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| Jailed Venezuela protest leader mocks Maduro's talks | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Imprisoned Venezuelan protest leader Leopoldo Lopez scoffed on Friday at President Nicolas Maduro's efforts to open talks with opponents and businessman after a month of demonstrations and violence that have killed at least 17 people. Maduro, 51, seems to have weathered the worst of an explosion of protests against his socialist government that exposed deep discontent with Venezuela's economic problems and brought the nation's worst unrest in a decade. Some students are still setting up roadblocks and clashing with police in Caracas and western Tachira state. But numbers have dropped, and many Venezuelans have begun heading for the beach to enjoy a long weekend for Carnival celebrations.
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| Thai protest leader says to unblock Bangkok roads, still target ministries | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters will clear their camps from main roads they have blockaded in the Thai capital since mid-January but step up efforts to oust the government by trying to shut down ministries, their leader said on Friday. The protesters have been trying since November to push out Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and eradicate the political influence of her brother, ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, seen as the real power in Thailand. "We will stop closing Bangkok and give every intersection back to Bangkokians. We will stop closing Bangkok from Monday," protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban told supporters on Friday.
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| Two Delhi brothers shot dead in road rage | | | Sahab Singh, 40, and Kaptan Singh, 35, were shot when the vehicle they were travelling in was reportedly stopped near their house in Bawana area by a man in a car at 10.30 a.m. The man was furious as one of the victims did not allow him to overtake their car. A neighbour of the victims told police that the duo had left for work and a few metres away from their home, the occupants of a car stopped them and got into a verbal argument over the issue of overtaking. |
| Hospital told to pay Rs.20 lakh to sanitation worker's kin | | | Noida, Feb 28 (IANS) A hospital here was Friday ordered to pay Rs.20 lakh to the family of a sanitation worker who died while cleaning a manhole opposite the hospital. The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK) ordered the ESI Hospital Noida to pay Rs.20 lakh to the family of Babloo, who died Feb 24. |
| Kirori Mal College building under Delhi HC scanner | | | New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday asked Kirori Mal College to apprise it on the condition of its building while hearing a plea filed by a student who fell from a hostel balcony. A college student had filed a police complaint March 29, 2013, against the college after he fell from the balcony of a hostel building and was injured. |
| Mild quake hits northeast India | | | Agartala, Feb 28 (IANS) A low intensity quake measuring 4 on the Richter scale shook India's northeastern states Friday evening, officials said. Friday's earthquake was the third in the past six days in northeast India. |
| Six girls fall from roof, die | | | Patna, Feb 28 (IANS) At least six girls died Friday after falling from the roof of a house in Bihar's Aurangabad district, police said. |
| Bengal minor commits suicide after harassment | | | Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) Unable to bear the constant harassment and threats by a man, a minor in West Bengal Friday committed suicide by setting herself on fire, police said. Following a dying declaration by the victim, the accused was arrested. |
| Two brothers shot dead in road rage | | | New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Two brothers were shot dead Friday by three people following a scuffle over a minor issue of overtaking a vehicle here, police said. Sahab Singh, 40, and Kaptan Singh, 35, were shot dead when the vehicle they were travelling in was reportedly stopped near their house at Bawana area by a man in a car at 10.30 a.m. The man was furious as one of the victims did not allow him to overtake their car. |
| BMW hit-and-run accused permitted to go abroad | | | New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) A court here has allowed Utsav Bhasin, who is facing trial in the 2008 BMW hit-and-run case, to visit Europe for 14 days. Bhasin, son of a Haryana-based industrialist, was driving his BMW car when he allegedly hit a two-wheeler on Delhi's Moolchand flyover, killing rider Anuj Singh in September 2008. |
| Dec 16 convicts' statement to be recorded in robbery case | | | New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) A court here Friday fixed March 7 for recording of the statement of the Dec 16 gang rape convicts, accused in a robbery case. The court of Additional Sessions Judge Daya Prakash Jan 10 had concluded looking at the evidence in the robbery case against the gang rape convicts. The court allowed the plea of Vinay Sharma, accused in the case, to appear in an examination March 9 for a clerical job in a government organisation. Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Mukesh and Pawan Gupta are facing trial for allegedly beating up and robbing carpenter Ram Adhar, before raping and assaulting a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus Dec 16, 2012. |
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