Indian Sub-continent

Kota (Raj), Oct 24 (PTI) A 22-year-old man was arrested on Sunday by Jhalawar police for allegedly raping an elderly woman, police said.

According to police, the 63-year-old woman was on the way to her house on Jaitakhedi road on Saturday when the accused forcibly took her to a nearby deserted field and raped her, and later fled the place.

A complaint was filed by the woman at the Pedawa Police Station against Ranga alias Durgalal Dholi following which an FIR was registered, Ramnarayan, SHO, Padawa police station said.

Patna, Oct 24 (PTI) Weathered by old age and ill-health, RJD president Lalu Prasad on Sunday returned to his home turf of Bihar from where imprisonment in fodder scam cases had kept him away for three years.

Prasad, who was released from jail a few months ago, arrived here accompanied by wife Rabri Devi and eldest daughter Misa Bharti, at whose Delhi residence he had been putting up for medical help he needs for the multiple ailments he suffers from.

Gorakhpur (UP), Oct 24 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said the phase of COVID-19 pandemic is almost over in the state.

By Jayanta Bhattacharya Agartala, Oct 25 (PTI) The Karbong, a sub-tribe of Tripura's Halam community, whose leaders were once among specially invited guests at the erstwhile kingdom's royal palace, are now on the verge of extinction, experts said on Monday.

A mere 250-odd people belonging to the tribe now live in West Tripura and Dhalai districts, they said.

New Delhi, Oct 25 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate has attached properties worth over Rs 6.84 crore in connection with a money laundering probe linked to an alleged disproportionate assets case against a former ADM (Additional District Magistrate) of Bihar's Bhagalpur and her family, officials said Monday.

Mumbai, Oct 25 (PTI) The rupee ended 18 paise lower at 75.08 (provisional) against the US currency on Monday due to a spike in crude oil prices and a stronger greenback against key rivals overseas.

At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened on a weak note at 74.98 and witnessed an intra-day high of 74.97 and a low of 75.10 against the American currency during day trade.

Kanpur: A 57-year-old man from Kanpur had tested positive for the virus on October 22.

The Union Health Ministry on Monday sent a high-level multi-disciplinary team to Uttar Pradesh where a Zika virus case was reported in Kanpur.

The multi-disciplinary team comprising an entomologist, public health specialists and a gynaecologist has been sent to take stock of the ground situation and follow containment measures.

ISLAMABAD, Oct 24 (APP): As the international community celebrated United Nations Day Sunday, Pakistan reiterated its call for the world to work towards the implementation of relevant UN Security Council resolutions on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute.

“It is deplorable that these universal ideals still continue to be defied with impunity across many parts of the world – nowhere more egregiously than in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK),” Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in his message on the 76th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.

MUMBAI, Oct 24 (NNN-PTI) – Life expectancy of Indians dropped by close to two years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as per statistical analysis, published by a Mumbai-based state-run institution, yesterday.

“The life expectancy at birth in 2019 was 69.5 years for men and 72 years for women, which came down to 67.5 years and 69.8 years, respectively, in 2020,” said the study, published in the health journal by Mumbai’s civic body.

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan Oct 24 (NNN-BIA) – A total of 336 households have received solar power panels over the past four days, in the eastern Parwan province, it was reported, yesterday.

“After a precise survey, each family received one solar panel along with all equipment to keep their houses bright, in Bagaram district of the parwan province,” the news agency said.