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| Family tiffs behind government official's suicide | | | New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) Small tiffs within his family led a 52-year-old government official to kill his wife and children and hang himself inside his home here in the capital, police said Sunday. "Ananya Chakravarty, a clerical staff member in the Cabinet Secretariat, felt lonely as his kids supported his wife Jaishree in the tiffs that took place between the couple," a police officer told IANS. Chakravarty was found hanging from a ceiling fan in yet another room of the house. Neighbours told police that the family was very friendly but Chakravarty did not interact much with them. |
| Delhi woman injured in acid attack | | | New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) A 26-year-old married woman was injured on her face and neck in an acid attack by two bikers here, police said Sunday. She had gone to the market Saturday evening when the bikers attacked her in west Delhi's Nangloi area. |
| Cattle lifter arrested for murder | | | New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The 22-year-old leader of a cattle rustling gang was arrested for murdering a man whose cows he was caught stealing, police said Sunday. Javid alias Zabbi, a resident of Faridabad in Haryana, was the leader of a gang that stole cattle from the bordering areas of Delhi. He was arrested Feb 28 from Badarpur area of south Delhi where he had come to meet his accomplices. Police said that on the night of Feb 23, Javid and his accomplices reached Pul Prahladpur area of south Delhi in a truck and while stealing some cows were caught red-handed by their owners Krishan and his cousin Ravi. |
| Educating the criminal mind: Tihar shows a way out | | | Towards this, the capital's Tihar Jail, one of the largest in Asia, is vigorously conducting a literacy campaign among its teeming inmates, 20 percent of whom are unlettered and a staggering 65 percent have not even studied till Class 10. "As per data compiled, the majority of the prison population (around 65 percent) has education below Class 10, thus providing the linkage between educational standard and criminality," an official of Tihar Jail told IANS. The prison administration has set up centers of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to impart education to prisoners. The official said that adult education classes are being conducted in the 10 sub-jails in the prison that has 13,552 prisoners. |
| Witnesses recall fear, chaos after China train station attack | |  By Maxim Duncan and James Pomfret KUNMING, China (Reuters) - Witnesses to chilling violence at a Chinese train station placed under heavy security on Sunday recalled moments of fear and chaos after at least 29 people were killed in what authorities called a terrorist attack by Xinjiang militants. Officials said a group of knife-wielding "terrorists" from the restive Xinjiang region launched a premeditated attack at the Kunming Railway Station in China's southwest on Saturday night. Armed riot police stood guard as people streamed into the railway station on Sunday only hours after the attack, one of the worst of its kind in China in recent memory. Police shot four of the attackers dead and captured one, state news agency Xinhua reported.
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| China sidesteps question on fate of former security chief | |  A senior Chinese government spokesman sidestepped a question about the fate of the country's powerful former domestic security chief on Sunday, the first time a top official has been asked about a corruption case that has been shrouded in secrecy. Zhou Yongkang was a member of the ruling Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee - the apex of power in the country - and held the immensely powerful post of security overlord until he retired in 2012. "As a matter of fact my source of information about this is also the handful of media organisations as you mentioned, so I will try to answer your question in this way," Lu Xinhua told a news conference, carried live on state television. Lu said that the government was committed to fighting corruption, no matter where it occurred.
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| Thousands march in Hong Kong to condemn attack on ex-newspaper editor | |  By Alice Woodhouse and Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters rallied outside the Hong Kong's government headquarters on Sunday to condemn a knife attack on a former newspaper editor and to voice support for press freedom amid growing concern over Beijing's influence in the media. Kevin Lau Chun-to, who until recently had been chief editor of Ming Pao, a Chinese-language newspaper known for its investigative reports, was stabbed in the back and legs several times by a man in a helmet on Wednesday. Dressed in black and wearing blue ribbons, symbolizing press freedom, protesters carried a large banner with the words "They can't kill us all". "We're not going to bow to the intimidation," said Shirley Yam, vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association, one of the organisers of the protest.
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