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• Two Manipuri women allegedly assaulted by a group of men in Delhi

  Two Manipuri women were allegedly assaulted by a group of men who are also reported to have hurled racist abuses at them in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur area.

• Thane: 12-year-old girl allegedly raped and murdered

  The body of a 12-year-old girl, allegedly raped and then killed, was found at a village farm in Thane, police said today.

• Patna Blasts: Centre seeks report, rushes NIA team

  The Home Ministry today sought a report from the Bihar government after five people were killed and at least 80 injured in seven blasts which took place at Patna's Gandhi Maidan, the venue for BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally. The Centre has sent a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) to assist in further investigations.

• Earthquake in Sikkim, schools and colleges closed

  An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale hit Sikkim at 11.43 am.

• Happy birthday says Rahul Gandhi, triggering talk of new alliance

  Birthday wishes from Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi to DMDK founder and Opposition Leader Vijyakant on Sunday has set off speculations in the political circles in Tamil Nadu, about alliance between the two parties for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

• Rains in Delhi again, roads water-logged

  Many roads in Delhi are water-logged and traffic in the city has been thrown out of gear after it started raining in the city again today.

• Not poor at Rs 27 a day: plan panel's latest report

  As it preps for general elections, the Congress-led UPA government has got some brownie points from a planning commission report that said poverty, both in rural and urban India, had declined in the last eight years. But the panel continues to use controversial poverty benchmarks, in this report capped at Rs 27 a day for rural India.

• Supreme Court to hear acid attack victim's plea seeking ban on sale of chemicals

  The Supreme Court will today hear a plea filed a victim of acid attack on the regulation of sale of the chemicals at the retail level. Last week, the court had slammed the Centre for not coming up with a plan to control the sale of acid.

• Assam floods: Three districts affected, evacuation alert sounded

  Evacuation alert has been sounded in Assam, where three districts are now submerged affecting nearly one lakh people after the torrential rains caused River Brahmaputra and its tributaries to overflow.

• Assam floods: evacuation alert sounded, Kaziranga partially flooded

  An evacuation alert has been sounded in Assam by the state administration as the floods situation continued remained critical, with 11 districts reeling under the overflowing waters of River Brahmaputra and its tributaries following torrential rains. Nearly one lakh people have been affected by the deluge.

• Uttarakhand: Hundreds of villages still cut-off, government to ask for all-weather choppers

  With incessant rains over the last two days hampering relief operations in Uttarakhand, the state government today geared up to requisition choppers which can be flown even in bad weather to take food supplies to affected areas in Rudraprayag, Uttarkashi and Chamoli districts.

• Delhi airport, 'world's second-best', flooded after heavy rain

  Two days after it was voted the world's second best airport, Delhi's Indira Gandhi International or IGI Airport proved otherwise.

• 24 pilgrims were trapped in cable cars for two hours

  24 pilgrims, who were trapped in two cable cars nearly 100 feet above the ground, were rescued in a two-hour-long operation today, official sources said.

• Meet 12-year-old Neha Ramu, a 'genius' with an IQ higher than Albert Einstein's

  After scoring an enviable 162 in an IQ test, this Indian-origin girl now finds herself in the same league with brilliant minds like Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates. 12-year-old Neha Ramu, an Indian-origin girl in London, is now part of an elite group called the Mensa society, an exclusive club for people with high IQs.

• Hyderabad bomb blasts: Centre's top investigative team reaches site

  Hyderabad bomb blast: A team of top officials from the National Investigation Agency or NIA and the Intelligence Bureau has reached Hyderabad, where two blasts have killed at least 14 people and injured 119 yesterday evening.