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Newsroom, Oct 26: Former Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta, who emboldened a wave of womenin India to tell their #MeToo stories, has now been accused of rape by item girl and former Bigg Boss contestant Rakhi Sawant. Addressing a press conference, Rakhi said she was raped several times by Tanushree Dutta. “I am too embarrassed to say this but I was raped twelve years ago,” she stated. “Being a

Islamabad, Oct 26: Promising that all corrupt leaders will go to jail, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that no politicians and officials who have put Pakistan into the debt trap through their corrupt practices will get protection from any legislation like the defunct National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). The controversial NRO was promulgated in October 2007 by the government of then

Chandigarh, Oct 26: A 13-year old boy of class 7 of a government school in Chandigarh attempted to rape a class 1 student of the same school in the washroom, school authorities said. The principal of the government school where the incident took place got the medical examination of the girl at the civil hospital after the victim’s parents brought the matter to the notice of the school authorities

Addis Ababa, Oct 26: Ethiopia on Thursday appointed a woman to the largely ceremonial position of president for the first time, further increasing female representation in the government of Africa's second most populous nation. In a unanimous vote, Ethiopian lawmakers picked career diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde, 68, to replace Mulatu Teshome who resigned in unclear circumstances. Ethiopia's reformist

Oct 26: Google Inc Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said on Thursday the company had fired 48 employees for sexual harassment over the past two years. Pichai sent an email to Google employees in response to a New York Times story that was published earlier in the day. The report said the search engine giant protected three senior executives from allegations of sexual misconduct by offering them

New Delhi, Oct 25: The Supreme Court on Thursday termed as “horrible” and “scary” details placed before it about the investigation into the case of Muzzafarpur shelter home where several girls were allegedly raped and sexually abused. A Bench headed by Justice Madan B. Lokur perused the status report filed by the CBI and said “what is this going on? This is horrible”. The apex court also took note

Kota (Rajasthan), Oct 25: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi removed the CBI chief at 1 am at night because he was scared the agency was going to start probing the Rafale fighter jet deal. Taking his campaign against the government to the Mahila Congress, Gandhi said the CBI director can be removed only by a three-member committee comprising the prime

New Delhi, Oct 25: India will become the world’s third largest aviation market around 2024 surpassing the United Kingdom, global airlines’ body IATA said on Wednesday as it projected total air passenger numbers to touch 8.2 billion in 2037. Releasing the latest update to IATA’s 20-year Air Passenger Forecast, the grouping also cautioned that growth prospects for air transport and the economic

New Delhi, Oct 25: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that birth of a third child would automatically disqualify a person from contesting panchayat polls and from holding the post of a member or sarpanch in a panchayat. Scotching attempts by a tribal sarpanch in Odisha to step around the disqualification law by giving away one of his three children in adoption to comply with the two-child norm

Riyadh, Oct 24: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince on October 24 denounced the murder of critic Jamal Khashoggi as a “heinous crime”, insisting the kingdom was cooperating with Turkish authorities and “justice will prevail”. “The crime was very painful to all Saudis. And it is painful, heinous to every human being in the world,” Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in his first comments since the murder of