The US has said that weak intelligence sharing by agencies and the limited resources of the National Security Guard were affecting India's counter-terrorism efforts. Despite its rigorous training, NSG's rapid response capability is somewhat limited, the US State Department's annual survey of global terrorism noted. The report said about the other perceived shortcoming that continued weaknesses in intelligence and information sharing negatively impacted state and central law enforcement agencies.

Around 61 per cent polling has been recorded on 20 Assembly seats amid a few incidents of violence in the second phase of the Jharkhand Assembly polls on Saturday. According to Election Commission data, 60.56 per cent voting took place in the second phase. The highest polling was recorded at Bharagora assembly seat with 74.44 per cent turnout and lowest at Jamshedpur West with 46.65 per cent turnout. In poll related violence, one youth was killed in police firing and six including three policemen were injured in the Sisai constituency of Gumla district.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Uttar Pradesh&nbsp;BJP&nbsp;ministers Swami Prasad Maurya and Kamal Rani Varun, along with BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj, were heckled by protesters on Saturday as they reached the village of the Unnao rape victim to meet her family, multiple reports said.&nbsp;The UP Police used force to disperse the crowd, which consisted of several local Congress leaders. The protesters, who were shouting &lsquo;Vaapas&nbsp;Jao,&nbsp;Vaapas&nbsp;Jao&rsquo; or Go Back and raising slogans against the state government, sustained injuries.&nbsp;

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has condemned the&nbsp;Narendra Modi-led&nbsp;BJP&nbsp;government at the Centre for failure to check the increase in violence and atrocities against women in the country.&nbsp;Addressing a gathering in his Lok Sabha constituency&nbsp;Wayanad, he said there was surge in violence in the country because the man leading the country believes in violence.&nbsp;&ldquo;You have seen the increase in violence across the country, lawlessness and atrocities against women. Every day we read about some woman being raped, molested, thrashed. There is violence against minority communities, hatred is being spread against them. There are reports of violence against Dalits, of thrashing them, cutting off their arms. We also hear about atrocities against&nbsp;tribals, and snatching of their land,&rdquo; ANI quoted him as saying.&nbsp;

Amid the killing of rapists by Hyderabad police, Chief Justice SA Bobde on Saturday said that now is the time that criminal justice system in the country needs to be reviewed. He further asserted that justice can ever be or ought to be instant and it must never ever take the form of revenge. "Recent events in country have sparked off the old debate with new vigour. There is no doubt that criminal justice system must reconsider its position &amp; attitude towards laxity and eventual time it takes to dispose off criminal matters," said the Chief Justice of India.

'Save me, I don't want to die, I want to see them hang to death', these are the final words of the 23-year-old rape victim from Unnao, who breathed her last in Safdarjang hospital on Friday night. According to a report by news agency IANS, a senior doctor said that the girl had been in pain, but pleading to be saved. She lost her life to a cardiac arrest, after suffering from 90% burns on her body. She was abducted by five men in Unnao&nbsp;as she was&nbsp;on her way to a court hearing of a her rape case. After abduction, the attackers beat, stabbed and burnt her.&nbsp;

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday questioned the Uttar Pradesh government as to why the Unnao gangrape victim had not been given security keeping in mind a similar incident that took place earlier in the same district. The tweet comes as&nbsp;the Congress leader rushed to Unnao to meet the family of the victim.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav sat on a 'dharna' outside the Vidhan Bhavan&nbsp;on Saturday, after the death of the Unnao rape victim.&nbsp; He termed the day as a "Black Day" and blamed the BJP government for the death of the gangrape victim.
West Bengal Chief Minister&nbsp;Mamata Banerjee&nbsp;too expressed grief over the death saying, "Sad. Cruelty has no limitations.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday termed the death of the&nbsp;Unnao gangrape victim "extremely sad" and conveyed his condolences to the family.&nbsp;"All the accused persons have been arrested. The case will be taken to a fast-track court, and punishment will be given," he said in a statement.&nbsp;The rape victim who airlifted to the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi after she was set on fire allegedly by five persons, died on Friday night.

The 23-year-old Unnao woman who was set on fire by men accused of raping her, died in a Delhi hospital on Thursday night. The woman has suffered 90% burns and died of cardiac arrest in Safdarjung hospital after being airlifted from UP the evening before. The woman had earlier told the police that she was thrashed and stabbed before being set on fire by five men near her village in Unnao. She was on her way to a court hearing on her rape complaint.&nbsp; All five attackers who she managed to identify have been arrested.

The Telangana High Court on&nbsp;Friday directed the state government to preserve the bodies of the four accused in the rape and murder of a young veterinarian&nbsp;till 8 PM on December 9.&nbsp;It had also ordered that the video of the post-mortem&nbsp;to be handed over to the Principal&nbsp;District Judge of&nbsp;Mahabubnagar. Police said the post-mortem was done in the Government&nbsp;District Hospital at Mahabubnagar under the supervision of the&nbsp;Superintendent and a forensic team of doctors from state-run&nbsp;Gandhi Hospital.&nbsp;All the four accused were shot dead by police on Friday&nbsp;during a pre-dawn exchange of fire near Hyderabad.&nbsp;The four were arrested on November 29 for allegedly&nbsp;raping and killing the 25-year-old woman by smothering her and&nbsp;later burning her body.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav&nbsp;Thackeray received Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Pune&nbsp;airport on Friday evening.&nbsp;It was the two leaders' first meeting after Thackeray broke away from ally BJP and formed a Shiv Sena-led government&nbsp;in Maharashtra with the support of the Congress and NCP last&nbsp;month.&nbsp;The prime minister is attending the national conference of director generals and inspector generals of&nbsp;police which is being held in Pune. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Maharashtra Governor&nbsp;Bhagat Singh Koshyari and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis also&nbsp;greeted Modi at the airport.

The second phase of polling began on Saturday in 20 constituencies in Jharkhand, which votes in five phases. While the voting exercise in 18 seats will end at 3 pm, voters in Jamshedpur (East) and Jamshedpur (West) constituencies can vote till 5 pm. There is tight security cover in this phase of polling as several constituencies are Naxal-affected. Among the high profile candidates in this phase is&nbsp;BJP&nbsp; Chief Minister Raghubar Das&nbsp;who is facing a challenge from his former cabinet colleague and independent candidate Saryu Roy from Jamshedpur (East) seat. The rest of the three phases will be held on December 12, 16 and 20.&nbsp;Counting will take place on December 23.

Union Minister Smriti&nbsp;Irani&nbsp;on Friday said that she was chastised by Congress MPs&nbsp;for raising women's issue in the Parliament. A&nbsp;heated exchange of words took place between the Union Minister and the opposition leaders&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Lok Sabha. According to her, two Congress lawmakers left their seats and charged towards the treasury benches when she was speaking.
"Today, I had a Congress MP chastise me for he said I spoke aggressively. In the House, some male MPs came towards me rolling up their sleeves, following which a young MP said, Why did Smriti Irani even speak?", Irani said.

Bihar Chief&nbsp;Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday blamed porn sites for the&nbsp;rising incidence of sexual crimes against women. He went on to say that he will write&nbsp;to the Centre to ban all&nbsp;internet platforms which proffered voyeuristic pleasure&nbsp;through video clips of rapes purportedly filmed by the&nbsp;perpetrators themselves.&nbsp;
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Showing no signs of cooling down, retail onion prices have continued to spiral, touching as high as ₹165/kg. This as the government in Parliament said that imported onions will arrive by January 20. Retail onion prices were ruling high at ₹165/kg in Panaji&nbsp;in Goa, and ₹ 150/kg in Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Thrissur and Wayanad in Kerala. The government has approved import of up to 1.2 lakh tonnes of onions to check the ongoing price rise. State-owned MMTC has been directed to import up to 1 lakh tonne onions through global and country-specific import tenders.

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar's remark on Friday that there was no Indian study to show pollution impacts people's life and health has drawn a sharp reaction from environmental experts.&nbsp;
Experts say several studies conducted by organisations like the WHO, Lancet, Centre for Science and Environment have blamed pollution for causing deaths in the country. According to a study conducted by Lancet last year, one in eight deaths were attributable to pollution in India in 2017. Another study by CSE revealed that one lakh children under 5 years of age die from respiratory problems arising from air pollution in India every year.

The CBI is carrying out searches at multiple locations in Delhi and Lucknow in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in giving admission to students in a private medical college. The CBI team, which is carrying out searches at eight locations, has also visited the residence of a high court judge.&nbsp;The agency has so far registered cases against seven people.

The elderly may soon be legally entitled to receive more money from their children if the Parliament passes the changes to the 2007&nbsp;Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act. The proposed bill recommends removal of&nbsp;₹10,000 cap on the maximum maintenance amount the elderly can receive from their children. As a result people earning more can be asked to give more money for their parents.&nbsp;

In a chilling video, a 22-year-old dancer at a wedding function was shot in the face when she stopped dancing. The incident took place on November 30 in UP's&nbsp;Tikra&nbsp;village at the wedding of the village headman's daughter. In the video, a person can even be heard threating to fire if the woman doesn't&nbsp;continue dancing.&nbsp;The dancer, Hina, sustained a bullet injury in her jaw and two others sustained pellet injuries.&nbsp;Hina was rushed to a hospital and is now believed to be out of danger.&nbsp;Two people have been arrested on Friday for firing the shots.

Ecuador has denied reports that fugitive godman&nbsp;Nithyanand has been granted asylum in their country. A statement issued by their embassy also says that the Nithyanand&nbsp;has also not been allowed to buy any land or island in South America near or far from Ecuador. But Ecuador has confirmed that the Godman&nbsp;had applied for refuge but the request was denied. The statement comes after multiple reports claimed that the self-styled godman&nbsp;who is wanted in multiple cases, including for rape, has fled to Ecuador. Meanwhile, the Indian&nbsp;government on Friday said that they&nbsp;have cancelled Nithyanand's&nbsp;passport&nbsp;and rejected his application for a fresh one. When quizzed about reports that the godman has founded his own country this is what the MEA&nbsp;had to say.

The National Human Rights Commission or&nbsp;NHRC&nbsp;on Friday took cognisance of the killing of four men accused of raping and murdering a woman veterinarian in Hyderabad and has ordered an inquiry into it.&nbsp;The human rights body also said the Friday's encounter&nbsp;is a matter of concern.&nbsp;The gangrape&nbsp;and murder of a 27-yr-old Hyderabad vet last week&nbsp;in the outskirts of Hyderabad had sent shockwaves across the country. According to the police, the accused were killed in an encounter when they were taken to the crime spot to recreate the crime scene and tried to escape.

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