Month: February 2013

US refuses to repatriate dead Russian child’s brother

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A Russian toddler adopted in the US whose brother died in Texas under unclear circumstances would not be sent back to Russia, Texan authorities said.

The boy’s 23-year-old mother, Yulia Kuzmina, has asked to have her surviving son Kirill back.

CBS News reported that a spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services said that was out of the question.

“We’re a state agency in Texas that operates under Texas state laws and we wouldn’t be involved in doing anything other than placing that child within Texas,” Patrick Crimmins was cited as saying.

Two held at Bihar-Nepal border

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Bihar police have arrested two persons while crossing the border suspiciously. One is said to have belonged to Hyderabad while the other is a foreigner. According to reliable sources police have taken Mohammed Alam of Hyderabad and Mohammed Abdullah citizen of Somalia into their custody.

The duo was trying to cross the border on foot secretively. Police have seized suspicious objects from their possession. Police seized information of important places, map of Secunderabad area and laptop and computer from Mohammed Alam resident of Hyderabad. Somali was traveling without passport.

Palestinian prisoner dies as hunger strike expands

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A Palestinian prisoner has died in an Israeli jail, officials said, as the number of inmates on hunger strike climbed to 11, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.

Arafat Jaradat was “arrested a few days ago. He was killed during the investigation,” the Palestinian minister in charge of prisoner affairs Issa Qaraqaa told AFP.

We demand the creation of an international commission of inquiry to probe the circumstances of his death,” Qaraqaa
said.

Yaseen Bhatkal Masterminded Blasts

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has found some vital clues in the twin blasts in the Dilsukhnagar area of the city.

Investigators of the elite agency have found that the dreaded terrorist masterminded the Hyderabad blasts. Bhatkal was also involved in the blasts at Pune, Delhi and Bengaluru. Several cases were registered against him in several parts of the country. However, he was evading arrest.
According to some reports, Yasin had escaped to Dubai and reached Pakistan from there. The reports said he has been operating from Pakistan ever since.

Shop owners warned to be alert for suspicious people or objects

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Following Dilsukhnagar blast the police finally have sprung into action and vigilance is being maintained at busy areas like Begum Bazar and Abids. Apart from that as precautionary measures shop owners are instructed to report suspicious objects to police. According to reliable sources many secrets have been revealed after Maqbool’s arrest. Maqbool who has friendly relationship with Bhatkal community had identified three busy areas Dilsukhnagar, Begum Bazar and Abids after making rounds of the areas on scooter along with Imran four months ago.

New CJ of Orissa High Court to be sworn-in on Feb 27

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Senior judge of the Madras High Court Justice C Nagappan will be sworn-in as the new Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court here on February 27.

According to High Court sources, the Presidential warrant of appointment of Justice Nagappan reached here
during the day.
F
ollowing the elevation of former Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda to the bench of Supreme Court, Justice Pradeep K
Mohanty is currently officiating as the Acting Chief Justice of the High Court.

Born in October 1951, Justice Nagappan was appointed as an additional judge of Madras High Court in September 2000

Twin blasts: TDP demands resignation of AP Chief Minister

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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today drew flak from his party men and the opposition, which demanded that he immediately step down from his post owning responsibility for twin bomb blasts that claimed 16 lives on Thursday .

Telugu Desam Party MP T Devender Goud and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Dadi Veerabhadra Rao
came down heavily on the government stating that it ignored the Centre’s warning on terror strikes.

The blasts occurred solely because of the state government’s failure. The entire Cabinet should own

Tribal girl allegedly raped in Jhargram town

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A tribal girl was allegedly raped by a youth at Jhargram town, police said today.

Superintendent of Police of Jhargram Bharati Ghosh said the girl, a class X student was returning home from private tuition at around 9 pm last night when a youth forcibly took her to a field at Bachur doba area and allegedly raped her.

The girl narrated the incident to her family.

The girl’s mother lodged a rape complaint at the Jhargram police station, the SP said.

A medical test of the girl was conducted, the SP said adding investigations were on.

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JPC will decide Raja’s request for appearing before it: Cong

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Congress today steered clear of the issue of former Telecom minister A Raja’s request to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar for appearing before the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G spectrum as a witness.

JPC will decide his request. JPC is empowered to accept such kind of requests. It takes its decisions absolutely
independently,” party spokesman Rashid Alvi said.

He was responding to a media query on Raja’s request to the Lok Sabha Speaker that he be allowed to appear before the JPC to tell his side of story.

Bhandara: No breakthrough in rape-cum-murder of sisters

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Even a week after three minor sisters were allegedly raped and murdered in East Maharashtra district of Bhandara, culprits remain at large as police are struggling to achieve a breakthrough.

Meanwhile, outrage over the ghastly crime is growing with school children here today taking out a silent march sporting black ribbons to condemn the incident that occurred in Murwadi village in Lakhani taluka of Bhandara district, nearly 70 kms from here.

9-yr-old girl raped in Faridabad

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A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped twice by her neighbour’s son at SGM Nagar area here.

Rohit, son of Rita Sachdeva, raped twice the girl during the last eight-month period as the victim was staying with Sachdeva’s family with her mother’s consent,” police said today.

Earlier, Sachdeva had requested the victims’ mother to give the girl in her care.

The victim’s mother has a dispute with her husband and a case of divorce is pending in court, police said, adding, her mother had given consent to Sachdeva to take care of the girl.

Two cops, part of hit squads, held in Ishrat encounter case

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The CBI has arrested two police officers who were part of as many squads that took part in the alleged fake encounter of teenage girl Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004 in Gujarat.

The duo were already under judicial custody in another alleged fake encounter case of Sadik Jamal.

The arrests came close on the heels of the investigating agency picking up SP (Crime Records Bureau)
Girish Singhal on Thursday in this connection.

While J G Parmar, who retired as DSP and also the complainant in the encounter case, was apprehended last night,

Egypt mulls election date change after Copts object

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Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi is considering rescheduling parliamentary elections after Coptic Christians complained they would clash with the Easter period, his office said today.

Today President Mursi said he is seriously considering rescheduling elections to avoid any overlap with Coptic
Christian holidays,” the presidency said on its English-language Twitter account.

It did not give details on a possible new schedule for the election, which will replace an Islamist-dominated parliament dissolved by a court on a technicality before Islamist Mursi was elected in June.

Sonakshi performs disco number in ‘Himmatwala’

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Actress Sonakshi Sinha may have performed a disco song in ‘Himmatwala’ but in real life she does not go to clubs or disco regularly.

For Sajid Khan’s upcoming film ‘Himmatwala’, Sonakshi has performed a special song – ‘Thank God Its Friday’, a take on the disco culture of the 80s.

In today’s time we say clubs and not disco. I don’t like clubbing much. I am a homely body… though I do go to clubs at times,” Sonakshi told reporters here last night at the launch of the song.

‘Breaking News Live’ not a ‘commercial” film,says director

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Director of the Malayalam film ‘Breaking News Live’, Sudheer Ambalapat, said the movie was made with good intentions and it was not a ‘commercial’ one.

Ambalapat, a journalist who made his directorial debut with the film, said making a movie was not a problem.
Reaching the films in cinema-halls proved to be a bigger problem,he said.

About six films are being produced every week, he said, adding the number of theatres in the state was coming down.
“Even if the films by the newcomers are good, they are finding difficulties in exhibiting it as the number of

Eve-teased, girl commits suicide

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A 23-year-old girl who was subjected to eve teasing by a neighbour committed suicide by hanging herself at her home, police said today.

The incident took place at Chopda Mohalla yesterday when the victim was alone at her home, they said.

Her neighbour, one Manoj Kushwaha, allegedly used to tease her and upset with it, she hung herself from the ceiling
fan in the room yesterday when she was alone, they said quoting girl’s mother Hemlata Sharma.

Hemlata was living with her only daughter as her husband and son had died earlier, police said.

One killed, seven injured in Baluchistan violence

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One person was killed and at least seven persons injured when gunmen opened fire on a rally of a religious party at Quetta in Baluchistan, police said.

Unknown motorcyclists opened fire at rally of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) at Liaquat Baazar but the assailants
had managed to escape, they said.

According to ASWJ leaders, Qari Amin a prayer leader at Bilal mosque in Korangi was shot dead by unknown assailants.

Soon after the incident, ASWJ workers staged a sit-in to protest against the shooting and pelted stones at passing vehicles.

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Govt officer attacked during anti-encroachment drive

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A senior state govenment official was attacked with stones and lathis by a mob today during an anti-encroachment operation in Bihar’s Nawada district.

The mob attacked Circle Officer (CO) Ramjanam Prasad when he was supervising anti-encroachment drive at a chowk on
Pakriwa-Warsaliganj road, police sources said.

The officer received injuries.

He was taken to Pakriwa government hospital and later discharged.

An FIR has been lodged in the incident, the sources said adding one person has been arrested.

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Nigeria pulls radio station’s license after polio attacks

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Nigeria has suspended the broadcasting license of a radio station that repeated conspiracy theories about polio vaccines days before deadly attacks on polio clinics, a statement said today.

Gunmen attacked two polio clinics in the northern city of Kano on February 8, killing at least 10 people, after Wazobia FM broadcast a story reviving claims that the vaccines are part of a Western plot to harm Muslims.

Son of Chinese Army official held in gang-rape case

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A 17-year-old son of a senior Chinese Army official has been arrested along with four others in connection with a gang-rape case.

Five men, including one surnamed Li, were apprehended on Wednesday after a woman accused them of raping her.

Police officials demanding anonymity told state media that Li is the son of Li Shuangjiang, dean of the music department of the People’s Liberation Army Academy of Arts.

Li Shuangjiang, 74, built his reputation in past decades by singing popular patriotic songs, according to official Xinhua news agency.

British Indian schoolgirl dies in ski fall

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A 13-year-old Indian-origin girl from Britain has died in an accident on a school ski trip in the Italian Alps.

Poonam Bhattal was with her schoolmates from Guru Nanak Sikh Academy in Hayes, west London, when she fell 20-feet from a chairlift at the resort of Claviere on Friday morning.

Emergency services attended to her but she died in an ambulance while being taken to hospital in Susa, about 40
kilometres from Claviere.

Italian police are investigating the accident and Skibound, which organised the trip, has also launched a probe
into the safety of the ski-lift at the resort.

Missing constable found dead

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A 48-year-old Delhi Police constable, who was missing for the past four days, was today dead found, police said.

Suresh Singh, who hailed from Haryana’s Jind, was found dead in Delhi Cantt in south-west Delhi at around 10 AM.

He was apparently given some poisonous substance that led to his death. There were no injury marks on his body, police said.

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Indian techie, wanted for family’s murder in US,arrested in AP

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The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a software engineer wanted for allegedly murdering his wife and two children in the US in 2008.

According to a statement by Crime Investigation Department (CID), Nerusu Lakshimi Nivas Rao, native of Krishna district and a US green-card holder, is in the wanted list of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Rao is accused of murdering his wife Nerusu Jayalakshmi, son Siva (12) and daughter Tejasvi (14) at Novi, Michigan, USA in 2008. He allegedly killed his wife first, and then the children when they returned from school two hours later.

72-year-old property dealer found murdered in Lajpat Nagar

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A 72-year-old property consultant was today found smothered to death at his rented house in south Delhi.

The incident was reported from Lajpat Nagar at around 11:30 AM and the deceased has been identified as Vijay Sareen, police said.

He was found dead by his maid in the bedroom. He lived alone on the ground floor of the building.

Investigators suspect the hand of one of his servants who was missing.

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