Kanpur, July 27: A student today died here following cardiac complaints during the counselling at Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj University, police said. According to police sources, today during the counselling for MSc, Praveen Kumar, a resident of Auraiya district complained of sever chest pains, after which he was rushed to a nursing home, where he was declared brought dead.
Dehra Dun, July 27: At least four persons, including a minor girl, were killed and eight injured in various rain-related incidents across Uttarakhand during the past 24 hours as heavy rains lashed the capital and nearby areas. In Chamolzi district, two labourers were killed while seven others injured when an under construction wall collapsed due to heavy rains.
Dehradun, July 27: A man, suspected to be involved in illegal trade of animal organs, has been arrested along with three leopard skins at Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, officials said today. Acting on a tip-off, forest officials yesterday raided a house in Birahi area in the district and recovered three leopard skins from there, they said, adding the suspected poacher was also arrested from the spot.
He is suspected to be a member of the gang involved in illegal trade of animal organs, they said.
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Srinagar, July 27: Two suspected drug peddlers, including a woman, were arrested today and over 1.7 kgs of charas was seized from them in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Mumtaza and Saif-ud-din Lone were arrested in separate operations at Dewan bagh in Baramulla town of North Kashmir, 55 kms from here, they said.
About 1.7 kgs of charas was recovered from Mumtaza while another 50 gram seized from Lone”s possession, they added. PTI AMS TA DL
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Agartala, July 27: A Congress party worker was killed and another injured as clashes between ruling Left Front and opposition Congress activists, which started before the July 20 panchayat (village council) elections, continued in parts of the state, police said Monday.
Both the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Congress had given separate calls for a shutdown Monday in south Tripura’s district headquarter Udaipur — where the incident took place — crippling normal life.
New Delhi, July 27: Six years after the twin blasts at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, which left 53 people dead, a Mumbai Special Court convicted the three accused under POTA on Monday.
The three accused are: Mohammed Hanif Sayed, his wife Fahimida and Ashrat Shafique Ansari.
Srinagar, July 27: Three terrorists were killed in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Monday when the army foiled an infiltration bid across the Line of Control (LoC), officials said.
“Three intruding terrorists were killed in the Tangdhar sector of the LoC and the army foiled the infiltration bid,” a defence spokesman said in Srinagar.
The operation against the intruders is still on.
The LoC divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
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New Delhi, July 27: A 25-year-old newly-wed woman was allegedly murdered by her husband and in-laws for dowry.
Preeti, the victim, was found dead at about 9 pm Sunday night in her Moti Nagar residence.
Her mother alleges she was poisoned and then hung from a fan. Preeti’s husband Sarabjit was earlier working at a call center but left job after marriage.
Preeti’s mother says there were frequent demands for dowry which she could not satisfy, and that her daughter was starved as punishment.
Police have detained the husband and in-laws in the case.
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Sydney, July 27: A nose wheel fell off a Boeing 737 belonging to budget Australian airline Virgin Blue while it was taxiing for takeoff at Melbourne Airport, news reports said Monday.
Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association secretary Steve Purvinas said that Saturday’s incident showed the need for safety checks before all flights.
“In this case, we were lucky that the failure occurred on the ground,” he told national broadcaster ABC. “The release of the wheel assembly in-flight could have seen a loss of aircraft.”
Orissa, July 27: Armed men attacked a railway station and beat up employees, including the station master, in Orissa’s Keonjhar district tonight.
Over 60 people armed with sticks, bows and arrows stormed into Sagadpata railway station, 60 km from here, assaulted the station master, security personnel and other employees and looted mobile phones and cash from those present at the railway station, Superintendent of Police Asit Panigrahy said.
Denying involvement of Maoists in the attack, he said the attackers also pelted stones at Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel.
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Kanpur, July 27: A man was allegedly beaten to death at a police station in Hanspuram locality here tonight, triggering protest by locals who vandalised the police station and torched vehicles parked outside it.
Four policemen including the SHO of the police station, who are absconding, have been suspended and a case of murder is being registered against them on the basis of a complaint lodged by the son of the deceased, SP (crime) O P Singh said.
Noida, July 27: Sensation prevailed in sector-15 A of the city after two bodies were found hanging from an electric pole. Of the two bodies, one is of a man and another one of a woman.
According to the report, the twin bodies were found hanging from an electric pole. During search on the man’s body, police have found a license. The police have found written Pappu on hand of man’s body.
Police said that prima facie it appears to be a case of suicide. Police have sent bodies are investigating to establish their identity.
—Agencies
Panchkula, July 27: Five members of a family, including two children, sustained injuries when the car they were traveling in collided head on with a truck near Ramgarh late on Sunday evening.
The car was coming from Jagadhari and was headed to Panchkula.
The injured are: Jasbir Singh, his wife Jaswant Kaur, father Sukhdev Singh, son Luvy and daughter Deepa. “When we reached near Ramgarh, a speeding truck came from the opposite side and before I could apply the brakes, the collision took place,” Jasbir told the police.
New Delhi, July 27: 27-year-old woman was found dead under mysterious conditions in Harsh Vihar, with her relatives claiming dowry harassment. Sangeeta was found dead at her in-laws’ house by her parents on Saturday evening. The body bore bruises.
The police said the death was reported from house number 55, lane 8 in Harsh Vihar and that the husband of the deceased, Todarmal Dinesh, his uncle Prem Dinesh, sister-in-law Madhu and other accused in the case are absconding.
Ahmedabad, July 26: It’s been exactly a year since 22 bomb blasts ripped through this Gujarat city leaving 59 dead and over 100 injured. But after a Rs.9-lakh investigation bill, the police still are unable to trace down 37 suspects in the case.
The investigating agencies say they are yet to put all the pieces of the plot together because the suspected terror group behind the blast, Indian Mujahideen (IM) has a complex and wide web of links across the country, particularly in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
Mumbai, July 26: A 13-year-old domestic maid was allegedly gang-raped by four persons suspected to be Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists in suburban Andheri, police said on Saturday.
The accused, identified as Ganesh Gatkal (29), Ganesh Kale (30), Narendra Salunkhe (26) and Umesh Borande (28), were arrested from Marol village, last evening, they said adding the victim also lives in the same locality.
According to the police, the victim was sexually assaulted on Sunday evening when she along with her elder sister was going to her aunt’s place.
Kolkata, July 26: The state police on Friday claimed to have busted a racket involving sale of medical supplies of government hospitals.
The police had arrested Sabitri Dalal, 55, a resident of Khardah in North 24-Parganas for smuggling medicines from a government hospital.
Dalal, a nurse at Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital for the last 15 years, was the sister-in-charge of the operating theatre at the orthopaedic department of the hospital.
Apart from this, the police also arrested Mohammad Taufiq and Bina Turi, both Group D employees of NRS.
America, July 26: A refugee girl aged eight who was gang-raped in a shed by four boys from her homeland, Liberia, has been shunned by her family.
The boys, aged nine, 10, 13, and 14, lured her to the shed in Phoenix, Arizona, with the promise of chewing gum. All four have been charged with sexual assault and three with kidnapping. Liberia’s President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has tried to change attitudes to the issue by admitting that she was raped, condemned the family’s reaction.
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Mumbai, July 26: Four activists said to belong to Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were arrested here on Saturday on charges of gang raping a minor girl working as a maid servant, police said.
The four – Ganesh Gatkar, Ganesh Kale, Narendra Salunkhe and Umesh Borade – were produced before a magistrate in Andheri court this afternoon and remanded to police custody till July 28, according to senior police inspector of MIDC police station Pradeep Suryawanshi.
Split, July 26: Six people died when a Croatian passenger train derailed near the Adriatic city of Split in sweltering heat at the height of the summer holiday season, police said.
A train in Croatia has crashed on the line between Zagreb and the coastal city of Split, killing at least six people and injuring 20, officials say.
The accident happened when the two-carriage train derailed shortly after noon near the village of Rudine, around 30km (19 miles) from its destination.
Kathmandu, July 25:A truck carrying 35 buffaloes fell into a river in southern Nepal, killing all the cattle and the driver, police said today. The vehicle was on his way to the capital city from Narayanghat when it lost balance and fell into the Trishuli river at Benighat early morning, they said.
Muzaffarnagar, July 25: Three persons were today sentenced to life by a local court in a 12-year-old double murder case.
The Additional District Sessions judge Vinod Kumar Mishra also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on the three convicts — Om Prakash, Rajvir and Ramvir.
Two persons, Sushil Kumar and Bundi, were shot dead by five persons, including the trio, on June 6, 1997 in Bijapur village of the district.
Two of the five accused have died during the pendency of the case.
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Coimbatore, July 25: Ending his five-day long ordeal, a 12-year old boy from Uttar Pradesh, who was abandoned at the railway station here after being kidnapped by two persons, was today handed over to his uncle by the Railway Police.
Ayush, hailing from Orai in Uttar Pradesh, was found abandoned at the railway station here on July 23 by Railway Protection Force personnel.
Tiruchirappali, July 25: Two persons were killed on the spot and five others were injured when a lorry ploughed into a group of passengers who were standing at the rodeside near Siruvanur village on the Tiruchirapalli-Chennai National Highway, here today.
Police said the accident occured when a group of passengers, travelling in a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus which was proceeding to Tiruchiraplli alighted from the bus and were standing on the roadside as the bus had developed a snag.
Lucknow, July 25: The Government Railway Police(GRP) here late last night arrested two thieves, who allegedly used to commit robbery in trains, and recovered over Rs three lakh as booty from them.
According to GRP today, the arrested included Ravindra and Gulab.
They had snatched a money bag from a train passenger recently, the GRP said.
Besides Rs 3.60 lakh cash, the sleuths have recovered a pistol and a cartridge from their possession.
Investigation in the case was on.
–Agencies