India

Ranchi, Dec 18 (PTI) A teen-aged girl was allegedly abducted and gangraped by a group of youths when she and her friends were returning here after celebrating the birthday of one of them, police said Tuesday.

The incident happened in a forest under Kharsidag police station outpost in Namkum area, around 35 km from Ranchi city on Sunday night, the police Tuesday.

New Delhi, Dec 18 (PTI) A 23-year-old married woman from Uttar Pradesh has alleged gangrape at multiple locations, including in Delhi, and submitted a complaint with the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), said the Bandhua Mukti Morcha.

The woman has alleged that police in Delhi forced her for compromise with the accused and did not take necessary action on her complaint, the Morcha said in a statement.

A Delhi Police officer denied the allegations saying there must be some action if the victim reached the police station concerned.

Nashik (Maha), Dec 18 (PTI) A court in Igatpuri in Nashik district of Maharashtra Tuesday granted bail to MNS chief Raj Thackeray in connection with a 2008 case of attack on a hotel by his party workers.

Thackeray appeared in Igatpuri court on Tuesday, where Judge K I Khan granted him bail.

As part of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's strident protest against north Indians in 2008, the party workers had attacked a hotel, owned by a north Indian, in Igatpuri.

Police had booked six persons, including Thackeray, in this connection.

18 Dec 2018; DW: India has opened a medical facility to treat elephants in Mathura, located near the Taj Mahal in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. This elephant hospital also hopes to draw activists interested in animal welfare.

More than half of Asia's elephants are found in India, but the country's elephant population has dipped in the past few years - by nearly 10 percent across 23 states between 2012 and 2017.

KANPUR: Furore engulfs the Indian Institute of Technology as the institution's administration has decided to terminate as many as 135 students for failing to do well in examinations. This decision was taken at the institute’s senate meeting here on Monday. A total of 150 cases related with the students were received at the Senate meeting. 

Raipur: President of Chhattisgarh Congress Committee and MLA Bhupesh Baghel has been sworn in as Chhattisgarh CM.

Baghel was nominated by the party after a 36 hour party discussion.

Soon after the nomination; Baghel announced waving of farmers’ loan, and investigation of Geerum Valley attack by Nuxals.

Patna, Dec 15 (PTI) A local court here Saturday convicted suspended RJD MLA- Raj Ballabh Yadav- and five others in a case of rape of a minor girl two years ago.

Special MP & MLA court judge-cum-Additional District and Sessions (ADJ)(IX) Parshuram Yadav convicted the MLA under section 376 of IPC and relevant sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) 2012.

While five other co-accused were also convicted under section 120(B) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Terming the exit of Urjit Patel as credit negative, S&P Global Ratings said the increasing involvement of the government in the affairs of the RBI could undermine the hard-fought improvements in the banking system over the past few years.

"In particular, S&P Global Ratings views as credit negative the circumstances leading to the recent resignation of Urjit Patel, governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). We await any changes to banking system regulation at the next RBI board meeting in January 2019," it said.

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has cautioned that transfer of excess reserve to the government may bring down rating of the central bank.

Rating downgrade of the RBI from 'AAA' would make borrowing costlier for the central bank and will have implication for the entire economy.

New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) A fresh Bill to make the practice of tripe talaq among Muslims a penal offence was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday to replace an ordinance issued in September.

Under the proposed law, giving instant triple talaq will be illegal and void and will attract a jail term of three years for the husband.

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018 would supercede an earlier Bill passed in the Lok Sabha and pending in the Rajya Sabha.