CLASS 7 STUDENT GANGRAPED BY MINORS IN U’KHAND

DEHRADUN: A minor girl was gang-raped allegedly by three minor boys at Bhurani village in Uttarakhand’s US Nagar district on Saturday, police said on Sunday. The accused have been apprehended. The girl, a class 7 student, went to buy some household items from nearby shop on Saturday. When she was returning, a boy from the same village took her to a secluded area, where he and his two accomplices allegedly raped her in turns. When she didn’t return home in time, her parents, daily wage labourers from Bihar, launched a manhunt. After sometime, she reached home and narrated the ordeal to her family, who in turn informed police. .Kailash Chandra Bhatt, inspector of Rudrapur police station, said, “We have apprehended all accused and booked them under the POSCO Act. Accused are minor.”

India not lowering guard on china border: Sitharaman

NEW DELHI: India will not lower its guard along the Line of Actual Control with China, while maintaining border peace in sync with the “Wuhan” spirit, defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. Nearly a month after talks with her Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe, Sitharaman said both sides recognised that the broad decisions arrived at the informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and

Chinese President Xi Jinping in Wuhan should govern management of the border.