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| At least 27 dead in "terror" attack at Chinese train station | |  At least 27 people have been killed in a "violent terror attack" at a train station in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming by a group of unidentified people brandishing knives, state media said on Sunday. Another 162 were injured, the official Xinhua news agency added. State television said on its official microblog that the incident had been deemed a "violent terror attack". Kunming resident Yang Haifei told Xinhua that he was buying a ticket when he saw a group of people mostly wearing black rush into the station and start attacking bystanders.
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| Odisha ex-minister charge-sheeted in dowry case | | | Bhubaneswar, March 1 (IANS) Police Saturday filed a charge sheet against former Odisha minister and Biju Janata Dal leader Raghunath Mohanty, his son and three members of his family in a torture for dowry case, officials said. The human rights protection cell of police filed the charge sheet in the court of the sub-divisional judicial magistrate in Balasore, 220 km from Bhubaneswar, a police officer told IANS. Mohanty's daughter-in-law Barsa Swony Choudhury had filed a police complaint March 14 last year saying her husband Raja Shree Mohanty and members of his family were torturing her for dowry since her marriage in June 2012. Barsa Swony Choudhury said her parents had given Rs.10 lakh as dowry at the time of the wedding, as was demanded. |
| Gangster held for murder in Delhi | | | New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) A 24-year-old gangster was arrested for abducting and murdering one of his rivals, police said Saturday. Mukul Singh alias Monu was arrested Thursday on a tip-off from west Delhi's Dwarka area where he had come to meet his associates. Police said Singh was a gang leader in Delhi's Najafgarh area. |
| Government official hangs self after killing wife, kids | | | Ananya Chakravarty was found hanging from a ceiling fan while his 43-year-old wife Jaisree, 17-year-old son Arnab, and 12-year-old daughter Disha were found lying in a pool of blood inside their home at Sadiq Nagar area of south Delhi, police said. The relative called them several times on their mobile phones today (Saturday) morning but failed to get any response," said a police officer. It seemed Chakravarty first killed his wife and children and then hanged himself," the officer said. |
| Pakistani Taliban announces ceasefire to revive peace talks | | | By Katharine Houreld and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday announced a one-month ceasefire aimed at reviving peace talks after receiving what it said were government assurances it would not be attacked. A government negotiator could not confirm that there were such guarantees, but said talks could be restarted if the ceasefire was honored. Speculation has mounted in recent weeks that the Pakistani military is planning an offensive against the insurgents after talks between the militants and government broke down. "The senior leadership of the Taliban advises all subgroups to respect the Taliban's call for a ceasefire and abide by it and completely refrain from all jihadi activities in this time period," spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement. |
| Cash on camera: Himachal BJP MP might be booked | | | Shimla, March 1 (IANS) The Congress government in Himachal Pradesh may register a criminal case against BJP's sitting MP Virender Kashyap, allegedly caught accepting cash on camera, the police said Saturday. The development is significant as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has retained the one-time MP Kashyap from the Shimla (Reserved) seat. I can't comment on registering a case against Kashyap at this point in time," Additional Director General of Police (Vigilance) Prithvi Raj told reporters here. Last November, the Himachal Pradesh High Court issued notice to Kashyap on a petition for quashing a police inquiry report giving a clean chit to him after he was allegedly caught accepting cash. |
| Centre seeks recall of SC verdict on commuting death sentence | | | New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) The central government Saturday moved the Supreme Court seeking recall of its verdict holding that inordinate, unexplained and unreasonable delay in deciding a mercy petition by the president was a ground for commuting a death sentence to life imprisonment. The court had held that in deciding the mercy petition, there could no distinction whether the death row convict was sentenced under normal penal offences or under the provision of anti-terror laws. The centre has said the president's decision to reject mercy petitions could not have been interfered by the court as the same was not subject to judicial review. It said the court could not have substituted life imprisonment for the death sentence while exercising its power of judicial review over the president's decision to reject mercy petitions. |
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