Protests broke out outside the Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Narayan Hospital on Sunday evening after a 24-year-old, suspected of raping a minor girl in Hauz Qazi, was allegedly let off by the police from the hospital.

The special cell of Delhi police has arrested four head constables and a constable of Punjab police for allegedly facilitating the escape of two accused in a visa racket case from Ludhiana Jail.

Government agencies will have to go in for a strict security audit of their websites on a regular basis following the recent hacking of the CBI website, according to new guidelines issued by the Centre on Monday.

A 21-year-old MBA graduate allegedly abducted and strangulated to death a young girl in northeast Delhi’s West Jyoti Nagar after demanding `25 lakhs ransom from the victim’s family. The police said the body of the deceased, identified as Neelam, 21, was recovered from a canal in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh on Monday. The accused, identified as Amit Yadav, a MBA graduate from CCS University, has been arrested in the case.

The reform of international monetary institutions and the situation in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, the Korean peninsula and Iran can be expected to figure in the talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week.

The fifth accused in the Dhaula Kuan gangrape case, who was on the run since the incident and is alleged to be the leader of the “Mobile Gang”, was arrested by the south Delhi police from Gurgaon on Monday.

France is understood to be considering equipping two of the six Scorpene submarines — currently being built at the Mazgaon shipyard in India under transfer of technology — with the Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) technology that enables the conventional diesel-electric submarines to stay underwater for longer periods of time,

Protests broke out outside the Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Narayan Hospital on Sunday evening after a 24-year-old, suspected of raping a minor girl in Hauz Qazi, was allegedly let off by the police from the hospital.

In an effort to promote partnership in higher and technical education and research, India and France signed two MoUs for cooperation in these fields on Monday.
The first MoU is aimed at setting up an International Joint Laboratory between Institut De Recherche Pour Le Developpement and the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.

The CBI is likely to question former telecom minister A. Raja in connection with its probe into the 2G spectrum scam very soon. Besides, the ED, which is also probing the 2G scam, may soon question Mr Raja in connection with the alleged scam.