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Kolkata, December 27: President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee stoked a major controversy by describing women participating in Delhi protests against gang rape of a student as 'highly dented and painted', triggering angry backlash. Abhijit had said, "Walking in candlelight processions, going to discotheques, we have also led student life, we have been students. I well know what the

New Delhi, December 27: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today walked out of the National Development Council (NDC) meeting here accusing the Centre of "stifling" the voice of Chief Ministers by restricting their speeches to 10 minutes. Coming out of the Vigyan Bhawan, the venue of the meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said it was a "big humiliation" for her to be

New Delhi, December 27: President Pranab Mukherjee‘s son Abhijeet Mukherjee made extremely sexist comments on the protests by students in Delhi against the Delhi gangrape, sparking off a controversy. In an interview to ABP Ananda Abhijeet Mukherjee said, “This is almost like the Pink Revolution. These women who are protesting have no contact with ground reality.” “These pretty women, dented and

New Delhi, December 27: The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has alleged that that at least 45 custodial rapes were reported between 2002 and 2010. In its submission to the Justice Verma Committee set up in the wake of the gruesome rape on December 16 here, the centre said that at least 45 custodial rapes took place between 2002 and 2010 as per the complaints registered by the National Human

Singapore, December 27: The 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim, who was flown out to Singapore in an air ambulance for specialised treatment, was admitted to the Mount Elizabeth hospital on Thursday morning. The plane carrying the girl landed at the Changi International Airport at 7.30 am (5 am IST), the Indian High Commission in Singapore said, confirming the girl’s arrival. The decision to shift

New Delhi, December 27: Three recent arrests by the National Investigation Agency may throw new light on the 2007 Samjhauta Express blasts, the May 2007 Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad and the Malegaon explosion in Maharashtra. Rajendra Chaudhary alias Samandar, who was arrested last week from Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh, had planted explosives aboard the Samjhauta Express. The train blast

Thiruvananthapuram, December 27: A team of five senior doctors appointed by the Kerala government is examining a medical report on People’s Democratic Party leader Abdul Nassar Madani. The report was recently sent by Karnataka to the Kerala government. Madani, an accused in a Bangalore serial blast case, is lodged at Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bangalore. He is an acute diabetic. He also

Ahmedabad, December 26: Narendra Modi Wednesday took oath as Gujarat's chief minister for the fourth time after leading the BJP to a sweeping win in assembly elections. Earlier, all 114 newly-elected BJP MLAs chose Modi as their leader at a meeting here, paving the way for his swearing-in as Chief Minister for the fourth time, in the presence of central party observer Arun Jaitley. Modi's name was

Mumbai, December 26: National carrier Air India flew a record number of passengers last Friday when it carried over 50,000 in a single day on its national and international routes, sources said here on Tuesday. “We carried a record 50,765 passengers across our network on December 21. This was the highest number of passengers ferried by the carrier on a single day as compared to the last year,” an

New Delhi, December 26: The Home Ministry today announced an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the next of kin of Delhi Police constable Subhash Chand Tomar, who died here. An ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh will be given to the family of Tomar in addition to the financial and other relief announced by the Delhi Police, a Home Ministry spokesperson said. The 47-year-old constable, who was injured during violent