News Highlights: UP seer who called for rape of Muslim women sent to 14-day judicial custody

Mahant Bajrang Muni Das has been sent to jail for 14 days in judicial custody. (ANI)

. I'd also tell you that we also take our views on other people's human rights situation, including that of the US. So we take up human rights issues when they arise in this country, especially when they pertain to argument and in fact, we had a case yesterday: EAM Jaishankar (ANI)

. Unidentified militants shot at and injured a civilian from a minority community in south Kashmir’s Kulgam on Wednesday evening.

. Police sources in Udupi said that a bottle of poison was recovered from the dust bin in the room where Santosh Patil was found dead. It is suspected that he might have consumed juice mixed with poison. Some residues were found in the glass.

. Infosys Ltd, India's second-largest software services firm, on Wednesday reported a 12 per centrise in March-quarter profit as it won more contracts from global businesses expanding their digital presence.

. This is the same Congress that had coined the term 'Hindu terror'...We have always said that terror has no religion. But it is this Congress party that coined that term, I am not surprised by the manner in which Section 144 is being imposed: BJP MP Rajyavardhan Rathore, in Jaipur (ANI)

. An offence has been registered against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for allegedly wielding a sword during a public rally in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Wednesday.

. All the seven foxes at Ranchi's Birsa zoo died in the last one month of the highly-contagious canine distemper virus (CDV), officials said on Wednesday.

. Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel has written to PM Modi, asking him to "include education in the local dialect, purchase of forest produce on MSP, organic farming, forest rights lease in the monitoring indicators of Transformation of Aspirational Districts Programme (TADP)"

. The yen hit its lowest level against the dollar in two decades on Wednesday, extending recent falls as the gap widens between Japan's ultra-loose monetary policy and Fed tightening.

One dollar bought 126 yen at around 0630 GMT, the lowest rate since 2002.

. CM Baghel is to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence this evening; to discuss issues mainly on the impact of the GST system on the resources of the state, policy issues related to the Naxal problem, and issues related to coordination with central paramilitary forces

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. A joint team of the CBI and the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation vigilance cell conducted searches at two EPFO offices in Maharashtra's Nagpur city following some complaints of irregularities against EPFO employees, officials said on Wednesday.

. An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck the Papua New Guinea region of New Britain on Wednesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The quake hit at a depth of 140 km (87 miles), the agency added.

News Highlights: UP seer who called for rape of Muslim women sent to 14-day judicial custody

UP seer who called for rape of Muslim women sent to 14-day judicial custody

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