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| Two women killed in Mumbai building collapse | | | Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) Two women were killed and four other people were injured when a seven-storeyed unoccupied building collapsed here Friday morning and the debris fell on an adjoining slum, officials said. The dead women have been identified as Sudha Sridharan, 32, and Chandaben Patel, 50, according to BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) control room. Three of the four injured - Sita Kesarkar, 60, Akshay Kesarkar, 18, and Rohini Jagtap, 47 - were admitted to a hospital. According to Mumbai fire brigade officials, a large portion of the dilapidated building, Aaraam Society, fell on an adjoining slum area and besides the dead and the injured some more people are believed to be trapped under the debris. |
| 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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| 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. |
| 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. |
| GJM leader among three held in Darjeeling | | | Siliguri, March 14 (IANS) Three Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists, including central committee member Bimal Dorjee, were arrested from West Bengal's Darjeeling district in pursuance of pending warrants against them, police said Friday. Darjeeling Superintendent of Police Akhilesh Kumar Chaturvedi said the three were arrested Thursday night. "Following orders by the Election Commission, we have launched a drive to execute pending warrants. The arrests have been made in pursuance to that," said Chaturvedi, adding that nearly 1,000 warrants are pending to be executed in the district alone. |
| Police get Bhatkal's custody in German Bakery blast case | | | Pune, March 14 (IANS) Prime accused in the 2010 German Bakery blast case and Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was sent to 14-day police custody by a court here Friday. "He was brought here from Mumbai and presented before the Additional Sessions Judge S.D. Darne who has ordered police custody to Bhatkal till March 28," the accused's lawyer I.P.S. Gill told IANS. In its remand application, Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) ACP Shantaram Tayde said Bhatkal's custodial interrogation was needed to unravel certain as yet unknown aspects about the case. On Thursday, a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court granted permission to the state ATS to take Bhatkal to Pune for the hearing in the German Bakery case. |
| 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. |
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