Calling former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vinod Rai a "murderer", former Union Telecom Minister A. Raja on Saturday said Rai should be prosecuted for "cheating".


Raja accuses Vinod Rai of his 'political murder', wants him prosecuted


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The Indian Railways' plan to convert Mumbai's iconic Chhatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) building into a museum may well be derailed.


INTACH report points to hurdles in converting iconic VT into museum


China's gender imbalance was further reduced in 2017 due to the introduction of the "second-child policy", experts said on Saturday.


China's gender imbalance reduces further in 2017


Indian Navy sailboat INS Tarini with an all-women crew rounded Cape Horn on Friday morning, completing one of the most difficult legs of its global circumnavigation tour.


Indian Navy's all-women sailing team crosses Cape Horn


The 13 children imprisoned by their parents for years in their squalid California home were starved, shackled with padlocks and their parents even taunted them by placing pies at a place where the kids could see them but would not be able to eat them, authorities said.


California siblings 'starved, shackled, taunted with food'


Around 50 teachers from Dalit and other marginalised sections took out a march towards the President House on Friday to demand that B.R. Ambedkar's image should be on currency notes and April 14 -- Ambedkar's birth date -- must be a national holiday.


Teachers want Ambedkar on currency notes


The parents accused of holding their 13 children in shackles at a California home have pleaded not guilty.


California couple deny torturing 'shackled siblings'


A film festival dedicated to cats is running in Istanbul, evoking deep emotions among movie-goers toward cats in different cultures.


Film festival in Istanbul focuses on cats


About 48.9 percent of primary and middle school students in China take private lessons, and more than half say that they have to bury their heads in books and had no time to play after school, according to a survey released Thursday.


Chinese students too busy for playtime: Survey


Two teenage swimmers were rescued on Thursday with the help of a drone recently launched by the lifeguard service in Australia.


Australian lifeguards use drone to rescue 2 teens


Abu Dhabi, Jan 18 (IANS/WAM) Abu Dhabi will hold the 21st edition of the Terry Fox Run on Friday to commemorate Canadian cancer activist Terry Fox and to raise money for cancer research.


Abu Dhabi set to hold Terry Fox Run


Days ahead of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's "human chain against child marriage" event, police on Thursday said they have arrested a man in Samastipur district for marrying a minor girl.


Father of 3 arrested for marrying minor in Bihar


Demanding roll-back in metro fare hike, students of Delhi University (DU) are to picket the Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station on Thursday, a student group said on Wednesday.


DU students to 'Occupy' Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station


Sri Lanka's Cabinet on Tuesday unanimously decided to withdraw two gazette notifications which would enable women to buy alcohol and work in shops selling or manufacturing alcohol beverages, and extending the business hours of liquor shops across the island, a minister said.


Sri Lanka reimposes ban on sale of alcohol to women


Hundreds of people in Berlin waited in line for hours early on Tuesday in a bid to snatch a pair of limited edition sneakers that double as an annual transport pass.


Long lines in Germany to buy sneakers that double up as transport pass


A wallaby hopped along the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Tuesday before rush hour taking drivers by surprise.


Wallaby hops through traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge


Gurugram - the Millennium City, on an average, consumes over four lakh beer cans and nearly 1.24 lakh bottles of Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL) and country liquor (CL) daily through authorised vends, according to Haryana government data.


Gurugram guzzles over 4 lakh beer cans, 1.24 lakh liquor bottles daily


More than 90 lakh people took the holy dip at the Sangam -- the confluence of the three holy rivers Ganga, Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati -- on the festival of Makar Sankranti on Monday, Allahabad district officials said.


Over 90 lakh take holy dip in Sangam on 'Makar Sankranti'


Mousuni (West Bengal), Jan 15: The living drown and the dead float out of their graves as the rising sea engulfs Baliara village in Mousuni, an island facing the Bay of Bengal. Every third or fourth day, the high tide enters homes and leaves farms a wasteland.


Rising sea swamps island along Bengal coast


Sexual violence in the neighborhood can harm the physical and mental health of women, a study says.


Sexual violence in neighbourhood harms mental health in women


In its urgency to push through the Triple Talaq Bill, the government appears to have overlooked five criminal laws relating to women and marriage identified in 2015 by a government committee as needing immediate political attention.

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