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Amidst nationwide outrage over the brutal gang-rape and murder of a minor girl in a Kashmiri temple, another similar incident has come to light from Gujarat's Surat after the police and doctors confirmed rape on girl who was found dead with 86 injury marks earlier this month. On April 6, a girl’s brutalised body was discovered by a passerby lying in bushes in Surat’s Bhestan locality. Postmortem

New Delhi, Apr 15: India on Sunday lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over blocking of access of visiting Sikh pilgrims to Indian diplomats in that country and even "compelling" the Indian envoy to return while on way to a prominent gurudwara there. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said a group of around 1,800 Sikh pilgrims are on a visit to Pakistan from April 12 under a bilateral

New Delhi, Apr 15: The Indian campaign at the 2018 Commonwealth Games ended with another medal rush as shuttlers took centre stage on the final day in Gold Coast, Australia on Sunday. Day 11 started with Indian badminton queens PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal squaring off in the gold medal match while table tennis stars Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra again shining bright. In all, India won

Abu Dhabi, Apr 15: The United Arab Emirates, UAE, has voiced its deep concern at the escalating developments in the Syrian arena and expressed its condemnation of the use of chemical weapons against civilians. The UAE also expressed its support to all international measures which aim to remove and destroy such internationally - prohibited weapons and stressed the need to prevent these weapons from

Jammu, Apr 15: Deepika Singh Rajawat, an advocate in Jammu, who faced the wrath of Hindutva politics after taking up the case of temple gang-rape, says that her fight is not just for the 8-year-old child who was raped but for all children including her daughter. “That is my daughter. She is five years old and her name is Ashtami. I am fighting this case also for her,” says Rajawat showing the

Jammu, Apr 15: Deepika Singh Rajawat, an advocate in Jammu, who faced the wrath of Hindutva politics after taking up the case of temple gang-rape, says that her fight is not just for the 8-year-old child who was raped but for all children including her daughter. “That is my daughter. She is five years old and her name is Ashtami. I am fighting this case also for her,” says Rajawat showing the

Gurgaon, Apr 15: Pravin Togadia, who has been with the VHP for over three decades, on Saturday announced quitting the outfit and said he would go on an indefinite fast from Tuesday to push the Hindutva cause. The veteran leader, who served as the VHP international working president since December 2011, announced his decision in a press conference after his nominee to the post of international

Gold Coast, Apr 15: Saina Nehwal's aggression and intensity quite literally wilted P V Sindhu as she picked up the women's singles Commonwealth Games gold medal with exhilarating triumph in the final here today. However, newly-crowned World No.1 Kidambi Srikanth let slip the early advantage to settle for a silver medal going down to Malaysian legend Lee Chong Wei in the men's singles summit clash

New Delhi, Apr 14: Union Minister Satya Pal Singh on Saturday said that minorities enjoyed many rights that the majority did not, and advocated that the way the Constitution had been interpreted in the past few decades needed a "revisit". Noting that all are equal before the law, the Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) said, "In the last about two decades, the way the

Gold Coast, Apr 14: There was no stopping the gold rush in wrestling as two more were added to the tally by Vinesh Phogat (50kg) and Sumit (125kg) but Olympic bronze-medallist Sakshi Malik (62kg) had to be content with a third-place finish in the Commonwealth Games on Saturday. Adding another bronze to the count was Somveer, in the 86kg category. India signed off their wrestling campaign at the