External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Home Minister Rajnath Singh stepped in to reassure the African community about their safety. Meanwhile, Union Minister VK Singh raked up a controversy calling the assault on 6 Africans in Delhi a "minor incident"; Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the integrity of late Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare cannot be questioned. He said only a court can decide what's right or wrong; A 15-year-old girl was gangraped and tied to a tree in Uttar Pradesh; West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh threatened Trinamool Congress workers, saying he would break their necks with bare hands; 300 bonded labourers, including 90 children, were rescued from a brick kiln in Tamil Nadu; all this and more in our news wrap of the day.
