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Lucknow, Sept 2: The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday evening suspended Hathras superintendent of police (SP), deputy superintendent of police (DSP), station inspector and some other officials over the gang-rape, torture and death of the 19-year-old Dalit woman that has triggered nationwide protests. The suspension came hours after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath vowed ‘exemplary punishment’ for

New Delhi, Oct 2: Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal joins protests at Jantar Mantar where hundreds of civil society activists, students, Left leaders, on Friday, gathered to protest against the Hathras gang-rape and murder case. Senior lawyer Prashant Bhusan, actor Swara Bhasker, CPI(M) leaders Brinda Karat and Sitaram Yechury, and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj are among those who gathered at

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. The village was turned into a fortress with the residents being confined to

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. Special Judge S K Yadav referred to inconsistencies in testimonies of several prosecution witnesses while holding that the charge of

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. ADG Law and Order Prashant

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. Reuters met and interviewed relatives of 30 people who died of the virus in India, from coastal Kerala on the country's southern tip to the Himalayan

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. Rahul Gandhi alleged that he was pushed to the ground and lathi-charged

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. The convoy was stopped near Pari Chowk, prompting party workers and senior leaders to proceed on foot, with some functionaries saying they will walk down

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). These changes range from norms for payment of income tax, driving licence, health insurance, credit cards and food products, which affect all the consumers. A major change that will have an impact on the lives of those with vehicles is that no

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