Indian Sub-continent

Noida (UP), Oct 10 (PTI) A 28-year-old tenant was arrested here and sent to jail on Thursday for allegedly raping the tree-year-old daughter of his landlord, police said.

Accused Deepak was staying in the victim's house, under Phase 2 police station limits, on rent and worked in a private company here, the police said.

Raipur, Oct 10 (PTI) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday said capitalism has acquired a new form which is defined by black money and big business, and strongly condemned the tendency of branding people who ask questions as "anti-nationals".

In a veiled attack on the BJP and the RSS, the Congress leader said Mahatma Gandhi's concept of nationalism was inclusive and serious, but "what we see today is provocative nationalism".

Hyderabad, Oct 10 (PTI) An Assistant Professor of city-based Osmania University was on Thursday arrested for suspected links with maoists, police said.

K Jagan, also a member of Viplava Rachayitula Sangham (Virasam), a revolutionary writers' association, was picked up from his residence here by a police team from Jogulamba Gadwal district.

He was arrested in connection with a case registered against him under relevant sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) over suspected maoists links, they said.

Mumbai, Oct 10 (PTI) A 35-year-old Russian national lodged a complaint here on Thursday, accusing a police officer of raping her for eight years after promising to marry her.

Inspector Bhanudas alias Anil Jadhav, against whom she levelled the allegations, is currently posted in Pimpri- Chinchwad near Pune.

Officials at Chembur police station here said the process of registration of First Information Report against Jadhav was underway.

New Delhi, Oct 10 (PTI) Delhi recorded poor air quality on Thursday for the first time this season, the Central Pollution Control Board said.

The Air Quality Index, based on 33 air quality monitoring centres, was at 211. AQI between 201 to 300 is considered as poor.

Banda (UP), Oct 11 ( PTI) A visually challenged elderly woman was allegedly raped by a 25-year-old man in Hamirpur district, police said.

The 65-year-old woman, whose house had collapsed due to rains, had taken shelter in a shed outside the village when the man raped her in an inebriated state on Thursday night, SP Hemraj Meena said.

As the women raised an alarm, villagers rushed to the spot and nabbed the man and handed him over to the police.

The woman has been sent for medical examination, the SP said.

New Delhi, Oct 11 (PTI) Accusing the government of destroying the economy, the CPI(M) on Friday said "Jumlanomics" was to blame for the current situation countrywide.

Reacting to news reports on failure of government schemes leaving discoms in the red, Yechury charged that government's policies have burdened the poor.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A total of six insurgents, affiliated with the Daesh group, were killed, as an unmanned plane struck the militants’ hideout in Pachir Agam district, of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, said an army statement released here today (Friday).

According to the statement, the drone strike was conducted on Thursday afternoon and targeted the hardliner group’s hideout in Suliman Khil area of the restive district, killing six armed militants on the spot.

COLOMBO, Oct 11 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka’s Elections Commission said, the ballot paper for the upcoming presidential elections would be 26 inches (66 cm), the longest in Sri Lankan history, due to a record number of 35 candidates running for presidency.

Local media reports, quoting Elections Commissioner, Mahinda Deshapriya, said that, the ballot paper would incur additional printing costs, and bigger ballot boxes would have to be set up, in all voting centres across the island country, to store the longer ballot papers.

ISLAMABAD, Oct 10 (APP): Pakistan on Thursday said it had no intention to join arms race in the region, however warned to respond with full force in case of any external threat against its sovereignty.

“Pakistan is not willing to be part of arms race, unless it is compelled to take steps for its defence,” the Foreign Office spokesman said at a weekly press briefing, in response to a query on handing over of recent batch of Rafale fighter jets by France to India.