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  • Minor gang-raped by neighbours in Delhi

    A 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped here by three people, including two neighbours, after giving her sedatives, police said Monday. The incident took place May 17 in east Delhi's New Usmanpur area, police said. "Two of the three accused are minors. The third accused has been identified as Ajay who has been arrested. Ajay's younger brother has been sent to a juvenile home while the ...

  • Facebook booked over group exhorting cow slaughter

    An FIR was Monday registered here against social networking site Facebook on a complaint that claimed a group on the site exhorts people to slaughter cows, police said. The site was booked under penal provisions and under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, on the complaint filed by senior police officer Amitabh Thakur. In his complaint filed at Gomtinagar police station, Thakur alleged ...

  • Cash van guard hurts himself in accidental firing

    A cash van guard suffered a bullet injury in an accidental fire from his single barrel gun here Monday evening, police said. Umesh Singh, 48, resident of east Delhi's Usmanpur, was wounded by a bullet fired by his own gun near HDFC Bank's ATM in old Delhi's Chandni Chowk area around 5.30 p.m., police said. "Singh, along with the driver, was sitting inside a cash van parked near the ATM when ...

  • Court denies Delhi gang-rape accused lie detector test

    A fast track Delhi court hearing the Dec 16, 2012, gang-rape case Monday dismissed the pleas of two accused seeking permission to undergo lie detector tests and also to subject the victim's male friend to a similar test. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna dismissed the applications of Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur for their lie detector test and also their application to conduct polygraph ...

  • Andhra to seek revision of SC order on Babli

    An all-party meeting here Monday decided that Andhra Pradesh government will seek review/clarification from the Supreme Court on its orders about the Babli project neighbouring Maharashtra is building across the Godavari river. The meeting decided to take the step to safeguard the state's interests. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, who presided over the meeting, agreed to hire the services ...

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Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones

Three years ago, when The Phantom Menace, the first installment of George Lucas' prequels to his original Star Wars trilogy, was set to be released, the hype was so far in the stratosphere that it was impossible to imagine that the movie could fulfill everyone's desires of what it should be. As is well known, The Phantom Menace raked in the bucks in both theaters and on home v ... ...

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  • Militanst kill five migrant workers in Meghalaya

    Suspected United Achik Liberation Army (UALA) militants shot five migrant coal miners Monday in Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district, police said. The miners, whose identity are yet to be established, were killed at Darangdura coal mining area, 510 km from Shillong, police said. Though no militant group has claimed responsibility, police suspect the involvement of UALA, a splinter group of ...

  • Bengal tells teachers not to chastise students

    In the wake of the death of a boy allegedly after he was mercilessly beaten by his school teacher, the West Bengal government has decided to order primary school teachers in the state not to "chastise" a student or "discriminate" between them. The instructions, to be issued to the primary schools, underscore that teachers defying the order would be punished. "We won't permit chastising of ...

  • CAG writing fiction throwing up mystical numbers Tewari

    A day before CAG Vinod Rai demits office, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari Monday accused him of "fiction writing" on some figures of alleged corruption, saying that the country's top auditor had done the greatest disservice to the nation by tossing "mystical numbers". Tewari, who delivered a keynote address after launch of an opinion poll conducted with samples across India ...

  • Mukerjee bats for vocational training confers honorary degree on Karzai

    President Pranab Mukherjee Monday called upon universities to lay emphasis on imparting vocational training to youth in the country while pointing out that by 2020, two-third of the workforce in the world would be from India. Addressing a gathering at the third convocation of the Lovely Professional University (LPU) near here, Mukherjee, who conferred an honorary degree of the varsity on ...

  • 83 percent Indians see China as threat Opinion poll

    As many as 83 percent Indians consider China a security threat though 63 percent would like relations with it to improve, reveals an opinion poll conducted with samples across India. The findings of the 'India Poll 2013: Facing the future - Indian views of the world ahead' conducted by the Lowy Institute for International Policy and Australia India Institute (AII), was released at Observer ...

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