Police said Siddik, elected president in the recent civic poll, and four others, including a councillor and DMK youth wing functionaries, were proceeding in a car when a four-member gang waylaid them in two wheelers and hurled country bombs at them.
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"Doctors have already made it clear that the Hathras woman was not raped," Pal, the UP minister of state for Electronics and Information Technology said in a statement which is set to further aggravate the controversy.
Attacking the Congress government, the BJP claimed there is no rule of law in Rajasthan and the incident has put a question mark on the law and order situation of the state.
Though robberies have been reported from the area, this is the first time that a murder has been reported.
The police registered a case earlier this month after the chief judicial magistrate of Port Blair ordered its filing based on a petition by the young woman.
Rahul also tagged a media report which asked why police was denying rape when the woman repeatedly reported rape.
Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra's statements that the gang-rape victim and her male friend should not have gone to the deserted place, and his claims that the opposition Congress was trying to "rape" him, by targeting him, following the incident has evoked sharp reactions from the Congress.
Security researchers with Kaspersky Lab have recorded more than 45,000 attacks in 99 countries, including the UK, Russia, Ukraine, India, China, Italy, and Egypt.
The man who fired the first shot at Umesh Pal, a key witness in the killing of former Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Raju Pal, was gunned down in an encounter with Prayagraj police early Monday, officials said.
Three members of a Sikh gang, including a woman, were today convicted of slashing the throat of Lt Gen (retd) Kuldip Singh Brar, the hero of the 1984 Operation Blue Star, in London last year.
In a post-midnight order, the Supreme Court declined to stay the release of the juvenile offender in the horrific December 16 gang rape case that will enable him to walk free.
Tharoor said the Congress should stand up for its foundational principles.
Puthiya Thamizhagam leader Dr S Krishnaswamy, the party's organising secretary Velu Samy and his driver suffered injuries in a bomb attack by an 11-member gang near the Sathakthullah College in Thirunelveli city late on Monday afternoon
As per the allegation of the woman, she was gang-raped by two officials, including the former chief secretary, in Andaman and Nicobar Islands at his official residence.
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Alishah laid down the family tree of Dawood Ibrahim and said that the gangster's first wife gets in touch with people through WhatsApp calls.
The Tihar jail authorities on Thursday told a special court in New Delhi that one of the accused in the December 16 gang rape case is being given proper medical care in the hospital where he is admitted and the doctors there are not on strike.
If future episodes are as verbose and unwieldy, it might be difficult to keep from switching channels, points out Deepa Ghalot.
The War of the Tiranga is a metaphor for a new battle of ideas in national politics, observes Shekhar Gupta.
A 20-year-old Indian student in Australia suffered serious injuries after he was brutally attacked with stick and robbed by thugs in Melbourne.
Three Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers have been arrested for allegedly carrying out the murder of a Popular Front of India leader in Palakkad district of Kerala on April 15, the police said on Tuesday, and added that the trio were friends of an RSS leader who was killed in Palakkad in November last year.
Members of the Popular Front of India and its political offshoot Social Democratic Party of India as well as the Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh were among those involved in the two recent back-to-back murders in Palakkad district, the Kerala police said on Monday.
Most political leaders in Punjab have come out in the open to oppose him, unlike the early 1980s when political leaders were scared of speaking against Bhindranwale, observes Sudhir Bisht.
The meeting came after a letter of Khatik to Union Home Minister Amit Shah offering to quit surfaced on social media.
At the outset, his counsel submitted before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma that he wishes to withdraw the petition and wants to file it before the Punjab and Haryana high court.
A 28-year-old man was injured in an explosion that took place on the terrace of his house near Vatakara while allegedly attempting to make country bombs, the police said in Kozhikode on Thursday.
A 51-year-old Danish tourist was allegedly gang-raped by more than half a dozen men at knife point near New Delhi railway station on Tuesday night, police said.
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A senior officer said that after the Red Fort incident, intelligence agencies were on their toes in Punjab to keep a close watch on Khalistan forces trying to revive their movement.
A Delhi court on Monday awarded the maximum punishment of life sentence to five convicts in the sensational 2010 Dhaula Kuan gang-rape case in which a BPO executive from the north-east was the victim.
Eight have been arrested in the gang rape and murder of a 28-year-old mentally challenged woman.
Tinu escaped from the custody of the Crime Investigation Agency unit of the Mansa Police on Saturday night when he was brought on a production warrant from Goindwal Sahib jail in Tarn Taran district in another case.
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Three Sikh men and a woman, convicted of carrying out a revenge attack on Lt Gen Brar for his role as commander of Operation Blue Star in 1984 were on Tuesday sentenced by a British court to between 10 and 14 years in prison.
Addressing Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray, Ranaut posted a video message saying his 'ego will be destroyed' the way her Bandra home was demolished.
Police suspect a land dispute relating to the school building to be the reason behind the killing.
'Rahul Gandhi has shown courage to heal the heart of democracy.'
The CBI has began the probe on the request of the Tamil Nadu government on March 12.
The former Punjab Congress chief had been upset with the party for serving him a show-cause notice.
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