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| Ukraine president demands action in east after politician killed | | | Ukraine's acting president called for the relaunch of an anti-terrorist operation in the east of the country on Tuesday after the body of a local politician from his own party was found showing signs of torture. Oleksander Turchinov said in a statement that "brutally tortured" bodies had been found near the city of Slaviansk, which is in the hands of pro-Russian militants. One was that of Volodymyr Rybak, a member of Turchinov's Batkivshchyna party, who had recently been abducted by "terrorists". "I call on the security agencies to relaunch and carry out effective anti-terrorist measures, with the aim of protecting Ukrainian citizens living in eastern Ukraine from terrorists." (Reporting by Alastair Macdonald; |
| Kashmir police officer arrested for taking bribe | | | Srinagar, April 22 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir's anti-corruption organization Tuesday arrested a police officer while he was accepting a bribe of Rs.5,000, an official said. |
| Rhino horns worth $5.2 mln stolen in South Africa | | | Rhino horn stock piles worth over $5.2 million have been stolen from a South African game park office, the raided tourist agency said on Tuesday, in the first known theft of its kind. Thieves on Monday broke into the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency and cut into a strong box, making off with 112 pieces of rhino horn, weighing 80,135 kilograms. "It's the first time there has been a break in at our premises, it was obviously well planned," the parks' spokeswoman Kholofelo Nkambule said. Poaching rhinos for their horns is a growing problem in South Africa and a lucrative business for organised criminal networks but it is unusual for thieves to target stock piles. |
| South Sudan peace talks delayed as rebels deny massacre | |  By Carl Odera NAIROBI (Reuters) - Peace talks with South Sudan's rebels have been delayed again, the government said on Tuesday, a day after the United Nations accused rebel fighters of massacring civilians in an oil town they had seized. "The talks have been postponed," Information Minister Michael Makuei told Reuters by telephone. "The reason (the mediators) gave is that it will give them the opportunity to make further consultations." Negotiations between the government of President Salva Kiir and rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar have failed to advance since the Jan. 23 signing of a ceasefire which never took hold. "(In) the market place we saw large piles of bodies, dozens and dozens of bodies, piled up on top of each other," said Amanda Weyler, communications officer for the U.N. humanitarian coordination office OCHA.
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| Friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber seeks trial venue change | | | A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber on Tuesday asked a judge to move his trial on charges of interfering with the investigation, arguing that pretrial publicity has made it impossible for him to get a fair hearing in Massachusetts. Kazakh exchange student Dias Kadyrbayev filed papers in U.S. District Court in Boston, joining earlier motions by two other defendants, Azamat Tazhayakov, also of Kazakhstan, and Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prosecutors accused ethnic Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of killing three three people and injuring 264 others in the April 15, 2003 bombing at the marathon finish line and shooting dead a university police officer three days later. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunbattle with police and Dzhokhar was arrested and is awaiting trial on charges that carry the possibility of execution if he is convicted. |
| Prelate exonerates John Paul of turning blind eye to abuse case | | | By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Catholic prelate who led the campaign to make the late Pope John Paul a saint exonerated the pontiff on Tuesday against accusations he turned a blind eye to one of the Church's biggest sexual abuse scandals. Victims of sexual abuse quickly criticised the prelate's defence of John Paul, who died in 2005 and will be made a saint at a ceremony this weekend along with Pope John XXII, who reigned from 1958 to 1963. While the late Polish pope is almost universally hailed for his role in helping bring about the fall of communism, his critics say he was slow to grasp the seriousness of the sexual abuse crisis that emerged towards the end of his pontificate. Specifically, critics have been pressing the Vatican over what the pope knew about sexual abuse by Father Marcial Maciel, the Mexican founder of a disgraced Catholic religious order, the Legionaries of Christ. |
| Modi slams anti-Muslim remarks, ally defiant | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - BJP leader Narendra Modi sought to calm fears for religious minorities under his rule on Tuesday, saying he would represent all Indians if they voted for him or not in the current general election. Modi, prime ministerial candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and favourite to become India's next leader, is running on a platform of reviving an economy going through its worst slowdown since the 1980s. But half-way through a five-week campaign to win over the country's 815 million voters, some members of the BJP and its hardline affiliates are facing accusations of trying to whip up a partisan Hindu-oriented agenda. Their statements have re-ignited concerns among religious minorities about a government led by the BJP, which rivals say has a deep-seated bias against India's 150 million Muslims.
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| SC names three-member panel to enforce roads safety laws | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Terming Indian roads "giant killers" demanding immediate attention and remedial action, the Supreme Court Tuesday appointed a three-member committee to scrutinise and monitor enforcement of statutory provisions including the Motor Vehicles Act for making roads safer. "Indian roads have proved to be giant killers demanding immediate attention and remedial action. Such attention and necessary intervention, in the first instance, is required to be made by the concerned governmental agencies," said a bench of Chief Justice P.Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice N.V.Ramana in their judgment. The court said that the central and state governments were expected to enforce the existing laws including with all the might at their command. |
| Saudi watchdog to regulate homegrown YouTube shows - newspaper | |  By Matt Smith DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to regulate local companies that screen shows on YouTube , a senior official was quoted as saying in local media on Tuesday - a move that could stifle its nascent creative industries. The kingdom is the world's top per capita user of YouTube. But YouTube's popularity has now brought Saudi Arabia's homegrown production houses under the gaze of the General Authority for Audiovisual Media, a recently formed watchdog. Riyadh Najm, the Authority's president, told the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat that his organization would soon issue a manifesto to organize - or regulate - the work of YouTube channels.
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| France to unveil plan to fight Syrian jihadist threat | |  France is to unveil policies to stop its citizens joining the Syrian civil war, a government source said on Tuesday, aiming to prevent young French Muslims becoming radicalised and posing a threat to their home country. The Interior Ministry will present some 20 measures on Wednesday, including a plan to stop minors leaving France without parental consent, increased surveillance of Islamist websites that recruit fighters and a system to encourage parents to signal suspicious behaviour in their children. "France will take all measures to dissuade, prevent and punish those who are tempted to fight where they have no reason to be," President Francois Hollande told reporters on Tuesday. With radical Sunni Muslims from outside Syria fighting alongside Syrians against President Bashar al-Assad, Western countries are concerned of the security risk at home.
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| NHRC asks UP Police for report on woman's gang rape | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The NHRC Tuesday sought a report from Uttar Pradesh Police following a media report that officials refused to file a complaint in a gang rape case. Taking suo motu cognizance of the media report, according to which a woman was gang-raped in Haidergarh area of Barabanki district April 13, the National Human Rights Commission asked the senior superintendent of police to file a report within four weeks. "The commission has observed that the contents of the (media) report, if true, amount to serious violation of human rights of the victim," the NHRC said in a statement. |
| 'Rash drivers involved in deaths go free on bail' | | | Pankaj Gupta, 45, and his five-year-old daughter Lineshiya were run over by a city bus Monday while they were waiting for the child's school bus. Resident of Rail Vihar apartments in Sector 47, Gupta was working at the Medanta Medicity Hospital here as cardiologist, while Lineshiya was a nursery class student at the Delhi Public School here. "It took just a few minutes to destroy the life of a family and the accused driver, Harish Singh, was out on bail even before the post-mortem examination," said Vikas Kumar Shah, a software engineer and witness and complainant in the accident case. Shah too is a resident of Rail Vihar. |
| Modi condemns anti-Muslim remarks; colleague defiant | |  By Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) - BJP leader Narendra Modi on Tuesday sought to calm fears about the future of religious minorities under his rule, saying his government would represent all Indians whether they voted for him or not in an ongoing general election. Modi, prime ministerial candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and favourite to become India's next leader, is running on a platform of reviving an economy going through its worst slowdown since the 1980s. But half way through a five-week campaign to win over the country's 815 million voters, some members of the BJP and its hardline affiliates are facing accusations of trying to whip up a partisan agenda. Their statements have re-ignited concerns among religious minorities about a BJP government, which rivals say has a deep-seated bias against India's 150 million Muslims.
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| Nido Tania killing: Four accused's judicial custody extended | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A court here Tuesday extended, for 14 days, the judicial custody of the four people allegedly involved in Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania killing case. |
| Court extends custody of Saradha kingpin's wife, son | | | Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) A city court Tuesday extended the custody of Saradha chit fund scam kingpin Sudipto Sen's wife Piyali and son Subhojit with the Enforcement Directorate till April 25. "The court today (Tuesday) extended their custody till April 25 when they will have to appear before the court again," said Piyali and Subhojit's counsel Samir Das said. Probing the multi-crore scam, the ED so far has attached numerous properties owned by the Saradha group including those by Sudipta and his family. Ghosh, a former employee of the Saradha Group, had filed a case against Saradha promoter Sudipta Sen for non-payment of her salary which eventually led to his arrest. |
| Government intended to punish Sikhs, reveals Cobrapost | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The Delhi Police succumbed to anti-Sikh sentiments in 1984, thus abetting rioting and arson, a sting operation by news portal Cobrapost revealed Tuesday. The Congress, which was also in power then, sought a probe into the sting operation, while the BJP said it proves that the riots were sponsored by the then ruling party and its coalition ally, the Shiromani Akali Dal reiterated its manifesto resolve to set up fast track courts to nail the guilty and ensure justice for the victims. "The government's intention appeared to be that the Sikhs should get some punishment," said Shoorveer Singh Tyagi, then police station house officer (SHO) at Kalyanpuri area of east Delhi, whom Cobrapost interviewed. "Messages were broadcast directing police to not take action against rioters who were shouting slogans of 'Indira Gandhi zindabad'," Rohtas Singh, SHO at Delhi Cantonment, told Cobrapost. |
| CBI nabs finance ministry director in bribery case | | | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The CBI Tuesday arrested a finance ministry director for demanding Rs.35 lakh bribe from a Chennai-based man to regularise the irregularities in a nursing college being run by him. A. Paramasivan was arrested from a hideout in Delhi early Tuesday morning following the arrest of his brother-in-law Sivaram, a medical officer, from Chennai in the bribery case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has so far conducted raids at seven places including Chennai, New Delhi and Noida. "During the raids -- conducted at the offices and residences of Paramasivan -- Rs.1 crore in cash has been recovered along with some incriminating documents," said a CBI official. |
| Bihar LS candidate arrested by Meghalaya Police | | | Shillong, April 22 (IANS) Chandra Mohan Jha, an independent candidate contesting the Lok Sabha polls from Bihar's Jhanjarpur constituency and wanted by Meghalaya Police for fraud and selling fake certificates, was Tuesday arrested in Bihar, officials said. "Our CID (Criminal Investigation Department) team along with Bihar Police arrested Jha from Madhubani during his campaign," Meghalaya Director General of Police Peter Hanaman told IANS. |
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