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3 awarded life term for Mirchpur killings
l 5 sentenced up to 5 yrs
l 7 let off on one-year probation
l One still absconding
New Delhi, October 31
A Delhi court, which had convicted 15 persons for attacking Dalits in Mirchpur village in Haryana’s Hisar district on April 21, 2010, today sentenced three of them to life term and five persons to imprisonment for varying periods up to five years.

A convict in the case being taken to a jail in New Delhi. — PTI

on the LAC Part 2
India needs to ramp up infrastructure along LAC
All along the backbreaking drive on the 109-km dirt track connecting Loma, Fukche and Demchok, it is disconcerting to see how India has failed to lay a metalled road on a flat plain-like plateau in South-Eastern Ladakh despite its announced focus on ramping up infrastructure along the Chinese frontier.

PC backs Omar on AFSPA, says CCS wanted a review
New Delhi, October 31
Clarifying that the latest debate on removing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from some areas of Jammu and Kashmir was not a knee-jerk reaction, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today said the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) had given its go-ahead as part of an eight-point agenda for the state announced in September last year.

For those having houses in 1,300 illegal colonies in Haryana, here’s good news
State govt is all set to regularise construction work in such localities
Chandigarh, October 31
In a big relief to those owning houses in 1,300 unauthorised colonies in Haryana, the state government is all set to regularise their constructions.

Former CM Madhu Koda assaulted in Ranchi jail
Ranchi, October 31
Jharkhand’s former Chief Minister Madhu Koda was today injured after he was assaulted in a Ranchi jail where he is in judicial custody in connection with a muti-crore scam, but there were conflicting versions on who beat him up.

Baby Nargis of UP is one in 7 billions
	Nargis’ parents Vinita and Ajay want her to become a doctor. A volunteer (left) holds Nargis hours after her birth at a community health centre in Mal, around 20 km from Lucknow, as her mother watches.
The world's population touched another milestone on Monday as India welcomed the birth of Nargis as the symbolic seven billionth baby.

Amidst cheers & fears, Earth home to 7bn
Arrival of two baby girls in Uttar Pradesh and Manila marks the milestone
New Delhi, October 31
The world’s population today crossed the seven billion mark with the arrival of two baby girls, one in India and the other in Philippines.

Commuters make their way on the Churchgate railway station platform in Mumbai during morning rush hours on Monday. — Reuters

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