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Raipur, Dec 16 (PTI) Senior Congress leader and state party chief Bhupesh Baghel will be the new chief minister of Chhattisgarh.

The decision was taken at the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting held here on Sunday.

He will take oath at 5 PM tomorrow, AICC observer Mallikarjun Kharge said.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi had held several rounds of discussion with the four aspirants for the post -- T S Singh Deo, Tamradhwaj Sahu, Bhupesh Baghel and Charan Das Mahant -- at his Tughlaq Lane residence in New Delhi on Saturday.

New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) India's biggest crisis is unemployment and the country needs to invest more in the tourism sector which hires nearly 10 times as many people as any manufacturing industry, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said.

He said the future of India depended very much on its ability to escape from the politics of identity and the government's ability to provide answers to the real needs of the people.

New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) A three-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a neighbour at her house in southwest Delhi's Dwarka on Sunday afternoon, police said.

On being informed about the incident police reached the spot and rushed the unconscious girl to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, they said.

The minor girl was allegedly raped by one Ranjeet, who works as a guard and resides in the ground floor of the same building as the victim. The girl's parents were out on work when the incident occurred, a senior police officer said.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule shut most of Indian-administered Kashmir on Sunday, a day after chaotic protests and fighting killed seven civilians and four combatants in the disputed region.

Armed police and paramilitary soldiers in riot gear fanned out across the region in anticipation of anti-India protests and clashes. Shops and businesses closed in other areas with no security restrictions.

KANPUR: In order to maintain the safe running of the trains during the foggy days the Railways has deployed fog signalman on small and big stations. They will be equipped with the CUG phone, red & green fog lights, walkie-talkie, and firecrackers. Not only these things but they will remain connected with the control room from morn till night.

KANPUR: All-India Inter-University Volleyball Championship will be played at Kanpur University from January 21 to January 25, 2019.

Teams from Kurukshetra University, Punjab University, and Guru Nanak Dev University have already qualified to participate.

KANPUR: A (khalasi) cleaner died after coming under a moving truck’s wheels in Bidhnu on Thursday late night. A 20-year-old Moolchand r/o village Barmauti in Mahoba arrived by a loaded truck in Kanpur from Hamirpur. On account of some work, he stopped along with the truck driver Brijesh at the Shambhala Phatak. While stepping up the truck cabin during the nighttimes he fell down after misbalancing. As the truck driver suddenly sped up the vehicle, he came under the heavy tyres.

KANPUR: The BJP workers entangled into a scuffle during the Kamal Sandesh Yatra taken out by the BJP here on Friday. They disagreed as harshly as their challenge ended in beating one another. What was more surprising was the presence of the party’s senior leaders on the spot. A written complaint has been filed by the quarrelling groups at the police station.

KANPUR: Whether it was state minister or divisional commissioner or district magistrate or city mayor everyone has been habituated to face the employees’ indiscipline. Indiscipline and carelessness towards responsibility are not lessening despite warnings and actions.

New Delhi, Dec 14 (PTI) The Supreme Court Friday gave the Narendra Modi government a clean chit on the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France and dismissed all the petitions seeking a direction to the CBI to register an FIR for alleged irregularities in the deal.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said there was no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the multi-billion dollar deal.