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| Toronto's oft-lampooned mayor to guest on "Jimmy Kimmel" - reports | |  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who became a popular target for late-night TV hosts after admitting to smoking crack cocaine in a "drunken stupor", will appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and may join the comedian at the Oscars, Canadian media reported on Saturday. The Toronto Sun newspaper said Ford is scheduled to be on the Jimmy Kimmel show Monday night and is "looking forward to promoting Toronto on the world stage." The article also quoted Ford as saying he would attend this year's Academy Awards, though another report by a local TV news channel said a plan for Ford to attend the ceremony with Kimmel was not confirmed.
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| JNU scholar arrested for rape | | | New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) A 25-year-old PhD scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here has been arrested for sexually assaulting his 13-year-old sister-in-law, police said Sunday. The doctors informed police and the accused was arrested. |
| Nine bodies, mostly women, found on Sri Lanka's last battlefield | | | By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Nine bodies, most of them women, have been found in a mass grave in Sri Lanka in the area where the last, bloody battle of a 26-year war with Tamil separatists was fought in 2009. International pressure is growing on Sri Lanka's government to address allegations that tens of thousands of civilians were killed by the army in the final weeks of the war. The United States plans to put forward a resolution criticising Sri Lanka at this month's session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, and U.S. officials have said it may call for an international investigation. Sri Lanka disputes the figure and the conclusion. |
| Iran backtracks on reports of kidnapped guards' release | | | The status of five kidnapped Iranian border guards remains unclear, Iran said on Sunday, retracting earlier reports by Iranian military officials that they had been freed in Pakistan. "Until now, reports about the fate of the five border guards are not reliable," an Iranian Interior Ministry official said, according to the state news agency IRNA. |
| Family tiffs behind government official's suicide | | | New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Small tiffs within his family led a 52-year-old government official to kill his wife and children and hang himself inside his home here in the capital, police said Sunday. "Ananya Chakravarty, a clerical staff member in the Cabinet Secretariat, felt lonely as his kids supported his wife Jaishree in the tiffs that took place between the couple," a police officer told IANS. Chakravarty was found hanging from a ceiling fan in yet another room of the house. Neighbours told police that the family was very friendly but Chakravarty did not interact much with them. |
| Delhi woman injured in acid attack | | | New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) A 26-year-old married woman was injured on her face and neck in an acid attack by two bikers here, police said Sunday. She had gone to the market Saturday evening when the bikers attacked her in west Delhi's Nangloi area. |
| Cattle lifter arrested for murder | | | New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The 22-year-old leader of a cattle rustling gang was arrested for murdering a man whose cows he was caught stealing, police said Sunday. Javid alias Zabbi, a resident of Faridabad in Haryana, was the leader of a gang that stole cattle from the bordering areas of Delhi. He was arrested Feb 28 from Badarpur area of south Delhi where he had come to meet his accomplices. Police said that on the night of Feb 23, Javid and his accomplices reached Pul Prahladpur area of south Delhi in a truck and while stealing some cows were caught red-handed by their owners Krishan and his cousin Ravi. |
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