Indian Sub-continent

Mumbai, Sep 22 (PTI) A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against a BJP worker here on Wednesday for allegedly molesting a colleague, police said.

According to the complainant, the incident took place last year when she was trying to join the party.

The accused, who had promised to help her become a BJP member, molested her inside the office of a party corporator in suburban Borivali, she alleged.

A case under IPC section 354 (molestation) was registered but no arrest has been made so far, a police official said.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Sep 23 (PTI) A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three men in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

According to the police, the men took the girl to a jungle after threatening her with a pistol when she had gone to throw garbage on Wednesday.

The accused left the girl in the jungle after rape. She was rescued by her family member who had gone out searching for her after she failed to return home.

Ballia (UP), Sep 23 (PTI) A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 16-year-old neighbour in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

The accused has been apprehended and investigation is on, the police said.

According to a complaint filed by the girl's family, the alleged rape took place on Monday in a village in the Bhimpura police station area of the district.

The girl told her family about it on Wednesday after she fell ill and had to be taken to a doctor.

Kottayam (Ker), Sep 23 (PTI): Are you struggling hard to find a suitable partner but not interested to avail the service of matrimonial websites paying high subscription fee?

Don't worry as you have a solution for this right now, as a nondescript village panchayat in Kerala is now offering 'credible' matchmaking service that too free of cost to help unmarried people and widows to find suitable partners from across the state.

Kanpur: A sum of Rs five crore will be spent on establishing the visitors' gallery in the Green Park here. It is said to be completed within four or five months.

The proposed scheme of a visitors' gallery and the pavilion project at the Old Directors pavilion is reportedly approved by the Smart City Ltd.

The stadium is going to host India-New Zealand test match in November.

Notably, this international cricket match will be held at the Green Park Stadium after five long years.

Kanpur: The IIT-K has taken a big step in the foray of research with the full swing operations of the National Centre of Geodesy here.

The department set up in the year 2019 was equipped with state-of-the-art facilities.

It was commissioned to perform the second Project Monitoring and Management Committee assembly on September 16.

With the advanced infrastructure now, the NCG visions to nucleate and nourish education, along with expanding the scope of R&D ventures in the field of Geodesy.

Kanpur: Reportedly, the district magistrate of Kanpur Nagar district has been changed. The 2011-batch IAS officer Vishakhji has been made the new District Magistrate here. He is a B.Tech. He belongs to Kerala.

At present, he had been serving as Special Secretary of UP Chief Minister.

He was earlier posted as DM Hamirpur. Served as Chief Development Officer at districts like Varanasi and Meerut respectively.

Married with Apoorva Dwivedi two years ago. She has been posted as DM, Fatehpur.

NEW DELHI, Sept 22 (NNN-PTI) – The Indian government described Britain’s decision, not to recognise Covishield as a legitimate anti-COVID-19 vaccine, as “discriminatory” and warned of reciprocal measures, if the matter was not resolved.

India’s Foreign Secretary, Harsh Vardhan Shringla said, during a media briefing that, the country supplied five million Covishield doses to Britain, at the request of the British government, describing the non-recognition of the vaccine as a “discriminating policy.”

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Attackers struck Taliban vehicles in an eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, witnesses said, killing at least two fighters and three civilians in the latest violence since the group’s takeover of the country in mid-August.

In one attack, gunmen opened fire on a Taliban vehicle at a local gas station in the provincial capital of Jalalabad, killing two fighters and a gas station attendant, witnesses said. A child was also killed, they added.

22 Sep 2021; MEMO: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said he supports the resumption of negotiations aimed at reviving the nuclear deal if the "ultimate goal" is to lift all unjust sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.

"The Islamic Republic considers the useful talks whose ultimate outcome is the lifting of all oppressive [US] sanctions," Raisi said in a recorded address to the annual UN General Assembly.