NEW DELHI, 22 JULY. Geeta Arora, alias Sonu Punjaban has been sentenced to jail for 24 years by the Dwarka court in Delhi for her involvement in the kidnapping, human trafficking and prostitution. She has also been fined Rs 64,000. The Dwarka court also sentenced Sonu's associate Sandeep Bedwal to 20 years imprisonment and Rs 64,000 fine. The incident goes back to 2009 when Sandeep tricked a 12-year girl to fall in love with him and then took her to a woman named Seema on the pretext of marriage.

NEW DELHI, 19 JULY. A rare life-sized statue of Buddha that was smashed into pieces with a sledgehammer by construction workers in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province belonged to the Gandhara civilisation and was nearly 1,700 years old, a senior official has said.