Diana George With Pti Inputs

• Mumbai photojournalist gang-rape: Court sets 60-day deadline to conclude trial

  The sessions court trying the Mumbai photojournalist gang-rape case has set a deadline of two months for concluding the trial. "We will try to conclude the case in 60 days," the court said while adjourning the matter till September 26.

• Happy Onam! Malayalis celebrate harvest festival

  Traditional fervour and gaiety marked the celebration of Onam festival in Kerala today. People in their new attires visited temples and offered prayers early in the morning.

• Gujarat government asks SIT not to seek death penalty for Maya Kodnani

  The Gujarat government today refused permission to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to file an appeal in a higher court seeking death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani in the Naroda Patiya massacre case.

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  Photojournalist gang-raped in Mumbai, over 20 detained

  A 22-year-old photojournalist is in hospital after being gang-raped by five people on Thursday evening at the dilapidated and isolated Shakti Mills compound in Lower Parel, south Mumbai.

• Onion crisis worsened by hoarding?

  Onions are now Rs 60 a kilogram across India. While production has been affected because of drought conditions in Maharashtra, the largest onion producing state in the country, experts say hoarding of onions by many traders has caused an artificial crisis.

• Asaram Bapu's son safe after helicopter crash-lands in Ahmedabad

  The son of self-styled spiritual guru Asaram Bapu and three others, including a pilot, had a miraculous escape when the helicopter carrying them crash-landed at a graveyard in Gomtipur area of Ahmedabad today.

• Jayalalithaa demands five changes to 'Food Insecurity Ordinance'

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking five amendments to the Food Security Ordinance.

• Mid-day meal deaths: Chhapra school principal applies for bail

  The absconding principal of the Dharmasati Gandaman Primary School in Chhapra, Bihar, where contaminated mid-day meals cost 23 students their lives, today moved court for bail. Principal Meena Devi, who has been absconding ever since the incident, has been charged with murder and criminal conspiracy in the First Information Report or FIR in the cas...

• Kerala: Tortured five-year-old boy's condition improving, say doctors

  The condition of the five-year-old boy, who was brutalised and tortured by his parents, is improving, doctors attending to him said today.

• Udaipur top cop manhandled my unit, alleges Pooja Bhatt

  Film-maker and actress Pooja Bhatt today took to Twitter to lash out against a police officer who she accused of misbehaving with her film crew in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

• West Bengal panchayat polls: Three killed in violence

  Three people were killed in poll-related violence as West Bengal held the third phase of its panchayat elections today in the districts of Howrah, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas.

• English language has resulted in loss of 'our culture': Rajnath Singh

  The image managers of the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP, which is all set to woo the youth and urban middle class in the next general elections, would have winced hard when party president Rajnath Singh made an anti-English comment on Thursday. The Congress is delighted.

• Tamil Nadu: Second autopsy on Ilavarasan's body over, report to be submitted to Madras High Court

  A team of doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences or AIIMS today conducted the second autopsy on the body of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, who was found dead on July 4 near a railway track in Dharmapuri in western Tamil Nadu.

• Solar scam: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy meets Congress president Sonia Gandhi

  Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi over the solar scam that has rocked his government, with his rivals calling for his resignation. Mr Chandy is believed to have explained the political situation in the state and Mrs Gandhi is said to be "satisfied"with his version of events.

• 2G case: Supreme Court asks AIIMS to examine Karunanidhi's wife

  The Supreme Court today directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to set up a medical board to examine if DMK chief M Karunanidhi's wife, Ms Dayalu Ammal, was medically fit to depose before the court in the 2G case.