In a brutal incident, the hand, foot and ear of a dalit girl was chopped off with an axe in Fatehpur district after she resisted a rape attempt by three youths.
The incident took place on Saturday evening in Udauli village, when the 17-year-old girl was returning from the fields with another girl.

The ministry of defence (MoD) is expecting a “routine increase” of seven to eight per cent in the forthcoming defence budget this year (for 2011-12) and is also confident of spending the entire capital expenditure amount earmarked (for military modernisation) in the budget tabled in 2010-11, top MoD sources have told this newspaper.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is all set to give a big push to the party’s preparations for next year’s UP Assembly elections by kickstarting membership drive of the youth wing of the party next month in three regions of the state.

Hinting that the Left parties may agree for a discussion on a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the alleged 2G spectrum scam in Parliament, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, while speaking to a TV channel said it could be done, provided the government gives a commitment for setting up such a panel.

Attacking the Congress for surrendering to “family monopoly” on the post of party president, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani in his latest blog has said that during the freedom movement, the AICC president used to be chosen only for one tenure and even Mahatma Gandhi, who had a lot of influence in the party, was elected only once in 1924. But the Congress chose to dub Mr Advani’s comment “frustrated outbursts”.

Declaring that he was forced to launch a party as the late Y.S. Rajasekhar’s government was corrupt, Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) chief Chiranjeevi on Sunday said, “Corruption was at its worst only during the reign of the late YSR.”

In another blow to the telecom department over the 2G spectrum scam, former Central Vigilance Commissioner Pratyush Sinha on Sunday stated that the telecom officials created hindrance in the investigation of the 2G spectrum scam.

Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi on Sunday issued legal notice to Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy demanding public retraction of his statement in which he had linked him in the 2G scam.

The Delhi high court has issued notices to the Centre and the Chief of Army Staff, among others, on a plea of a mechanic alleging that his wife succumbed to head injuries due to neglect at the Army hospital in New Delhi.

Amid allegations of the Delhi government not taking any action about the alleged financial mismanagement in the affairs of the trust managing the Chhattarpur Mandir, Delhi MLA Karan Singh Tanwar has sent a reminder to the government again. He had earlier written two letters to the Delhi government in this regard, but had not got any response.