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Puducherry, Sep 15; PTI : Charging Prime Minister Narendra Modi with "showing no interest" for the welfare of people and the nation at large, AICC General Secretary Mukul Wasnik Saturday sought a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to go into the modalities adopted in the Rafale aircraft deal.

He also said a probe by JPC would bring out the whole truth in the multi-billion dollar fighter jet deal.

New Delhi, Sep 15 (PTI) Rapes have been on the rise despite stringent new laws on sexual offences against women, the Delhi High Court has observed while upholding the life sentence given to an Uber driver for raping a 25-year-old executive in the cab in 2014.

A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel noted that the statistics of the National Crime Records Bureau for 2016 show that 38,947 women were raped that year.

New Delhi, Sep 15 (PTI) The Delhi High Court was told by the police Friday that it has installed around 4,388 CCTV cameras in vulnerable areas of the national capital to ensure safety and security of women.

The Delhi Police made the submission in an affidavit filed in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) moved in March this year by some lawyers for safety of women after a few women complained about "urine and semen-filled" balloons allegedly being hurled at them in and around North Campus of Delhi University.

New Delhi, Sep 16 (PTI) The United Left is leading in all four central panel posts in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union polls, counting for which is underway.

According to the election committee, after counting 3,281 out of 5185 votes, N Sai Balaji, presidential candidate of the Left is leading with 1,350 votes. Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) candidate Lalit Pandey was at the second position with 605 votes followed by Thallapalli Praveen from BAPSA (Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students Association).

Mumbai, Sep 15 (PTI) The motorcycle used in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh has been found, a senior official of Maharashtra Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad said late Saturday evening.

A special investigation team (SIT) of the Karnataka Police and the Maharashtra ATS are probing links of the accused involved in the case in Maharashtra, the official said.

During the probe, the motorcycle used in the murder was found, he said.

Three accused for Haryana gang rape have  been identified by police as Pankaj, an Army jawan, Manish and Nishu. Police had released their photographs. The accused live in the same village in Rewari

Haryana police has announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for information leading to the arrest of the accused, and has set up a special investigation team headed by Nuh SP, Naazneen Bhasin.

New Delhi, Sep 16 (PTI) Simranjit Kaur (64kg), Monika (48kg) and Bhagyabati Kachari (81kg) claimed gold medals as Indian boxers notched up an impressive seven podium finishes at the Ahmet Comert Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.

Simranjit, a former national medallist, defeated Turkey's Sema Caliskan to fetch the top honours.

Competing in the light fly category, Monika beat Ayse Cagirer of Turkey to win the gold medal, while Bhagyabati got the better of Selma Karakoyun, who is also from the host nation, in the light heavyweight category.

By Asim Kamal

New Delhi, Sep 16 (PTI) Election 2019 will be an intense, high-stakes tussle for power like all others but with one difference in a first, it is likely to be as hotly contested in the virtual world as in the real one with parties already busy getting their social media warriors battle-ready.

Indian Security forces have killed a total of 17 Kashmiris in one week. It is alleged that those killed belonged to separatist groups.

5 of those Kashmiris were killed in Chaugam area of Kazigund in Srinagar, and their bodies have not been recovered yet. These five were identified as Gulzar Ahmad Paddar, Faisal, Zahid Ahmad Mir, Masroor Bhatt, and Zahroor.

Rohtak, Haryana: Honour killing victim Mamta has been created in presence of security personnel. Cremation was organised by Mahila Ayog, and took place in Rohtak.

Murdered girl’s parents and in-laws were not present during cremation, and have earlier refused to take the dead body to their homes.