The Mumbai Police on Friday arrested a man under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act for raping his mentally challenged daughter.
The police arrested the man yesterday and produced him before the court.
The court had given him two-day police custody.
The girl was taken to the Cooper Hospital.
After medical check-up, the doctor said she is pregnant.
Further details are awaited.
The central government Friday sanctioned enhanced coal linkage for thermal plants in Punjab, a demand pending with the union coal ministry since April 2011, state government officials said.
This surely is an instance of better late than never - in this case, all of 48 years. The infamous "G.B.Road" address on the voter identity cards of Delhi's sex workers had stripped away their dignity and made them a subject of humiliation and ignominy. This will hopefully change with the Election Commission (EC) deciding to replace the address with Swami Shraddhanand Marg - the road's official name since 1966.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said his meeting with Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was "very fruitful" as they discussed ways to use this platform for governance and better interaction between the people and governments.
The controversy over Sunanda Pushkar's death deepened Thursday as senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a CBI probe into the matter since it could be concerned with her threat to disclose "money-laundering" in the IPL.
Sunni insurgents Thursday forced all 46 Indian women nurses to move out of a hospital in Iraq where they had been holed up, injuring three of them, and were taking them to Mosul city, officials said. The nurses were being treated well.
Bikinis will not be banned from Goa's beaches, but drinking alcohol in public and on the state's popular beaches will not be tolerated, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said Wednesday, while defending a cabinet minister who has demanded a ban on revealing clothes in pubs.