Medical experts doubt Pinki Pramanik can rape

KOLKATA: Medical experts on Tuesday questioned the police move to slap rape charges on Pinki Pramanik after the former Asian Games gold medallist was declared a male on the basis of a DNA test report.

Pinki's medical report, they pointed out, says that the athlete suffers from Disorder of Sexual Development (DSD). A DSD patient, say experts, cannot be termed a male - despite an XY chromosome combination, as Pinki's DNA report has confirmed-because such

MP's arrest: Violence hits bus services to Belgaum district

BELGAUM: The arrest of Swabhiman Shetkari Sanghatan (SSS) leader Raju Shetty, MP, in Maharashtra on Monday has had a rippling effect in Belgaum district.

All bus services from Maharashtra to Karnataka have been suspended, while a few state buses are plying to Maharashtra.

Five KSRTC buses were stoned in Maharashtra, while a tempo was set afire near Borgaon.

Shetty was arrested when the agitation by sugarcane farmers there for higher prices for their crop turned violent on Monday.

Since Shetty has several supporters in Belgaum district, especially in border taluks of Chikkodi, Athani and Raibag, thousands of farmers gathered at Bedkihal Circle on

Police say Pinki Pramanik is male, doctors contest claim

Sharp differences emerged between the police and members of the medical board after the former submitted a chargesheet declaring decorated athlete Pinki Pramanik as being a male and proceeding to accuse the person of raping a woman while the doctors told Hindustan Times Pramanik was not a male but a “male pseudo hermaphrodite”.

On June 14, a 32 year-old woman lodged a complaint with the Baguihati police here against Pramanik, saying ‘he’ had raped her with the promise of marriage.

Pramanik had also grabbed her properties, the woman alleged in the complaint, on the basis of which Pramanik was arrested and produced before a court the same day.

A gender determination test followed. Pramanik told Hindustan Times, “The chargesheet is incorrect. The medical report is different.”Defending the police version Shantomay Basu, additional public

UPA readies for life after Didi

NEW DELHI: The Congress-Trinamool divorce seems complete with the government ruling out any rollback of fuel hikes and FDI in retail and Mamata Banerjeeinsisting there was no room for negotiation.

Within minutes of finance minister P Chidambarammaking an emphatic "no rollback" statement on Wednesday, Banerjee said TMC ministers at the Centre would quit on Friday. The CM's charge that the government was "distorting facts" in claiming that the PM tried to reach her only increased the acrimony. Her demand that the number of cheap cooking gas

Bharat Bandh to hit major cities; SP, BJP, JD(U) workers stop trains

New Delhi: The nationwide protests on Wednesday against fuel price hike and FDI in retail are likely to bring life to a stand-still in major cities. The strike call has been given by both the NDA and the Third front parties.

Shiv Sena, though, has opted out of it. BJP leaders have fanned out to all major cities to lead the protest. Sushma Swaraj will be in Bhopal, Nitin Gadkari in Delhi, Rajnath Singh in Lucknow and Venkaiah Naidu in Hyderabad. Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party