PARIS: Barcelona assistant coach Jordi Roura played down fears for the fitness of Lionel Messi on Tuesday while Paris Saint-Germain coach Carlo Ancelotti insisted his team can still win their Champions League quarterfinal tie.

Kota: The 15-year-old girl to marry a kind of sexual contact with him has legal exemption.Contrary to the husband - wife of over 15 years in the case of a physical relationship with the girl's consent shall not be deemed a misdemeanor.

KOLKATA: The run-up to every IPL season is generally marked by some controversy or the other, triggering all kinds of debates, but all that fades into the background once the first ball is bowled in the world's most glamorous T20 league. It has been no different in IPL-6, with the controversy over Sri Lankan cricketers' participation in the tournament.

Kolkata: The death of a 23-year-old Student Federation of India activist, Sudipto Gupta, has sparked a row in Kolkata. Sudipto was fatally injured allegedly by the police during a crackdown in the city on Tuesday.

Mumbai: Protectors of law - beaten and abused. The assault on API Sachin Suryavanshi and a cop in Dhule has shocked the nation. But the fact is, a circular issued by the Mumbai Police Commissioner in 2012 following similar attacks on policemen, was never followed. At that time,

Shamli: Four sisters were injured in an acid attack by two men on a motorcycle in Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday evening.

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration on Tuesday warned North Korea to halt a recent spate of "unacceptable" rhetoric and actions that Secretary of State John Kerry called "provocative, dangerous and reckless." Kerry also vowed that the United States would defend itself and its allies South Korea and Japan from North Korean threats.

Ghaziabad: Krishna, the compounder of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, had confessed to the double murder of Aarushi-Hemraj but later changed his statement, a retired CBI official said on Tuesday. Deposing before a special CBI court as a prosecution witness, retired SSP of CBI Vijay Kumar said Krishna had changed his statements several times.

YANGON, Myanmar: A fire engulfed a mosque housing orphans in Myanmar's largest city Tuesday morning, killing at least 13 children in the blaze that police blamed on an electrical short.

SEOUL: South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack, the new president in Seoul warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the US deployment of radar-evading fighter planes.