India

PTI; Kolkata, July 9 : The West Bengal CID has identified some linkmen in different metro cities, who helped the five Chinese nationals arrested with drugs here last week, a senior official said today.

The Chinese nationals were arrested outside Kolkata railway station on June 30, after the GRP seized 197 kg of 'party drug' amphetamine, worth Rs 40 crore. Mobile phones, a laptop, Chinese currency and train tickets were also seized from them.

PTI; Kolkata, Jul 9 : The West Bengal CID has arrested four alleged members of a new "terrorist outfit" from Naxalbari area in north Bengal for "plotting" to conduct serial blasts in several government buildings and on railway tracks on August 28, a senior police officer said today.

The four arrested persons have been identified as chief Nirmal Roy and members Kandarpa Das, Ratan Adhikary and Dipi Prasad Roy of the newly formed terror outfit Greater Coochbehar Liberation Organisation (GCLO), he said.

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 8 : The issue of growing menace of drug abuse among children has come up again before the Supreme Court which asked the Centre to apprise it of steps taken to comply with its 2016 verdict that had directed measures including formulation of a national action plan to combat it.

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 8 : India has conveyed to Russia its unwillingness to go ahead with the joint development of a fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) primarily due to high cost involved in the project, official sources said.

PTI; Srinagar, Jul 7; Three civilians were killed allegedly in firing by security forces during clashes with stone-pelting protesters in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

Ganashakti, Ranchi, July 5 : At the call of Opposition Parties & Social Organizations against anti-people Amendment  in Land Acquisition Act and subversion of peace and amity   in the state by the ruling party BJP,Jharkhand  Bandh was unprecedented, spontaneous and complete.

PTI; Muzaffarnagar, July 5 : A 12-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped for three days by six youths after being abducted by them last month from Kotwali police station area here, police said today.

A case has been registered yesterday against the six accused, five of them being minor, aged between 14 and 16 years, SHO Anil Kapervan said, adding that the sixth accused is still not identified.

The girl has been sent for medical examination, he said. All the accused are absconding.

PTI; New Delhi, Jul 3 : Over Rs 40 lakh in cash, demonetised currency notes and gold have been recovered by the NIA, following searches at the residence of a former director of an Imphal-based medical institute as part of a terror-financing probe against a banned outfit in Manipur.

New Delhi, June 28, 2018;  As reported by The Hindu newspaper, “A 20-year-old Canadian national was allegedly raped by a 25-year-old man at a guest house in the Capital on Tuesday night.”

A senior police officer name the accused as “Abhishek”. “He invited the woman to the guest house and allegedly raped her there”, said the officer.

According to the officer, “the manager of the guest house, met the victim at a restaurant in Hauz Khas Village on Tuesday evening and befriended her.” reported The Hindu.

25 June 2018; Thomson Reuters Foundation has found India to be the most dangerous country for women. Seven years ago India ranked fifth, according to the foundation.

In their survey of about 550 experts on women's issues, conducted online, by phone and in person between March 26 and May 4, 2018 across Europe, Africa, the Americas, South East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific, India was found to be most dangerous country for women.

The survey questions were based on following criteria;