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The Unnao rape victim's family has refused to cremate the body of the 23-year-old woman until chief minister Yogi Adityanath visits them, the sister of the girl was quoted as saying. The body of the girl reached the village at 9 pm on Saturday. The family is adamant on not cremating the body that reached the Unnao village on Saturday evening until the chief minister promises action. Her sister also demanded that she be given a government job, ANI reported. Sister of Unnao rape victim: I also demand that I should be given a government job. https://t.co/CxvWDO9QmC — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) December 8, 2019 The father even demanded "speedy justice" the way it was meted out in the rape and murder in the "Hyderabad case" , while the brother said that she will only be at peace when the accused are “where she has gone”. “I want to see the accused persons being chased and shot dead. I do not want money or any other kind of help. I want to see that the accused are c

Pune : Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Saturday that experience has shown that the "criminal mindset" of jail inmates decreased when they were given the task of looking after cows. Such observations and findings should be documented for proving the cow's qualities to the world, he said. Bhagwat was speaking at an award ceremony organised by the Go-Vigyan Sanshodhan Sanshtha, an organisation dedicated to 'cow science' research in Pune. "Cow is the mother of the universe....it nurtures the soil, it nurtures animals, birds and it also nurtures humans and protects them from diseases and makes the human heart as tender as flower," he said. "When jails set up cowsheds and prisoners started rearing cows, the authorities saw that the criminal mindset of these prisoners started diminishing, and I am telling you this from experiences shared by some jail authorities," he said. "If you want to prove the qualities of t

11:27 (IST) Fire may have been caused by a short-circuit, say police   The police says the fire may have been caused by a short circuit, reports CNN-News18 . "The incident occurred in the wee hours when all the workers of the factory were asleep," the police said, adding that initial reports point towards short-circuiting as the cause of the blaze. The exact cause of the blazeis still not known, and will be certain after the probe, added the police.  11:17 (IST) Delhi govt seeks report within 7 days The Delhi government on Sunday ordered a probe into the fire incident in Anaj Mandi area here and sought a detailed report within seven days.Revenue Minister Kailash Gahlot directed district magistrate (central) to conduct an inquiry and submit a report within seven days. The fire incident in a three-storey building has so far claimed 43 lives and injured around 56 people, most labourers. 11:14 (IST) Fire incident is 'extremely horrific': Narendra Modi Prime

What needs to happen in India for a case of rape to get fast-tracked, for a survivor to receive compensation, and for politicians to speak up about the violence the survivor endured? In the elaborate theatrics that are currently unfolding in Unnao, the answer seems to be very sinister. On Thursday, a 23-year-old woman who was on her way to Rae Bareli to a court hearing in a rape trial was stabbed and burned in broad daylight by the two men accused of raping her. They were assisted by three more men. Last night, she died of her injuries. The names of these men are Shivam Trivedi, Shubham Trivedi, Harishankar Trivedi, Ram Kishore Trivedi and Umesh Bajpai. These names are important to publicise for two reasons – no one will be searching for them on Pornhub tonight, and the poisonous Hindutva forces currently in power will not be singling out upper-caste Hindus and branding them all as rapists. (If you are confused about what I’m referring to, please look up what happened in the after

At least, 43 people have died after a fire broke out in a factory in Delhi's Anaj Mandi area in Rani Jhansi Road on early Sunday morning. According to multiple   reports, 50 people have been rescued so far, although more people are feared trapped inside. According to  NDTV ,  labourers working in the factory were asleep inside the factory when the fire broke out reportedly around 5 am. The cause of the fire is still unknown, say, officials. A call about the fire was received at 5:22 am on Sunday following which 30 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, said police. Over 50 people were inside the factory operating from a residential area when the blaze broke out, reports PTI. Sunil Choudhary, deputy chief fire officer told  ANI , "The fire has been doused and 15 people have been rescued so far. Meanwhile, rescue operations are currently underway with 27 fire tenders engaged in the operation. Many people trapped inside were rescued and rushed to RML Hospital and Hindu Rao Hosp

At least, 35 people have died after a fire broke out in a factory in Delhi's Anaj Mandi area in Rani Jhansi Road on early Sunday morning. According to multiple   reports, 50 people have been rescued so far, although more people are feared trapped inside. According to  NDTV ,  labourers working in the factory were asleep inside the factory when the fire broke out reportedly around 5 am. The cause of the fire is still unknown, say, officials. A call about the fire was received at 5:22 am on Sunday following which 30 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, said police. Over 50 people were inside the factory operating from a residential area when the blaze broke out. According to the police, 35 people were killed in the fire, reports  PTI . Sunil Choudhary, deputy chief fire officer told  ANI , "The fire has been doused and 15 people have been rescued so far. Meanwhile, rescue operations are currently underway with 27 fire tenders engaged in the operation. Many people trapped ins

Unnao rape victim’s body to be buried amid heavy police presence; family given Rs 25 lakh compensation The body of the rape victim who succumbed to severe burn injuries in Delhi hospital arrived at her native village on Saturday. Heavy police arrangements were made to avoid any untoward incident. Fire brigade personnel have also been deployed in the village, where senior officers were camping since morning. About timings of the victim's last rites, Unnao District Magistrate Devendra Pandey said, "It is yet to be finalised. Senior officials as well as two ministers, who were sent by the Chief Minister would remain in the village till the final rites take place." The family would not cremate the body, and instead opted for burial, he said, adding her memorial will be made beside the already existing memorials of her grandparents. "The land on which the memorial will be built belongs to the victim's family." Uttar Pradesh Labour Minister Swami Prasad Maurya

New Delhi:  Vinay Sharma, one of the four convicts in the Delhi gangrape and murder case, on Saturday sought immediate withdrawal of his mercy plea from President Ram Nath Kovind, saying it was sent without his consent.  The convict wrote to the president, alleging his mercy plea, which was forwarded to him from the the Ministry of Home Affairs, had been sent by the Tihar jail authorities with a "malafide intention" and in "criminal conspiracy" with the Delhi government. Sharma said he was yet to exhaust all legal remedies available to him before filing the mercy plea as he has not filed any curative petition before the Supreme Court. "It is therefore prayed to your kind honour that until the exhaustion of the judicial remedies, including those yet to be filed and/or pending in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court by me as well as my co-accused, you may allow me to withdraw this mercy petition which has been filed without my consent and signature. &quo

New Delhi:  BJP lawmaker Gautam Gambhir on Saturday expressed grief over the death of Unnao rape victim and said 'it is very disheartening that today we all have failed as a nation.' "Today I feel ashamed as an Indian as we failed a rape victim, who was first raped then burned brutally by the accused. It is disheartening that we as a nation have failed to save her," Gambhir told ANI. He said that all individuals should take responsibility across party lines and not politicise such matters. Urging political parties to stand together in support of rape victims, he said: "All I want to request is that at least in the rape cases, we should not politicise. It is very hard to feel the pain of the victim's family. The nation belongs to both men and women. We have to stop a situation where women feel unsafe after sunset." "I want this country for women as much as for men. They have contributed a lot to the building of the nation. There is a need to cha

Koraput:  A Class VII student of a state-run residential school in Odisha's Koraput district was raped for months allegedly by the headmistress' husband, who has been arrested after she was found to be three months pregnant, police said on Saturday. The 60-year-old man who used to stay with his wife at the staff quarters of the school, meant for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes students, was arrested on Friday. He used to call the girl to the staff quarters and sexually exploited her a number of times, said Varun Guntupalli, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) of Jeypore. The accused had also sought permission from her parents to take her home during the summer vacation and when she visited, he raped her number of times, the officer said. "However, the wife of the accused was unaware of the happenings," Guntupalli said, adding that the man has confessed to the crimes. He has been booked under relevant sections of the IPC, Protection of Children from Sexual

Washington: The United States has completed implementation of H-1B electronic registration process for the 2021 cap season and the petitions for the most sought after work visa among Indian IT professionals will be accepted from 1 April next year, the country's immigration agency has announced. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows the US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. The technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the federal agency mandated with task of approving such applications, on Friday announced that it had completed the process to implement the H-1B electronic registration process for the 2021 cap season. The companies applying for H-1B visas for foreign workers for the fiscal year 2021 would have to register online and pay a processing fee of 10 USD

Unnao:  There is deep sorrow and acute anger in the native village of the Unnao rape victim in Bihar police station area since the time the locals received news of her death in a Delhi hospital. Sitting on the doorstep of their house, the victim's father was categorical in saying that he demands justice on the lines the Hyderabad case. "I want to see the accused persons being chased and shot dead," he said. "I do not want money or any other kind of help. I want to see that the accused are chased and shot dead like the Hyderabad encounter or hanged to death." When asked if anyone had come forward to ensure them justice, he said neither any MLA nor official has tried to help them. "The accused persons had used money power to deny justice to us. My case was not lodged and it was only after the court's directive that it was registered," he said. The family expressed deep sorrow that they could not save their daughter's life even though she wan

Unnao : Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday met family members of the Unnao rape victim, who died after being set ablaze, and accused the Uttar Pradesh government of patronising criminals that led to recurrent crimes against women in the state. Alleging that the BJP government had created such circumstances that there was no fear in the minds of criminals in the state, she urged the government and the administration to take seriously the issue of violence against women. "They (the BJP government) are saying that there is no place for criminals in Uttar Pradesh. But the way in which anarchy has spread and a crime against women is taking place in the state, I wonder if in the Uttar Pradesh made by them there is any place for women," she said while talking to reporters after meeting the deceased woman's family members at their house. The Congress leader rushed to meet the victim's family following news of her death at a hospital in Delhi due

Srinagar : Nine flights were cancelled at the Srinagar airport due to low visibility as a thick layer of fog engulfed most parts of the Kashmir Valley on Saturday morning, officials said. The visibility at the airport was around 600 metres only, an official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) said, adding the operations would resume once the visibility improves. "The flight operations have been severely affected at the Srinagar airport and no flight has landed here because of the poor visibility caused by the heavy fog," the official said. He said nine flights have been cancelled for the day out of the total 25. The fog also disrupted the air traffic to and fro Srinagar as no flight operations took place because of the poor visibility, the AAI official added. The city experienced the coldest night of the season so far recording a low of minus 3.6 degrees Celsius, an official of the Meteorological department in Srinagar said. He said the heavy fog affected the visibil

Chitrakoot : Two persons were arrested on Friday for allegedly shooting a 22-year-old dancer in her face at a marriage function at Tikra village in Mau area in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district, said police. #UPDATE Two people have been arrested in connection with the case where a woman was shot in the face at a wedding ceremony on December 1. https://t.co/Mt5S1do5B6 — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) December 7, 2019 The dancer, Hina, sustained a bullet injury in her jaw and two others sustained pellet injuries during firing at the function held on 1 December , to celebrate village head Suhir Singh Patel daughter's wedding, said Superintendent of Police Ankit Mittal. "Three people were injured. The firing took place after a dispute about a dance at the wedding" said Balwant Singh, ASP. In the 42-second video of the incident, men were heard saying, ' Goli chal jayegi ' (A shot will be fired) and then ' goli chala hi do ' (Go ahead and shoot). The victi

Chief Justice of India SA Bobde on Saturday said recent events in the country had sparked off an old debate with new vigour, where there was no doubt that the criminal justice system must reconsider its position and attitude towards the time it took to dispose of a criminal matter. "Justice is never ought to be instant. Justice must never ever take the form of revenge. I believe justice loses its character when it becomes revenge. There is a need in the judiciary to invoke self-correcting measures but whether or not they should be publicised is a matter of debate," he said. #WATCH : Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde: I don't think justice can ever be or ought to be instant. And justice must never ever take the form of revenge. I believe justice loses its character of justice if it becomes a revenge. pic.twitter.com/oKIHKecHqt — ANI (@ANI) December 7, 2019 "We have to devise methods for not only speeding up litigation but all together preventin

Jodhpur : Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday urged the Chief Justice of India and other senior judges to ensure that there is a mechanism to monitor quick disposal of rape cases, saying that the women of the country are under pain and distress and crying for justice. "I would urge the CJI and other senior judges that now there must be a mechanism to monitor the disposal of these cases so that India's stature as a proud country governed by rule of law must be restored at the earliest," Prasad said and assured government funding for it. "The women of the country are under pain and distress. They are crying for justice," he said. The minister said there are 704 fast-track courts for heinous offences and others and the government is in the process of setting up 1,123 dedicated courts for POCSO and rape offences. "In the law relating to women violence, we have already laid down capital punishment and other severe punishment including completion of

Chandigarh: A 17-year-old girl, who had accused four men of her village in Palwal district earlier this year of raping her, has alleged the four kidnapped and raped her again early this week, said police on Friday. Palwal Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya said the victim alleged in her complaint that she was kidnapped and raped by four men of her village when she had gone out of her house on 4 December. The accused took her to a secluded area and committed the crime, she alleged. On the victim's complaint, the police have booked the four and probing the matter. Two of the accused are aged above 30, one is around 45-year-old while another one is a teenager, Palwal SP told PTI over phone. The SP said the girl had also lodged a rape complaint against the same accused, who hails from her village, earlier this year as well. The case, however, was cancelled later as forensic report and other evidence did not back her allegations, he said. In the fresh complaint lodged

Chitrakoot : Two persons were arrested on Friday for allegedly shooting a 22-year-old dancer in her face at a marriage function at Tikra village in Mau area in Uttar Pradesh's Chitrakoot district, said police. #UPDATE Two people have been arrested in connection with the case where a woman was shot in the face at a wedding ceremony on December 1. https://t.co/Mt5S1do5B6 — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) December 7, 2019 The dancer, Hina, sustained a bullet injury in her jaw and two others sustained pellet injuries during firing at the function held on 1 December , to celebrate village head Suhir Singh Patel daughter's wedding, said Superintendent of Police Ankit Mittal. "Three people were injured. The firing took place after a dispute about a dance at the wedding" said Balwant Singh, ASP. In the 42-second video of the incident, men were heard saying, ' Goli chal jayegi ' (A shot will be fired) and then ' goli chala hi do ' (Go ahead and shoot). The victi

Hyderabad: A case was registered against four accused, arrested for the alleged rape and murder of a woman veterinarian near last month and killed in an encounter, for 'attacking' the police personnel. A case under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder), 176 (omission to give notice or information to public servant by person legally bound to give it) and relevant sections of the Indian Arms Act were registered against the accused. Based on a complaint filed by the in-charge of the police team that accompanied the four accused, the FIR was booked on Friday, a senior police official told PTI . Meanwhile, an National Human Rights Commission team is scheduled to visit the place where the encounter took place, on Saturday. All the four arrested accused in the rape and murder of the 25-year-old woman veterinarian were killed in 'retaliatory' firing by police at Chattanpalli near here on Friday morning, when they were taken to the scene of crime to recover the victim's

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday extended his wishes to the Indian forces on the occasion of Armed Forces Flag Day and hailed their invincible courage. Modi took to twitter and shared a video of the Indian forces' personnel featuring officers saving other people, marching with the troop, getting honoured with awards etc. On Armed Forces Flag Day we salute the indomitable courage of our forces and their families. I also urge you to contribute towards the welfare of our forces. pic.twitter.com/WXQqWAFlPg — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 7, 2019 "On Armed Forces Flag Day we salute the indomitable courage of our forces and their families. I also urge you to contribute towards the welfare of our forces," Modi tweeted. In the 59th edition of 'Mann Ki Baat' on 24 November, the Prime Minister talked about the significance of Armed Forces Flag Day and paid tribute to the valour of armed forces and also appealed people to contribute towa

New Delhi : The air quality of the national capital remained very poor for the third consecutive day with the overall Air Quality Index docking at 388 with PM2.5 at 235 and PM10 360. According to SAFAR, the rise in air pollution is because of the prevalence of calm surface winds and a decrease in ventilation coefficient which creates a conducive environment for pollutant accumulation. Representational image. AP An AQI between 0-50 is considered good, 51-100 is satisfactory, 101-200 moderate, 201-300 poor, 301-400 very poor and 401-500 is marked as severe/hazardous. The AQI was 379 in Dhirpur at 9 am and it dipped to 'severe' category at 425 in Mathura Road area. The AQI near Pusa, Airport Terminal 3 and Delhi University stood at 352, 403 and 380 respectively. In Pune, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad, the air quality remained in the moderate category with the AQI at 123, 149 and 109 respectively. On Saturday, the minimum and maximum temperature of Delhi will hover around 8 degrees Ce

11:27 (IST) After Unnao, Hyderabad rape and murder cases, MHA reminds all states, registration of zero FIR must in all rape cases Home ministry letter today reminds all states Zero FIR *must* be registered for rape cases. Not filing it is a punishable offence. Now will Hyderabad cops who didn’t file zero FIR for Disha be booked and jailed? Waiting. #Justice pic.twitter.com/dAhIIwYg6W — Padmaja joshi (@PadmajaJoshi) December 6, 2019 11:25 (IST) Yogi Adityanath expresses grief on death of Unnao victim, says case will be tried in a fast track court  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief over death of Unnao rape victim. CM has said all accused have been arrested and the case will be taken to fast-track court.  11:18 (IST) Postmortem of Unnao victim underway at Safdarjang Hospital in Delhi Postmortem of the Unnao rape victim is being conducted under the leadership of Dr MK Wahi, Head of Department of Forensic unit.  ANI  repored that the Uttar Pra