Three policemen of Vijay Vihar Police Station in Rohini on April 11 awarded by Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik for tracing 77 minors, including 43 girls, who went missing in the last six years.

In the last six year, 82 cases of children going missing were reported in Vijay Vihar Police Station. Inspector Abhinendra, SHO Vijay Vihar and probationary sub-inspectors Divya Mann and Anuj worked hard and traced 77 of them, DCP (Rohini) Rishi Pal said.

These 77 minors were recovered from different areas in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Awarding the three policemen with 'Asadharan Karya Puraskar', the Police Commissioner stressed that tackling crimes against women and children is the priority of the force.

Pal said Rohini police district has unauthorised colonies like Buddh Vihar phase 1 and phase 2, and Pal Colony, where rickshawpullers and street hawkers reside.

From 2011 to 2016, around 82 cases of missing children were reported. The maximum number of missing children were in the age group of 13-16 years, Rishi Pal said.

Last June, the police team began a special exercise of looking for the missing children and started talking to the families. Initially, the families were apprehensive in sharing the details and they had to be convinced.

Following the police team's efforts, 77 minors were recovered. Some of the families were not willing to take them back out of anger. However, the policemen convinced them to take back their children, the officer said.

German investigators hunted on Wednesday for possible suspects responsible for three explosions that rocked Borussia Dortmund football team's bus, injuring a player.

The assault, described by Dortmund city's police chief as a "targeted attack" against the team, shook German football ahead of crucial Champion League ties this week.

Investigations will focus on a letter claiming responsibility for the attack that was found close to the site of the blasts.

"The letter claims responsibility for what happened," prosecutor Sandra Luecke said late Tuesday, telling journalists that "its authenticity is being verified".

German authorities have held off from describing it as a terror attack, saying that it is too early to determine the motive.

But Germany has been on high alert since a series of jihadist attacks last year, including the Christmas market truck assault in Berlin in December that claimed 12 lives.

The explosives detonated minutes after Borussia Dortmund's team bus pulled away Tuesday from the squad's hotel and headed for their quarter-final, first-leg, tie against Monaco.

Spanish international Marc Bartra underwent surgery on a broken wrist after he was hit by flying glass.

The quarter-final match will now be played on Wednesday evening, just hours before another Champions League clash in Germany between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

"We are assuming that they were a targeted attack against the Dortmund team," said the western German city's police chief Gregor Lange, adding however that it did not amount to an organised terror assault.

After three days of protests, normalcy returned in the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday as the separatists called off the two-day shutdown.

The educational institutions, public transport, shops and other businesses began functioning normally after three days of shutdown due to the killing of civilians in the Sunday by-election.

Srinagar city buzzed with life as the movement of traffic and pedestrians began on Wednesday.

Parents hurried their children to schools and they were seen waiting for buses.

Shopkeepers started lifting the shutters of their establishments as tension across the valley came down after the Election Commission postponed the Anantnag parliamentary bypoll to May 25.

The bypoll was otherwise scheduled for Wednesday.

Authorities removed additional deployment of police and paramilitary forces at traffic crossings and busy streets in Srinagar and other places.

The movement was only restricted around sensitive installations in the valley.

The separatists have asked people to resume normal activities and thanked them for staying away from bypoll in which only 7 per cent voter turnout — the lowest in the valley in the last 27 years — was recorded.

Eight civilians were killed in the clashes between protesters and security forces.

Most poll related violence occurred in Budgam district where authorities have ordered re-polling at 38 stations on Thursday.
 

India will take on Canada in their Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie scheduled to be held on September 15-17, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) announced on Tuesday.

India have qualified for the World Group Play-offs after outplaying Uzbekistan 4-1 in Bengaluru last weekend while Canada had lost to Britain 2-3 in the World Group First Round in February.

"The draw for the 2017 Davis Cup World Group Play-offs was held on Tuesday at the ITF headquarters in London. India has been drawn to play Canada and the tie will be held in Canada," the AITA said in a statement.

"The choice of ground was determined by draw of lots."

The winning nations in the World Group Play-offs will qualify for the 2018 World Group, while the losing nations will compete in their respective zonal Group I events in 2018.

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has said that Syria will pay a “very, very stiff price” if it used chemical weapons again and asserted that America's top priority in Syria remained fighting the Islamic State militant group.
“If they use chemical weapons, they are going to pay a very, very stiff price,” Mattis told reporters during his first Pentagon briefing as defence chief.

Notwithstanding the Russian allegations that the US is selling a false narrative over the use of chemical weapons by the authoritarian Syrian regime, Mattis defended the American missile attacks against Syria last week.

“Last Tuesday on the 4th of April, the Syrian regime attacked its own people using chemical weapons. I have personally reviewed the intelligence, and there is no doubt the Syrian regime is responsible for the decision to attack and for the attack itself,” he said.

“In response to the attack, our government began a deliberate process, led by the National Security Council, to recommend diplomatic and military options to the president. We met over several days and I spoke with some of our allies,” he added.

Mattis said the National Security Council considered the near-century-old international prohibition against the use of chemical weapons, the Syrian regime's repeated violations of that international law, and the inexplicably ruthless murders the regime had committed.
“We determined that a measured military response could best deter the regime from doing this again. As always, we examined how best to avoid civilian casualties in the execution of the strike, and our actions were successful,” Mattis said.

“Based on these considerations, on April 6, the president directed military action consistent with our vital national interests to deter the use of chemical weapons,” he said.

This military action demonstrates that the US will not passively stand by while Assad blithely ignores international law and employs chemical weapons he had declared destroyed, he added.

“We were aware of the presence of Russians at the airfield and took appropriate actions to ensure no Russians were injured in the attack,” he said.

Mattis said the US military policy in Syria has not changed.
“Our priority remains the defeat of ISIS. ISIS represents a clear and present danger, an immediate threat to Europe and ultimately, a threat to the US homeland,” he said.

Appearing along with Mattis, the US Central Command Commander Gen Joseph Votel said the US targeted 59 locations on the airfield and struck 57 of those.

“We assessed that we achieved our stated objective and the regime's ability to generate offensive military capability from Shayrat airfield, which we assess, was the launching point for this chemical attack has been severely degraded,” he said.

“We are obviously paying close attention in the environment in the wake of these strikes and remain appropriately postured to respond as necessarily. Meanwhile, we are focused on the Defeat ISIS campaign, which remains our primary mission, Votel said.

Responding to a question, Mattis said the goal right now in Syria, and the military campaign is focused breaking ISIS and destroying ISIS in Syria.

“This was a separate issue that arose in the midst of that campaign. The use by the Assad regime of chemical weapons, and we addressed that militarily. But the rest of the campaign stays on track, exactly as it was before Assad's violation,” he said.

Mattis alleged that Assad has used chemical weapons several times over the last several years, violated the international law that has prohibited their use since 1925.

“Syria is a signatory to that international convention. For them to have done this several times recently over the last several years is what I mean by recently, you've got to ask him why he chose now to try it again, he said.
“I trust he regrets it now considering the damage done to his air force but when I say he should think long and hard about it, I'll just let the mission speak for itself on that score,” the Defence Secretary said.

Mattis said he does not know if the Russians knew about the chemical attack in advance. “It was very clear that the Assad regime planned it, orchestrated it, and executed it. And beyond that, we can't say right now. We don't know anything beyond that,” he said

Actress Blake Lively had a reason to get worried when she was in labour to give birth to daughter James, who is now two years old.

While playing a Fact or Fiction game with fashion designer Michael Kors, Lively said when she was in the labour, her husband and actor Ryan Reynolds started singing 1973 single "Let's get it on", after which the doctor started laughing, reports dailymail.co.uk.

"My husband played ‘Let's get it on' when I was in labour," Lively said.

"My doctor was laughing so hard that I thought she was going to drop our baby," she added, revealing her cause of worry.

The couple also have another daughter, six months old Ines. 

About 150 passengers of a Jet Airways flight were stranded at the Varanasi airport on Wednesday after a bird hit the flight while taking off.

According to the captain, three blades of the right engine were damaged due to the hit.

The 9W 2423 flight from New Delhi-Khajuraho-Varanasi-New Delhi was unfit to fly, a Jet Airways official said.

The flight was fully booked. About 100 passengers were ready to board in Varanasi and around 50 were already in the flight from Khajuraho bound to New Delhi.

Some of the passengers had international flights. The passengers who had to fly to other countries from New Delhi were also among those stranded at the airport.

The passengers were not satisfied with the airline's response to their queries.

The airport officials had no clue about the next course of action and said they were waiting for information from the head office.

It was not clear whether the airline would fly the passengers out on Wednesday.

Kit Harington says that he does not care whether his character Jon Snow is actually found out to be the “prince that was promised”, as per one of the popular fan theories for Game of Thrones.

The 30-year-old actor says fans will have to wait for the upcoming season of the HBO TV series to find out what lies in fate for the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, reported The Huffington Post.

“I think you have to wait and see what happens this year, and if we find out anything more about Jon. I think Jon would hate the term 'The Prince That Was Promised'. If someone turned to him and said, 'You're The Prince That Was Promised,' he just wouldn't pay much attention.

“That's what I love about him, so I don't really care about it either. You know, I think that's what's great about him. He's got very little ego on him,” says Harington.

GOT season seven airs July 16.

Despite masterminding his side’s stunning 3-0 win over Barcelona in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal, Juventus manager isn't getting carried away and feels “Juve need to score a goal in the return leg if we are to progress,” according to a statement on the club website (www.juventus.com)

“I'm not going to put a percentage on our chances of going through; all I'll say is we'll have to score at Camp Nou,” the 49-year-old tactician insisted after the game.

Not that he was in the mood for playing down his side's display, as goals by Paulo Dybala and Giorgio Chiellini handed the Bianconeri a healthy advantage to take to Spain next week.

“We were excellent tonight, we really were – both defensively and going forward,” Allegri continued.
“We have a fine mix of technical and physical attributes. The lads are improving all the time and they deserve everything they've managed to achieve. 

“We've made some big strides forward – thanks to the club, obviously – and the best proof of that is that we now command respect in Europe. 

“It's a big result tonight because we've done exactly what we were looking to do. We've shown people that we can hold our own in games like this.”

Elaborating on the match, Allegri said: “We read the game well in the first half. If I have to find a fault, we were sometimes too hurried in trying to get the ball forward when we could have laid it off. We'll remember that going into the return leg.”

“As I said though, the lads were really switched on tonight, cutting out Barca's passing lanes and watching the runners. We were great going forward too. Our passing was good and we played intelligently.”

On two-goal hero Paulo Dybala, the manager enthused: “Paulo is a great player and he was magnificent today, but I'm delighted with the whole lot of them because they really were superb. We have strength throughout the squad and that's especially important in this period with all the games we have to play one after another. They all have a big part to play.”

As many as 35 people have lodged complaints at northwest Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar Police Station that money has been withdrawn from their accounts from ATMs different places outside the national capital.

It is suspected to be a case of ATM card cloning, police said.

Those people who withdrew money from an SBI ATM in Dhaka village on April 2 complained that in the last few days, money has been withdrawn from their accounts through ATMs in various places outside Delhi, a senior police officer said.

Skimmers and pinhole cameras have been used to get details of ATM cards. CCTV footage from the ATM has been sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), he said.

Many students, who are either preparing for entrance exams or pursuing higher studies, stay in that area and they have lost lakhs of rupees due to this ATM cloning incident, the officer said.

Bollywood thespian Dilip Kumar was on Tuesday felicitated with a Living Legend Lifetime Award from the Punjab Association at his residence here.

"Mr Ranbir Singh Chandok and Mr Anand of the Punjab Association visited me today. God is kind. Humbled at receiving the Living Legend Lifetime Award from Punjab Association this afternoon," a post from the 94-year-old actor's official Twitter handle read on Tuesday.

The post was accompanied by photographs in which Dilip Kumar — looking frail but in good spirit — could be seen posing with the plaque. Also seen in the pictures is his wife Saira Banu and the officials who felicitated the actor.

Earlier this month, there was buzz that Dilip Kumar's health was not up to the mark. Regarding that, he commented: "God's grace and your prayers with me. I am much better. Slight discomfort and an irritating back pain."

In another tweet, he wrote, "So much love from Asif Farooqui. Thank you for this beautiful wall mural on Hill Road in Bandra. God bless you," referring to a piece of work — inspired by the Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu-starrer Gopi — by the artist.

Last seen on the big screen in "Qila" in 1998, the actor was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015.

He is known for films like Devdas, Mughal-e-Azam and Karma.

Pakistan will be condemned across the world if it hangs Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Wednesday.

"We leave their (Pakistan's) people. They are not able to come out of their old habits. It is very unfortunate. Whole world is watching what is happening and and it will attract worldwide condemnation," the information and broadcasting minister told reporters outside Parliament.

A Pakistani military court has sentenced Jadhav to death in an alleged espionage case.

Naidu also hit out at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for his remarks alleging BJP policies were to blame for poor voter turnout and violence in the Srinagar Lok Sabha bypolls.

"Who is responsible for the Jammu and Kashmir problem?…

Comments for short political gains are not good for anyone," the minister said.

He suggested that one should think carefully and speak in favour of the country on such sensitive issues.

"One should keep in mind the country's unity and integrity before speaking…Pakistan is creating problems and separatists are fuelling the fire," Naidu said.

Yesterday, Gandhi had said that decades of hard work to build trust in the democratic process in Kashmir has been reversed by the BJP government.

Eight people were killed on Sunday in firing by security forces during the Srinagar Lok Sabha bypoll. Only 7.14 per cent of the electorate came out to cast their votes in the constituency.

Tracking mixed Asian markets, domestic bourses started Wednesday’s trading session on a flat note with Midcap and Smallcap indices outperforming the front liners.

At 9.30 am, the Sensex was trading four points or 0.01 per cent up at 29,793 while the Nifty50 was trading three points or 0.03 per cent higher at 9,240.

In broader markets, BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap indices surged around 0.4 per cent each.

All the BSE sectoral indices, except Capital Goods index, were trading in the positive zone with Metal index leading the gains, up 0.7 per cent. Capital Goods index slipped 0.1 per cent.

On Tuesday, the BSE Sensex closed 213 points or 0.72 per cent higher at 29,788, while the NSE Nifty ended 56 points or 0.61 per cent lower at 9,237.

Top gainers in the Sensex-30 pack: Axis Bank (up 0.9 per cent), Gail (up 0.9 per cent), Power Grid (up 0.7 per cent), Hero Motocorp (up 0.6 per cent) and Infosys (up 0.6 per cent).

Top losers in the Sensex-30 pack: Lupin (down 1 per cent), Adani Ports (down 0.6 per cent), Tata Motors (down 0.5 per cent), L&T (down 0.5 per cent) and ITC (down 0.5 per cent).

Asian markets were trading with more declines and fewer gains. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index lost 1.4 per cent, Singapore’s Straits Times Index slipped 0.1 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 0.2 per cent, Korea’s KOSPI index rose 0.1 per cent and China’s Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.3 per cent.

Back home, the Rupee was trading nine paisa down at 64.72 against the US Dollar.

In the aftermath of their tough 3-0 loss to Juventus in their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal first-leg tie, Andres Iniesta put up a brave face, saying “a comeback is not out of the question,” according to a statement on the club website (www.fcbarcelona.com)

It was all the white and black of Juve on Tuesday night, rather than the claret and blue of Barcelona, and Iniesta admitted that a poor first half cost them the game.

“We got things wrong especially in the first half for us, and in the Champions League you get punished as we did with two goals. The second half was a different story and we really deserved to get a goal back.”

Iniesta added “You can concede goals like that from corners and Juve are a good team, and if you don’t get it right against teams like that then you pay the penalty.”

“It’s not quite as bad as it was in Paris, but we do have another uphill struggle ahead of us. If we do what we have to do we can turn this tie around, but if we don’t then it’s going to be impossible, signs off the veteran midfielder.

Marc-Andre ter Stegen, a busy man between the sticks for Barcelona echoed his skipper’s sentiments: “It was a painful night. The first half especially was far from perfect. There are things we need to work on improving.”

"I think it would be better for us to speak among ourselves. We know first half wasn’t perfect, we need to lift our heads up and start planning for the next challenge.”

“I hope the fans will come out and support us for the second leg, but first we have to think about the league.”
“I know how tough this is for the fans, but now we have to think about getting some rest.”

The levelised solar power tariff has dropped to all time low of Rs.3.15 per unit in an auction of a 250 MW project at Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh.

Earlier in February, the lower capital expenditure and cheaper credit had pulled down solar tariff to a new low of Rs.2.97 per unit for the first year in an auction conducted for 750 MW capacity in Rewa Solar Park in Madhya Pradesh.

However, the levelised tariff for Rewa project worked out to be Rs.3.30 per unit.

“The price bid opened and reverse auction carried out for 250 MW (1×250) solar project at Kadapa in AP under developer mode. Solairdirect has won this project with quoted levelised tariff of Rs.3.15/KWh,” a senior official said.
The official said, “Rewa Ultra Mega Solar record of levelised tariff is Rs.3.30 which has been broken by NTPC auction today.”

Commenting on this Power Minister Piyush Goyal has tweeted, “Clean affordable power for all: Solar achieves another record low of Rs.3.15/ unit (flat rate) during auction in Kadapa, AP by NTPC.”

In Januray last year, solar power tariff had dropped to a new low, with Finland-based energy firm Fortum Finnsurya Energy quoting Rs.4.34 a unit to bag the mandate to set up a 70-MW solar plant under NTPC's Bhadla Solar Park tender.

In November 2015, the tariff had touched Rs.4.63 per unit following aggressive bidding by US-based SunEdison, the world's biggest developer of renewable energy power plants.

Top US experts have expressed concern over Pakistan's decision to give death penalty to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav as they warned that Islamabad wants to send a “strong message” to India against isolating it on the world stage.

Jadhav, 46, was awarded the death sentence by military Field General Court Martial under the army act for his alleged involvement in terrorism and espionage. The death sentence was confirmed by army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.
“Apart from the gross irregularities in the Jadhav situation, such as the lack of consular access and the secrecy surrounding the surprise court-martial, what struck me the most is the contrast between the speed of Mr Jadhav's trial set against the endless postponements for that of the Mumbai attackers, Alyssa Ayres, a former senior State Department official in its South and Central Asia Bureau said.

“The latter case, by contrast, has been in a continual state of prolongation for nearly nine years, Ayres told PTI.
She is currently senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, a top American think-tank.

Bharat Gopalaswamy, director of South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-DC based top US think-tank, believes that the evidence warranting Jadhav's conviction “is rather flimsy” and the story by the Pakistani authorities “do not add up”.

Without furnishing further evidence, this conviction as it stands, “seems to be politically motivated” in order to counter India's aggressive diplomacy against Pakistan in combating terrorism, he said.

“This whole story is shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, but it seems clear that Pakistan wants to send a very strong message to India, whether to warn New Delhi against meddling in Pakistan or to push back in a big way against India's efforts to isolate Pakistan on the world stage,” said Michael Kugelman, deputy director and senior associate for South Asia at the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Center.

“At the same time, given how much India will want to ensure that Yadav isn't executed, Pakistan now has a very large bargaining chip at its disposal. Pakistan may want to use Yadav as a trump card to get some type of major concession from India,” Kugelman said.

“The bottom line is that India-Pakistan relations are on life support. We can kiss goodbye any immediate prospects for resuming dialogue, though that wasn't a very strong possibility even before the announcement about Yadavs death sentence. Ultimately, India and Pakistan face some very dark and dangerous days ahead, he said.
According to Sameer Lalwani, senior associate and deputy director for Stimson's South Asia program, said the decision and timing of Jadhav's execution sentence “appears puzzling” because in many ways it does not seem to work in Pakistans self-interest.

“If Jadhav posed a threat and Pakistan wanted to send a deterrent signal to potential saboteurs of CPEC and Gwadar, they could have executed him months ago after his intelligence value had been exhausted,” Lalwani said.
“If Pakistan wanted to exploit Jadhav's capture for diplomatic purposes by showcasing evidence of Indian sub conventional aggression, Pakistan still has yet to convince the international community and an execution raises suspicions,” Lalwani said.

“Finally, if the Indians care that much about Jadhav, Pakistan could have used him as a bargaining chip. Perhaps the sentence is an opening bargaining gambit but actuallyexecuting Jadhavmay not be reaping much of a deterrent signal for Pakistan while foreclosing on diplomatic or trade value, he said.

Both the State Department and the White House refused to comment on the sentencing of Jadhav.
“We have seen these reports. We refer you to the governments of India and Pakistan for further information,” a State Department spokesperson said.

A relic hunter has found more than 14,000 dog tags buried in Britain, of soldiers who fought and died during the Normandy landings, a media report said.

Dan Mackay, 37, uncovered the hoard of dog tags buried beside an anti-aircraft battery close to London, The Telegraph reported.

He was now working to trace the relatives of the men — believed to have served in nearly every regiment of the Army — many of whom may never have recovered relics from their loved ones killed in action, the report said.

Mackay said the veterans to whom the tags belonged included decorated soldiers including military medal winners, prisoners of war and those who had been written about in military journals and dispatches.

"The excitement was almost unbearable, it was as if someone had lifted the lid on a treasure chest full of silver coins," he was quoted as saying.

After his requests to help find relatives of the soldiers were rejected by the British Legion and several military historians and magazines, Mackay said he made a breakthrough on the website War Forces Records, which connected him with a surviving veteran, Frederick Henry Bills.

Mackay has already repatriated eight tags to families.