UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon is appalled by the twin bombings that struck Russia’s Volgograd city, which left dozens of people dead, a UN spokesperson said Monday.
At least 10 people were killed and 10 more injured early Monday when a bomb went off in a trolleybus in Volgograd. The attack came a day after a woman suicide bomber blew herself up at a railway station in the city, killing 17 people and injuring 45.
The United States does not want the arrest of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to negatively impact its important bilateral relationship with the country, a top US administration official has said.
“We don’t want this to negatively impact our relationship, that we work on a broad range of issues together, our bilateral relationship is too important. And we’ve said repeatedly that we don’t want it,” the State Department Deputy Spokesperson, Marie Harf, told reporters at her daily news conference yesterday.
Upset by police’s failure to trace two women missing for almost two months from Ashram Basti in the city, residents of the area today blocked the Rohtak Road Bypass for nearly three hours, causing a huge traffic jam.
Accusing the police of inaction in the case, the protesters demanded that the women be traced soon.
On hearing about the blockade, SHO of the city police station Captan Singh along with police force reached the spot and tried to pacify the crowd, but the people did not listen and the traffic remained disrupted for nearly three hours.
YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy here on Monday launched his second phase of “Samaikhya Sankharavam” yatra at Chowdepalli in the district.
Jagan unveiled statues of late YSR at Chowdepalli, Kondamalli, Laddigam, Chandalla and Punganur villages.
Speaking on the occasion, Jaganmohan Reddy called upon the people to teach a lesson to bifurcation politics with their votes. TDP Chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu has not demanded united Andhra Pradesh at Praja Gharjana meeting, he pointed out.
The National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) today sanctioned about Rs 654 crore for the construction of roads of a total length of 114.302km in the five Haryana districts of Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Rohtak, Rewari and Sonipat.
A Haryana government spokesman said that improvement of existing roads and the building of new roads and bypasses would be undertaken with the money.
NCRPB’s project sanctioning and monitoring group cleared the funds today at a meeting held under the chairmanship of the Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Sudhir Krishna.
Cracking down on bootlegging in view of New Year festivities, police seized 222 bottles of liquor here and arrested three persons allegedly involved in the smuggling of alcohol.
Raj Kumar, an alleged bootlegger, was arrested in sector 20 and 30 bottles of country-made liquor were recovered at his behest, police said.
As many as 192 bottles of liquor were seized in sector 58 and two persons, identified as Deepak and Gaurav, arrested in this connection, they said.
The liquor bottles were hidden in a Tata Safari which was impounded, police said.
Anantapur Congress leader and MLA J C Diwakar Reddy today made another sensational comment saying that he would not be in the Congress whether the State was bifurcated or not.
Talking to the media at Anantapur, JC declared that he would not continue in the Congress party whether Andhra Pradesh was divided or not and he will announce his future course of action after January 31. He also claimed various political parties have been inviting him because of his “guts to win any election”.
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US today condemned a terrorist attack in southern Russia that left at least 14 people dead.
“The United States condemns the terrorist attacks that struck the Russian city of Volgograd and sends deepest condolences to the families of the victims with hopes for the rapid healing of those wounded,” said Caitlin Hayden, spokesperson of the National Security Council, White House.
The US stands in solidarity with the Russian people against terrorism, she said in a statement.
The US is proceeding with the prosecution of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade and has no intention to withdraw the case of visa fraud against her.
US sources here said today that more evidence was being gathered against the 39-year-old diplomat before the indictment is filed. The deadline for indictment is January 13.
There is no question of apology to India over the arrest of Khobragade, the then Deputy Consul General of India, in New York on December 12 which has led to strong protests by the Indian government and widepread indignation in India.
Family members of an American development expert kidnapped in Pakistan by Al-Qaeda more than two years ago say they’re holding out hope he’ll return safely home.
Warren Weinstein’s wife, Elaine, told ABC News it hurt to hear her 72-year-old husband say in a video released Thursday that “it seems that I have been totally abandoned and forgotten” by the US government.
The Lebanese army used its air defence systems against Syrian helicopters after they carried out a raid inside Lebanese territory, a military source told AFP.
It was the first time the Lebanese army has responded to Syrian attacks on its territory, which have multiplied as the conflict in its eastern neighbour has intensified, the source said yesterday.
“In accordance with the orders of the army command, anti-aircraft guns were fired in the direction of Syrian helicopters that bombed Khirbet Dawud near Arsal,” in the area near the Syrian border, the source told AFP.
Volunteer teachers in Srinagar protested and clashed with the police over failure of literacy scheme”s implementation on Monday. Hundreds of teachers took to streets and shouted slogans against the state”s education department for their ”callous attitude” towards implementing Saakshar Bharat Mission (India”s Literacy Mission).
Thousands of people have fled a South Sudan town fearing an attack by rebel forces as the country’s conflict spreads, the United Nations said.
The provincial capital of Bor has become the focus of a bloody power battle between President Salva Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar that has already left more than 1,000 dead.
UN reconnaissance planes have spotted “large” groups of armed youths and regular troops who have defected from Kiir’s side north of Bor, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters yesterday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to stay within international law in the hunt for the perpetrators of two bomb attacks in the city of Volgograd, the United Nations said.
Putin made the promise in talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon following the suicide blasts earlier yesterday and Sunday that left at least 31 people dead.
Putin “noted that the international community must work together in the fight against terrorism and commended the United Nations for its important role in coordinating efforts to fight organised crime and terrorism,” said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday strongly condemned the “ghastly” terrorist attacks in the southern Russian city of Volgograd and conveyed to Russian President Vladimir Putin condolences for the victims.
In a letter to Putin, Singh termed the attacks as “unconscionable” crime against humanity and said he was “outraged and pained” to know about them.
The US has said that violence is not acceptable in Bangladesh ahead of the next week’s general elections which is facing a threat from the main opposition parties.
“We believe it is more urgent than ever for the major parties to redouble their efforts to engage in constructive dialogue to find a way forward to holding free and fair elections that are credible and reflecting the will of the Bangladeshi people,”the State Department Deputy Spokesperson, Marie Harf, told reporters yesterday.
Kolkata will soon have a wax museum of its own on lines of the world famous Madame Tussauds, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Monday.
The wax museum would come up opposite Prakriti Tirtha – the Eco-Tourism Park at Rajarhat in the city’s north eastern outskirts – which was opened to the visitors January this year.
“Inspired by the Madame Tussauds, the world famous exponent of Wax Museum of London, we are creating our museum to allow photo opportunity to the visitors with famous personalities,” said Banerjee.
On a visit to relief camps of riot victims here, RJD chief Lalu Prasad today blamed both the BJP and the SP for the communal violence here even as he heaped praise on Rahul Gandhi, saying Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal were nothing in front of the Congress Vice President.
“Kejriwal and Modi are nothing in front of Rahul. Rahul Gandhi is Rahul Gandhi. You guys have put them (Kejriwal, Modi) on the moon. It is you, who give them publicity. What have they done so far,” the RJD chief said, adding his party will tie up with the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls.
Pakistani police today defused four small bombs found near former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf’s farmhouse here, nearly a week after explosives were discovered on the road he was to take to a court.
According to the police, the improvised devices containing explosives in packets were found in a forested area on Park Road near Musharraf’s villa at Chak Shahzad.
Each packet contained around 400 to 500 grams of explosives and there were two detonators, police officials said. A passerby spotted the devices a short distance from the farmhouse.
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Cooper Tire & Rubber Co today terminated its troubled $2.5-billion merger agreement with Apollo Tyres, which said it will take legal action against the US-based firm.
“It is time to move our business forward. While the strategic rationale for a business combination with Apollo is compelling, it is clear the merger agreement both companies signed on June 12 will not be consummated by Apollo,” Cooper Chairman CEO and President Roy Armes said in a statement.