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| France's Sarkozy wins battle to pull secret recordings | |  A French court on Friday ordered a news website to withdraw recordings an adviser secretly took of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy during his 2012 election campaign. In an emergency ruling sought by Sarkozy, who is expected by many to enter the next presidential contest in 2017, the Paris court also ordered the adviser, Patrick Buisson, to make a damages downpayment of 10,000 eurosto the conservative leader and wife Carla Bruni. Revelations in early March that Buisson, once part of Sarkozy's inner circle, had recorded hours of talks with the conservative leader and his entourage, caused uproar in the opposition UMP party ahead of late March local elections. The Paris court ordered right-wing news website Atlantico.fr to pull postings of the recordings rapidly or face daily fines.
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| Incident involving Karachi ATC very serious, says India | | | India Wednesday termed as "very serious" an incident in which air traffic control (ATC) officials in Pakistan gave wrong frequency to an Air India London-Mumbai flight. The Karachi ATC reportedly gave wrong frequency to the Air India flight on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday. We don't have a precedent of such an incident," Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman Alok Sinha told reporters at the India Aviation 2014, a civil aviation event that began here Wednesday. The pilot was reportedly unable to connect to the Mumbai ATC despite trying different combinations. |
| Nearly two dozen killed in attacks across Pakistan despite talks | |  By Jibran Ahmed and Gul Yousafzai PESHAWSAR/QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Attacks in the volatile Pakistani cities of Peshawar and Quetta killed a total of 19 people on Friday, dashing hopes of a lasting peace deal with insurgents fighting to topple the government. In Peshawar, a sprawling city on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a police vehicle killing at least nine bystanders, including a woman and a child, police said. In Quetta, in the unruly province of Baluchistan, at least 10 people were killed when a motorcycle laden with explosives blew up near a college in the city centre, police said. The attacks took place as the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tries to engage Pakistani Taliban militants in talks to hammer out a permanent ceasefire agreement and end years of violence.
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| Court denies bail to Tarun Tejpal | | | Panaji, March 14 (IANS) Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal's bail plea in a case of sexual assault was rejected by the Bombay High Court bench here Friday. Rejecting Tejpal's bail plea, Justice Utkarsh Bakre said there was likelihood of the 50-year-old journalist fleeing from justice and tampering with the witnesses. |
| Man with gold bars held in Bengal near border | | | Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) The Border Security Force (BSF) Friday arrested a man from a West Bengal outpost on the Bangladesh border and seized from him 450 grams of gold worth Rs.14 lakh, an official statement said. The arrested man, a resident of the North 24 Parganas district, was taken into custody from Tarali border outpost of the district. |
| One killed in Mumbai building collapse | | | The dead woman has been identified as Sudha Sridharan, 32, according to BMC Control Room. The injured -- Sita Kesarkar, 60, Akshay Kesarkar, 18, and Rohini Jagtap, 47 -- have been admitted to a civic hospital. According to the fire brigade, a large portion of the dilapidated building, Aaraam Society, fell on an adjoining slum area and some more people are believed trapped under the debris. The Catherine Chawl in the slum with around three dozen hutments bore the brunt of the collapsing 35-year-old building which was evacuated a few months ago. |
| Pakistan rape victim dies after setting self ablaze in protest | |  The 17-year-old Pakistani victim of a gang rape died on Friday after setting herself on fire in protest against a police report that led to the release of a key suspect, a doctor and her brother said. Rape and other forms of sexual assault and domestic violence are widespread in deeply conservative Pakistan, but such public acts of desperation by abused women are rare. College student Amina Bibi doused herself with petrol and then set it alight on Thursday outside a police station near the city of Muzaffargarh, in Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab. "She was under our treatment but she succumbed to her wounds on Friday morning," Muhammad Usman, a local doctor, told Reuters.
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| Court denies bail to Tejpal | | | Panaji, March 14 (IANS) Former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal's bail plea in a case of sexual assault was Friday rejected by the Bombay High Court bench here which said it apprehended that the senior scribe would flee from justice and tamper evidence. |
| Hugely popular Jakarta governor named as Indonesia presidential candidate | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's main opposition PDI-P party named Jakarta governor Joko Widodo as its presidential candidate on Friday, the man widely seen as a shoe-in to be next leader of the world's third-largest democracy. By choosing him, former president and party chief Megawati Sukarnoputri has also likely given a significant boost to her Indonesian Democratic Party's (PDI-P) chances in the April 9 parliamentary election. The presidential election is on July 9. She has kept the country on tenterhooks for weeks over whether she would put aside her own ambitions to return to the presidential palace or back the governor, popularly known as Jokowi.
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| Six dead in central China knife incident | |  At least six people died after a knifing incident in central China's Changsha city, state media reported on Friday, in what appeared to be a dispute involving market vendors from the restive far western region of Xinjiang. Police shot dead one assailant, the official Xinhua news agency said. Xinhua said a knife fight broke out between businessmen Hebir Turdi and Memet Abla - whose names suggest they are ethnic Uighurs from Xinjiang - at a market mid-morning. China is still jittery after a mass stabbing at a train station in its southwestern city of Kunming two weeks ago in which 29 people were killed and about 140 wounded.
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| Maoists abduct seven labourers in Bihar | | | Patna, March 14 (IANS) A group of armed Maoists abducted seven labourers in Bihar's Jamui district, police said Friday. The labourers, engaged in lifting sand from a river bed, were kidnapped from near Navinagar village, about 200 km from here. Superintendent of Police Jitendra Rana said: "A team of security forces, including the CRPF, is on work to rescue them." Rana said the Maoists also torched two poclain machines engaged in digging and lifting sand from the river bed. Police suspect the workers were abducted because they refused to pay the levy demanded by the Maoists. |
| Kabul irked at haphazard release of Afghan Taliban prisoners in Pakistan | | | By Katharine Houreld KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's High Peace Council, set up to oversee peace talks with the Taliban, has had no formal meetings with any of the 46 Taliban prisoners released in neighbouring Pakistan, an official said on Friday, despite pleas to be present when they are freed. Pakistan began releasing small batches of Afghan Taliban prisoners in 2012 at the request of Kabul which wants to use the men as interlocutors to pursue peace talks with the insurgents, who are ramping up attacks as NATO troops withdraw and the country prepares for April 5 elections. But they complained that Pakistan does not tell them before prisoners are freed, raising question about Pakistan's sincerity in wanting to help bring an end to the war. Afghanistan has long accused Pakistan, which faces a Taliban insurgency of its own, of backing the hardline Afghan Taliban, in power from 1996 to 2001 and seeking to oust foreign forces and set up an Islamic state. |
| AMU's vice chancellor promises women fair and equal opportunities | | | Aligarh, March 14 (IANS) AMU Vice Chancellor Lt. Gen. (retd.) Zameer Uddin Shah Friday said that the university will not tolerate any discrimination against women. He said AMU was committed to providing female students "liberty, fair and equal deal", adding fear was the key to control the harassment of women. He was speaking at a one-day workshop on Sexual Harassment: Socio-Legal and Religious Perspective at the university's law faculty. Faculty dean Iqbal Ali Khan contended that only punishing the accused cannot mitigate the agony and pain of the victim. |
| Court allows Tarun Tejpal to meet his ailing mother | | | A court here Friday granted Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal permission to meet his ailing mother. The north Goa district and sessions court heard the 50-year-old journalist's plea in which he said his mother, Shakuntala, has been admitted to a hospital in Mapusa town, 15 km from here, and was suffering from a terminal disease. The former editor is expected to write to the jailor of Sada sub-jail, where he is an inmate, for formal permission to visit his ailing mother. |
| Three convicted in Odisha nun's gang rape | | | Bhubaneswar, March 14 (IANS) A court in Odisha Friday found three men guilty of gang-raping a Catholic nun in Kandhamal district during the 2008 communal clashes. District and Sessions Judge Gyanaranjan Purohit at Cuttack, about 26 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, held Mitu Patnaik, Gajendra Digal and Saroj Badhai guilty, the nun's counsel Manas Ranjan Singh told IANS. |
| Seven storeyed building collapses in Mumbai | | | Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) A seven-storeyed, unoccupied building collapsed here Friday morning, officials said. |
| Three convicted for Odisha nun's gang rape | | | Bhubaneswar, March 14 (IANS) A court in Odisha Friday found three men guilty in the gang rape of a nun in the state's Kandhamal district during communal clashes in 2008. The district and session judge at Cuttack, about 26 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, held Mitu Patnaik, Gajendra Digal and Saroj Badhai guilty of the crime. The 29-year-old Catholic nun was attacked by a mob and raped at Nuagaon village in Kandhamal district Aug 24, 2008, when communal violence in the region was at its peak. The district, about 200 km from here, witnessed widespread violence after the murder of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides at his ashram. |
| Rebels, Islamists form dangerous alliance in Pakistan's unruly southwest | | | By Syed Raza Hassan QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - One is a band of separatists fighting for independence from Pakistan. But in Pakistan's volatile, resource-rich province of Baluchistan, separatists have teamed up with radical Sunni Muslims in their fight against the Pakistani government. The unlikely but dangerous alliance poses a new, unexpected challenge for Pakistan, already plagued by a growing Taliban insurgency on its western Afghan border. "Both militant groups share the common goal of fighting against the state." The separatist rebels are considered less hardline compared with other groups, focusing on their political goal of independence. |
| 'Into the Wild' hunter fatally shot by police in Alaska | | | By Steve Quinn JUNEAU, Alaska (Reuters) - An Alaskan moose hunter, whose discovery of the corpse of a wanderer two decades ago helped lead to the 2007 movie "Into the Wild," has been shot and killed by police following a weekend chase through the city of Wasilla, Alaska State Troopers said. Police said Gordon E. Samel, 52, who played a small but important role in author Jon Krakauer's book about wanderer Chris McCandless, which was made into a movie by Sean Penn, on Sunday fled police who had approached his vehicle in response to a report about possible drunken driving. "As the state trooper knocked on the side of the pickup to contact the occupants, it drove off and circled around several small businesses in the area," an Alaska State Trooper report said. When a state trooper and a Wasilla police officer approached the truck on foot, Samel backed up the truck toward the officer, prompting both the officer and trooper to fire their handguns, the report said. |
| U.S. safety watchdog says 303 deaths linked to recalled GM cars | | | The new report and higher death toll ratchet up the pressure on GM, which has said it has reports of 12 deaths in 34 crashes in the recalled cars. GM did not recall the cars until February, despite learning of problems with the ignition switch in 2001 and issuing related service bulletins to dealers with suggested remedies in 2005. The auto maker is facing increasing pressure to compensate victims and create a $1 billion fund, even if some would-be plaintiffs are barred from suing under the terms of GM's emergence from bankruptcy in 2009. The Center for Auto Safety said it referenced crash and fatality data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Fatal Analysis Reporting System (FARS). |
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