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Pune: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray received Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Pune airport on Friday evening. It was the two leaders' first meeting after Thackeray broke away from ally BJP and formed a Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra with the support of the Congress and NCP last month. The prime minister will be attending the national conference of director generals and inspector generals of police which is being held in Pune. Pune: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to attend the Conference of Director Generals & Inspector Generals of Police. #Maharashtra pic.twitter.com/DIs54TKCfx — ANI (@ANI) December 7, 2019 After receiving the PM, Thackeray left for Mumbai, state government officials said. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis also greeted Modi at the airport. मुख्यमंत्री मा.श्री. उद्धव साहेब ठाकरे यांनी आज पुणे येथे पोलिस महासंचालकांच्या परिषदेस उपस्थित राहण्यासाठ...

Mount Abu: Demonic attacks on women have shaken the conscience of the country, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Friday and advocated that those convicted under the POCSO Act should be deprived of their right to mercy petition. It is for the Parliament to take a decision on the matter and make necessary constitutional amendments, "but the thought of all of us is moving ahead in that direction", he said while addressing an event in Rajasthan's Abu Road on the issue of women safety. The president said women safety is a very serious issue and a lot of work has been done on this but much remains to be done. "Incidents of demonic assaults on daughters shake the conscience of the country. It is the duty of every parent, citizens, yours and mine to strengthen among boys the sense of respect towards women. "In this context, several things are coming up. Such convicts have been given the right of mercy petition by the Constitution. I have said that there should be r...

Unnao: A day after a rape victim was set on fire by five men , including her two alleged rapists, in the district, a man tried to sexually assault a three-year-old girl in the Makhi police station area near Unnao on Friday, said police. Makhi police station in-charge Raj Bahadur said a youth belonging to a village neighbouring the girl's lured her to an agricultural field and tried to rape her. But the people rushed to the field after hearing the girl's cries and rescued her from the "rapist's" clutches, he said. Unnao: One arrested on charges of attempting to sexually assault a three year old girl in Makhi village. Vikrant Veer, SP Unnao says, "We arrested the accused from the spot of the incident. Case has been registered, investigation underway". pic.twitter.com/B8ozCPsUN0 — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) December 7, 2019 On the complaint of the girl's father, a case has been registered and the accused arrested, he said, adding the girl has been se...

For years Professor Rahul Sagar worked with researchers, students and libraries from around the world to collate a database of Indian Periodicals that flourished between 1857 and 1947 and are evidence of a once fertile land of reading, writing and intellectual discourse. In an interview with Firstpost , Sagar spoke about the challenges of his endeavour, what the existence of such rich yet lost texts proves, and why these periodicals all eventually disappeared. Compared to what you've amassed, there must be wealth of periodicals, papers, prints lying in homes and trunks across India. How does one put all of that together? Is it even possible? How would you go about it? This is an excellent question. Of the periodicals I have found and indexed, there are still some volumes missing. These volumes are effectively lost for good in the sense that they cannot be found in any library in the world. But they may well lying in private libraries around the country. Since the launch of the ...

The wave of delirium passing through India's body politic over the custodial deaths on Friday of four men accused last week of gangraping, murdering and charring the body of a young woman veterinarian in Hyderabad should worry us all. After a week of nationwide fury and massive outrage over the heinous crime when even lawmakers in Parliament called for public lynching of the perpetrators, it is a moment of poignancy and reflection to see the entire country celebrating extrajudicial killing of the four suspects. We are told that the accused, who were nabbed shortly after the commitment of the crime, have been killed in an "encounter" with the police while trying to snatch weapons and run away. There are more holes in Telangana cops' "encounter" theory than even a sieve. It is possible that the beleaguered cops , who have been under fire for procedural lapses and dereliction of duty in a case that has enraged the nation , pulled off the stunt to turn public ...

Unnao rape survivor, set on fire by accused year after the attack, passes away in Safdarjung hospital  The Unnao gang-rape survivor who was set ablaze by five people on Thursday, died at the Safdarjung hospital in Delhi following a cardiac arrest on Friday night, hospital sources said. "Despite our best efforts, she did not survive. Her condition deteriorated towards the evening. She had a cardiac arrest around 11.10 pm. We tried to resuscitate her, but she passed away around 11.40 pm," said Dr Shalab Kumar, Head of Burn and Plastic Surgery at the hospital. She died on a day when all the four accused in the gang-rape and murder case of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad were killed in an 'encounter' with the Telangana police, triggering a flood of reactions across the spectrum – ranging from appreciation to condemnation. The Unnao rape victim was set on fire by five men, including her two alleged rapists on Thursday morning when she was going to Rae Bareli to atte...

New Delhi : The Unnao gang-rape survivor who was set ablaze by five people on Thursday, died at the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi following a cardiac arrest on Friday night, hospital sources said. "Despite our best efforts, she did not survive. Her condition deteriorated towards the evening. She had a cardiac arrest around 11.10 pm. We tried to resuscitate her, but she passed away around 11.40 pm," said Dr Shalab Kumar, Head of Burn and Plastic Surgery at the hospital. She died on a day when all the four accused in the gang-rape and murder case of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad were killed in an 'encounter' with the Telangana police, triggering a flood of reactions across the spectrum – ranging from appreciation to condemnation. Delhi: Visuals from outside Safdarjung Hospital where Unnao rape victim died due to a cardiac arrest, earlier tonight. She was set ablaze in Bihar area of Unnao on December 5 and was later airlifted to Delhi, to be admitted here at the ho...