Ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) candidate Mamnoon Hussain, who was born in Agra, on Tuesday won the presidential election, defeating Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) nominee Wajihuddin Ahmed by a huge margin.
Mr Hussain will take the oath as the 12th President of Pakistan on September 9 after the incumbent, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, completes his tenure.

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday told the Bombay high court that it would not initiate any criminal action against police officers responsible for the illegal arrest of two girls from Palghar for opposing on Facebook the bandh enforced during Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray’s funeral in November 2012.

A 13-year-old girl, traumatised by her parents’ separation, began sniffing whitener to ease her tension. Slowly she became addicted to it, started neglecting her studies and lost her appetite. After being suspended from school, her mother found over 400 empty bottles of whitener in her room.

The panchayat results proved that Mamata Banerjee’s magic remains intact. The Trinamul Congress trounced CPI(M)-led Left Front as well as the Congress in rural Bengal, winning 13 of the 17 zila parishads, 215 of the 329 panchayat samitis and 1763 of the 3215 gram panchayats. Zila Parishad is the highest tier of the three-tier panchayat system and the party which forms the zila parishad board rules the districts.

A young girl was married against her wishes and then gangraped by three relatives in her husband’s house as punishment because her brother had eloped with her husband’s sister.

The Supreme Court has ordered Orissa government to submit a report, based on the views of villagers, within three months to be forwarded to the environment ministry. The ministry has, in turn, been given a two-month time period to take a final view on granting clearance to the mining project.

A 19-year-old domestic maid mysteriously fell to her death from the 17th floor of a Wadala highrise on Tuesday morning. The police suspects that it is a case of suicide, though it has not found a suicide note.

A key witness in the Park Street gangrape case was declared hostile during the trial by a fast track court after his version did not match with the one the detective department (DD) of the Kolkata Police had recorded earlier.
Amar Sharma who was present at the hotel on February 5 when the accused youth had met the victim appeared before the fast track judge of the City Sessions Court on Tuesday.

In a bid to keep political parties out of the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act, the government has come up with a draft amendment bill seeking to change the provisions related to it and has put a proposal to this effect on the agenda of the meeting of Union Cabinet, which will meet on Thursday.

After the cancellation of the three-tiered reservation policy by the UP Public Service Commission (UPPSC), pro-reservation stir began here on Tuesday with hundreds of reservation supporters marching to gherao the Samajwadi party office.