New Delhi, Oct 5 (PTI) The Delhi High Court Friday acquitted former TV anchor and producer Suhaib Ilyasi in his wife's murder case.

A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel allowed the appeal of Ilyasi challenging his conviction and life imprisonment for killing his wife, Anju, 18 years ago.

"The appeal is allowed," the bench said.

Ilyasi's daughter Aaliya, who was present at the time of pronouncement of the verdict, expressed happiness and said she always had trust in her father.

SEOUL, South Korea; 5 Oct 2018; (AP) — Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday in a corruption case that has badly tainted his status as the country’s first leader with a business background who once symbolized the country’s economic rise.

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New Delhi, October 4; GANASHAKTI: The NarendraModi led BJP Government has yet again betrayed its promises of providing remunerative Minimum Support Prices (MSP) to farmers by announcing MSP of Rabi crops for marketing season 2019-20 far below the promisedC2+50%.

It is notable that this comes just after the much-hyped claims after farmers’ protests yesterday that the BJP Government will address all concerns of the farmers including their demand for MSP according to Swaminathan Commission recommendations.

KANPUR: A total of 1805 complaints were received in the month of September this year on Public Grievance  Redressal Portal launched by the state chief minister. The Kanpur police disposed of every case within the time. Thus the city’s police have earned the first place in Uttar Pradesh.

A Bihari factory worker has raped a 14 month old girl in Sabarkantha district of Gujrat. Angry locals protested in streets, and attacked people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Protesters attacked the ceramic factory where the alleged rapist works, and torched the vehicles.

Protests were also held in Sabarkantha, Mahesana, Gandhi Nagar and Ahamdabad, where protesters damaged the houses and shops owned by non-Gujratis.

STOCKHOLM, October 5. /TASS/. The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to physician Denis Mukwege from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraqi human rights activist Nadia Murad, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement on Friday.

By Lalit K Jha

Washington, Oct 4 (PTI) Several Indian companies and a few individuals from the country have been barred by the World Bank from its various projects across the globe, the multilateral lending agency said in its first report on its efforts to fight corruption and safeguard donor resources.

KOROLYOV /Moscow Region/, October 4. /TASS/. The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft with three participants in the prolonged space expedition 55/56 has separated from the International Space Station (ISS) and begun the journey home, Mission Control near Moscow told the media on Thursday.

"The Soyuz MS-08 has been detached from the ISS. According to the telemetry data, the procedure was normal. The commander said he had no critical remarks to make," Mission Control's spokesman said.

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian space capsule with three men onboard has safely landed in a barren steppe in Kazakhstan after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

The Soyuz MS-08 carrying Russia’s Oleg Artemyev and NASA’s Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold touched down at 5.44 p.m. Kazakh time (1144 GMT).

The two Americans performed three space walks to carry out maintenance during their 197-day stay at the orbiting lab. Artemyev conducted one spacewalk together with a fellow Russian.

Raipur, Oct 3; PTI: Three Naxals were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in a dense forest in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Wednesday.

Besides, one ultra was arrested from the encounter site, located around 500 km from the state capital Raipur, they said.

The gunbattle took place Tuesday evening in the forest of Muler village when a team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Sukma Superintendent of Police Abhishek Meena told PTI over phone.

HOUSTON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- A 9-year-old boy in Broward county in the U.S. state of Florida was placed on home detention Wednesday after he pointed his father's loaded handgun at three classmates at school, according to local authorities.

The police said with a loaded gun in hand, the boy, a third-grader, made "threatening comments" to the victims who the boy claimed had bullied him, saying "you see this, this is a real gun."

The school resource officer managed to take the gun and arrest the child without causing any incident.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said here on Wednesday that the United States is terminating the 1955 Treaty of Amity with Iran, after the UN's top court ruled that Washington lift sanctions on Tehran.

Pompeo said at a press briefing that "I'm announcing that the U.S. is terminating the 1955 Treaty of Amity with Iran. This is a decision, frankly, that is 39 years overdue."