Karnataka to set up anti-trafficking units Karnataka being a major transit point for trafficking of women to Goa, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, the State government is likely to set up an anti-trafficking unit in every district soon.
Parents abandon girl child despite DNA test In a heartbreaking instance of gender bias, the parents of a girl child who had alleged that their baby was swapped, have refused to take her home despite a positive DNA test. The four-month-old Khushi is still at the Sion Hospital here after parents Sheila Jaiswal and Raj Mani refused to accept her.
Postal dept to open up plots for commercial use Despite being the owner of 1,871 vacant plots measuring about 3,82,24,902 sq ft, the Department of Post (DoP) is operating nearly ten per cent of its head and sub post offices from rented spaces, thus wasting over Rs 45 crore per year in rent.
Manipuri women on Friday protest against the killing of two persons who were gunned down by 34th Assam Rifles and Thoubal District Commando at Yairipok Poirou Khoijin, in Thoubal District, at the CM residence in Imphal. They came to give a memorandum to the CM against the killing. PTI
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