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"The Taliban thought that the bullet would silence us, but they failed," said the girl, who turned 16 today.
The United Nations observed the day as Malala Day.
Malala told the forum that the Taliban's attack changed nothing in her life, except "weakness, fear and hopelessness died".
"The extremists were, and they are, afraid of books and pens," Malala said. "They are afraid of women."
He requested the meeting with around 10 activists in the airport transit zone.
He also said the BJP strongman was gradually becoming his "own worst enemy".
The camera was said to have taken away by the Chinese side on June 17 when it had become non-functional and was returned to the Indian side on July 3 there after a protest was registered.
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"People want development and good governance and he has proved these (in Gujarat)," Sangma said. On 2002 riots, Sangma said, "that took place when he was just two months as chief minister. After that he has won so many elections from Muslim dominated areas." He said Modi was yet to tour the length and breadth of the country. "The moment he goes campaigning all over the country, then we'll know his position and it will be seen within two months from now," he said.
The Samajwadi Party says Modi should apologise immedately for his remark.
"It is up to the people to judge whether Modi is guilty or not. Modi has accepted that he has only one community's interest in mind," says the party spokesperson.
Whatever the outcome, Modi will find it difficult to live down his puppy coming under the car comment while referring to the Gujarat riots.
Modi reacting to the 2002 riots said, "Any person if we are driving a car, we are a driver, and someone else is driving a car and we're sitting behind, even then if a puppy comes under the wheel, will it be painful or not? Of course it is. If I'm a chief minister or not, I'm a human being. If something bad happens anywhere, it is natural to be sad."
"If the idea is to interpret everything Modi says in teh way it suits them, there is no sense in me trying to correct your impressions," she said.
Here's the full interview on Reuters
Pandey had failed to get relief from the High Court in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case and approached the Supreme Court thereafter for quashing the FIR against him.
Pandey was chargesheeted by the CBI accusing him of being part of the conspiracy to eliminate Ishrat Jahan and three others.
Pandey was Joint Commissioner of Police when on June 15, 2004, Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an encounter with the Gujarat police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
On the Western line, suburban services have been suspended between Nallasopara and Virar.
Waterlogging at several places including Dadar, Parel, Sion and Kandivali resulted in massive traffic snarls, hitting office goers badly.
Weatherman has forecast frequent spells of rain or showers over the next 48 hours. While Mumbai city received 36.5 mm of rain, suburbs recorded 59.2 mm of rain till 2.30 pm. Tulsi lake, one of the major reservoirs in the city has started overflowing.
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"Do you think you did the right thing in 2002?"
"Absolutely. However much brainpower the Supreme Being has given us, however much experience I've got, and whatever I had available in that situation and this is what the SIT had investigated."
"Do you believe India should have a secular leader?"
"We do believe that ' But what is the definition of secularism? For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism."
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Only dismissed police officer Pradeep Sharma has been acquitted of all the charges in the case. Senior cop and accused Pradeep Suryawanshi who was leading the encounter team was convicted for murder. Twenty others, including 13 policemen, were also convicted for various charges by the sessions court.
On November 11, 2006, a police team had picked up Ram Narayan Gupta alias Lakhan Bhaiya from Vashi in neighbouring Navi Mumbai on suspicion that he was a member of the Chotta Rajan gang, along with Anil Bheda. Lakkhan Bhaiya was then killed in an encounter near Nana Nani Park in suburban Versova.
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In northwest Maharashtra and south Gujarat, train services on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad and Mumbai-New Delhi sectors were affected since morning, say officials.
Valsad in south Gujarat was among the worst-hit with two feet water-logging in the station, preventing movement of local and long-distance trains.
A railway official said that several trains in both directions on the two routes (Mumbai-Ahmedabad and Mumbai-New Delhi) have been regulated at various stations until the water levels recede.
In adjoining Thane district, railway tracks were flooded at Nalla Sopara, Mumbra, Thane, Diva and other places, leading to train delays on all the routes.
In Mumbai, several low-lying areas have been waterlogged in the city and suburbs, hitting vehicular movement badly.
An extra high tide, measuring 4.26 metres, is expected from 2.30pm onwards and officials are apprehensive the situation could worsen if the rainfall continued. IANS
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Ilavarasan's parents and relatives have gone back to their village while the body is being moved to Chennai.
On Thursday, even as a Madras High Court-appointed doctors team examined Ilavarasans body and the location where he was found dead, the police arrested six lawyers representing the Dalit youths family and nine others including some of his relatives for blocking the road near the Government Dharmapuri Medical College Hospital.
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On Tuesday evening, the police said, a young man known to the student invited the girl to his home, where he allegedly raped her. When the girl resisted, he allegedly poured kerosene on her and set her on fire, reports NDTV.
The police say the girl has named the man in her statement and a case has been registered against him and his relatives, though no arrests have been made yet.
The girl's siblings say that she was in love with the man who allegedly raped her. "He called her; she went because she trusted him... She came back running and was on fire," the girl's sister said.
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The accused hail from influential families and the police had initially tried to hush up the matter. But after the intervention of senior police officials, a case was registered Thursday and investigations begun.
Asserting that there has been no change in the attitude and policy of Pakistani military towards India, a former American diplomat has said the next frontier of conflict between the two nations could be Afghanistan.
"Afghanistan is going to be in mess after we leave. India's equity are now deeply engaged in Afghanistan and danger is that the next frontier of India-Pak conflict is going to be in Afghanistan," said Robert Blackwill, the former US ambassador to India said.
Speaking at the "Ambassadors Roundtable" involving five American envoys to India in the last two decades, Blackwill said "there is no evidence that Pakistan military has changed its view" that its primary role is to prevent the rise of India nation.
The situation is not going to change until the Pakistani military changed the view that they have to be the prominent power in Afghanistan and India is the enemy in this war torn country, Blackwill said.
At least 150 prisoners have escaped from a jail in the Indonesian city of Medan on the island of Sumatra. The breakout came during a riot that officials say may have been prompted by a power cut that knocked out supplies of pumped water.
Hundreds of police and soldiers have been trying to restore order at the prison, and combing the surrounding area for the escaped inmates. Some of the fugitives were reportedly convicted of terrorism charges. "The prisoners were annoyed by a blackout and problems getting water, which they said happens often at the prison," Heru Prakoso, a spokesman for North Sumatra province police told Agence France Presse.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to continue its resistance in defiance of the military's ouster of the country's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. A Brotherhood statement on Thursday also distanced the group from an assassination attempt on Wednesday against a senior army commander in the Sinai Peninsula, saying the group adheres to peaceful measures.
The statement came a day after Egypt's military-backed government tightened its crackdown on the Brotherhood, ordering the arrest of its spiritual leader in a bid to choke off the group's campaign to reinstate Morsi, now held at an undisclosed Defence Ministry facility.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic once again faces two genocide charges instead of one in his long-running trial over ethnic violence during the 1990s Balkan wars. Appellate judges at a U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands on Thursday reinstated the second genocide charge, ruling that the tribunal improperly dismissed the count in June 2012.
Karadzic, whose trial began in 2010, also faces nine other charges related to ethnic violence during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The reinstated charge accuses Karadzic of trying to permanently remove Bosnian Muslims and Croats from parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
The charge was thrown out last year after the prosecution rested its case, with the tribunal ruling that there wasn't enough evidence for a genocide conviction on that particular allegation.
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