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One person was gored to death during a bull taming event while 67 others, including spectators, were injured in other Jallikattu events organised as part of Pongal festival across Tamil Nadu.
The man died at Thiruvengadam village in Pudukottai district while taking part in Manjuvirattu, a different event wherein the bull is tied to a pole with a long rope and one has to tame it by holding it by the horns, police said.
Thirty-eight people, including bull tamers and spectators, were injured in different Jallikattu events at Alanganallur in Madurai district, they said. As many as 477 bulls were used and people from all over the state and abroad had thronged the venue. Two seriously wounded have been admitted to the government hospital here.
A minor tribal girl was allegedly gang-raped by two persons near Guna in Madhya Pradesh, police said today. The incident took place in village Kudi Mangwar on January 14, when the victim went to an agriculture field for some work at around 9 pm. The duo, who were in an inebriated state, sexually assaulted her and fled, they said.
The 14-year-old girl informed her parents about the episode yesterday morning following which the matter was reported to the Cantt Police Station, Sub-Divisional Police Officer Antar Singh Kanesh told reporters.
Based on the complaint, police registered a case of rape against the accused, identified as Imrat Lodha and Dharmendra Lodha, both of whom are absconding.
"Pakistan is where militancy is being manufactured, where the establishment is in tatters, where many parallel governments exist, which threatens the peace of not just India, but the world.
In such circumstances, my unsolicited advice to Pakistan's Foreign Minister is that instead of preaching to the Indian government, army and media, she must reflect on her country''s actions in the past," said BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
In Delhi, after the gang rape and subsequent death of a young woman, residents called for the resignation of the city's chief of police and the retraining of the overwhelmingly male police force.
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The commission set up in January 2011 wrapped up its inquiry into the scam yesterday and is likely to submit its final report to the state government next month, sources in the panel said. The government may accept or reject the findings of the commission.
A case was registered against Qadri and some 70 unidentified people at Kohsar police station for attacking police officials at the venue of the protest in Islamabad.
A source privy to the development told PTI that an arrest warrants for Qadri had been issued by a local magistrate. Authorities were awaiting a go-ahead from Interior Minister Rehman Malik to arrest Qadri, the source said.
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He was given Z-plus security and more than 300 policemen were posted around the venue where he addressed a huge gathering in Vadodara.
The minister of state for home Praful Patel was among the dignitaries seated on the dais. Dr. Qaudri thanked the state Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his gesture and the hospitality. More
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Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has termed Minhajul Quran International (MQI) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri's demands "preposterous and unconstitutional" and said the cleric means "no good".
Khar, who is in New York to attend an Asia Society meet, said Qadri was a dual national which bars him from contesting provincial or national assembly elections, reports The Express Tribune.
She said Qadri has only come to derail the system, and that he happens to be someone who constitutionally cannot contest a single provincial or national assembly seat. She said it is preposterous that Qadri wants a role of the military and judiciary in the politics of Pakistan.
She added that he could also be arrested for it. Commenting on Qadri's ongoing long march in Islamabad, Khar said that the participants of the rally were around 30,000 in number by all accounts.
Musharraf said he had been supporting them from the beginning, reports The Dawn. Qadri, who played a role in backing a military coup in 1999, has threatened to remain camped out near the federal parliament with thousands of supporters until his demands for the resignation of the government are met.
Qadri returned to Pakistan from Canada less than a month ago to lead a call for electoral reforms to bar "corrupt politicians" from office, which has made him an instant hit among several Pakistanis disillusioned with the state.
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"There is a need to change this. Before independence we were able to maintain our culture and values but in the last 65 years we have lost a great part of it." "Such horrific incidents (Delhi gang rape) don't happen all of a sudden. They happen when the thin line of culture and values are crossed in the name of civilisation and development," he said, adding that people should ponder over this and ensure that such incidents don't happen.
Near him, a woman lay unconscious in the dusty grass on the side of the expressway, according to a person familiar with the patrolmen's account. The young man and woman were naked. Read
Pakistani troops killed two Indian soldiers and decapitated one of them recently, an act described as 'dastardly' by the Indian Prime Minister.
Far from embracing the 'metrosexual' trend of male grooming, the average British man washes his face just six times a week, according to a new study. Facial maintenance is clearly not high on their list of priorities with one in five (18 per cent) allocating less than five minutes each week to take care of their faces, the study found.
Belinda Moore wrote: "Just cycled in and saw lots of smoke over by Vauxhall, gather it's a helicopter crash, saw it flying low over Chelsea Bridge thought it odd."Quin Murray said: "Helicopter just hit a crane and crashed a few metres in front of me in Vauxhall. Completely shaken."
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Fire and rescue services said they were taking "lots of emergency calls" as eyewitnesses described seeing grey smoke towering into the sky, close to Battersea bridge.
A spokesman for London fire brigade was unable to give details but said: "We are taking lots of emergency calls at the moment."
A Met police spokesman said: "We had a call at approximately 8am this morning and we are dealing with an incident."We are still waiting for some further details at the moment."
Witnesses took to Twitter to report details.One said the helicopter appeared to have hit a crane.Another said it crashed close to a railway line.One user posted a dramatic photograph showing burning wreckage in the road. The fire brigade said on Twitter: "We're attending reports of a helicopter crash near Wandsworth Road in South Lambeth."
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"The problem of corruption plagues many countries within South Asia and elsewhere also. You saw many many scandals of corruption and allegations on the Prime Minister within India also very recently and very very big ones," she said here.
She was responding to a question at an event at the Asia Society yesterday on the "tremendous corruption" in Pakistan, which has led to Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ordering the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf for allegedly receiving bribes in power projects.
On ceasefire violations, the general said, the Indian army fires only if they fire. It is retaliatory firing. "Don't make the mistake of thinking that if they fire, we won't. We will always retaliate."
Parnaik, in whose area of responsibility the killings took place, said his troops were "exercising great restraint' but "Pakistan was being as adamant and arrogant as they are'.For Parnaik, the killing of lance naiks Hemraj and Sudhakar Singh on January 8 is also a matter of personal umbrage.
The soldiers belonged to Rajputana Rifles, the regiment that Parnaik is the senior-most officer and Colonel Commandant -- pater familias - of. More
He emphasised that those responsible for the "barbaric act" of beheading of Lance Naik Hemraj will have to be brought to book and hoped "Pakistan realises this".
In his public remarks on the January 8 incident on the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir in which two soldiers were killed and bodies mutilated, Dr Singh said, "After this barbaric act there cannot be business as usual (with Pakistan)."
The family wants Pakistan to return the severed head of the jawan. The army chief is scheduled to make a visit to other martyred jawan Sudhakar Singh's family.
Armstrong has confessed to doping during a no-holds-barred chat show with Oprah Winfrey on Monday, and according to reports, the American is also ready to testify against top UCL officials.
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The visibility remained good through the night. Though there was shallow fog in the morning, it had no effect on the flight operations as the visibility remained above 1,000 metres, airport sources said. The runway visibility on main runway was above 2000 metres through the night but it dropped to 1900 metres in the morning. Similarly, the visibility on the third runway was around 1600 metres and it dipped to 1200 metres.But there was no disruption of flight movement. Dense fog had affected the schedule of over 250 flights after it enveloped the airport on January 14 and 15.
Over the past week, however, that agreement has suddenly seemed in danger of unraveling, with alarming killings along the defacto border between Indian and Pakistani Kashmir and threats of further escalation by senior officials on both sides. Read
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a fast-track court in Dwarka, west Delhi, on Tuesday gave the death sentence to a 56-year-old farmhouse guard for raping and killing a three-year-old girl in 2011.
The sentencing comes just 10 days after the fast-track court was set up to try cases of sexual offences against women and was the first sentence handed out by any of the fast-track courts set up in the capital after the Nirbhaya gang-rape. Read
"I thought war-mongering was a thing of yesteryear and we had put it behind us," the foreign minister of a country that is recognized as having initiated three wars against India said at an Asia Society talk, artfully glossing over her country's well-chronicled record of hostilities to change status-quo. More of that here
General Singh had earlier on Monday said he would visit Hemraj's home. "I will go. They are my people. Tomorrow is Army Day, I will send my senior officer there. I will definitely go. Let this event, the Army Day, be over, I will definitely go and meet the family. If that is the demand, I shall be there," General Singh told the media in New Delhi.
General Singh, who conveyed his condolences to the families of the two jawans killed brutally, had also said that the Pakistani Army should be pressurised to return Hemraj''s head.
AFP: French President Francois Hollande, on a visit to the Gulf, today defended his country's intervention in Mali, saying it had prevented the African country from being overrun by "terrorists".
Speaking to reporters in Dubai, Hollande said his government does not intend to keep forces in Mali, but will remain until security is restored and Islamist fighters eliminated.
Earlier, as he arrived at Peace Camp in Abu Dhabi '" his country's only military base in the region -- Hollande said it will take at least another week before an African force is deployed in Mali.
The French intervention had allowed time for this force to be put together. "France is at the forefront," said Hollande. "Had it not been there, Mali would have been today entirely occupied by terrorists and other African countries threatened," he said.
AFP: More than 80 people were killed when twin explosions rocked Aleppo University today, the governor of Syria's second city, Mohammed Wahid Akkad, and a source at the university hospital said.
"So far there are 82 fatalities and more than 160 wounded in a terrorist attack that targeted students on their first day of exams at the University of Aleppo," Akkad told AFP by telephone.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 52 people had been killed in the blasts but said the figure could rise dramatically.
As well as students, the campus houses some 30,000 people who have fled homes in areas of the city ravaged by fighting since July last year.
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