Muzaffarnagar (UP), Nov 17 (PTI) A 38-year-old Dalit man was allegedly killed and his body dumped outside his house here, police said Saturday.

Manoj Kumar had gone to work and did not return home. Later, his body was dumped outside his house at Hareti village under Purkazi police station in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh.

According to the police, a case has been registered against three people -- Surender, Yashpal and Sukhbir -- based on a complaint by the brother of the deceased.

17 Nov 2018; AFP: Two top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide on Friday, in a landmark ruling almost 40 years after the fall of a brutal regime that presided over the deaths of a quarter of the population.

The Khmer Rouge's former head of state Khieu Samphan, 87, and "Brother Number 2" Nuon Chea, 92, are the two most senior living members of the ultra-Maoist group that seized control of Cambodia from 1975-1979.

17 Nov 2018; AFP: Eight United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an operation against a rebel militia in eastern DR Congo, the UN Security Council said on Thursday.

One Tanzanian and seven Malawian peacekeepers were killed, the council said, raising the toll from an earlier count.

The deaths mark the biggest loss by the large UN force in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the rebels killed 15 troops nearly a year ago.

16 Nov 2018; AFP: The United States is studying Turkey's demands for the extradition of preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is accused by Ankara of orchestrating a failed 2016 coup attempt, the State Department said Thursday.

PARIS, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from more than 60 countries and regions gathering in France agreed on Friday to redefine the value of a kilogram in terms of "the Planck constant", a "fundamental constant of quantum physics", which they said would improve the accuracy of scientific measurements, according to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM).

Agartala, Nov 16 (PTI) A 13-year-old and her elder sister were allegedly abducted and gang-raped for two days under confinement in Tripura's Unakoti district, police said Friday.

A 34-year-old auto-rickshaw driver, believed to be the prime accused, has been arrested, the police said.

According to the FIR, the sisters were waiting near a bridge in Kailashahar town -- 140 km from Agartala -- on November 9 to catch a vehicle home. They boarded an auto-rickshaw and the driver picked up two male passengers, who were known to him, on the way.

BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Argentina's ARA San Juan submarine, which went missing a year ago, has been located, an official said.

The ARA San Juan submarine sank on Nov. 15, 2017, with 44 crew on board, following an unidentified explosion in the vicinity of the ship.

Ballia (UP), Nov 17 (PTI) An FIR was registered against a person for allegedly shooting a monkey to death and burying it in a farm in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district, police said Saturday.

The accused, Ram Narayan Ram, had shot the monkey dead and buried the animal in a farm outside Husenpur village in Sikandarpur area, the police said.

Acting on the complaint by the villagers on Tuesday, the forest department officials dug out the body and sent it for post-mortem, said Sikandarpur police station in-charge Anil Tiwari.

KANPUR: Police recovered a handgun from a student studying in a famed school at Civil Lines under Kotwali police station here.

Upon getting information on dial 100, the police reached the school and recovered the gun from the student's scooty’s dickey.

When the police interrogated the student about the gun, he could not answer properly regarding the availability of the arm. A report under the arms act has been registered against the student.  

Pune, Nov 15 (PTI) The CBI told a court here Thursday that it invoked terror charges against the accused in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case as the crime was committed to create "terror" in society and among social activists.

Having invoked sections 15 (terror act) and 16 (punishment for terror act) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the agency prayed to the court for an extension of 90 days to file charge sheet against two accused, Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar.

Lucknow, Nov 15 (PTI) A man was arrested with 2,400 gelatin rods, 4,500 meter detonating fuses and 500 electronic detonators in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district on Thursday, police said.

The accused was identified as Vishesh Kesarwani, they said.

He was arrested from near Harihara culvert in Mirzapur's Madihan area following a tip off, they said.

Police said a probe is underway to ascertain the links of the accused.

Mumbai, Nov 15 (PTI) Hindutva is a "political project" and its rise can not be blamed on Hinduism, senior journalist N Ram said here Thursday.

Ram was speaking at a panel discussion on `Hindu Hinduism Hindutva' at Tata Literature Live festival.

"Hindutva is a political project and its founders made it clear. But don't confuse Hindutva with Hinduism," he said.

"Hindutva can not be blamed on Hinduism. Hindutva is a political project and cynically used," Ram added.