A 19-year-old cook working at the Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic seminary here allegedly committed suicide on Saturday, police said.
Asif cut his throat using a butchers’ knife, SSP DC Mishra said.
His body was found by a cleaner, the officer said, adding that he was immediately rushed to a local hospital where he was declared brought dead.
The body has been sent for post-mortem and further investigations are on.
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Dancing to folk songs and cheering each other, hundreds of children from 14 states paraded on Parliament Street here Saturday demanding more investments in education and health sectors.
They were part of NINEISMINE — a child rights advocacy campaign demanding that nine percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) be committed to health and education as promised by the Common Minimum Programme.
One accused was arrested Saturday and a hunt launched for 11 others in connection with a Rs.1 crore illegal transfer from a businessman’s bank account here, police said.
“We have arrested one person in this connection and are on the lookout for another 11 who are suspected to be involved in this fraud,” Additional Police Commissioner (East) Quaiser Khalid told IANS.
The financial crime – considered to be among the biggest online banking and business fruads – took place Thursday in Mulund in north Mumbai.
Taking a broad swipe at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the ruckus over author Salman Rushdie’s cancellation of his trip to Kolkata, ex Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly Saturday said he never wrote his autobiography as he wanted to avoid becoming the subject of a frontpage controversy.
Ganguly felt there was no point in writing if he could not write everything.
Israeli security forces used force Saturday to disperse Palestinian activists attempting to set up a camp in West Bank in protest of Israeli expansion of settlement, witnesses and medics said, reported Xinhua.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers used tear gas and stun grenades Saturday afternoon to disperse dozens of Palestinian activists who were erecting a “tent village” near the West Bank village of Burin to protest Israeli plans to confiscate the land for settlement expansions, witnesses said.
Medics said more than 20 activists fainted after inhaling tear gas and were treated at the scene.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Employees Union on Saturday threatened that it would protest by dumping the garbage at MIM headquarters Darulsalaam and in front of Mayor Majid Hussain’s residence if the contract with Ramky was not cancelled.
Talking to reporters here, GHMEU president U Gopal said that several unions were against the contract given to Ramky for lifting of garbage as hundreds of people would lose their livelihood. He demanded that the contract be cancelled with immediate effect.
A 30-year-old primary school teacher was arrested for molesting half a dozen students over several months, police said on Saturday.
“Pradeep Kumar was arrested from Rohini area in north Delhi on Friday,” said a police officer.
The accused, a contract employee of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, was teaching at a civic school at Zamroodpur in Greater Kailash in south Delhi, he said.
Senior Congress leader Parvez Hashmi today said the next general elections would throw up a clear verdict in favour of Rahul Gandhi.
“The upcoming Lok Sabha polls will throw up a clear verdict in favour of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi. He has tremendous appeal among youth and poor masses,” Hashmi told reporters here.
(Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra) Modi and his ilk will be no match to him,” the Congress Secretary said.
A young man killed his mother for not giving money to buy liquor at village Nagour under Nateran police staion jurisdiction, about 40 km from the district headquarters, late on Friday, police said on Saturday.
Police officer Gopal Singh Dhakad told reporters that Ranveer Maihar (25) axed his mother Munni Bai (45) to death when she refused to give him money for liquor.
Police have arrested Ranveer and registered a murder case against him.
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Palestinian activists erected “tent village” to the north of a West Bank village Saturday to protest against Israeli plans to confiscate the land for settlement expansion.
The activists pitched eight tents and decorated them with Palestinian flags in the mountainous area which the Israeli army has announced a closed zone for Palestinians months ago, reported Xinhua.
The village is located near Nablus city and the activists say 80 percent of its land was used or allocated for the use of Jewish settlement activities.
An unemployed man in Britain found a “stinky yellow rock” on a beach and was surprised to find it was solidified whale vomit reportedly worth 100,000 pounds.
Ken Wilman’s boxer dog discovered the object in Morecambe, Lancashire, The Sun reported.
The 48-year-old man did not have a clue what it was, but a check on the internet revealed it was a rare piece of ambergris, a valuable ingredient used in perfume.
The vomit hardens after it is ejected by sperm whales.
A 42-year-old British woman has claimed her left eye was damaged by a fungus after she wore disposable contact lenses for a day.
Jacqueline Stone, a maths teaching assistant from Essex, spent 17 weeks in hospital after wearing the lenses, The Sun reported.
The woman had bought the “all-day comfort” lenses online.
“They felt uncomfortable all day. When I took them out, the left one had stuck to my eye,” she told the daily.
She said her vision became blurred and she was given drops by her doctor.
After the union cabinet approved an ordinance to effect changes in laws against sexual crimes, the government Saturday said it was open to consultation and changes after women’s groups urged the president not to sign it.
“Justice (J.S.) Verma committee and public opinion were both of the view that something needs to be done with a sense of urgency. All you can do is when the parliament is not in the session is to bring an ordinance, which is what we have done,” said External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on the sidelines of a function here.
Dozens of heavily-armed Taliban militants attacked a security forces check post in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Saturday, triggering fierce fighting that killed 30 people, including six paramilitary personnel and 12 civilians.
Security forces foiled the raid on the isolated check post, located at Serai Norang area in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, after an intense gun battle that continued for over three years.
The militants, who were armed with rocket-propelled grenades, launched the assault shortly before 4 am.
All rounder Shahid Afridi has made a touching appeal to the cricketing world to help in ending Pakistan’s four-year isolation from staging international cricket matches following the vicious terrorist attack on the visiting Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in 2009. Afridi, who has urged the cricketing world to help them in their efforts to revive international cricket in Pakistan, said that Pakistan has been sidelined by international cricket bodies and has suffered because of non-cooperation, the Daily Times reports.
The family of the Indian-origin nurse, who committed suicide following a hoax call about the Duchess of Cambridge by two Australian DJs, is struggling to come to terms with the fact that the DJs will not be prosecuted. Labeling the hoax calls as ‘misguided but harmless pranks’, the Crown Prosecution Service has said that there is no evidence to support a manslaughter charge against 2Day FM announcers Mel Greig and Michael Christian for the offending call to the nurse Jacintha Saldanha, News.com.au reports.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday ordered police to investigate threats received by a local girls’ band and provide adequate security to its members.
The Valley’s only girls’ rock band “Pragaash’ was started by some local girls last year.
In December 2012, it participated in a competition called the “Battle of Bands”, finishing third.
“After our participation in the ‘Battle of Bands’, we started receiving threats on social media sites. Our parents told us to give up the exercise,” said a band member here.
The West Bengal government will not allow forcible enforcement of the two-day bandh by trade unions, to be held later this month, which would only ‘aggravate’ the economic situation of the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday.
The economic situation of the state is in a mess because of the 34 years of Left Front ‘misrule’ and bandhs led to economic loss and ruined the state, she told a rally here.
“I do not believe in the politics of bandh. We (Trinamool Congress) have stopped taking recourse to bandh three years ago.”
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat on Saturday disapproved the government”s ordinance to deal with crime against women, saying the content of the ordinance is doing injustice to the Justice Verma Committee”s recommendations.
A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) councillor from Delhi’s Kondli ward on Saturday accused Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit of slapping and manhandling with her at a public function.
Dikshit was in Kondli to inaugurate a community centre and a public library, while Priyanka Gautam, the local councillor, rushed to the dais and argued for not having her name written on the gate of community centre and in the guest list.
Priyanka claimed that the Chief Minister misbehaved with her and asked her to go down from the dais.
Aam Admi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday persisted with his attack on Delhi government for the second successive day, accusing it of irregularities in Delhi Jal Board and effecting 18-fold hike in the water tariff in last nine years.
West Indies coach Ottis Gibson has said that his team will not be affected if some of Australia’s top players were forced to pull out of the ongoing one-day series so that they can prepare for their upcoming Test tour to India. Dismissing suggestions that West Indies would be offended by the withdrawals, Gibson said that due to a packed international schedule, teams like Australia have the right to rest and protect players from different formats of the game, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
A house in Silicon Valley, United States has been sold for 117.5 million US dollars, making it the most expensive house sale in the US ever. According to reports, the 3.6 hectares property, situated in Woodside, California, has been sold to Japan’s Masayoshi Son, with a Forbes-listed net worth of 7.2 billion US dollars, and is believed to be Japan’s second richest man, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Son is the founder of telecom company Softbank. The house was sold by Tully Friedman, chief executive of San Francisco private equity firm Friedman, Fleischer and Lowe.
A prison meat supplier in England has been suspended by the Ministry of Justice after pies and pasties for Muslim prisoners, delivered by the supplier, were found to have contained traces of pork, which is non-halal, and forbidden according to the Islamic dietary laws. According to Jeremy Wright, the Justice Minister, the ministry is taking every step to resolve the situation and that the Prison Service is investigating the situation as a matter of urgency, The Independent reports.
The union government is open to consultation and changes in the ordinance on criminal law amendments passed by the cabinet to deal with sexual crimes against women, External Affairs Minster Salman Khurshid said on Saturday.
He said bringing the ordinance was necessary in order to address the urgency that people wanted to see from the government on the issue.