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| Bengal man returns home after 119 days of captivity | | | Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Elated and relieved at his release after months as a captive of militants in the northeast, telecom professional Deep Mondal of West Bengal Monday wished no else has to go through the trauma. I hope nobody else has to go through the trauma that I went through all these days," said Mandal, 25, on his arrival here He was abducted from Mizoram Nov 23 last year, by National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) cadres with the help of Bru militants. A resident of Indas in Bankura district, Mondal was released Sunday after remaining 119 days in captivity. |
| Indian tribe seeks pot business ban in part of Washington state | | | By Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A Native American tribe, concerned about the impact of marijuana on its youth, is fighting to derail the rollout of a nascent recreational pot industry across a quarter of Washington state, where it still holds some traditional rights. The roughly 10,000-member Yakama Nation had already asserted sovereignty to keep pot outlawed on 1.2 million acres of reservation land it controls in central Washington's Yakima Valley. "Marijuana is the biggest problem for our people up to age 40," said George Colby, attorney for the Yakama Nation. "It's a bigger problem than alcohol." The move adds to a growing backlash against pot in Washington state that pits the liberal tech hub of Seattle against some more conservative areas. |
| "I'm scared of you," Steenkamp told Pistorius in text message | |  By Vanessa Romeo PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, said she was scared of the South African track star in a text message sent less than three weeks before he shot her dead, a police expert told his murder trial on Monday. The Olympic and Paralympic athlete is on trial for the murder of 29-year-old model and law graduate Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. He has pleaded not guilty to murder, saying he was deeply in love with Steenkamp, who he had been dating for a few months, and that he mistook her for an intruder hiding in a toilet at his luxury Pretoria home. However, text messages between the pair in the weeks leading up to the shooting painted a picture of a volatile, stormy relationship, with Steenkamp accusing Pistorius of continual jealousy and outbursts of anger.
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| Family of Indian woman on Malaysian plane shattered | | | Chennai, March 24 (IANS) The hopes of the family and friends of Chandrika Sharma, a 51-year-old woman on the ill-fated Malaysian plane, were shattered Monday when the country's prime minister said there was no hope of survivors and her husband received a message from the airlines. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak Monday announced in Kuala Lumpur that British investigators from its Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) have confirmed that the Malaysia Airlines "flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean". Chandrika Sharma, who headed the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) in Chennai, boarded the flight to Beijing with 238 other people March 8 on way to Mongolia to participate in a conference. Chandrika Sharma was one of the five Indian passengers on that flight. |
| Telugu actor, Nigerian arrested for drug trafficking | | | Hyderabad, March 24 (IANS) Hyderabad police Monday arrested Telugu film actor Nanduri Uday Kiran and a Nigerian national for drug trafficking. They were apprehended at Jubliee Hills checkpost and seized 15 grams of cocaine, a police official said. The arrests were made when Uday Kiran was transacting a drug deal with R. O. Kehinde, a Nigerian, who had come to India on business visa and staying in the city. According to police, 29-year-old Nanduri Uday Kiran, who acted in films like "Parare", "Rakshakulu", "Yuvarajyam" and "Facebook", was receiving the drugs from the other accused whenever required. |
| Indian, Bhutanese currency seized in north Bengal: Poll panel | | | Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Around Rs.1 lakh of unaccounted Indian and Bhutanese currency was seized by police in West Bengal's Siliguri city Monday, an Election Commission official said. According to assistant chief electoral officer Amitjyoti Bhattacharji, police arrested a citizen who was carrying the money without any documentation. The official process for the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal began last week with the panel issuing the notification for four seats -- Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar -- in the northern part of the state where polling would be held April 17. |
| Himachal woman accident victim's compensation raised four times | | | Shimla, March 24 (IANS) The housewife is the backbone of a home and her disability makes her a burden on others, observed the Himachal Pradesh High Court while enhancing the compensation of a woman litigant, permanently disabled in a road accident. "She has become permanently disabled, helpless, hapless and a burden on others," observed acting Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir while increasing the figure four times, from Rs.300,000, ordered by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, to Rs.12.54 lakh. The claimant, who suffered permanent disability to the extent of 45 percent due to backbone and spinal joint dislocations, met with an accident July 30, 2001. The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd would pay the enhanced compensation. |
| Not carved in stone, views of U.S. statues change with the times | | | Now civic groups are demanding a similar fate for an 1892 bronze statue in New York's Central Park of medical pioneer James Marion Sims, long revered as the father of modern gynecology, but more recently found to have experimented on female slaves. "People once taken to be heroes can, in an another era, look far less heroic," said David Greenberg, associate professor of History and of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The New York City Parks Department has deflected demands to remove the statue of Dr. Sims and instead plans to install a plaque adding historical context, said department spokeswoman Tara Kiernan. Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin, incensed over Republican Governor Scott Walker's 2011 anti-union efforts, failed in their efforts to remove the statehouse portrait of his long-dead predecessor, Governor Jeremiah Rusk, known for the violent suppression of a 1886 labor uprising. |
| Egyptian court sentences 529 Brotherhood members to death | |  By Asma Alsharif CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death for murder and other offences on Monday, in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement that is likely to fuel instability. Family members stood outside the courthouse screaming after the verdict - the biggest mass death sentence handed out in Egypt's modern history, defence lawyers said. Turmoil has deepened since the army overthrew Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in July. Security forces have killed hundreds of Brotherhood members in the streets and arrested thousands.
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| China jails man for seeking repeat of Tiananmen protest - Amnesty | |  China has jailed for 18 months a man who tried to stage a repeat of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, rights group Amnesty International said on Monday, in another sign of the ruling Communist Party's intolerance of dissent. Public discussion of the Tiananmen crackdown, in which rights groups say hundreds were probably killed, is still taboo in China. Gu Yimin applied last May for permission to demonstrate on June 4, the 24th anniversary of the bloody crackdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, but the government rejected his application and arrested him. A court in Changshu, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, found Gu guilty of inciting state subversion, Amnesty said in an email.
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