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Rape of minors:Convict should be mercilessly punished, says HC

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Persons accused of sexual offences against minor victims should be “mercilessly and inexorably punished”, the Bombay High Court said while upholding the conviction of a 29-year-old man for raping a five-year-old girl. A single bench of Justice Prithviraj Chavan on Friday dismissed an appeal filed by Sagar Dhuri, challenging a special court order of June 2018 convicting him for sexually assaulting the victim and sentencing him to ten years in jail. “The dicta is loud and clear as to how such offences are required to be dealt with. Such persons…

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Sunday’s game doesn’t influence the path we have chosen: Simmons

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West Indies head coach Phil Simmons feels his team’s “best show” may not be enough to beat India in the series-decider here on Sunday but the outcome of the game won’t “influence” the direction the Caribbean outfit has taken under his guidance.Simmons, a former player, was reappointed as West Indies coach in October.West Indies showed a lot of promise to go one-up in Chennai but the home team bounced back strongly to post a mammoth 387/5 en route to a series-levelling 107-run victory in Visakhapatnman.”I think all the guys know…

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ICC to probe ‘war crimes’ in Palestinian territories

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The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has said she wanted to open a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories, sparking a furious reaction from Israel and condemnation from the United States.The Palestinians welcomed the move by the ICC as a “long overdue step” following a nearly five-year preliminary probe by the prosecutor into the situation since the 2014 war in Gaza.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision made the Hague-based court, which Israel has refused to sign up to since its creation in 2002, a “political…

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Naidu to give away 2019 National Awards, Dadasaheb Phalke honour to Amitabh Bachchan

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Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will present the National Film Awards to the winners on Monday.The annual National Film Awards ceremony will be held at Vigyan Bhawan where megastar Amitabh Bachchan will also receive the Dadasaheb Phalke award.Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar will be attending the ceremony, a press release said.Traditionally, the National Awards are handed out to the winners by the President of India. According to sources, President Ram Nath Kovind will host high tea for the winners later.In 2018, President Kovind had presented only a handful…

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OTITIS Media : Dr. Honey Gupta (ENT Specialist)

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Otitis Media is a form of ear infection that occurs due to inflammation of the middle ear. The Eustachian tube that runs through the middle ear to the back of your throat gets blocked or becomes swollen, trapping fluids inside the ear. The trapped liquid then gets infected. Younger children suffer from Otitis Media more as their Eustachian tubes are shorter. Causes for the blocking of the tube can be because of allergy, sinus infection, flu, inhalation of cigarette smoke, etc.Symptoms-1. Infants and children and usually fussier when their ear…

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Vet rape & murder: T’gana HC orders second autopsy of four

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The Telangana High Court on Saturday directed re-postmortem of the bodies of four accused in the gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian near here last month, who were killed in an alleged encounter on December 6. The bodies of the four accused are currently preserved in the state-run Gandhi Hospital here as per earlier orders of the High Court, after somePILs were filed alleging extra- judicial killing of the men and claiming it was a fake encounter among others.A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice R S Chauhan and Justice…

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Sharad Pawar silent on whether Ajit will become deputy CM

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NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday kept mum on whether senior party leader and his nephew Ajit Pawar would become deputy chief minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra.Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray would soon take decision on cabinet expansion, Pawar said at a press conference here.Asked about Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s reported statement that Ajit Pawar would become deputy CM in the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP government in the state when the cabinet is expanded, the NCP chief refused to make any clarification.”I have read Raut’s statement. But I am…

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CAC to be formed in next couple of days to appoint selectors: Ganguly

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BCCI President Sourav Ganguly on Friday said that a Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) will be formed in the next couple of days to announce the new selection panel on a three-year tenure. Ganguly said the CAC will be appointed only for one meeting to decide the selectors as the appointment of the men’s head coach has already been done by the previous panel led by former captain Kapil Dev. “The CAC will be appointed in a couple of days. It will only be for one meeting to appoint the selectors…

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Deepika, Siddhant and Ananya to star in Shakun Batra’s next

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Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Ananya Panday have been roped in as the leads in director Shakun Batra’s next directorial. The yet-to-be-titled project will mark next step in Batra’s collaboration with producer-director Karan Johar after “Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu” (2012) and “Kapoor & Sons” (2016). Described as a relationship drama, Shakun said the film will see its character finding themselves “stuck in a morally ambiguous zone”. “I have had a wonderful journey with Karan and his production house for almost a decade now, and I can’t wait to get…

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Trump seeks rapid exoneration in Senate after impeachment

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US President Donald Trump pressed his Republican allies Thursday to exert rigid control of his Senate trial and ensure a swift exoneration, a day after he was impeached in a historic rebuke by the House of Representatives. A bitter fight looms over the coming trial, expected to begin as early as the second week of January, with Senate leaders already drawing battle lines over the evidence that will be allowed. But its fate was left in limbo late Thursday when the Senate’s powerful majority leader, Mitch McConnell signalled the standoff…

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