna District in Andhra Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

The girl was found by a police patrol team in a semi- conscious state near the IIIT campus in Nuzvid early Thursday and shifted to a hospital in Vijayawada after being treated locally, they said.

Kolkata, Feb 27 (PTI) A Swedish parliamentary delegation, on a visit to the country, took up the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) issue during an interaction with West Bengal ministers and opposition leaders at the Assembly here on Thursday, Speaker Biman Banerjee said.

The 10-member delegation asked about West Bengal's views on the CAA, Banerjee said.

Gandhinagar, Feb 27 (PTI) More than 3.8 lakh children in Gujarat were malnourished, indicating a sharp increase of over 2.41 lakh in their number since July last year, the state government informed the Assembly on Thursday.

Responding to a set of questions raised by Congress MLAs during Question Hour, Vibhavari Dave, Minister of State for Women and Child Development, informed the house that there were a total of 3,83,840 malnourished children in the state.

Lucknow, Feb 27 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Thursday disqualified Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan from the membership of the House and declared his Suar seat in Rampur district as vacant.

Since the Allahabad High Court had set aside the election of Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan, son of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, he has been disqualified as member from that date -- December 16, 2019, a notification issued by the Vidhan Sabha Secretariat said.