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The girl appeared before Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate Pijush Ghosh, Bolpur, to record her statement under CrPC 164. The girl was taken to the court from Suri hospital where she was admitted after the shocking gang-rape which took place after she unable to pay a fine of Rs 25,000 for being in love with a man from a different community.
The girl, accompanied by her mother and hospital doctors and staff, reached the court at around 2:00 PM and was there for around three hours for the proceedings.
The girl was taken back to the hospital in the evening. The 13 people, including the 'morol' (community head) Balai Murdy accused of the gang-rape were sent to police custody for 13 days since January 24.
MLA Asif Mohammad Khan inappropriately barged into a press briefing at the Delhi Secretariat and indulged in highly objectionable behavior, which is totally unbecoming of an elected representative.
He raised the issue of Batla House encounter and the AAP would like to set the record straight. This encounter had taken place on 19 September 2008, when there were Congress governments in Delhi as well as at the Centre.
Sagar dedicated the new shrine building which was reconstructed within 18 months after it was gutted in a fire incident on June 25, 2012, an official spokesman said.
The management of the 200-year-old Dastageer Sahib Shrine was able to save the relics housed in the building.
Sujatha Guduru, 44, is under arrest after she admitted to detectives that she killed shooting her 17-year-old Chetana Guduru twice before turning the gun on herself. "She admitted to them that she intended to commit suicide and that she did shoot her daughter as well," Lt Mike Beavers was quoted as saying by myfoxorlando.com.
The police believed that Sujatha had been planning the murder-suicide for weeks. She recently bought a .38 caliber revolver, wrote a last will and detailed her plans in an email to her brother.
He didn't see it until it was too late, and found the two bloodied inside their Farmingham Court home in Florida. Chetana died on Monday.
"The Congress government wants people to cheer about their announcement of increasing the cap of subsidised LPG cylinders from nine to 12 per family per year. "(But) people are in no mood to appreciate. They are instead asking a simple question, 'who brought in the cap of six cylinders in the first place?'
"We will order requisition of all the case files. We feel that the files of all the convicted appellants be placed before us," a bench of justices P K Bhasin and J R Midha said.
The court was hearing the appeal of Balwan Khokhar, one of the five convicts, seeking setting aside of the trial court's verdict awarding him life imprisonment for murder.
"We must create a floor under the 70 crore Indians who are above the poverty line but below the middle class threshold; ensuring that they have access to basic health, education and income standards," he said.
He said that he would push for the clearance of Street Vendors Bill in the upcomingsession of the parliament.
He added that he will also push for the implementation of the recommendations to empower the denotified and nomadic tribes in the country.
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Following its strong performance in Delhi, interest in the year-old the AAP has surged. Since an announcement earlier this month that it would contest the general election, its membership has passed 10 million.
"If my party wants, I am ready to contest Lok Sabhapolls from any seat," he told reporters.
After a speech from Thackeray on Sunday, MNS workers went on a rampage in Maharashtra and vandalised toll plazas. Over 100 of them were arrested.
The Goa crime branch, which is investigating the case, has received the complaint from the victim, whose statement was also recorded by its sleuths in Mumbai this afternoon.
Deputy Inspector General of Police O P Mishra told PTI that the crime branch team in Mumbai will be arriving in Goa this evening with the content of the complaint, only after which further action would be decided.
The party will send observes to decide who will be the next CM, ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The observers include Ghulam Nabi Azad, Janardhan Dwivedi and Ambika Soni, say sources.
Harish Rawat and Preetam Singh are frontrunners for the post.
The petition was posted online on January 23, a day after the 19-year-old singer was arrested for DUI and resisting arrest in Miami.
Bieber has been charged with assault today after he allegedly attacked a limousine driver last month in Toronto.
The warrant of his appointment is being processed in the law ministry and is likely to be issued by the first week of February. Ramana is likely to assume office by mid-February.
"The chief minister and Speaker colluded and they are claiming that they have passed a resolution. This is a useless attempt. Nothing is going to happen by this. Telangana would not be stopped with this. The Telangana Bill will be moved in Parliament in the second week of February," TRS MLA and party president K Chandrasekhar Rao's son K T Rama Rao told reporters.
The Ukrainian parliament has passed a law providing amnesty to protesters detained during recent unrest. The amnesty will only apply once other protesters leave government buildings they have occupied in recent days.
The measure, intended to ease unrest on the streets, was adopted after a day of intense debate. The protests began in November after the president reversed a decision to sign a trade deal with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia.
Late on Wednesday, the amnesty bill was backed by President Viktor Yanukovych's majority Party of the Regions, but opposition MPs abstained from voting, Ukrainian media report, as they objected to the conditions it imposed.
London: A journalist told Britain's phone hacking trial on Wednesday that Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid routinely eavesdropped on celebrities' voicemail messages and editor Andy Coulson "knew exactly what was going on".
Reporter Dan Evans, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hack phones, said "even the office cat" knew the illegal practice was widely used at the now defunct paper. Coulson, a former media chief to Prime Minister David Cameron, stared out from the dock as Evans told the jury at London's Old Bailey court: "The truth is that Andy Coulson knew exactly what was going on on his watch."
A former Norwegian minister nominated fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday in a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
"He has contributed to revealing the extreme level of surveillance by nations against other nations and of citizens," former Socialist Left Party minister Baard Vegar Solhjell told AFP, explaining his move.
"Snowden contributed to people knowing about what has happened and spurring public debate" on trust in government, which he said was "a fundamental requirement for peace."
In a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee obtained by AFP, Solhjell and his party colleague Snorre Valen said that they do not necessarily condone or support all of Snowden's disclosures, but praised him for revealing the "nature and technological prowess of modern surveillance."
Barack Obama's State Of The Union address presented a restrained foreign policy, contrasting past years when he has talked about smashing Al Qaeda. In one part he even acknowledged how past U.S. aggression may have been exactly what terrorists wanted: I will not send our troops into harm's way unless it is truly necessary, nor will I allow our sons and daughters to be mired in open-ended conflicts. We must fight the battles '" (applause) '" that need to be fought, not those that terrorists prefer from us '" large-scale deployments that drain our strength and may ultimately feed extremism.
Bin Laden, who was killed in 2011, stated as early as 1996 that he aimed to draw the U.S. into a protracted and economically costly conflict.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told parliament Wednesday that he would give Taliban militants "one last chance" to halt their spree of killings and bombings and join peace talks.
Mr. Sharif has been trying to bring the Pakistani Taliban, known formally as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, into negotiations since September. The group has said it is interested in dialogue but no substantial talks have taken place while the violence has increased.
Mr. Sharif said Wednesday he formed a four-member committee to steer the renewed effort at talks. For the first time, he also set a condition: that the violence must cease. "A peaceful solution will be given one last chance," Mr. Sharif told parliament. "Terrorist attacks and peace talks cannot go on together at the same time."
President Bashar Assad's adviser said Wednesday it would be difficult to hold a presidential election in Syria, given its raging violence, and she rejected the opposition's call for a transitional governing body.
Earlier in the day, Louay Safi, a spokesman for the opposition's negotiating teams, said the issue of a transitional government was put on the table for the first time. But he added the government delegation stuck to its demand that putting an end to terrorists was still its No. 1 priority.
"Today we had a positive step forward because for the first time now we are talking about the transitional governing body, the body whose responsibility is to end dictatorship and move toward democracy and end the fighting and misery in Syria," he said.
UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has said he does not expect to achieve "anything substantive" in the first round of Syria talks before they end on Friday. He said he was "not disappointed" and that "the ice is breaking slowly".
He also said that the UN and Syrian government were still negotiating on access for a humanitarian aid convoy into the besieged city of Homs. The idea of a transition process has proved to be a major sticking point at the peace talks in Geneva.
Mr Brahimi told reporters that the gap between the two sides remained "quite large" but there was a willingness to continue the talks. He voiced hope that Russia and the US would exert greater influence over the two sides to help bridge that gap.
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