TCS Nashik row: “Accused set passwords in obscene language at office,” reveals victim

TCS Nashik row: Another disturbing development has emerged on Thursday in the ongoing sexual harassment and religious coercion case at the Nashik unit of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). One of the victims told the police that the passwords at the office were stored in ‘an obscene language.’ The woman made the claims before the State Women’s Commission (SCW), alleging sustained mental harassment and inappropriate conduct by a…

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Delhi IRS officer daughter’s murder: Sacked domestic worker held for raping, murdering her; making away with Rs 2.5L

IRS officer daughter’s murder: Delhi police on Thursday claimed to have cracked the blind murder case of a 22-year-old woman, the daughter of a senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer in South Delhi, which took place on Wednesday. The woman was found dead, and had been strangled with a cell phone charger’s wire. The police arrested the key suspect, identified as Rahul Meena, who was earlier employed as…

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“Man not liable to provide compensation to child if not biological father,” rules SC

SC latest ruling: The Supreme Court of India ruled on Wednesday that a man cannot be held liable to pay maintenance for a child who does not belong to him biologically, even if he/she were born during the subsistence of marriage. The ruling came as the court trashed a woman’s plea, who had applied for financial aid for her daughter.  A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Karol and N…

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Delhi shocker: IRS officer’s daughter found dead under suspicious circumstances at home; sacked house help key suspect

IRS officer’s daughter murdered: A 22-year-old woman, daughter of a senior Income Tax Department officer, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her house in Delhi’s Kailash Hills on Wednesday morning, the police said. As per police, a probe is underway into the incident, and an ex-servant employed at their house is being suspected to be the culprit.  A preliminary probe carried out by the police suggests the…

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“70-80% politicians watch porn”: Bihar MP Pappu Yadav sparks fresh political storm amid flurry of controversial statements

Pappu Yadav controversial statement: Days after sparking a flurry of controversies with contentious remarks, Bihar MP Pappu Yadav has again landed in soup with fresh statements made on Wednesday. The politician recently said that 70-80% of the politicians watch porn. The controversy follows a notice issued to him by the Bihar Commission for Women over his earlier comments made on the Women’s Reservation Bill.  Yadav served notice by…

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Thrissur firecracker factory blaze: Kerala govt orders judicial probe into incident, announces ex-gratia for victims

Thrissur firecracker factory fire: The Kerala government on Wednesday ordered a judicial probe into the devastating fire that erupted at a firecracker manufacturing unit in the state’s Mundathocide area of Thrissur district. Nine people died in the incident, and the authorities are fearing that the death toll may rise, as several unidentified body parts have been recovered from the spot. Notably, the blaze broke out on Tuesday noon…

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Female tourist from US sexually assaulted at homestay in Karnataka; owner among 2 held after survivor manages to escape

US woman raped Karnataka: A woman belonging to the United States (US), who recently travelled to India, alleged that she was sexually assaulted at a homestay in Karnataka’s Kodagu district, the police reported on Wednesday. According to police, the key accused had intoxicated the woman before assaulting her sexually. Later, the woman managed to escape and travelled to Mysuru, from where she established contact with the US embassy…

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Justice stands firm: Nashik Court rejects interim bail plea of Nida Khan, mastermind behind TCS religious conversion, harassment scandal

TCS Nida Khan denied bail: A sessions court in Nashik on Monday refused to grant interim bail to Nida Khan, an employee attached to the Nashik unit of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and the alleged mastermind behind the religious conversion and sexual harassment case, which devolved into a row over the past few weeks. Despite Khan’s legal team citing her pregnancy as a primary ground for pre-arrest…

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Heavy, continuous downpours over past 24 hrs batter Guwahati; IMD sounds fresh alert for more rainfall

Guwahati heavy rains: Heavy and continuous rainfall over the past 24 hours has lashed Guwahati city in Assam. The situation is likely to worsen, as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has sounded a fresh alert for more downpours across the state. On Monday, the weather body noted that Guwahati had logged 117.4 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours, reaching a record-high for a single day in…

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Jammu and Kashmir road crash: Bus plunges into gorge in Udhampur, 15 die; CM announces ex-gratia

Udhampur bus accident: As many as 15 persons were killed and around 20 of them were injured after a passenger bus they were aboard veered off a hillside road and plunged down a slope in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Monday morning, the police said. As per officials, the incident transpired near Kagort village in the Ramnagar area at 10 am, when the vehicle was negotiating a…

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