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| Pakistani Taliban announces ceasefire to revive peace talks | | | By Katharine Houreld and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday announced a one-month ceasefire aimed at reviving peace talks after receiving what it said were government assurances it would not be attacked. A government negotiator could not confirm that there were such guarantees, but said talks could be restarted if the ceasefire was honored. Speculation has mounted in recent weeks that the Pakistani military is planning an offensive against the insurgents after talks between the militants and government broke down. "The senior leadership of the Taliban advises all subgroups to respect the Taliban's call for a ceasefire and abide by it and completely refrain from all jihadi activities in this time period," spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement. |
| Cash on camera: Himachal BJP MP might be booked | | | Shimla, March 1 (IANS) The Congress government in Himachal Pradesh may register a criminal case against BJP's sitting MP Virender Kashyap, allegedly caught accepting cash on camera, the police said Saturday. The development is significant as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has retained the one-time MP Kashyap from the Shimla (Reserved) seat. I can't comment on registering a case against Kashyap at this point in time," Additional Director General of Police (Vigilance) Prithvi Raj told reporters here. Last November, the Himachal Pradesh High Court issued notice to Kashyap on a petition for quashing a police inquiry report giving a clean chit to him after he was allegedly caught accepting cash. |
| Centre seeks recall of SC verdict on commuting death sentence | | | New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) The central government Saturday moved the Supreme Court seeking recall of its verdict holding that inordinate, unexplained and unreasonable delay in deciding a mercy petition by the president was a ground for commuting a death sentence to life imprisonment. The court had held that in deciding the mercy petition, there could no distinction whether the death row convict was sentenced under normal penal offences or under the provision of anti-terror laws. The centre has said the president's decision to reject mercy petitions could not have been interfered by the court as the same was not subject to judicial review. It said the court could not have substituted life imprisonment for the death sentence while exercising its power of judicial review over the president's decision to reject mercy petitions. |
| Government official hangs self after killing wife, kids | | | New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) A 52-year-old clerical staff member in the Cabinet Secretariat Saturday hanged himself after killing his wife and two children at his home here, police said. Ananya Chakravarty was found hanging from a ceiling fan while his 43-year-old wife Jaisree, 17-year-old son Arnab, and 12-year-old daughter Disha were found lying in a pool of blood inside their home at Sadiq Nagar area of south Delhi, police said. |
| Two Manipuri cousins assaulted in Delhi, two arrested | | | New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) A woman and her cousin from Manipur, both in their early 20s, were assaulted and misbehaved with by two people when they protested a racist comment, police said Saturday. The incident occurred at Vijay Nagar area near Delhi University's north campus Friday night. The 24-year-old-woman is pursuing B.Ed from Delhi University and her cousin, a graduate, were returning to their home after having dinner. The two cousins hail from Manipur's Ukhrul district. |
| Basque group ETA pledges to give up all its arms | |  Armed Basque separatist group ETA on Saturday pledged to give up all its weapons but warned the government that any attack or obstacle could impact negatively on the disarmament process. The announcement comes only days after the work of an international commission which is monitoring the disarmament and ceasefire was thrown into doubt after it acknowledged ETA had kept some weapons and explosives that were said to have been sealed and put beyond operational use. ETA announced a unilateral ceasefire in 2011, suspending four decades of attacks in which more than 800 people died. The group wants talks on moving hundreds of prisoners who are in jail across Spain to the Basque region in return for dismantling its military structure and turning in its weapons, but the government has rejected the offer.
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| At least 13 killed in north Yemen clashes - security source | | | At least 13 people died when Shi'ite Muslim fighters clashed with security forces in northern Yemen on Friday, government sources said, underlining the chaos still gripping the country two years after mass protests ousted its leader. The fighters were from the Houthi movement which is seeking to strengthen its hold on the north - one of a string of challenges facing an interim government also battling southern separatists, al Qaeda-linked militants and an economic crisis. Local authorities said two soldiers were killed in the attack and four others were wounded when Houthis attacked a security checkpoint in the northwestern al Jawf province, according to state news agency Saba. An exchange of fire took place as a result of the attack and three of the Houthi attackers were killed and several others were then arrested, a statement by the local authorities said. |
| 20 kids rescued from Goa circus | | | Panaji, March 1 (IANS) Twenty children, including some from Bangladesh, were rescued by police during a raid at a travelling circus that had set up camp in Margao, officials said Saturday. Friday night's raid at the circus in Margao, 35 km from Panaji, followed a complaint by a girl, who had accused circus manager Abdulla Khan of raping her. "The children were being made to work as acrobats and helpers in the circus," said a police officer attached to Goa Police's women's police station. The officer said Khan could also be charged with human trafficking after investigators learnt that some of the children were brought from Bangladesh to work. |
| One held, 730 tortoises seized in Bihar | | | Patna, March 1 (IANS) Nearly 730 tortoises were seized and a member of a smuggler's gang was arrested Saturday in Bihar's Purnea district, an official said. |
| Twenty children rescued from circus in Goa | | | Panaji, March 1 (IANS) Twenty children were rescued late Friday after police raided a travelling circus in the state, police said Saturday. Police raided the camp in Margao, 35 km from Panaji, after a girl complaint accused the circus manager of raping her. "The children were being made to work as acrobats and helpers in the circus," a police official from the Goa Police Women's police station said. |
| Pearl Jam's former manager sentenced to prison for theft | |  Pearl Jam's former financial manager, who used his position with the rock band to steal $380,000, was sentenced on Friday to 14 months in prison at a court hearing in Washington state, an official said. Rickey Charles Goodrich, 55, had initially faced 33 theft charges but in December he pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree theft, King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office spokesman Dan Donohoe said. Goodrich was chief financial officer at its Seattle-based management company, Curtis Management, before he was fired in September 2010. Goodrich, who had oversight over finances related to Pearl Jam's tours, was found to have made wire transfers from the firm to pay his personal debts and used the company credit card for unwarranted expenses.
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