Indian Sub-continent

New Delhi, Sep 23 (PTI) Former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday visited the Tihar Jail to meet P Chidambaram who has been lodged there in connection with the INX media case, sources said.

Chidambaram has been lodged in the Tihar Jail since September 5.

The two Congress leaders were accompanied by Karti Chidambaram, the former Finance minister's son who is also a Lok Sabha MP, the sources said.

Khunti, Sep 23 (PTI) A differently-abled man was killed and two others were seriously injured when a mob allegedly thrashed them on suspicion of slaughtering a cow, in Jharkhand's Khunti district, police said on Monday.

The incident happened after local residents allegedly saw Kalantus Barla, Fagu Kacchap and Phillip Horo with the carcass of a cow near a river at Jaltanga village on Sunday and beat them up, a police officer said.

Thane, Sep 23 (PTI) A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three men in a dilapidated building near her school in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Monday.

The incident took place last Thursday following which the three accused, who sexually harassed the Class 2 girl on previous occasions also, were arrested, Bazarpeth police station's inspector Yeshwant Chavan said.

The accused, identified as Navin Jasuza (24), Ajay Dehare (34) and Vikram Purohit (19), worked at different shops in Kalyan town here.

New Delhi, Sept 23 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday mooted the idea of a multipurpose identity card for citizens with all utilities like Aadhaar, passport, driving licence and bank accounts.

Shah also said the Census 2021 data will be collected through mobile app.

The Home Minister said there should also be a system that when a person dies, the information is updated in the population data automatically.

"We can have just one card for all utilities like Aadhaar, passport, bank account, driving licence, voter card. This is a potential," he said.

Shahjahanpur (UP), Sep 23 (PTI) Former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand, arrested in connection with rape charges levelled by a postgraduate student here, was referred to the King George Medical University in Lucknow on Monday morning for treatment, jail sources said.

The doctors have referred the BJP leader to Lucknow for angiography in view of his health condition, the sources said.

His counsel Om Singh said in view of the condition of the BJP leader, the doctors attending on him felt the need of angiography and referred him to KGMU Lucknow.

Ballia (UP), Sep 23 (PTI) A case has been registered against BJP MLA Surendra Singh for allegedly abusing and threatening a government official, police said on Monday.

The action was taken after an official in the state's electricity department had given a written complaint against the controversial MLA from Baria, they said.

A case has been registered on the basis of the complaint and investigations are on, police said, adding further action will be taken on the basis of evidence.

TEHRAN, Sept 23 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran released British oil tanker, the Stena Impero, detained in the Strait of Hormuz in July, for “maritime violations.”

Allahmorad Afifipour, general manager of Iran’s Hormozgan Maritime and Ports, confirmed the release of the British tanker, saying, the vessel will start its voyage from Iran’s Bandar Abbas to international waters “soon.”

Although the tanker is allowed to leave Iran’s waters, “the legal dossier for its violations is still open in Iran’s judiciary,” Afifipour was quoted as saying.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Police in Afghanistan are one of the country’s most-criticized security forces, denigrated as corrupt and inept. Yet Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi says police are also the hardest hit, taking 70% of all casualties among government forces, dozens of whom die each day in relentless attacks by Taliban and Islamic State insurgents.

Kanpur: Generally games and sports in schools or colleges or universities are encouraged to raise the physical fitness of the students but this traditional notion seems to be changing with the passing of time. Now only those games will be promoted and encouraged that fetch prestige boosting medals in the Olympics.

ISLAMABAD, Sep 22 (APP): Normal life remains disrupted due to continued military lockdown on 49th successive day on Sunday.

Millions of people have been besieged in their houses as hundreds of thousands of Indian troops continue to be deployed in every nook and corner of the valley.