Lucknow, Oct 2: As if forcible midnight cremation of the alleged Hathras gang rape victim was not enough, the police on Friday sealed the village and barred entry of the media and opposition politicians, besides seizing the cell phones of the victim's family members in a bid to prevent them from interacting with the media.
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Lucknow, Oct 1: A special court here has said the Central Bureau of Investigation did not probe on an “information” that people from Pakistan intelligence agency may have also entered and damaged Babri Masjid in Ayodhya to foment communal disturbances in the country.
Lucknow, Oct 1: Forensic tests conducted under the supervisor of Yogi Adityanath government have claimed there was no rape in the Hathras case in which a 19-year-old woman was brutally assaulted by a group of men on September 14 while she was working on grass fields with her family. The victim died at a hospital in Delhi on Tuesday after battling for life for two weeks.
New Delhi, Oct 1: Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the death count due to COVID-19 is inching towards the 100,000-mark. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only to the number in the United States.
New Delhi: In dramatic scenes on the highway between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh today, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained as they headed to Hathras to meet the family of the gang rape victim who died on Tuesday and whose dead-of-night cremation by the UP police has provoked nationwide outrage.
Noida, Oct 1: Vehicles of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who were on their way to Hathras to meet the family of the Dalit gang-rape victim, were stopped in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida on Thursday, party officials said.
New Delhi, Oct 1: There will be some changes in the rules for products and transactions impacting the daily lives of the people from today (October 1).
New Delhi, Oct 1: Activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan moved the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking review of the August 31 sentencing order to either pay nominal fine of Re 1 or face a three-month jail term and debarment from law practice for three years in the contempt case for his two tweets against the judiciary. Bhushan, who has already deposited Re 1 as fine with the apex court's registry on September 14, has filed two separate review petitions in the contempt case.
New Delhi, Oct 1: The Supreme Court on Thursday put its stamp of approval on the proposal prepared by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for the airlines to refund air tickets booked for flights cancelled due to Covid-19-induced lockdown. The decision contains directions including an immediate refund and grant of credit shell for utilisation till March 31, 2021. A bench presided over
Balrampur, Oct 1: Even as the embers of the Hathras incident continue to smoulder, yet another incident of a Dalit woman being gangraped and killed in Balrampur district has taken place.