Indian Sub-continent

Muzaffarnagar, Nov 28 (PTI) A Dalit woman was allegedly sexually molested by a man here in a village under Chapar Police Station limits, police said on Sunday.

The woman was attacked on Saturday when she was on her way to the fields. A man dragged her in the fields and attempted to rape her, a police official said.

The woman escaped when hearing her screams for help villagers reached the spot and thrashed the accused.

Jabalpur, Nov 28 (PTI) A 62-year-old widow was allegedly raped repeatedly by her former landlord with whom she had a dispute over a cheque bounce matter in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur city, police said on Sunday.

The alleged offence took place in 2019 and the 67-year-old accused had also threatened her with dire consequences, they said.

Following a complaint lodged by the woman on Saturday, the police detained the accused, Garha police station inspector Rakesh Tiwari told PTI.

New Delhi, Nov 28 (PTI) Asserting that this is an era of start-ups, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India is leading the world in this field with more than 70 start-ups having crossed the valuation of USD 1 billion.

In his monthly Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, the prime minister also said that he wants to be in service of people and not be "in power".

NEW DELHI, Nov 27 (NNN-PTI) – Russian President, Vladimir Putin, will pay an official visit to India, on Dec 6, for the 21st India-Russia annual summit, with Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said yesterday.

At the summit, the two leaders will review the state and prospects of bilateral relations, and discuss ways to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- The chief minister of the Indian capital city on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to suspend incoming flights from the countries affected by the new COVID-19 variant, or Omicron.

"I urge prime minister to stop flights from those countries which are affected by new variant. With great difficulty, our country has recovered from COVID-19. We should do everything possible to prevent this new variant from entering India," Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal wrote on social media.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Top U.S. infectious disease official Anthony Fauci has urged strict prevention and control measures against COVID-19 as he believes that the virus may not be eliminated.

"There's no way we're going to eradicate, I doubt, because of the transmissibility ... I doubt very seriously whether we're going to eliminate it, like we've eliminated polio, and we've eliminated measles, and a century ago we eliminated malaria from the United States," Fauci was quoted by television news channel Times Now as saying.

Allahabad, Nov 25 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government how long would it take to provide biometric gadgets and CCTV camera-supported security in the state court premises.

A bench of justices Suneet Kumar and Samit Gopal posed the query on Tuesday while hearing a public interest lawsuit, instituted suo moto after a broad daylight firing in Bijnor district court in 2019.

New Delhi, Nov 26 (PTI) The Supreme Court Friday said it was high time to take initiative for having a time frame for hearing of cases as very limited time space" is available and same points are being sought to be argued by lawyers in one matter.

The apex court said that when Justice M N Venkatachaliah was the Chief Justice of India (in 1993-1994), it was suggested that there would be a time frame for hearing of matters.

New Delhi, Nov 26 (PTI) Investors' wealth tumbled Rs 4.48 lakh crore during day trade on Friday with the BSE benchmark plummeting 1,488 points tracking weak global trends.

The 30-share benchmark index tumbled 1,488.01 points during the day to 57,307.08.

The market capitalization of BSE-listed tanked Rs 4,48,223.31 crore to Rs 2,61,18,730.57 crore during the day.

Chennai, Nov 26 (PTI) A Naval officer, who was here on a vacation, drowned at the suburban Kovalam beach, authorities said on Friday.

The officer's body was fished out on Friday at Kelambakkam, about 5 kilometres away from the location where he was washed away.

"Lieutenant Commander J R Suresh of the Indian Navy was washed away at Kovalam beach in the outskirts of Chennai on 25 November 2021 evening. The body of the officer has been recovered at Kelambakam around noon on 26 November," a Defence release here said.