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A government engineer was arrested in Arunachal Pradesh's East Kameng district for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl who was working as a domestic help at his house, the police said today.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a message to disgruntled TMC leaders said she is aware of those in touch with the opposition camp and differences among individuals should not lead to any misunderstanding about the party.

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh has alleged that his party workers on their way to attend a rally in Birbhum district were attacked by Trinamool Congress activists, and asked his partymen to carry bamboo sticks while coming out on the street to "strike back when needed".

The CBI furnished a status report of the Hathras case before the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday and said the probe will be over by December 10.

A shelter home in Madhya Pradesh is under the police scanner after a deaf and mute woman living there delivered a child recently. While a rape case has been filed against unidentified people in Dewas, the DNA tests of six men at the shelter home, including the 60-year-old head of the facility, are being conducted for ascertaining who could be behind the sexual exploitation of the 22-year-old woman.

Vijay Kumar Sinha, the NDA candidate for the Speaker's post in the Bihar Assembly, sailed through today after a united opposition forced elections for the post after a gap of 51 years.

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Wednesday signed the ordinance repealing the controversial amendment of the Kerala Police Act, which had triggered a political storm with concerns being raised over its possible misuse.

Ahead of the last rites of three-time Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, his one-time colleague who later rebelled against him, Himanta Biswa Sarma, said Mr Gogoi was a "great team leader" who promoted young people with a "clear vision".

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought to know from the Centre, the individual status of 615 serving Short Service Commission (SSC) women officers in Indian Army, out of whom 422 have been found fit on merit for the grant of permanent commission.

Gusty winds and rains lashed parts of Tamil Nadu today leaving several areas inundated and authorities have housed over one lakh people in shelters as severe cyclone "Nivar" hurtled towards the coast. Nivar would intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and it is likely to cross the coast between Tamil Nadu and Puducherry before dawn on Thursday, the India Meteorological Department said.

A young doctor succumbed to COVID-19 today after battling the virus for almost a month in Madhya Pradesh.

Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan on Wednesday said India has a key role as a net security provider and a first responder to disasters in the Indian Ocean region.

In the late 1990s, when SM Krishna and Chandrababu Naidu were Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad's effort to challenge Bangalore's numero uno position in the world of IT was a constant headline in the pink papers.

A man has been accused kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old woman for 14 days while keeping her in captivity in a forest area near Mandana town of Kota district in Rajasthan, the police said.

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday exempted on-duty cockpit and cabin crew members of all airlines from the mandatory RT-PCR test across airports in the state.