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Rohtak:  In a shocking incident, a 10-year-old girl here was found to be five months pregnant after being raped repeatedly allegedly by her stepfather, police said yesterday. The girl’s pregnancy was confirmed by the doctors when her mother took her to a hospital, they said, adding the accused was arrested. Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam has ...

A group of unidentified men have gangraped a woman and brutalised her before crushing her head in Haryana’s Rohtak district. Police said the attackers mutilated her private parts after the rape and ran a vehicle over her face to prevent identification. The incident allegedly occurred on May 9 but the body was recovered much later from Rohtak’s IMT area. The ...

A large number of pilgrims have shown interest in visiting the Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, notwithstanding the continuing unrest in the Kashmir Valley, officials said. The number of people who have enrolled with the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board for the annual pilgrimage, which will begin on June 29, is almost the same as the last year, they ...

Newly appointed president of the UK PCC and Chakrata MLA Pritam Singh has categorically said that his main emphasis to revive the party and also lambasted the Bharatiya Janata Party governments at the Centre and State. The PCC chief exhorted the Congress workers to work towards the revival of the Congress party in Uttarakhand on formally assuming charge of his ...

-In an important decision taken during the cabinet meeting on Thursday, the Uttarakhand government has decided not to give any fresh work to Uttar Pradesh Rajya Nirman Nigam (UPRNN) and to have all the works having been executed in the recent past or being now executed thoroughly reviewed. In addition, the cabinet has authorised the planning department to do scrutiny ...

The Supreme Court today commenced its historic hearing on a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the practice of triple talaq and nikah halala among Muslims, saying it would first determine whether the practice is fundamental to Islam. A five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar, however, made it clear that the issue of polygamy ...

Signalling a growing congruence in ties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for Sri Lanka today on a two-day visit to further deepen ties with the island nation where China has been trying to expand its influence. Modi is visiting the country primarily to attend the biggest Buddhist festival ‘Vesak Day’ as its chief guest, but his schedule includes a ...

As many as 30 people were arrested in connection with the incidents of stone pelting and torching of vehicles and a police post in Saharanpur, which has been witnessing caste-based violence since May 5. District Magistrate N P Singh said the situation is now under control. A fragile calm lay in the area a day after Tuesday’s violence, which was ...

Militants kidnapped a lieutenant in the army, who was on leave and was unarmed, from his uncle’s house in Shopian district on Tuesday night and later killed him, the Army said on Wednesday. Lt Umar Fayaz Parray, 23, of Sursuna-Yaripora village in Kulgam was kidnapped around 10 pm by militants, believed to be five in number, from the house of ...

Convocation of 2015-17 IFS (Probationer) Course at IGNFA, Dehradun was held in presence of chief guest President of India Pranab Mukherjee while Governor Dr. KK Paul and Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat were also present as special guest there today.   President  Mukherjee extended congratulations to the trainees. He said that training imparted to young probationers will help to prepare ...