Badaun: Son of a Samajwadi Party leader was sentenced to life imprisonment and a penalty of Rs one lakh was also imposed on him by a local court in Badaun for raping a teenaged girl. The 15-year-old victim was raped by Varun Bharadwaj alias Chinu, son of former SP block head Patanjali Bhardwaj, in Alapur area on December 27, 2010, prosecution counsel Gyan Swaroop Gupta said.
After hearing both the sides, Additional District Judge SN Tripathi held Chinu guilty on Thursday, he said. The court also said that from the amount of the fine imposed, Rs 70,000 be given to the survivor.
It also directed to lodge an FIR against three persons, including the then station officer of Alapur Pradeep Shukla, for disclosing the identity of the survivor.
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12:25 PM, May 24, 2013
Barauni: Barauni railway station in Bihar is witness to a noble initiative. Ajit Kumar and his wife Shabnam take care of orphans at the platforms, and provide them education and home-cooked meals. And their efforts have now inspired railway authorities too, to support their cause. "If government implements Right to Education and Right to Food properly then no orphan kids will be spoiled," Ajit Kumar said. While Ajit, a government...
09:56 AM, May 22, 2013
New York: Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. The unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall's debut of Nintendo's Wii U and a preview in February of the upcoming PlayStation 4 from Sony. Each machine has a set of features designed to draw gamers away from rival consoles. There's...
08:48 AM, May 22, 2013
Lucknow: A teenaged girl was allegedly set ablaze by three youths after she objected to eve-teasing in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district, the police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night at Mohammad Beni Chowdhury area when the 17-year-old girl resisted the eve-teasing by three youths - Munna, Adnan and Amar, after which they poured kerosene on her and set her on fire, the police said. The girl...
07:29 PM, May 21, 2013
Tulsa: A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour (320 kph) tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, ripping up at least two schools and leaving a wake of tangled wreckage as a dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 US states. Television video showed tracts of homes destroyed, cars tossed about and piled atop one another, and at least one building...
04:48 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: A massive fire broke out near a Nizamuddin petrol station in Delhi on Sunday. According to the reports, five fire engines have been rushed to the spot. There were no reports of casualties so far. Efforts were on to bring the fire under control. More details awaited ...
11:13 AM, May 19, 2013
Seattle: Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry. But the small device faces some big competition from the PlayStation 4 by Sony Corp and the Wii U by Nintendo Co Ltd in a shifting...
12:13 AM, May 19, 2013
Jalna: Two persons have been arrested for sexually exploiting a 32-year-old woman, while two others, including a village sarpanch, are absconding. According to police, the woman, resident of Sattephal village in Jafrabad tehsil of the district, filed the complaint on Saturday. She has alleged that her late husband's uncle Bhausaheb Sonone, sarpanch Shivaji Uttam Bankar, Prabhakar Rangnath Bankar and Ramdas Punjaram Bankar had been sexually exploiting her for the last...
11:13 PM, May 18, 2013
Singapore: A Singaporean Indian was on Friday sentenced to 24 months jail for molesting a 13-year-old boy at his home. S Subramaniam, 45, was found guilty last week after a six-day trial of fondling the boy's private parts in a bedroom at his flat on December 23, 2011 in the suburb Yishun housing estate. Subramaniam would appeal the sentence, reported The Straits Times. The court was told that the student...
06:56 PM, May 17, 2013
Cape Canaveral, Florida: A music video shot aboard the International Space Station went viral on Monday, turning an astronaut into an overnight music sensation with his zero-gravity version of David Bowie's hit "Space Oddity." As the first Canadian to command the space station, a $100 million project of 15 nations, Chris Hadfield had already earned himself a place in the history books. But as he prepared to return home on...
11:58 AM, May 14, 2013
A music video shot aboard the International Space Station by a Canadian astronaut gets over 1.5 million hits on YouTube. ...
11:12 AM, May 14, 2013
Karachi: An elections observer group in Pakistan has confirmed reports of rigging at some polling stations in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi. The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has provided statistics supporting reports of rigging at several Karachi polling stations where voter turnout was abnormally high. Since the elections were held on Saturday, the media and many political parties, including Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf and Jamaat-e-Islaami, have alleged rigging...
12:49 AM, May 14, 2013
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered a CBI investigation into the alleged custodial death of a youth in the Dhaniakhali police station area in Hooghly district. Passing the order on a PIL seeking a probe by the central agency, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Joymalyo Bagchi directed that the CBI investigate the death of Kaji Nasiruddin on January 18. The bench directed the...
03:24 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Anticipating protests outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence, Delhi Metro on sunday closed the Race Course station for nearly three hours on police instruction. "Race Course Metro station has been reopened for public at 1:51 PM," a Metro official said. The station at Race Course Road was closed for the public from 11 am after BJP youth wing activists announced a march and gherao of the high-security area....
03:02 PM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: A Metro station near Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence was closed for public on Sunday morning after BJP youth wing activists announced a march and gherao of the high-security area. "Race Course Metro station has been closed for public from 11 AM till further directions as per police advice," a Metro official said. The BJP Yuva Morcha activists, led by its president Anurag Singh Thakur, have announced that...
12:22 PM, May 12, 2013
Miami: Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station took a hurriedly arranged spacewalk on Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system on one of the station's solar arrays that provide electricity to the orbital outpost. The astronauts used a pistol-shaped screwdriver to remove a panel, install a spare pump and add new ammonia coolant, and were to spend several more hours outside the station troubleshooting...
07:18 AM, May 12, 2013
Miami: NASA plans to send two astronauts aboard the International Space Station out on a spacewalk on Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system on one of the station's solar arrays, the US space agency said on Friday. The crew spotted a steady stream of small, white frozen ammonia flakes floating away from a coolant line outside the orbital outpost on Thursday. Mission managers reviewed...
06:17 AM, May 11, 2013
Srinagar: A police officer was shot dead by terrorists in Pulwama district of south Kashmir on Friday. Assistant Sub-Inspector Farooq Ahmad was shot from point-blank range by unidentified pistol-borne terrorists in Pulwama town, 32 km from Srinagar, in the afternoon, a police spokesman said. He said the officer was taken to nearby Pulwama district hospital where he succumbed to injuries. Ahmad, who was posted in Pulwama Police Station, was on...
04:10 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: The driver and helper of a South Delhi school were arrested on Thursday for allegedly molesting children on board and making them watch pornographic clips, the police said. Mohammad Shamim and Asgar Ali were arrested in Hauz Khas after a complaint was received that they made school children who travelled in the bus watch pornographic clips on mobile phones, the police said. The mobile phones of the duo...
08:11 AM, May 10, 2013
