Teen kills self shooting for TikTok clip; woman dead over bar on app
MUMBAI: A teenager was killed after accidentally pressing the trigger of a country-made pistol, while shooting a clip for the social video app TikTok in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district, police said Thursday. Pratik Wadekar (17) and his relatives were posing for a TikTok video with a country-made pistol one of his relatives had brought, police said. Pratik died on the spot during the incident, which took place in the temple town of Shirdi Wednesday evening, police said. In another incident in Tamil Nadu a 24-year old mother of two children committed suicide on Thursday after she was scolded by her husband and prevented from using the short video-making app. Anitha recorded herself as she drank the poison and then sent the video via WhatsApp to her husband, who is in Singapore. (Agencies)
CBI charge-sheets ‘godman’ for rape committed in 1999
NEW DELHI: The CBI has filed a charge sheet against absconding self-styled ‘godman’ Virendra Dev Dixit for allegedly raping a minor at his ashrams in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi in 1999, officials said. In its charge sheet filed in the Rouse Avenue special court here, the CBI has pressed stringent charges of rape and criminal intimidation on Dixit, who is absconding. The central probe agency has announced a reward of Rs five lakh on him, the officials said.The agency had registered the case on January 3, 2018 on the orders of the Delhi High Court. (Agencies)
India mulling own space station: ISRO chief
NEW DELHI: India is planning to launch its own space station, ISRO chief K Sivan announced Thursday about this ambitious project which will enable the agency to send more humans to space when executed. He also said India will not join the International Space Station (ISS). After Chandrayaan Mission 2, also known as Moon Mission 2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch another mission to the Sun by launching Aditya-L1 in the first half of 2020, Sivan said. Another interplanetary mission to Venus will be launched in the next 2-3 years, Sivan, who is also the Secretary, Department of Space, said. Elucidating on the space station project, Sivan said the mission will also be an extension of the Gaganyaan project. “We have to sustain the Gaganyaan programme. So, subsequently, as a long-term plan, we are planning to have the space station in India. We are going to join the international community in manned missions to moon, asteroids. We have a clear plan for the space programme,” Sivan said. (PTI)