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| Obamacare website stalls a bit before enrollment deadline | |  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal website for U.S. consumers to enroll in private health insurance under Obamacare ran into problems twice on Monday because of a surge of people trying to access the site hours before a midnight deadline to sign up for coverage. Technical issues that barred access to HealthCare.gov early in the morning and again around midday underscored the frantic last-minute pace of an enrollment process that could determine the ultimate success or failure of the healthcare law that represents President Barack Obama's domestic policy achievement. More than 6 million people had signed up for private health coverage through the new Obamacare insurance markets by last week, surpassing a target set after a disastrous October rollout called the enrollment process into question. A successful enrollment would give an important political boost to the administration and its Democratic allies, who are locked in an election year battle with Republicans over the future of Obamacare.
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| Poll panel to look into heckling of Bengal official | | | Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) The Election Commission has set up a committee to look into the allegations of a West Bengal official that he was heckled by "miscreants belonging to the ruling Trinamool Congress" and a legislator "argued roughly" with him even as the party said it was mulling legal action against the official. Joint chief electoral officer Jaydip Mukherjee said Monday the committee comprises an additional superintendent of police of the district and the local sub-divisional police officer. However, a top Trinamool leader said the ruling party was mulling action against the official - the block development officer of Habra II for "working with an ulterior motive" to "malign" the party and its Ashokenagar legislator Dhiman Roy. BDO Dinabandhu Gayen, in an "FIR against Dhiman Roy, the Honourable MLA and 25 others" to the Ashokenagar police station March 26, had alleged that Roy abused him on telephone after a Model Code of Conduct team removed the posters and festoons bearing Banerjee's pictures from public places March 24. |
| Hoeness sent to 'Mein Kampf' jail in tax evasion crackdown | |  By Jens Hack LANDSBERG, Germany (Reuters) - Former Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness, convicted of tax evasion in one of Germany's most spectacular cases of fraud, will spend the next 3-1/2 years in a prison that once housed Adolf Hitler. Prison officials took 160 journalists on a tour on Monday of the prison 70 km (45 miles) west of Munich, where Hitler dictated "Mein Kampf" to Rudolf Hess after being convicted for his failed 1923 beer hall putsch. Hoeness, Germany's most famous soccer manager, was convicted on March 16 of evading 28.5 million euros in taxes on income earned in a secret Swiss bank account.
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| Taboo-breaking Basque comedy is blockbuster in Spain | |  By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish filmgoers are queueing up for a surprise hit comedy about Basques and separatist guerrillas - complete with jokes about car-bombings - in a film that would have been unthinkable in Spain before now. The movie, "8 Apellidos Vascos" (8 Basque Surnames), has viewers in stitches over the cultural divide between a slick-haired young man from southern Spain and his Basque girlfriend. "It is very, very healthy for all of us that we are laughing at ourselves and especially that people in troubled areas of the country are able to laugh at themselves," Enrique Gonzalez Macho, president of the Spanish Film Academy, said in a television interview on Monday. The Basque separatist movement ETA declared an end to its armed struggle in 2011, after decades of violence in which more than 100 people were killed.
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| Accused cannot be allowed to die in prison: Court | | | Additional Sessions Judge Lokesh Kumar Sharma said this while granting interim bail to 82-year-old Krishan Gopal Bali, facing trial in a rape case. Citing ill health, Bali had requested the court to grant him bail. |
| CJI concerned at declining conviction rate in rape cases | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Chief Justice of India P.Sathasivam Monday expressed unhappiness on the declining of conviction rate in rape cases and emphasized that women judicial officials can play a major role in conducting trial in such cases. Citing the National Crime Records Bureau data for 2010-2012, Chief Justice Sathasivam said that conviction rate for all major crimes against woman have declined. "The conviction rate for rape has declined from 26.6 (percent) in 2010 to 24.2 in 2012, for molestation, from 29.7 to 24 in the same period, and for eve teasing (harassment) from 52.8 in 2010 to 36.9 in 2012," he said. He stressed enrollment of more proportion of women in the legal system. |
| Delhi HC stays BSP MP's bail in maid torture case | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday stayed the two months interim bail granted to BSP parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh, accused for torturing his maid, on the plea of police seeking cancellation of his bail. Justice Sunil Gaur stayed the bail granted to Singh who is still in jail in another case. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP cannot walk out of jail, as he has not been granted bail in a separate rape case in which he is facing trial. Moving the high court, Delhi Police sought cancellation of Singh's bail saying he is influential person and if released on bail, he would tamper with evidence and influence the witnesses. |
| Two minors drown in Yamuna | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Two minors drowned after the motorbike they were riding along with two other friends fell from a temporary bridge into the Yamuna river here Monday morning, police said. |
| Ugandan president dismisses aid cuts at rally against gays | |  By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - President Yoweri Museveni told a rally of religious leaders, politicians and thousands of supporters on Monday that Uganda could live without aid that Western donors suspended or diverted in protest at an anti-gay bill that became law in February. Western donors have halted or re-directed about $118 million in aid since Museveni signed the law, which toughened existing rules against gays and prescribed life in jail for what it called "aggravated homosexuality", such as sex with a minor. Despite the Western outcry, the thousands who turned out at Monday's rally in a square in Kampala underlined public support for the law. Uganda now has of some of the toughest codes, yet it is only one of 37 African nations that outlaw homosexuality.
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| Second suicide in a month gets IIT Kharagpur worried | | | Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) The second incident of a student allegedly committing suicide within a month at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, has raised deep concern among the authorities of the oldest IIT in the country. Fourth year Chemical Engineering student Lokesh Kumar Goyal (22) was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his hostel room late Sunday night. Confirming the incident, institute's Registrar T.K. Ghosal expressed his dismay over Goyal's death as he was good student and did not seem to suffer from any kind of depression. |
| Case against Italian marines adjourned to July 31 | | | New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) A court here Monday adjourned, to July 31, the hearing in a case against two Italian marines allegedly involved in the killing of two Indian fishermen in 2012, after it was told the apex court ordered proceedings before the special court be kept in abeyance. Additional Sessions Judge Bharat Parashar adjourned the hearing after National Investigation Agency (NIA) lawyers and defence counsel apprised the court that that the apex court March 28 had said that the proceedings before the special court be kept in abeyance. Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone were arrested for killing two Indian fisherman off the coast of Kerala in February 2012, mistaking their fishing boat for a pirate vessel. NIA prosecutor Ahmed Khan, however, told the court that instead of adjourning the matter "sine die", the case should be listed after three months. |
| 'Trinamool mulling action against official who accused legislator' | | | Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) A Trinamool Congress leader Monday said the party was mulling legal action against a West Bengal government official who has accused a legislator of threatening to behead him for removing posters of party supremo Mamata Banerjee. Party general secretary Mukul Roy rubbished the allegations and accused the officer of maligning the legislator with an ulterior motive. "It is clear that he is working with an ulterior motive and at the behest of some political party, he has lodged the complaint to malign the Trinamool and its legislator Dhiman Roy. Block Development Officer of Habra II in North 24 Parganas district, Dinabandhu Gayen, in his FIR to the Ashokenagar police station March 26, alleged that local legislator Dhiman Roy abused him on telephone after a Model Code of Conduct team removed the posters and festoons bearing Banerjee's pictures from public places March 24. |
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