SC stays death warrant against teacher convicted for raping 4-year-old girl
Posted on 16th February 2019 |
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The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the execution of death penalty against a school teacher, who was convicted for raping a four-year-old girl in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh in June last year. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices L Nageswara Rao and Sanjiv Khanna stayed the execution of the death sentence of convict Mahendra Singh Gond, which was scheduled for March 2 in a Jabalpur jail. There shall be stay of execution of the death sentence of the petitioner, the bench said. According to the prosecution, the girl was so brutally assaulted that she had to spend months in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi to get her intestines realigned. |
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Pulwama Attack: Army deploys 9 security columns in Jammu after violent protests
Posted on 16th February 2019 |
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The Army has deployed nine security columns with air support in Jammu following massive protests over the terror attack in Pulwama in the Valley in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, officials said. Earlier, curfew was imposed in the city after stray incidents of violence and torching of vehicles. |
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Jet Airways plans to raise about Rs 2,500 crore through rights issue
Posted on 16th February 2019 |
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Cash-starved Jet Airways plans to raise about Rs 2,500 crore through a rights issue. Its lenders are also looking at a debt-to-equity conversion. While lenders may convert Rs 1,000 crore of debt into equity, they will also participate in the equity infusion through a rights issue as part of the deal. Additionally, promoter Naresh Goyal and Etihad Airways, which owns a 24 per cent stake in the airline, will infuse around Rs 2,000 crore into the airline, sources aware of the development said. |
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Telecom wars: Reliance Jio tops 4G download speed chart in January, Idea fastest in upload speed
Posted on 16th February 2019 |
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Reliance Jio continued to top the average 4G download speed chart, beating its nearest rival Airtel with almost double data speed, according to a report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for January. Jio’s 4G network registered an average download speed of 18.8 megabits per second (Mbps), while Airtel network clocked a speed of 9.5 Mbps. |
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Pulwama attack: Suicide bomber set off a huge cache of RDX
Posted on 16th February 2019 |
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A post-blast analysis conducted by the National Security Guard at the scene of attack in Pulwama has established that the SUV driven by the suicide bomber was packed with RDX. A senior government official told The Hindu that preliminary investigations suggested that 100-150 kg of RDX was used in the attack on the CRPF convoy on Thursday. The official said samples had been collected for further forensic analysis. Adil Ahmed Dar, the Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide bomber, rammed a bus in the convoy, killing 40 personnel near Pulwama, 30 km from Srinagar. |
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Vande Bharat Express breaks down; shadow over tomorrow's commercial run
Posted on 16th February 2019 |
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Causing a major embarrassment to ministry of railways, India's first indigenous semi-high speed train Vande Bharat Express or Train 18 met with a major technical snag at Barhan on Saturday, hours before its first commercial ride on February 17. This happened almost 18 hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the train on Friday evening. This has now cast a shadow on the first commercial ride of the much-hyped train set to happen on Sunday morning. |
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YES Bank violated rules by revealing nil divergence report, says RBI
Posted on 16th February 2019 |
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has warned YES Bank that it might face regulatory action for allegedly violating a confidentiality clause by disclosing a nil divergence report. In a letter to the private lender, the regulator said the bank had violated regulatory guidelines in the press release where it had made this disclosure last week.
Nil divergence is not an achievement to be published and is only compliance with the extant Income Recognition and Asset Classification norms, said the RBI’s letter. |
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Tata Tiago crosses 2 lakh sales milestone since its launch in 2016
Posted on 15th February 2019 |
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Tata Motors Friday said its hatchback Tiago has crossed cumulative sales milestone of two lakh units in the domestic market. The company had launched the entry level model in April 2016. "The Tiago continues to be one of the few models in the hatchback segment that is still registering positive growth despite being in its third year of production," Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Business Unit President Mayank Pareek said in a statement. |
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Pulwama attack: Modi warns Pak, says security forces given full freedom
Posted on 15th February 2019 |
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday promised a strong response to a car bombing in Kashmir that killed 40 paramilitary that his government blamed on Pakistan, ratcheting up tensions with the nuclear-rival. The attack on a military convoy in Jammu and Kashmir where India has been battling an insurgency was the worst in decades and comes just months before Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalists face a tight general election. |
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No possibility of joining hands with Mamata Banerjee, says West Bengal Congress chief Somen Mitra
Posted on 15th February 2019 |
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West Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra on Thursday reiterated that there was no possibility of the party joining hands with Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Mitra said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the TMC were ‘evil forces’, which had the common goal of wiping out his party. Mitra also said TMC and BJP are two sides of the same coin. |
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