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| Rain, snow claim 17 lives in Jammu and Kashmir | | | Jammu, March 13 (IANS) At least 17 people have died and 1,922 houses damaged due to heavy snowfall and rain in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here Thursday. As many as 57 cattle have also perished in the recent rains, Abdullah said after a high-level meeting to review the efforts to restore essential services hit by the heavy snowfall in the Kashmir Valley and hilly region of Jammu. The 1,922 houses were damaged in Kashmir division while the damage to property in Jammu was being assessed, he said. An amount of Rs.5 crore has been released for Kashmir and Rs.1.2 crore for Doda, Reasi, Kishtwar and Ramban districts of Jammu. |
| Court sees graphic photos of Pistorius' home after shooting | |  By John Mkhize PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African court saw graphic images on Thursday of the bloodstained bathroom in which Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend, as prosecutors unveiled more details of the scene of the Valentine's Day killing. Colonel Schoombie van Rensburg, the first policeman to arrive at the athlete's home in an upmarket Pretoria estate, described the grisly sight that greeted him in the early hours of February 14 last year. During his testimony, photographs of Steenkamp's face and body were also shown accidentally to the court, upsetting Pistorius, who vomited into a bucket for the second time since the start of the trial, now in its second week. Van Rensburg said that on his arrival at the home, he saw Steenkamp's body lying at the bottom of the staircase covered in towels and black bags.
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| Bomb threat at Virginia university, buildings evacuated | | | Police were investigating a bomb threat at Virginia's George Mason University on Thursday, and buildings were evacuated, the school said. Authorities were seeking information about who made the threat to George Mason's Prince William campus, the university said on its website. Nearly 33,920 students attend George Mason, according to the website. The bomb threat came a week after a written threat was found at George Mason's Fairfax campus. |
| Battle resumes over Richard III's final resting place | |  By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - More than five centuries after he went down fighting, England's medieval monarch Richard III is in the middle of another pitched battle - this time over where his newly discovered remains should be re-buried. The Plantagenet Alliance, made up of Richard's distant descendants, has asked England's High Court to rule on plans to re-bury their ancestor's remains in Leicester, the city where they were found two years ago under a municipal car park. The alliance says the Ministry of Justice was "unreasonable" to give permission to Leicester to bury him in its cathedral and argues the decision on the final resting place of the last Plantagenet king should have been a matter of public consultation. "It matters what happens when you identify the only king since 1066 whose remains were not identified," the alliance's counsel Gerard Clarke told the court on Thursday.
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| Delhi HC recites 'Kamayani' while upholding death sentence | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court, while upholding the death sentences awarded to four convicts of the Dec 16 gang rape case Thursday, depicted the status of women through lines of Hindi poet Jai Shankar Prasad in his epic "Kamayani". A division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani said: "While delicate physique of a woman has made her vulnerable, her place and role in the growth of society has made her command utmost respect. These characteristics of a woman have been depicted by great Hindi poet Jai Shankar Prasad in his epic, Kamayani." The court mentioned the following lines in its order. |
| Car slams into crowd near Texas SXSW festival, two people killed | | | A car evading police plowed into a crowd outside a nightclub on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 23 near the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, police said. He was then taken into police custody, hospital officials said. A police officer giving chase used a taser to subdue the suspect, police said. SXSW, running from March 7 to March 16, began as a music event in 1987. |
| Rajasthan court rejects IAS officer's bail plea | | | Jaipur, March 13 (IANS) A court here Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Rajasthan IAS officer B.B. Mohanty, who is accused of raping a 22-year-old woman, a lawyer said. Umesh Choudhary, lawyer of the woman, said that Mohanty Tuesday filed the anticipatory bail in the court of district judge, Jaipur, through his lawyer. "The application was transferred to the special court of woman atrocities cases. The court today (Thursday) rejected the bail application on the grounds that no relief could be granted to the accused as he has been declared an absconder and the crime is serious in nature," he said. |
| Afghan Taliban step up attacks on election officials, voters | |  By Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants are stepping up efforts to destabilise Afghanistan ahead of next month's presidential vote, kidnapping election workers and executing villagers at random to scare people off voting, officials and campaigners said. The attacks follow the Taliban's warning on Monday that it would use its "full force" against anyone who takes part in the electoral process. President Hamid Karzai is constitutionally barred from running for a third term. On Thursday, police and elders rushed to negotiate the release of four election workers kidnapped by the Taliban in eastern Nangarhar province a day earlier, Afghan officials said.
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| Delhi HC cites 'Life of Pi' during gang rape verdict | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday said the movie "Life of Pi", which the Dec 16 gang rape victim watched before the incident, where a tiger and a boy find comfort in each other, must have been etched in the victim's mind. Dismissing the appeals of the four convicts - Mukesh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma - a division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani observed that the victim was returning with her male companion after watching "Life of Pi". |
| Egypt's army blames Muslim Brotherhood for attack on army bus | | | Egypt's army blamed the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood for an attack on an army bus which killed one officer and wounded three others in the capital on Thursday, violence underscoring growing security threats to the military-backed government. The Muslim Brotherhood strongly condemned the attack in an emailed statement, saying the targeting of army soldiers and civilians is a "heinous crime that requires a thorough and transparent investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice." They accused the military-backed government of trying to implicate the Brotherhood in the attack for political reasons. An army spokesman said in a statement posted on Facebook: "Masked armed men belonging to the terrorist Brotherhood targeted a bus of the armed forces ... which led to the martyrdom of the Warrant Officer Yusri Mahmoud Mohamed Hassan." Islamist militants are expanding their insurgency in Egypt where army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who overthrew Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July, is expected to announce he will run for president within days. |
| Delhi earned 'rape capital' title after Dec 16, says HC | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Delhi earned the title of "rape capital" after the horrific Dec 16, 2012 gang rape, the Delhi High Court said Thursday while confirming the death penalty of the four convicts. Dismissing the appeal of the four convicts - Mukesh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma - challenging the Sep 13, 2013 trial court verdict sentencing them to death, a division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani said the "crime was horrendous". Delhi earned the title of 'Rape Capital'," the court said. |
| Palestinian leader lashes out at rival, political tensions flare | |  By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused one of his main rivals, Mohammed Dahlan, of involvement in six murders, hinting that he might also be behind the death of former leader Yasser Arafat. Arab media have reported in recent months that Dahlan has met Egypt's powerful army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and has also reached out to Hamas, the Islamist rulers of Gaza who have always viewed him with deep distrust.
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| Dec 16 gang rape verdict: Key points | | | The Delhi High Court Thursday upheld the death sentences to four convicts in the Delhi Dec 16, 2012 gang rape. Here are key points of the judgment delivered by a division bench of Justice Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani. * Most certainly, the crime was not committed to alleviate poverty or the pangs of hunger and starvation, nor were the convicts in such impecunious circumstances as is sought to be portrayed. * Undeniably, the shocking incident left an indelible scar on the social order and became a burning societal issue. |
| Four held in Kolkata with over 40 kilo gold | | | Kolkata, March 13 (IANS) Four alleged smugglers have been arrested here and over 40 kg gold worth over Rs.12 crore seized from them, an official said Thursday. Officials of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) nabbed all the four accused Wednesday night and seized 353 gold bars, weighing nearly 41 kg, from them. Earlier in the month, DRI officials had arrested two people and seized 45 kg of gold worth in excess of Rs. 12 crore. Besides the DRI, the customs department and the Border Security Force (BSF) have been making regular seizure of gold suspected to be smuggled in from Bangladesh. |
| Delhi High Court upholds death sentence to Dec 16 gang rapists | | | New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday upheld the death sentences awarded to four convicts in the Dec 16, 2012 gang rape, saying that their "barbaric" act is "not worthy of human condonation" and society cannot be a a spectator to "such depraved behaviour". A division bench of Justice Reva Khetrapal and Justice Pratibha Rani also dismissed the appeals of the four convicts - Mukesh, 26; |
| Devyani Khobragade wins indictment dismissal in U.S. | |  By Jonathan Stempel and Shyamantha Asokan NEW YORK/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian diplomat charged in New York with visa fraud and making false statements about her domestic worker has won a dismissal of her federal indictment, in a move that could help smooth over a dispute that has frayed U.S.-India ties. Devyani Khobragade, who was India's deputy consul-general in New York, had diplomatic immunity when she sought on January 9 to dismiss the indictment, and thus could not be prosecuted, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday. U.S. prosecutors could still seek a fresh indictment, while in India reports emerged that Khobragade's two children held both U.S. and Indian passports, in apparent violation of Indian rules.
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