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| Egypt sentences 17 people to long jail terms for protests | | | An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced 17 people to 14 years in jail each on charges including assault and occupying public buildings during protests at Cairo's Al-Azhar University last year. The defendants, believed to be supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, had demonstrated to demand investigation and punishment of those responsible for mass food poisoning at the Al-Azhar campus. Security forces have cracked down hard on the Brotherhood since Mursi's ouster last July, killing hundreds of supporters in the streets and arresting thousands of others. |
| Largest-ever U.S. tax-fraud phone scam targets thousands - IRS watchdog | | | Thousands of Americans nationwide have been targeted since August by a phone scam in which fraudsters claim to be from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and demand money for unpaid taxes, said the IRS' watchdog on Thursday. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said it has received more than 20,000 complaints from people, including recent immigrants, about the scam. Thousands of victims have collectively paid more than $1 million to the scammers, TIGTA said. "This is the largest scam of its kind that we have ever seen," said J. Russell George, the head of TIGTA in a statement. |
| Gunmen attack hotel in Afghan capital; police kill 4 attackers | | | By Jessica Donati and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban gunmen attacked a luxury hotel on Thursday in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, police said, and four of the assailants were killed in a shootout with Afghan security forces. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told Reuters all the gunmen were dead and security forces were in control of the hotel. He said he was not aware of deaths among the staff or guests, but checks were under way and Afghan special forces were on the scene. They fired on guests and then hid in bathrooms when security forces arrived, he said. |
| Five children drown in Rajasthan | | | Jaipur, March 20 (IANS) Five children aged between 10 and 12 years were drowned in a pit near a canal in Rajasthan Thursday, police said. They were drowned," said a police officer. The officer said that some passers-by saw the children's clothes lying scattered outside and informed police. |
| CBI arrests five in nationwide raid against fake doctors | | | New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) In a nationwide raid conducted against fake doctors, the CBI said Thursday it arrested five people for obtaining fraudulent registration certificate from Medical Council of India (MCI) and registered a case against eight doctors. The doctors, who were possessing a primary medical qualification awarded by MCI, in conspiracy with unknown officials of MCI, obtained false permanent registration certificate issued by it. "This was allegedly done on the basis of false documents and false entries made in the computers of the MCI's registration section," said a CBI official. The official said that as per the rules prevailing in India, the doctors who receive primary medical qualification degree by medical institutions abroad are required to pass a mandatory screening test in India to get the permanent registration certificates to practice here. |
| Retired police officer shot dead in Ghaziabad | | | Ghaziabad, March 20 (IANS) Unidentified gunmen Thursday shot dead a retired police sub-inspector in Ghaziabad, police said. The incident occurred around 5.30 p.m. in Pratap Vihar area, when P.D. Sharma was on his evening walk. Sharma's son told police that about a month ago, some unidentified assailants shot at him. He said Thursday's attack on his father was related to the earlier incident. |
| Mongolian woman alleges molestation by Delhi customs official | | | New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) A 24-year-old Mongolian woman has filed a complaint that she was molested by an official at the customs office here Thursday, police said. The woman - a resident of Vasant Vihar area of south Delhi - told police in her complaint that she had gone to the customs office in central Delhi to get information about three parcels sent by her to her home country in October 2013. "As all parcels sent abroad are cleared by customs officials, she had gone to the office to know their current status," a police officer said. The customs official molested her when she inquired about her parcels, the woman said in her complaint. |
| Six convicted for gang rape in Meghalaya | | | Shillong, March 20 (IANS) A fast-track court in Meghalaya Thursday convicted six people for the gang rape of an 18-year-old girl in December 2012. Marak alias Chiong were convicted for raping the girl on the night of Dec 13, 2012 in Williamnagar, public prosecutor P.L. Sebastian said. |
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