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| Pistorius knew South African gun safety rules, court told | |  By Siyabonga Sishi PRETORIA (Reuters) - Double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius, on trial for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was aware of South African firearms and self-defence laws that say you cannot shoot at an intruder unless your life is in danger, a court heard on Monday. Testifying on day 11 of the trial, firearms instructor Sean Rens read out a gun licence test passed by the track athlete, who shot dead Steenkamp through a locked toilet door at his Pretoria home on Valentine's Day last year. Pistorius answered: "No", Rens, who taught Pistorius gun safety and sold him weapons, told the court. The Paralympic gold medallist, known as the "Blade Runner" on account of his carbon-fibre prostheses, denies the murder charge, saying he shot Steenkamp in a tragic accident after mistaking her, through the door, for a night-time intruder.
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| Goa firemen rescue lucky parrot from charred flat | | | Panaji, March 17 (IANS) Firefighters Monday managed to save a scared, screeching parrot from a flat that was charred following a fire caused by gas leakage here in the Goa capital, an official said. Fire services officer Bosco Ferrao said that while the occupants of the second floor flat at Noble Residency near Panaji fled just as the fire started to rage, the parrot trapped in a cage was left behind. The flat was occupied by Pappan Yadav, whose family was frying a huge quantity of samosas that were ordered by sweetmeat stores to be sold on Holi. |
| Worker killed in CISF firing in Neyveli Lignite plant | | | Chennai, March 17 (IANS) A contract worker was killed Monday when a CISF personnel opened fired following an argument with a group of workers at the Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) plant in Tamil Nadu, an official said. "As per available information, a group of people led by contract worker Raja tried to enter Mine II. He has no authorisation to enter the mine area," the official told IANS over phone from Neyveli, around 210 km from here. He said the group of people turned violent following an argument with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, who reportedly fired at Raja killing him instantly. Soon people from the man's village assembled at the NLC plant and pelted stones at CISF personnel, he said. |
| Body of IIT-Kharagpur student found hanging in room | | | Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) The body of a second year MTech student of Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) was found hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room Monday, a top institute official said. According to registrar T.K.Ghoshal, the victim was 24-year-old S.Boga, a student of Mtech computer science. |
| One killed in CISF firing at Tamil Nadu plant | | | Chennai, March 17 (IANS) A contract worker was killed Monday when a CISF personnel opened fired following an argument with a group of workers at the Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) plant in Tamil Nadu, an official said. "As per available information, a group of people led by contract worker Raja tried to enter Mine II. He has no authorisation to enter the mine area," the official told IANS over phone from Neyveli, around 210 km from here. He said the group of people turned violent following an argument with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, who reportedly fired at Raja killing him instantly. Soon people from the man's village assembled at the NLC plant and pelted stones at CISF personnel, he said. |
| JKLF protest march in Srinagar against youth's killing | | | Srinagar, March 17 (IANS) Pro-Azadi Jammu and Kashmir Front (JKLF) activists took out a protest march in summer capital Srinagar Monday against the killing of a youth in Bandipora district in police firing last week. Dozens of JKLF activists led by senior leaders Noor Muhammad Kawal, zonal president of the party, Bashir Ahmad Bhat, Showkat Ahmad Bakshi and Ashraf Bin Salaam, marched from the uptown Maisuma headquarters of the party shouting slogans against the alleged killings of Kashmiris by the Indian security forces. |
| Defiant Chinese bishop dies at 97 while under house arrest | | | A Shanghai bishop who was imprisoned for decades by Chinese authorities died Sunday evening at his home, a Catholic group said in a statement. Bishop Fan Zhongliang, 97, was ordained by Pope John Paul II but not recognised by Chinese authorities. China is home to between 8 and 12 million Catholics, divided between the state-backed Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which appoints its own bishops, and an "underground" church that is loyal to the Vatican. Fan spent more than 30 years in prisons and labor camps over the course of his life, starting in 1955, according to the U.S.-based Cardinal Kung Foundation, which reports on the treatment of Catholics in China. |
| Trio held for assaulting IPS officer in Bengal | | | Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) Three people were arrested and presented before a court Monday for assaulting an IPS officer in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said. The trio has been arrested for assaulting Additional Superintendent of Police, Barasat, Bhaskar Mukherjee. All of them have been booked for preventing a police officer from discharging his duties. |
| China denies dead dissident refused medical treatment | |  China's foreign ministry denied on Monday that prominent human rights activist Cao Shunli died because she was refused medical treatment while in detention, in a case which has attracted concern in the United States and Europe. Cao staged a two-month sit-in along with other activists outside the Foreign Ministry, beginning in June, to press for the public to contribute to a national human rights report. She went missing in mid-September after authorities prevented her from flying to Geneva for a human rights training programme. Human Rights in China, a New York based rights group, had quoted Cao's lawyer last month as saying she suffered from tuberculosis, liver disease and other ailments.
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| China says too soon to say if Thai trafficking victims Uighur | | | China's foreign ministry said on Monday that it was too soon to say if a group of about 200 people rescued by police from a human smuggling camp in southern Thailand were Uighurs from China's restive far western region of Xinjiang. Thai police sources told Reuters that the people were believed to be Uighurs, a Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, many of whom chafe at Chinese restrictions on their culture and religion. "China and Thailand have unimpeded channels on law and order and security cooperation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a daily news briefing. |
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