The chief minister had sanctioned Rs 50,000 to the girl for undergoing plastic surgery and reconstruction of her disfigured face.
'When I looked closely at people and stories from that region, I realised that the landscape contributes a lot to how people behave.'
B R Chopra was a reformist film-maker, way ahead of his times, says Subhash K Jha.
The love for the festival of colours is not restricted to just songs and moments in the movies. The various hues of colours are used in film titles for dramatic effect too.
Sukanya Verma gives us a lowdown on all those wonderful movies she saw and movies you need to see as and when they arrive to a screen or streaming space near you.
The Northern Railways said it has cancelled around 17 trains and diverted around 12 others, while traffic has been suspended at four locations due to waterlogging.
'99.6 per cent is occupied by Arab countries in the Middle East; Israel occupies just 0.4 per cent of the entire Middle East.' 'That 0.4 per cent is also a big issue for them.'
A three-year-old girl fell into a 45-feet deep borewell at a village near Agra on Tuesday night and rescue operations were on to pull out the girl from the pit. Vandana fell into the borewell in Hulaspura village while playing with her father, police said. Food and oxygen are being supplied to the girl through ropes from the surface. The rescuers said it will take another couple of hours to pull the girl out from the pit and added that her voice could be heard.
In further embarrassment to the Haryana government, two rape cases involving minor girls were reported from Hisar and Bhiwani districts. Police said a 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by four youths on November 3 in Hisar.
In a shocking incident, a minor Dalit girl was allegedly beaten up by higher caste women in Ganeshpura village in Chattarpur district of Madhya Pradesh after the victim's shadow fell on a muscleman belonging to their family, police said on Tuesday.
At 19, he quit everything to work in a tribal village for free.
"She was mercilessly beaten to death when the accused spotted her cutting grass in his field," a police official told rediff.com.
Sukanya Verma looks at how one of the seven primal human emotions is usually treated in Hindi movies.
Maliwal met the mother and husband of the two victims who had been paraded naked, molested and one of them was gangraped. The mother of the woman who was gangraped also lost her husband and son who were trying to save the victim from the sexual assault, the statement said.
Sukanya Verma plans your OTT menu this week.
Post-mortems of the 17 skulls and other bones discovered last week showed that 11 of those killed were girls, Chief Medical Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital in Noida Vinod Kumar told reporters.
The victims, aged between eleven and sixteen years, were allegedly raped by armed men at a brick kiln in Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
Some 22 villages of Khairabad block are affected by the dog menace
The 30-year-old woman took the step after she was allegedly beaten up by the members of her husband's family, he said.
Of late, war films -- particularly those that tell stories of the 1971 War and Kargil -- have been produced.
The tainted Indian masseur says he only placed his hand across the girl's shoulder asking another person to take a snap.
With the outrage over the Badaun gangrape still echoing across the country, news of yet another incident of similar brutality has come in from Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh.
The toll in Uttar Pradesh floods on Monday mounted to 41, with reports of 13 more deaths in the state where over 1,000 villages were affected by the flood waters of several rivers flowing above the danger mark.
Special commissioner of police Shalini Singh has been asked to submit a detailed report to the MHA after a proper inquiry.
'The minute I tell couples to use condoms or suggest permanent birth control, they ignore it or just change the topic.'
'I didn't even know where Bombay was before I came here.'
The gang-rape took place in the village Jiuli under district Ambedkar Nagar police station, Jaitpur area on March 29, 2022, added the police.
There were many people who wanted to seek favours from her by offering lakhs and crores of rupees even through her family members when she was Odisha's transport minister. She never allowed any kind of corrupt practices to touch her department officials, family members or the supporters who have stood by her.
A teenage girl was allegedly molested by a policeman leading to mob violence and police firing in Assam's Kamrup district on Friday.
On February 25, 2021, India and Pakistan announced that they have agreed to strictly observe all agreements on ceasefire along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir and other sectors.
These films, even at their saddest, darkest and grossest, retain their sense of humour, their sense of proportion, which again is something you associate with a Malayali.
A 28-year-old woman from Maharashtra's Beed district, infamous for high incidence of female foeticide, has registered a case of harassment against her husband and in-laws after she was allegedly tortured for years and subsequently driven out of home for having a girl child, police said on Wednesday.
Sunil Shetty makes his OTT debut. Chiranjeevi comes calling. Parvathy Thiruvothu, Nithya Menen and Amruta Subhash provide enchanting viewing. Santa Claus gets ready to retire.
The Uttar Pradesh Police is mulling over slapping the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against the six people arrested for the rape and murder of two Dalit sisters in the state's Lakhimpur Kheri.
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Father fined Rs 5.25 lakh for abandoning baby girl
A would-be-groom fumbling at a simple maths query cost his marriage as the girl refused to marry him and the wedding had to be called off.
In yet another case of suspected honour killing, a 16-year-old girl was hacked to death in the Bhadoi district of Uttar Pradesh by her mother who disapproved of her relationship with a neighbour, a senior police officer said in Bhadoi on Tuesday.
The daughter of a tea-shop owner, Sudiksha Bhati died on Monday morning near Aurangabad when she was riding pillion on a motorcycle with her younger brother, a minor, they said. The two were en route to their maternal uncle's home in Bulandshahr's Khanpur area from their house at Deri Scanar village in Gautam Buddh Nagar's Dadri tehsil, the officials said.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices S Ravindra Bhat and Bela M Trivedi will decide by circulation in chambers the fate of the five review petitions at 1.50 PM on March 2.
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