One of the rockets damaged the yard of an Israeli home but there were no immediate reports of injuries. There were also no immediate claims of responsibility issued in Hamas Islamist-ruled Gaza.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Rockets explode in southern Israel as Obama visits
One of the rockets damaged the yard of an Israeli home but there were no immediate reports of injuries. There were also no immediate claims of responsibility issued in Hamas Islamist-ruled Gaza.
Sanjay Dutt gets 5 years in jail in Mumbai blasts case
NEW DELHI, MAR 21 -
The actor was arrested in April 1993, a month after the serial blasts that ripped Mumbai apart and left 257 people dead and over 700 injured. Police said the AK-56 found in his house was from the consignment of arms smuggled into the country before the blasts. He was arrested and booked under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (TADA) and sent to Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail, where he did time for around 16 months before being granted bail.
Mr Dutt received partial relief in November 2006 when a TADA court absolved him of terrorism charges and booked him under the Arms Act for illegal possession of arms. In July 2007, the court sentenced him to six years in jail. He was arrested on August 2 and sent to Pune's Yerwada Jail. He was granted bail by the Supreme Court on August 20.
In his confession upon his arrest in 1993, which he later retracted, the actor had said that mafia don Abu Salem visited his home in January 1993 with Samir Hingora and Hanif Kadawala, proprietors of Magnum Video and alleged close associates of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Mr Dutt said they had brought three AK-56 rifles with ammunition, and he kept one to protect his family. He said that he had asked his close friend Yusuf Nulwalla to destroy the rifle after he heard about the serial blasts.
Murmurs that that Mr Dutt got away because of political pressure allegedly exerted by his family, including his late father, actor Sunil Dutt, have persisted throughout the case. Defence lawyers have questioned why the CBI did not question his acquittal.
The verdict will no doubt bring gloom to the Bollywood fraternity. Three films, Policegiri, Zanjeer and P.K., are under production and nearly Rs. 70 crore is riding on Sanjay Dutt.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Car bomb blast kills nine in Iraq's Shi'ite south
The bomb exploded in the town of Garmat Ali, around 20 km (12 miles) north of the usually stable oil hub of Basra.
"I was thrown back by the explosion. Then I stood up and ran back to help the victims," said bus driver Hameed Salman, his white clothes stained with blood.
"I carried five bodies myself and put them in some civilian cars to take them to the hospital," he added.
Three police sources said nine people had died. The head of the provincial security committee, Ali Ghanim al-Maliki, put the death toll at 10.
Another car bomb went off in a carpark for government offices in the city of Basra itself, wounding two people, police said.
Iraq's power-sharing government has been all but paralyzed since U.S. troops left more than a year ago. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, is facing protests in the country's Sunni heartland, which shares a porous border with Syria.
Violence has increased with the swell of Sunni opposition to Maliki and Iraq's al Qaeda affiliate has urged protesters to take up arms against the government.
Security experts say al Qaeda-linked militants have been regrouping in the western province of Anbar and crossing into Syria to join mainly Sunni rebels battling forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite sect springs from Shi'ite Islam.
(Reporting by Aref Mohammed; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Bollywood actor's Nepali helper dies mysteriously
NEW DELHI, MAR 06 - Nepali community in Mumbai has demanded proper investigation over the controversial death of a Nepali who was working as a helper at the house of Bollywood actor Ayushman Khurana.Rudra Prasad Pratap, 27, hailing from Nawalparasi, had been working at the house of the Khuranas for the past five years. "The khuranas still have not returned from Delhi even after the death of Pratap. The body was also given to Pratap's maternal uncle instead of his parents," said Master Thapa, Chairman of Nepali Workers Union, India.
Khurana and his wife were in New Delhi for a business trip last Saturday when Pratap was found dead by the police. His body was taken to Cooper Hospital for post mortem and later handed over to Pratap's maternal uncle, Dilip Gaudel.
"Rudra was quite happy working for the Khuranas and the Khuranas were behaved well with him. I am not aware of any controversies between them," said Gaudel. Gaudel also said that Pratap was planning to return home for marriage soon.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Maternal uncle among 3 arrested in Delhi siblings murder case
Three men have been arrested in connection with the killing of minor siblings in the national capital, police said Sunday. Among those arrested is the maternal uncle of the children.The decomposed bodies of Mansij and his sister Yashvi, aged seven and five respectively, were recovered from near the railway track in front of Pragati Maidan power station at around 9.30 a.m. Saturday morning.
The maternal uncle of the children, identified as Amit, and two other men, Pankaj and Shivam, have been arrested in the case.
The children had been missing from their school, Mother Convent School, in the Mandawali area of east Delhi since February 26 afternoon.
The bodies were decomposed, and animals seem to have bitten away some parts, police said.
Both the children were in school uniform, and the bodies were identified by their dress.
Hubby kills wife
CHITWAN, MAR 03 -
A person has murdered his wife at Bharatpur in Chitwan district on Sunday morning.
Mohan BK living in a rented house at Bharatpur Municipality-13 killed his wife Maya by attacking with a lumber following a dispute.
An eyewitness said that Maya died on the spot in the incident.
Mohan has been absconding after the incident and a search is underway to nab him, according to the District Police Office, Chitwan.
A person has murdered his wife at Bharatpur in Chitwan district on Sunday morning.
Mohan BK living in a rented house at Bharatpur Municipality-13 killed his wife Maya by attacking with a lumber following a dispute.
An eyewitness said that Maya died on the spot in the incident.
Mohan has been absconding after the incident and a search is underway to nab him, according to the District Police Office, Chitwan.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Class IX girl gang-raped in West Bengal
A class IX student was gang-raped inside a tea garden in Jalpaiguri district and the accused were arrested, the police said today.
The victim girl, along with her friends, were going from Kalchini to Hamiltonganj on cycles when they were chased by three men.
While others managed to flee, one failed and the accused picked her up and raped her inside Kalchini Tea Garden last evening, Alipurduar SDPO Biswachand Thakur said.
Later her friends returned with more people and took her to hospital and a complaint was lodged to the police.
The police arrested the three accused who were tractor drivers of the tea garden today, the SDPO said.
Brokers offer to show flats to 17-year-old girl, rape her
Two real estate agents raped a 17-year-old minor in a hotel on the pretext of showing her property in Kandivli late on Thursday. After receiving a tip-off about their location, the police arrested the duo from Virar yesterday.
The victim has been living alone in a rented apartment on Kandarpada, Dahisar (East), ever since her family returned to their hometown. Since she wanted to purchase a flat, she contacted two real estate agents operating in Kandivli on Wednesday morning. She got their numbers from a common friend Mohammad Saddam (22) who lives in the same colony as the victim.
Of the two agents, one has been identified as Krishna Mastud (25). Promising to show her some apartments in Kandivli Complex, they asked her to meet them near a mall on Akurli Road in Kandivli (East) on Thursday evening. The three met and went to a restaurant in Kandivli to talk. The accused then spiked the cold drink that the victim was sipping on. She lost consciousness. She regained her senses around 1.30 am yesterday, to find herself lying on the WEH in Kandivli (East).
She told the police that her clothes were torn and there were nail marks on her body. She felt pain in her private parts. She called one of her friends and went to Bhagwati hospital where she sought treatment. According to police sources, the accused confessed that they had raped her in a hotel in Virar when she was unconscious. Pravin Tiwari, assistant commissioner (Samta Nagar division), said, “We registered a rape case against the duo and sent them to Nagpada hospital for medical examination.
We arrested Krishna Mastud and his accomplice. They work as real estate agents.” The two have been booked under Sections 328 (poison), 376 (rape) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC. They were produced at Borivli court and remanded in police custody.
Five years on, no justice for British teen raped in India
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NEW DELHI, Feb 23: The mother of a British teenager who was raped and left to die on a Goa beach five years ago has blasted India´s "rubbish" legal system over the stalled trial into her daughter´s death.Scarlett Keeling was only 15 years old when her bruised and half-naked body was found on a beach in the Indian resort state of Goa in February 2008.
Two men were arrested and charged with homicide several weeks after the attack on the popular Anjuna beach in the coastal state which has long been a haunt for Western tourists.
But five years on, their trial has come to a standstill and the pair are out on bail in an echo of a wider malaise in the notoriously sluggish Indian justice system.
In an interview with AFP, Scarlett´s mother Fiona MacKeown expressed her exasperation at the delay, saying she will not be at peace until she has secured justice for the youngster.
"The system is just rubbish," she said by phone from her home in the county of Devon on the west coast of England.
"It´s ridiculous that it´s now five years and we are still waiting."
The delay is another embarrassing example of India´s failure to deliver timely justice for victims of sex assaults, with anger still smouldering over the deadly gang-rape of a 23-year-old student in Delhi in December.
Scarlett´s death also attracted international headlines, highlighting the dark side of a tourist destination still seen by many as a hangout for hippies.
Since the trial began in 2010 at the children´s court in Goa´s state capital Panaji, proceedings have hit numerous obstacles.
The court has not had a full-time judge since 2011 and the public prosecutor withdrew from the case two years ago saying he did not have enough time to devote to it.
Since 2012, the court has met just once a week as it struggles to clear a massive backlog of cases.
Police initially dismissed Scarlett´s death as an accident but opened a murder probe after MacKeown piled pressure on local authorities, pushing for a second autopsy which proved that she had been drugged and raped.
But the two defendants, Samson D´Souza and Placido Carvalho, were not charged with rape or murder after officers from India´s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said they lacked sufficient evidence to indict them.
Instead they were charged with culpable homicide, using force with "intent to outrage her modesty" and administering a drug with intent to harm.
Police allege that Scarlett was given a cocktail of illegal drugs and dumped unconscious in shallow water where she drowned, a theory MacKeown dismisses.
"I don´t believe for a minute that she was left to die," she said.
"Someone was brutal with her and held her face down hard in the water to kill her."
The family was on a six-month holiday to India when MacKeown and her other daughters went on an excursion to the southern state of Karnataka, leaving Scarlett in the care of a Goan family.
MacKeown came in for heavy criticism back home for leaving her daughter without parental supervision.
Victim of India´s "rape culture"
Five years on, MacKeown is back home in Devon, with her remaining children and her "happy, nurturing" daughter never far from her thoughts.
"She loved life, she had so many dreams. She wanted to study art, she wanted to play in a band," she said.
"We miss her so much, she was my oldest girl and she was so good with her younger brothers and sisters."
She buried her daughter´s body only six months ago, when it was finally returned to her by Indian authorities after a long bureaucratic wrangle.
MacKeown´s Goa-based lawyer, Vikram Varma, told AFP the ongoing Delhi gang-rape trial which is taking place in a fast-track court held important lessons for the rest of India´s police and judicial establishment.
"In Delhi, police arrested the culprits within days, not weeks. And the court has promised a verdict soon. So clearly when we set our minds to it, we can deliver justice within a reasonable time frame," he said.
In Devon, MacKeown says she watched footage of the anti-rape protests in India with a sense of hope.
"I think it´s great that the younger generation is standing up and saying they have had enough. All women in India face the threat of this rape culture," she said.
"My daughter was a victim of this too and it´s time to put a stop to it. I won´t be at peace until someone is punished for what they did to her."
Monday, February 4, 2013
Two abductors gun down; child rescued
BIRGUNJ, FEB 04 - Police shot dead two persons who were allegedly involved in the abduction of Sulok Agrawal, eight-year old boy of Birgunj .The police said they resorted to firing in retaliation against the abductors .
The deceased have been identified as Sanjay Giri and one Bindeshwor, police informed.
Giri and Bindeshwor, who were injured in police firing, were rushed to National Medical College in Birgunj where they succumbed to their injuries while undergoing treatment.
Meanwhile, special police team led by SP Pitamber Adhikari freed the boy from the residence of Ram Nath Giri at Bhediyare-9, Parsa at around 3 this morning.
The boy is a son of businessman Ashok Agrawal.
Police constable Surya Bahadur Thapa and Bod Bahadur Tamang have also sustained injuries in the scuffle. They have been receiving medical attention in Birgunj .
Meanwhile, police have detained Ram Nath and his wife Ramba Devi, son Ajay, Kunal Agrawal of Birgunj -13, Rajan Babu Baniya, Panna Lal Sahani and Sikendra Yadav in connection with the investigation.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Twitter says hackers compromise 250K accounts
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb : Twitter said Friday that hackers, in the latest online attack, may have gained access to information on a quarter of a million of its more than 200 million active users.The social media giant said in a blog posting that earlier this week it detected attempts to gain access to its user data. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected.
But it discovered that the attackers may have gained access to usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250,000 users. Twitter has reset the pilfered passwords and sent emails advising users that they´ll have to create a new one.
"This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked," the blog said. "For that reason we felt that it was important to publicize this attack while we still gather information, and we are helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users."
FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2010 file photo, Twitter CEO Evan Williams makes a presentation about changes to the social network at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. (AP)
The hack is the latest high-profile cyber-attack on U.S. media and technology companies recently. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported this week that their computer systems had been infiltrated by China-based hackers.
One expert said that the Twitter hack probably happened after an employee´s home or work computer was compromised through a vulnerability in Java, a commonly-used computing language whose weaknesses have been well publicized.
Ashkan Soltani, an independent privacy and security researcher, said such a move would give attackers "a toehold" in Twitter´s internal network, potentially allowing them either to sniff out user information as it traveled across the company´s system or break into specific areas, such as the authentication servers that process users´ passwords.
In a telephone interview Friday, Soltani said that the relatively limited number of users affected suggested either that attackers weren´t on the network long or that they were only able to compromise a subset of the company´s servers.
Twitter is generally used to broadcast messages to the public, so the hacking might not immediately have yielded any important secrets. But the stolen credentials could be used to eavesdrop on private messages or track which Internet address a user is posting from.
That might be useful, for example, for an authoritarian regime trying to keep tabs on a journalist´s movements.
"More realistically, someone could use that as an entry point into another service," Soltani said, noting that since few people bother using different passwords for different services, a password stolen from Twitter might be just as handy for reading a journalist´s emails.
FNCCI condemns murder of businessman Rathi
Issuing a press statement on Sunday, FNCCI has expressed solidarity with the Biratnagar shutdown enforced by local business community to protest kidnapping and murder of Rathi. FNCCI expresses deep sympathy to the bereaved family, reads the release.
FNCCI, which has been strongly urging the government to enforce rule of law in the country, has draw the attraction of political leadership toward growing impunity in the country. "The private sector has been deeply disturbed by Rathi´s murder. We strongly condemn such kind of inhuman activities and urge the government to take prompt action against the guilty," the statement said.
FNCCI has also called upon security forces of both the country to stop cross-border criminal activities.
Indian President approves death penalty in some rape cases
President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the new rape law two days after cabinet ministers recommended changes to improve safety for women.
"The Indian president has given his assent to the ordinance on crime against women. It comes into effect immediately but it will also be tabled before the parliament," a senior officer in the president's office told AFP.
A government-appointed panel and the cabinet had recommended tougher laws after the death of a 23-year-old woman who was savagely rape d and attacked in a bus on December 16 and died nearly two weeks later.
Under the changes, the minimum sentence for gang- rape , rape of a minor, rape by policemen or a person in authority will be doubled to 20 years from 10 and can be extended to life without parole.
In the existing law, a rapist faces a term of seven to 10 years.
The cabinet has also created a new set of offences such as voyeurism and stalking that will be included in the new law.
But women rights activists have slammed the ordinance saying it lacks teeth to fight sexual crimes against women and lashed out at the government for passing the law without holding a debate or discussion.
Five men are being tried in a special fast-track court in New Delhi on charges of murder, gang- rape and kidnapping in connection with the death of the student, who died from her injuries in a Singapore hospital where she had been sent for further treatment.
A sixth suspect faces trial in a juvenile court.
The physiotherapy student was assaulted on a bus she had boarded with a male companion as they returned home from watching a film in an upmarket shopping mall.
India says it only imposes the death penalty in the "rarest of rare cases". Three months ago, it hanged the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks -- the country's first execution in eight years.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Displaced journos return to Dailekh
KATHMANDU, JAN 29 -A group of Dailekh-based journalist s, who fled to Surkhet following threats from the Maoist party workers, some six days ago, returned to the district on Tuesday.
Twenty-two journalists affiliated to various local and national media houses fled the district and reached Surkhet after UCPN (Maoist) activists threatened them with their lives for reporting and pressurizing the government to action against those who were involved in the murder case of Dailekh-based journalist Dekendra Thapa .
Maoist workers vented their ire on the journalists after clashes with anti-government protesters last Wednesday.
The journalists were demonstrating demanding the government commit in writing to let them perform their duty in a pressure-free environment.
They had also put forth a seven-point precondition before the government-formed committee to investigate the recent Dailekh clash and demanded that the security bodies should be sensitive about journalists ' safety.
With the reporters, Federation of Nepali Journalist Chairman Shiva Gaule, central members Bal Krishna Basnet, Deepak Pandey, Prabhat Chalaune, Surya Mani Gautam, Press Chautari Nepal Chairman Gagan Bista, general secretary Bishnu Rijal, central administrative Sarada Prasad Krital, National Human Rights Commission central personnel Hari Gyawali, regional DIG Tapendra Dhoj Dhamal, have also left for Dailekh from Surkhet.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Man gets 18 years for raping daughter
Judge Tek Narayan Kunwar convicted Shukra Raj Meghi, a resident of Bhainse VDC in Makwanpur, for raping his minor daughter. The 38-year-old was arrested by police on February 1, 2012. The police had filed a rape case against him at the district court on February 26.
In her preliminary statement to the police, the girl had disclosed that Meghi raped her in the night by threatening to kill her with a sharp sickle if she protested. The victim had also said that Meghi thrashed her mother when she tried to protect her daughter.
According to Kaushal Gyawali, chief administrator of the district court, Meghi has also been slapped with a fine of Rs 200,000. The amount of fine will be spent for the victim´s education, said Gyawali.
In the course of the trial, the victim had changed her statement. She had maintained that she was not raped by her father and she charged him for rape only because he physically abused her mother.
But, the court on the basis of a medical report and other circumstantial evidence ruled that Meghi raped his daughter, according to Gyawali.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
15 burned bodies found at Algeria gas plant
ALGIERS : Algerian special forces on Saturday found 15 burned bodies at the desert gas plant attacked by al Qaeda-linked fighters, a source familiar with the unfolding hostage crisis there said.
An investigation was in progress to try and identify the bodies, which were found after the Algerian army launched an operation to free dozens of foreign and Algerian workers at the gas plant. There was no immediate indication of the circumstances in which those found on Saturday had died.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Girl says man raped her, with boyfriend's help
KAVRE, JAN 16 -
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A girl has lodged a complaint at the Metropolitan Police Circle at Bouddha in Kathmandu, saying that she was rape d by a man with the help of her boyfriend .
The complaint said she was rape d by one Akash Shrestha, a friend of her boyfriend Umesh Upreti, in a Nagarkot-based hotel last Friday night after lacing her food with drugs.
Based on the complaint, police arrested both the accused Shrestha and Upreti and handed them over to the Bhaktapur District Police Office (DPO).
The DPO handed over the duo to the Kavre District Police Office on Monday, saying that the Kavre police will investigate the incident as it took place in the district.
A permanent resident of Nawalparali district, the 18-year-old girl, a plus two student, is currently living in Jorpati in Kathmandu.
"Both the girl and her boyfriend Umesh wandered around Thamel on January 11. Then Umesh called his friend Shrestha at New Road, from where Shrestha took the girl to View Hotel in Nagarkot, saying that he would call Umesh at the hotel later," Deputy Superintendent of Police Krishnaji Adhikari quote the girl as saying. After that, Shrestha rape d the girl after feeding food laced with drugs, Adhikari said.
Police said the girl and her boyfriend may have had a quarrel and Umesh called Shrestha to settle the matter.
Adhikari said detailed information on the incident will come out after interrogating the duo. He said police have started investigations into the case.
Originally from Dailekh, Umesh is living in New Baneshwor, while Akash is living in Minbhawan.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
High-ranking H&B officials sucked in as probe deepens
KATHMANDU, JAN 15 -
High-ranking officials of H&B Development Bank are being sucked in as the police probe deeper into a good for payment cheque scam. Police had arrested another eight employees of the development bank including immediate chief operating officer Mahesh Bhusal and finance head Nirmal Nepal who have been subsequently suspended. Nepal is the brother of the chief accused Niraj Nepal, the Kuleshwor branch manager, who is in police custody.’
The manager of the Kuleshwor branch of H&B has been charged with issuing good for payment cheque s to two traders despite insufficient funds in their accounts, resulting in losses to the bank running into millions.
Other officials who have been rounded up by the police are branch officer Parsuram Devkota, senior assistant Rima KC, assistants Manisa Poudel and Binas Dangol, office secretary Binod Acharya and Yek Narayan Devkota. The traders involved in the fraud Manoj Chaurasia and Jaya Kumar Yadav are at large.
On Sunday, they were remanded in custody for four days by the Appellate Court, Patan to enable the police to conduct further investigations. A police official at Metropolitan Police Range, Hanuman Dhoka said they had arrested them on the basis of the statement of Niraj Nepal.
“Following the arrest, an initial statement has been taken from them. The government lawyer will take their statements on Tuesday,” said the police official. An official at the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Police, which is investigating the case, said that more bank employees were arrested after they were found linked in the fraud case.
As a result of the scam, the bank incurred a cash loss about Rs 200 million and it is receiving a claim for over Rs 500 million for good for payment cheque s.
H&B has submitted a report of its internal investigation to Nepal Rastra Bank which has mentioned how the fraud took place, the amount involved and the bank’s liabilities, said a central bank official.
The bank’s internal investigation has found that chief accused Nepal issued good for payment cheque s in the name of Chaurasia and Yadav after they collected deposits from other individuals in their accounts. But the bank failed to withhold the amount after issuing good for payment cheque s which resulted in the withdrawal of all the money they had deposited.
Moreover, it has been found that a number of finance companies and cooperatives accepted the good for payment cheque s as collateral and provided loans to the fraudster duo Chaurasia and Yadav.
According to H&B officials, Chaurasia is a regular borrower of H&B while Yadav is just a depositor. The finance companies and cooperatives issued credit to Chaurasia and Yadav despite the central bank’s ban on providing loans against cheque s.
For this reason, the central bank has suspected that there is a racket involved in the incident and has frozen the bank accounts and shares of those involved including Niraj Nepal and senior officials of the financial institutions involved in providing the loans.
Meanwhile, the persons who have deposited money in the accounts of Chaurasia and Yadav enticed by high interest rates are in trouble now. They have been picketing the offices of H&B Development Bank and Nepal Rastra Bank demanding that the good for payment cheque s they had been given be cashed.
H&B and the central bank have told them that it will be possible to cash the cheque s only after the police investigation is completed. “After completion of the police investigation, we will make payment for genuine cheque s as per the central bank’s directive,” said H&B CEO Jasoda Sainju.
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