Kanhaiya attacked at JNU by ‘outsider’

New Delhi: JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar was allegedly attacked on the campus on Thursday by a youth said to be an outsider. According to students and teachers present there, the attacker called Kanhaiya for an interaction when he was attending a lecture. "Kanhaiya went to a corner to talk to him where the boy started abusing him and after an argument, he slapped him," a student said. The attacker has been detained. PTI

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Headley cross-examining begins March 22

Mumbai: Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley will be cross-examined by key 26/11 plotter Abu Jundal's lawyer for four days from March 22-25 in the 2008 terror attack case, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said on Thursday. The cross-examination comes in the backdrop of the controversy over alleged alteration of affidavit relating to the Ishrat Jehan case as he had claimed during the deposition that she had LeT links. PTI

SC won’t hear Haryana petition on cow

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a petition for declaring cow as Haryana’s state animal. The petitioner, Naresh Kadyan, had also challenged the use of beef as medicine in Haryana despite the ban on cow slaughter. A Bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur told Kadyan’s counsel Rajender Yadav that the HC was right in dismissing the PIL as such petitions could be filed only if there was any violation of the petitioners’ fundamental rights. TNS