Indian Sub-continent

Dang, Dec 26 (PTI) Police have arrested six men and detained three minors in connection with the alleged gang-rape a 14-year-old girl in Gujarat's Dang district, an official said on Sunday.

The incident took place around two months back, but came to light recently when a relative of the girl came across a video of the crime on a social media platform. The purported act was recorded by one of the accused on his mobile phone and later circulated on social media, he said.

Silchar (Assam), Dec 26 (PTI) Miscreants disrupted a Christmas programme in Silchar in Assam's Cachar district, demanding that Hindus should shun the celebrations, a senior police official said on Sunday.

Seven youths involved in the incident that happened on Saturday evening have been detained so far, she added.

New Delhi, Dec 26 (PTI) The Government's plans to build India's biggest centre for performing arts in the national capital have been put into cold storage in view of the Central Vista project.

The Culture Ministry recently told a Parliamentary panel that the shifting on the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) to Jamnagar House had made the continuation of the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) project unviable .

Agra (UP), Dec 24 (PTI): Two people have been arrested after an 18-year-old woman alleged that they raped her in a moving car here, police said on Friday.

Krishna (22) and Hemant (22), residents of Etmadpur here, forced the woman to consume liquor and then raped her on December 19. They also filmed the act and threatened her of leaking the video if she revealed the incident, according to her complaint at the Sikandra police station here.

Lucknow, Dec 24 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday promised regular and cheap power supply for agricultural, domestic and industrial purposes if voted to power in next year's Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

"Had the proposed power plants in Etah and other districts been built, the people of Uttar Pradesh would not have been compelled to buy electricity at the highest rate in the country," his tweet in Hindi targeting the BJP government read.

Chandigarh, Dec 24 (PTI) The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday declared 18 more candidates for the next year's Punjab Assembly elections.

The party has till now declared 58 candidates for the polls, a release said here.

Punjab has 117 Assembly seats.

Jaipur, Dec 24 (PTI) An Indian Air Force fighter plane crashed in Jaisalmer on Friday night, a senior police officer said.

The plane crashed in the Desert National Park area under the Sam police station, Jaisalmer SP Ajay Singh told PTI.

The SP said local police reached the spot and he is also on the way to the crash site.

SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Two militants were killed in a gunfight at a village in the Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday, a police official said.

The police official said, "Two militants were killed today in a fierce gunfight at Chowgam," a village in Shopian district, about 52 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

New Delhi, Dec 24 (PTI) Atal Bihari Vajpayee introduced policy corrections that reflected the end of the Cold War and the new global balance, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday and noted that the former prime minister sought a modus vivendi with China that was based as much on mutual respect as on mutual interest.

Jaishankar also said the winds of change are most apparent in the Indo-Pacific and it is there that the diplomatic creativity which Vajpayee inspires should be most strongly applied.

KABUL, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- A total of 200 newly trained soldiers have been deployed in the Afghan capital to beef up security in Kabul and the surrounding areas, Defense Ministry of the Taliban's caretaker government said Saturday.

The troops who recently graduated from military training were "deployed in army's 313 Markazi Corps," the ministry said in a statement.

"Afghanistan will soon have a disciplined and strong army," it added.