Paving way for the trial of two youth in the 5-year old girl’s rape in Gandhinagar, a city court on Thursday charged them for unnatural sex and rape. The court on its own charged Manoj Shah and Pradeep Kumar for raping and committing unnatural sex as these two sections were not invoked by the police in its chargesheet.

The Delhi high court on Thursday permitted three international news agencies — Reuters, Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP) — to cover the trial of the December 16 gangrape case. The court, however, did not allow independent foreign journalists to cover the court proceedings in the matter.

A man was killed while two others suffered severe injuries in a pile-up of three cars on NH-8 in South Delhi area on Wednesday night.

A 38-year-old Japan national was allegedly drugged and robbed of his belongings by unidentified persons at a restaurant in South Delhi.

Amateur photographers from across the world found their works displayed at an exhibition “Nicefoto”organised by the Delhi Photography Club, a non-profit organisation, at the Open Palm Court, Indian Habitat Centre here.
Amateur photographers from India, China, Netherlands, Iran, Italy, England, Germany, France, Spain, Singapore and Malaysia have sent their entries.

A 35-year-old man, reportedly the brother of Congress leader and former deputy mayor Razia Sultan, was shot dead by unknown assailants in Seelampur, northeast Delhi.
A police source said the deceased, Salim, was the main accused in a murder case and was currently out on bail.

A day after Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde asserted that a decision on Telangana couldn’t be expected immediately, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday said that the party’s core group will discuss the matter on Friday as a decision “cannot be postponed anymore”.

Mr Digvijay Singh said on Thursday that the creation of the state of Telangana will require a Constitutional amendment, sparking a fresh debate.

The main Opposition Congress on Thursday ended up with an own goal when the Madhya Pradesh Assembly was adjourned sine die by the Speaker in the midst of noise and fury since the ruling side used its brute majority to pass a resolution rejecting a no-confidence motion moved by the Congress legislators against the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government without any discussion.

The strongest impact of the Supreme Court ruling on MPs, MLAs facing conviction in criminal cases will be felt in Uttar Pradesh where 189 legislators out of the 403, are facing criminal cases.