'... dividing society not just on religious lines, but also creating rift in families and among brothers and sisters.'
Singh Lakshman Meena, 33, a research scientist at the University of Central Florida, is also accused of taking disks with research information in them.
A day after they claimed that a nine-year-old Sikh boy found abandoned in a London bus stop last week was their son Shintu, the parents have sought a DNA test to confirm their claim. "We want a DNA test because we are sure that it was our son," Shintu's father Ganga Prasad told rediff.com over telephone from Aurangabad on Wednesday.
Claiming that Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi was 'physically unable' to commit rape, his wife Asha on Thursday demanded DNA and medical test to prove his involvement in the assault on a Dalit teenager in Banda.
Recent media reports have alleged that the DNA of the six-month-old foetus of the slain poetess had matched with that of the former minister's.
The team set up by Pakistan to probe the Pathankot attack on Friday decided to seek from India the DNA reports and finger prints of the slain terrorists.
A team of experts arrived in Mangalore on Sunday morning from Hyderabad to conduct DNA tests to help in identification of bodies charred beyond recognition in the Air India Express plane crash
With 81 badly charred bodies of the Air India flight crash yet to be identified, authorities have decided to conduct DNA test on Sunday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday defended the electoral bonds scheme, struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, saying it had a laudable objective of bringing transparency in poll funding.
A massive fire that ripped through a seven-storey shopping mall in Dhaka overnight killed at least 46 people and injured 22 others, the government said on Friday, in one of the worst infernos to hit Bangladesh in recent years.
The war of words between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar escalated on Monday with the latter tweeting that "50 lakh people" from Bihar would send their DNA samples for testing to the prime minister.
Maninderpal Singh Kohli allegedly raped and killed 17-year-old Hannah Foster in Southampton in March last year.
'The message they want to send to the country is that they can do anything by hook or crook'
"At this age of mine and unblemished public record for approximately 70 years to this nation I rely on Supreme Court judgments and feel protected against any compulsion for the DNA test," 87-year-old Tiwari said in his affidavit before the Delhi High Court.
The Delhi high court on Friday rejected veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari's plea to keep his DNA report secret and hold an in-camera hearing of a paternity suit against him.
All citizens of the United Kingdom and every visitor to the country should be included in the national DNA database, said a senior judge.
'The BJP, already falling short of a strong OBC leader from Maharashtra, will be more than happy to welcome Chhagan Bhujbal in its fold.'
Cristiano Ronaldo hit back at his critics after a remarkable 35th career hat-trick fired Real Madrid past VfL Wolfsburg.
"We have submitted a list of 38 missing children along with their FIRs to the CBI for their consideration and further investigation," said Padmini Kumar, a social worker representing the parents of missing children.
Meghalaya offers more beauty and adventure than you could dream of.
Leaders of several opposition parties on Thursday hailed the Supreme Court verdict striking down the electoral bonds scheme and termed it an important step in ensuring transparency in electoral funding.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the plea of Congress leader N D Tiwari -- to stop the Delhi high court from ordering him to undergo a DNA test -- to prove his paternity in a case filed by Rohit Shekhar. The apex court ordered the former Andhra Pradesh governor to give his blood sample for a DNA test.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday refused to confirm the death of Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour but said a DNA test will be done to establish the identity of a man killed in a American drone strike last week.
The talk show queen refuses to acknowledge the claims of an 84-year-old Navy veteran named North Robinson that he is her biological father.
Pakistan has provided Interpol the DNA profiles of the Mumbai terror attack suspects, with the world police body immediately checking them for matches in its global database.
Police have found the DNA of a newly-identified suspect on explosives used in last year's Paris attacks, a French source said on Monday.
A 1962 Nobel Prize medal won by biologist James Watson for the discovery of the structure of DNA has fetched more than $4.7 million (Rs 29 crore), setting a world record for any Nobel Prize sold at auction.
'Imran Khan's rule was dismal. Despite this, he has become a cult figure.' 'He sold the dream of a Naya Pakistan to the people of Pakistan, especially the youth, and branded all other politicians as corrupt.' 'Hence, his popularity.'
"We were shown 25 bodies that were badly burnt. Now it it expected that we will be shown more bodies on Friday or Saturday. The rules here (in Nepal) are different due to which the process of handing over the bodies will take time," Abhinash Kushwaha, brother of one of the deceased Abhihesk Kushwaha, told PTI over phone from Nepal.
Be it a terrorist attack, mass tragedy or police verification, this bank can be of great use for security agencies and doctors. Combining Biometric, anthropology and information technology together, Asia's first human DNA Bank has been set up in Biotech Park of Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.
A Kerala court on Tuesday sentenced to death 15 persons associated with the now-banned Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) in connection with the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party OBC wing leader Ranjith Sreenivasan in this district in 2021, the special prosecutor of the case said in Alappuzha.
Anil Kapoor goes back in time and remembers his journey into the movies.
After groping in the dark for nearly a month over the massive explosion in Petlwad town that killed 89 people, Madhya Pradesh police are pinning hopes on the outcome of the DNA profiling of three unclaimed bodies of from the explosion site to ascertain whether Rajendra Kasawa, the prime accused in the case was dead or alive.
Veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari on Wednesday refused to appear in a Delhi high court dispensary to give his blood sample for DNA test to ascertain a youth's claim of being his biological son, saying that he cannot be forced to do so.
Wayanad will continue to support Rahul but not to the same extent as in 2019, when his margin of victory had been enormous. Articulate, to the point and speaking in fluent Malayalam, CPI's Annie Raja, had the people who gathered to see her, listening in rapt attention, notes Shyam G Menon.
The bill seeks to empower criminal and forensic investigators in order to increase conviction rates
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Delhi high court order asking veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari to undergo a DNA test in a paternity case. However, a bench comprising justices Aftab Alam and R M Lodha made it clear that the findings of the test would not be made public until and unless it is required by the court to decide the paternity suit against Tiwari. The bench said the report would be kept in a sealed envelope.
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