India

Kanpur: A resident approached police and complained alleging that her daughter has been receiving threatening letters requiring fifty thousand rupees.

A minor girl pulled a prank on her parents and wrote an extortions letter to herself.

The incident took place in the Rawatpur area, police said adding that a resident of the Maswanpur area Megha Pandey in her complaint on Monday alleged that her daughter has been receiving threatening letters demanding money.

Kanpur: Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre, IIT Kanpur has collaborated with Microsoft to launch the 'Azure Society of Excellence, according to an official statement.

The programme aims to enable access to a talent-employability programme for future-ready startups in SIIC, IIT Kanpur's incubation ecosystem.

According to the statement, the partnership aims to help startups at IIT Kanpur to avail benefits of Microsoft Software and services, access to GitHub, M365 resources, training, and skilling on Azure, and a mentors network.

New Delhi, Nov 15 (PTI) RSS-linked weekly 'Organiser' has accused US e-commerce giant Amazon of financing a "Christian conversion module" in India's northeastern states and being involved in suspected money laundering.

New Delhi, Nov 15 (PTI) As the global population reached 8 billion, the UN on Tuesday said India's population growth appears to be stabilising which shows that the country's national policies and health systems, including access to family planning services, are working.

Kanpur:People were forced to rush out of their houses after a pack of monkeys broke piped natural gas (PNG) near Chamunda Park in Kidwai Nagar Y Block here on Sunday late night.

Residents came out of their houses fearing gas leakage. Soon, a team of Central UP Gas Limited reached the spot and connected the pipeline after half an hour's effort.

Fearing gas leakage, the residents rushed out of their respective houses and informed the CUGL control room.

Meanwhile, a patrolling police team also reached the spot.

Palakkad (Kerala), Nov 14 (PTI) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday attacked the Union government saying it was trying to destroy the cooperative sector in the country.

Vijayan said the century-old cooperative sector in the country has a pivotal role in the people's lives.

Inaugurating the All India Cooperative Week here, Vijayan said civil society had elaborately discussed the changes brought in the cooperative sector and the state government had raised concerns of it.

Kanpur: A woman has alleged that her husband is forcing her to have physical relations with her friends.

She approached the police commissioner to complain about her worry. A case was registered at the Chakeri police station here.

The matter is of Shyam Nagar. The woman told that in the year 2013 she was married to a young man in Jajmau.

It is alleged that a few months after the marriage, the young man had already had two marriages. 

New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday granted time till December 12 to the Centre to file a comprehensive affidavit to petitions challenging the validity of certain provisions of a 1991 law, which prohibit filing of a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship or seek a change in its character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947.

NEW DELHI, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- India's top court Friday ordered the release of six people convicted for the assassination of the country's former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.

The convicts were serving life sentences and had spent more than 30 years in jail.

"The appellants are directed to be set at liberty if not required in any other matter," the Supreme Court of India ordered.

In May this year, the top court used its extraordinary powers to free a seventh convict. The same order applied to the rest of the convicts, the court said.

New Delhi, Nov 11 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed with a cost of Rs 1 lakh a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the appointment of Justice D Y Chandrachud as the Chief Justice of India.

A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad termed the petition as a "publicity interest litigation".

The bench said the petition was filed only to gain publicity without there being any material.