Breaking Highlights, Top Alerts of April 22
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11:28 am: I have realised that the women in self-help groups are coming up with new employment opportunities in various sectors: PM Narendra Modi
11:27 am: Invest energy in the last days of Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (April 14 - May 16) to bring transformation: PM Modi
11:26 am: I was overwhelmed by the feedback on Ambedkar Jayanti: PM Modi to BJP legislators
11:24 am: I went to UK recently and programs were organised there on various issues. I am glad I was a part of such important events: PM Narendra Modi
11:22 am: PM Narendra Modi interacts with BJP MPs, MLAs through NaMo App
11:11 am: Explosion rocks voter registration center in Afghanistan's Kabul city (Afghan Media)
10:49 am: This is a historic decision by the cabinet, such a law is needed to punish people who commit such heinous crimes. This decision has been welcomed unanimously: HM Rajnath Singh on ordinance to amend POCSO Act (ANI)
10:42 am: Two students allegedly raped by teacher in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district (ANI)
10:29 am: President signs ordinance to provide stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below 12 years (PTI)
10:13 am: It is a good step for rape victims under 12 years of age, but what about the ones who are older? There is no more heinous crime than rape, there is no larger pain. Every rapist should be hanged: 2012 Delhi gangrape victim's mother, on ordinance to amend POCSO Act (ANI)
09:51 am: Two Nepalese nationals with Heroin worth Rs 9 lakhs arrested in UP's Bahraich (ANI)
09:05 am: Pakistan violates ceasefire in Khari Karmara area of the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district; Indian Army retaliating
08:24 am: Pakistan is not ready to listen to voices of Kashmiris of PoK, so unfortunately the unemployed youth become soft targets for terrorists. Terror groups are flourishing in PoK: Nasir Aziz Khan, Exiled PoK Activist (ANI)
08:17 am: Iran vows to 'vigorously' resume enrichment if US quits nuclear deal (AFP)
06:18 am: 29-year-old merchant navy officer arrested for allegedly stalking and harassing a Delhi University student (ANI)
06:16 am: FIR registered against 3 people for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl in UP's Moradabad, making a video of the incident (ANI)
06:15 am: Man shot to death by bike-borne assailants over an alleged land dispute in UP's Meerut (ANI)
06:14 am: Many people criticised demonetisation. People said, 'what is the purpose of demonetization? All the money has come back to the banks'. I suppose that was the purpose: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu in Delhi (ANI)
06:12 am: 11-year-old girl allegedly sexually assaulted by a relative in UP's Kannauj; case registered against the accused (ANI)
06:10 am: World's oldest person Nabi Tajima dies in southern Japan at the age of 117 (The Associated Press)