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| Russia says identifies bombers, arrests 2 in Volgograd blasts | | | By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has identified two suicide bombers responsible for attacks that killed 34 people in the city of Volgograd last month and arrested two suspected accomplices in the violence-torn Dagestan province, officials said on Thursday. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the bombers, whose attacks raised fears of further violence before the Sochi Winter Olympics next week, were members of a militant group in Dagestan in the restive North Caucasus in southern Russia. A bombing at the railway station in Volgograd on December 29 was followed a day later by a blast that ripped apart a trolleybus in the city 700 km (400 miles) northeast of Sochi, where the Olympics start on February 7. |
| Suicide bombers storm Iraq ministry building, 18 killed | | | Six suicide bombers burst into an Iraqi ministry building, took hostages and killed at least 18 people including themselves on Thursday before security forces regained control, a senior official said. The brazen attack on the building belonging to the Ministry of Transportation in northeast Baghdad coincides with a month-long standoff between the Iraqi army and anti-government fighters in the western province of Anbar. More than 1,000 people have been killed in violence across Iraq since the start of the year, when militants seized control of two cities in the Sunni-dominated province of Anbar, bordering Syria. |
| Arvind Kejriwal says no question of banning "Khap Panchayats" | |  NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Arvind Kejriwal, the new political star whose call for clean politics has struck a popular chord, has said he would not ban the illegal village courts because they had a "cultural" purpose despite their harsh treatment of women. Kejriwal, who became chief minister of Delhi after his one-year-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) swept to power last month, will now contest the national elections due by May. His party's key anti-corruption platform is seen as having considerable appeal among urban voters. But his stand on village councils - unelected all-male bodies which have issued many misogynistic decrees, including ordering 'honour killings' - contrasts with that of some women's groups who want them dismantled. "No, it is not a question of banning these panchayats," Kejriwal told Thomson Reuters Foundation late on Monday, referring to "Khap Panchayats", the name given to village councils in rural north India.
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| Masked men break into Gurgaon house; assault, rob inmates | | | Gurgaon, Jan 30 (IANS) Five members of a family residing at Sector 31 of Gurgaon were Thursday attacked and robbed by unidentified assailants, police said. |
| Israeli weed smokers choked by border fence with Egypt | | | By Maayan Lubell ISRAEL-EGYPT BORDER (Reuters) - Israel's newly fortified Egyptian border has delivered a severe blow to drug smugglers, forcing its hashish and marijuana smokers to deal with a new kind of high - soaring prices. The ravines that snake past rocky red mountains once provided a popular, low-risk route for traffickers to run drugs, women and African migrants into Israel over the southern frontier along Egypt's Sinai desert. And as workers weld the few remaining patches of the metal barrier, drug supply in Israel is down and prices are up. That's millions of shekels," said a senior Israeli military officer in the area. |
| Bangladesh court sentences 14 to death over 2004 arms smuggling | | | A Bangladeshi court sentenced to death on Thursday 14 people including an Islamist party leader, a former security agency chief and a former deputy government minister for involvement in the country's biggest ever arms smuggling case. Police seized 10 truck-loads of weapons in a raid on a state-owned jetty in the southeastern port city of Chittagong in 2004. Paresh Barua, a leader of the United Liberation Front of Assam separatist group from northeast India was among those who got the death penalty. Also sentenced to death were a leader of the Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami, Motiur Rahman Nizami, a former deputy interior minister, Lutfozzaman Babar, and a former director general of the National Security Intelligence, retired Major General Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury. |
| Two dozen diagnostic centres sealed in Bihar | | | Patna, Jan 30 (IANS) At least two dozen diagnostic centres were sealed in Bihar's Purnia district after they were found to be flouting prescribed norms, officials said Thursday. A total of 24 diagnostic centres were sealed after an inspection of around 40 such centres, said Purnia civil surgeon S.N. Jha, adding: "The administration will take similar action against fake doctors and pathologists." Jha told IANS over telephone that the administration is committed to rooting out fake medical practices in the district. He said that most of the diagnostic centres were flouting the guidelines prescribed in the Pre-concept and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique Act and they have no records of patients. Last year 31 diagnostic centres were sealed, said an official. |
| Damascus detainees languish while Syria envoys talk | |  It was three in the afternoon when Lulu's phone stopped working somewhere in east Damascus near the Air Force Intelligence building, one of Syria's most feared security agencies. The 30-year-old had been shopping in Hamra, a 15-minute drive away. Lulu's disappearance was one of many believed to have occurred in the weeks leading up to the peace talks in Geneva between President Bashar al-Assad's government and members of Syria's political opposition in exile. Trying to highlight the issue on the opening day of the talks, two opposition delegates carried pictures of veteran dissident Abdelaziz al-Khayyer, who disappeared in Damascus two years ago.
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| Nine held, huge amount of ganja, arms recovered in Bengal | | | Siliguri, Jan 30 (IANS) Nine people were arrested and ganja worth over Rs.5 crore, besides arms and ammunition including an AK 47 rifle, were seized in West Bengal's Darjeeling district, police said Thursday. The nine accused were dressed in military fatigues and were arrested from Siliguri in the district late Wednesday night in a joint operation by the police and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). "In a joint operation carried out by the police and DRI, we have confiscated eight tonnes of ganja, a large cache of arms and ammunition including an AK 47, and arrested nine people who were dressed as army officers as they were trying to smuggle the goods to Kolkata from Nagaland," Siliguri Police Commissioner Jagmohan said Thursday. |
| Contractor held for supplying explosives to Maoists | | | Bhubaneswar, Jan 30 (IANS) A building contractor was Thursday arrested in Odisha's Malkangiri district for supplying explosives to Maoists, an official said. Samarendra Bisoi (28) alias Tinku was arrested after fifteen gelatine sticks and other explosives were found at his construction site in Marigata village, 700 km from here. "He confessed that he had supplied explosives to the rebels five times in the past. The latest explosives were found from a site where he is building a school hostel," Inspector-in-Charge S.K. Nayak told IANS. |
| Thailand's political crisis: how events might unfold | | | Thailand's government has set an election for Sunday despite warnings of violence as protesters keep up their efforts to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The protesters, who first took to the streets in November, are demanding that the government be replaced by an unelected "people's council" to force through changes to break the hold that former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck's brother, has over politics. Below are some possible scenarios: "JUDICIAL COUP" Thailand's courts have been unusually active in recent weeks and have taken on several cases centred on attempts by Yingluck's Puea Thai Party to change the constitution. |
| Sikhs groups protest outside Congress office | | | New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Around 500 members of Sikh groups protested outside the Congress office here Thursday demanding that the names of the party leaders involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots be revealed. |
| Patrolling near Odisha's turtle nesting site resumes | | | Bhubaneswar, Jan 30 (IANS) Authorities resumed patrolling near Odisha's Gahirmatha beach, one of world's largest turtle nesting sites, days after it was stopped following a row over the killing of a fishermen in the region, an official said Thursday. More than 50 patrolling staff resumed work off the coast Wednesday after 17 days with seven vessels including five trawlers, Divisional Forest Officer Kedar Kumar Swain told IANS. The patrolling was stopped near Gahirmatha in Kendrapada district's Bhitarkanika National Park, 170 km from here, after a fisherman was killed in an exchange of fire with a patrol unit Jan 12. Most of the hatchlings emerge by May. Illegal fishing trawlers always pose a threat to the endangered species. |
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