Indian Sub-continent

New Delhi, Jan 5 : The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) has called for a two-day strike to protest against the varsity for allegedly spending nearly Rs 13 lakh to host spiritual gurus Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Sadhguru.

The students' body claimed that JNU's vice-chancellor had denied registration to a visually challenged student of the Centre for Japanese Studies, Munesh, who was failed due to lack of facilities as the varsity faced a paucity of funds.

New Delhi, Jan 5 (PTI) A Delhi court Saturday sent alleged middleman Christian Michel, arrested in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case, to judicial custody.

Michel was produced before Special Judge Arvind Kumar and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sought his judicial custody in connection with its probe into a money-laundering case.

In the ED case, the court sent Michel to judicial custody till February 26 and in the CBI case, it sent him to judicial custody till February 27.

Mumbai, Jan 5 (PTI) Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, a prime accused in the PNB fraud case, told a court here Saturday that he cannot return to India due to safety concerns and also because his case has been politicised.

Modi's lawyer filed his reply to the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) plea seeking to declare the diamond merchant a fugitive under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA) before the special court for cases filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Patna, Jan 04 (PTI) Disgruntled BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha on Friday favoured setting up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to look into alleged financial irregularities in the Rafale deal, a demand that has been vehemently demanded by the opposition parties led by the Congress.

Deploring the pandemonium that was witnessed in Parliament during the day over the issue, the actor-turned-politician, who represents Patna Sahib Lok Sabha seat, remarked "by suppressing the truth we complicate matters, leading to heated arguments".

KANPUR: The 22-year-old IIT Kanpur B Tech graduate Rounak Majumdar cracked CAT 2018 examination with a one hundred percentile score. His score was 251.38 out of 300.

Regarding his preparations, he said it was quite clear in his mind that time management and CAT related Skills would hold the key. I learnt how to plan management at IIT Kanpur, he added.

KANPUR: City’s industrial face will secure a new identity with the railways' dedicated freight corridor planned from Amritsar to Kolkatta, said Union minister of state for railways Manoj Sinha. Speaking at a programme organised at Panki Dham railways station here on Saturday. He reiterated that our union government had augmented investment in the railways. It increased from rupees 39 thousand crores in the year 2004 to 148 thousand crores rupees.

Panaji, Jan 5 (PTI) A 22-year-old man was arrested Friday from south Goa after a 15-year-old girl accused him of repeated rape over the last six months at the residence of her relative, police said Saturday.

The victim was staying with her maternal aunt in Canacona village since her parents got separated a few months ago, when she came into contact with the accused, identified as Samir Velip, they said.

According to police, Velip allegedly used to rape the girl at the house of her maternal aunt.

Mumbai, Jan 5 (PTI) Actor Alok Nath, accused of rape by a woman writer-producer, was granted anticipatory bail by a Mumbai court on Saturday.

Additional Sessions Judge S S Oza granted the pre-arrest bail to Nath on a surety bond of Rs 5 lakh.

It means if the police arrest the actor, he will have to be released on bail after executing a bond.

A case of rape under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code was registered against Nath by the city police on November 21.

The complainant accused him of raping her 19 years ago.

Purnea (Bihar), Jan 5 (PTI) A court here Saturday sentenced a man to 10-years imprisonment for raping a minor girl in June 2014.

The Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ-I) K K Sinha also ordered the man to pay a fine of Rs 25,000.

Special Public Prosecutor Nirmala Rani Sah said that the fine amount (Rs 25,000) would be paid to the victim's parents.

The man had raped the minor girl on June 17, 2014 in the vicinity of Janki Nagar village.

Ahmedabad, Jan 5 (PTI) Five persons were held in Himmatnagar in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat for allegedly printing and using fake currency notes, police said Saturday.

Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Vijay Vaghela, Vijay Rami, Akshay Rawal, Ashok Parmar and Pravin Patel under IPC section 489 (counterfeiting currency notes) Friday evening.

A colour printer machine, papers and seventeen fake currency notes of Rs 500 denomination were allegedly seized from their possession, a police official said.